MARYLAND'S REAL ID ACT ABUSE, BARRIER TO EMPLOYMENT (MVA)

MARYLAND'S REAL ID ACT ABUSE, BARRIER TO EMPLOYMENT (MVA):

HOW THE US DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ALLOWS MARYLAND TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACKS & LATINOS.



If you (BLACK or LATINO citizen) have been adversely impacted via the State of MARYLAND'S Motor Vehicle Dept (MVA) inaccurately and Illegally interpreting a Federal law called the REAL ID ACT, which was enacted by Congress in 2005, to instruct States on proper procedures to authenticate documents used for identification purposes and that adverse action by the State of MARYLAND'S Dept of Motor Vehicle (MVA) has prevented you from being EMPLOYED, then please watch this video.

Illegally denying you (BLACK or LATINO citizen) a Drivers License or ID Card so you can be gainfully EMPLOYED, is indeed a Barrier to EMPLOYMENT which causes Unreasonable Hardship.

So if you have VALID identification documents which you previously used in other states to obtain Federal Employment, US Military Enlistment and Drivers Licenses or ID Cards, yet in MARYLAND you are being denied by the MVA, then please do watch this video.

The REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub.L. 109–13, 119 Stat. 302, enacted May 11, 2005, was an Act of Congress that modified U.S. federal law pertaining to security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver's licenses and identification (ID) cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism.

The REAL ID Act of 2005, is enforced by the US Dept of Homeland Security.


Sources: NBC News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, YouTube



**** D.C., Maryland and Virginia drivers find different licensing rules despite federal ID law


Protecting the nation from international terrorists is primarily a federal job. Testing and credentialing people to drive is a local task. During the past several weeks, D.C. residents have been learning that, under federal law, the two overlap.

That’s the reason they now need to collect a bunch of identity documents and bring them to the Department of Motor Vehicleswhenever their driver’s licenses expire. In many ways, the applicants are going back to square one to prove who they are, where they are and that it’s legal for them to be here.

This is not so much about making sure the right people are driving cars. It has much more to do with who is boarding airplanes. What D.C. drivers will go through when they renew licenses stems from the federal REAL ID Act of 2005, passed with the knowledge that many of the terrorists who brought down planes on Sept. 11, 2001, had been issued state driver’s licenses.

In the nine years since the act was passed, the effort to impose uniform security standards on the various approaches to issuing driver’s licenses has raised concerns among civil libertarians, privacy advocates and immigrant groups. But the ID law also has run into something at least as powerful: state bureaucracies that had their own histories of providing motor vehicle services.

Some states have refused to conform to the law. Many have been deemed in compliance. Some are still figuring out their own ways of conforming in consultation with the federal Department of Homeland Security.

The D.C. region illustrates the diverse responses to a law requiring uniformity.

The District Department of Motor Vehicles is now on track to revalidate their drivers as they come in with expiring licenses. The drivers must appear in person at a DMV office to supply proof of identity, address and Social Security number.

After this one-time-only appearance, they will be mailed a new style of driver’s license marked with a star in the upper right corner. The star indicates compliance with the REAL ID Act. This year and early next, the federal government is phasing in a requirement that only this compliant type of driver’s license can be accepted when a driver’s license is presented for identification at a secure federal facility or a nuclear power plant.

It may eventually be the only type of driver’s license accepted for boarding a commercial airliner, but that won’t apply before 2016.

Drivers who live in Maryland or Virginiawho are aware of the new procedure for D.C. licenses may be wondering if they’ll get the same treatment as their licenses expire.

The answer is no. If I took my Maryland driver’s license in for renewal this week, I’d be subject to the usual vision screening, but I wouldn’t need to rummage for my birth certificate, or passport or proof of residence. And I’d walk out of with a license similar to the one I went in with — except for my somewhat older looking mug.

No star in the upper right.

And yet the Department of Homeland Security deemed Maryland compliant with the REAL ID Act back in 2012. For many years now, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has been electronically verifying its drivers’ identifies, said spokesman Buel Young. The MVA worked through the long list of long list of security issues identified under the federal rules and the Homeland Security department accepted the state as compliant with the law, Young said.

Virginia is different. In fact, the General Assembly reacted to the REAL ID Act by passing its own bill in 2009 that prohibits the commonwealth from implementing any part of the REAL ID Act or other federal law that would compromise the economic privacy or biological data of any Virginian.

The Senate version of the bill was sponsored by then-state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli II (R) and signed into law by then-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D).

As of this spring, Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles is not compliant with the federal law. And the DMV has scheduled no changes in its licensing process.

But, said DMV spokeswoman Sunni Blevins Brown, “The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged Virginia DMV’s significant progress enhancing the security and issuance process for credentials, and as a result, Virginia has been granted an extension until at least October.

“Virginians will not experience any difficulty in obtaining federal services or access to federal facilities with their Virginia credentials.”

It’s some of that e pluribus unum we’re famous for. The goal is the same, but for drivers, the procedures are looking a bit different.

“Virginia has one of the most secure licenses in the country,” Brown said of her non-compliant state.

What’s a driver to do? Follow the mailed instructions from your motor vehicle agency when renewal time approaches.

NO BLACK MEN WANTED, ONLY LATINO MEN FOR TEMP AGENCIES (CLASS ACTION RACISM LAWSUIT)

NO BLACK MEN WANTED, ONLY LATINO MEN FOR TEMP AGENCIES (CLASS ACTION RACISM LAWSUIT):

TEMP AGENCIES SUED FOR REFUSING TO HIRE BLACK MEN, HIRING LATINO ONLY MEN INSTEAD.

YET BLACK MEN BEING SENT TO JAIL FOR UNPAID DEBTS DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT.

CALLING BLACK MEN LAZY, VIOLENT THUGS BUT WON'T GIVE THEM JOBS.


Sources: CBS News, Chicago Tribune, NY Times, NJ.com, The Advise Show, Youtube


**** Discrimination suit alleges black temp workers passed over for Hispanics


group of African-American men filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Chicago federal court alleging systematic discrimination by a temporary staffing agency and several of its clients they say passed over black applicants in favor of Hispanic workers.
The lawsuit against Personnel Staffing Group, which does business as MVP Staffing, is seeking class-action status. The clients named as defendants are Blommer Chocolate Co., Segerdahl Graphics, Mercury Plastics, MPS Chicago (which does business as Jet Lithocolor), The Penray Cos., ARI Packaging and Lawrence Foods.
The alleged discrimination took place at MVP Staffing's Cicero branch office, which the lawsuit claims was directed by clients not to send African-American workers to their companies for assignments.
Those wishes allegedly were communicated using code words, according to testimony from former dispatchers and on-site representatives given in prior cases and attached to the filing as evidence. For example, according to the lawsuit, "guapos," which translates to pretty boys, would be used to refer to African-Americans to suggest they don't want to do dirty work. The terms "feos" (translated to mean "dirty ones")," "bilingues" (bilinguals) and "los que escuchan La Ley" (referring to people who listen to Spanish-language radio station La Ley) were used to refer to Hispanic laborers, the lawsuit alleges.
Christopher Williams of Workers' Law Office, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, said such a model is prevalent in the fast-growing temporary staffing industry, where competition between agencies puts pressure to keep wages low.
An immigrant-dominated workforce, with language barriers and legal status concerns, is less likely to complain about failure to pay overtime, workplace injuries, wage theft or overwork, according to Williams. He described dozens of white vans that pick people up in the Little Village neighborhood, populated mostly by Mexican immigrants, and drive them to the suburbs for jobs, while black applicants will show up early at the agency office and wait all day before being told there's no work.
"They get up early, they make their way there, they get there on the promise that there might be work for them," Williams said. "And they watch as it changes from a very mixed room in the morning to mostly African-Americans left in the afternoon."
Williams, who has filed several federal discrimination lawsuits against individual companies before Tuesday's class action, said the complaints have spurred some staffing agencies to hire more African-Americans, but cultural issues inside the companies create a revolving door. Because of the emphasis on Hispanic recruiting, often the company plant managers and assembly line leaders are Hispanic as well, and "they didn't want them there," Williams said.
A person who answered the phone at MVP Staffing said no one was available to comment. None of the other companies named as defendants in the lawsuit immediately responded to requests for comment.
In Illinois, the unemployment rate among blacks, at about 14 percent, is nearly three times that of whites (5 percent) and nearly twice that of Hispanics (7.8 percent), according to a May report from the Economic Policy Institute, which at the time said Illinois had the highest black unemployment rate in the country.
Williams, who has spent most of his career focused on immigrant workers' rights, said he sees the devastation of joblessness in black communities where there are already barriers to employment, such as criminal records, that leads to "a level of desperation."
"These (temp) jobs are the entry level to the entry-level jobs," Williams said. "They would be perfect for this class of people who make up the extremely large population (of people with criminal records) and they end up being denied these jobs."
Norman Green, one of the five plaintiffs, said he has felt the discrimination at MVP and other staffing agencies in Chicago.
He described arriving at the agency early, around 4 or 5 a.m., with his steel-toe boots on and ready to work, signing his name at the top of a check-in paper. He said he would sit for hours and wait while Hispanics would arrive and be sent out to work sites right away. But the agencies would tell him to come back, he said, so he would borrow from money from friends and family to make the trip and get there early only to sit and wait again.
"A lot of black people just sitting there mad that they can't work," said Green, 33, who lives in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. When he has gotten jobs he feels everyone is talking about him in Spanish, and "it's just uncomfortable."
Green said the pattern, based on the perception that blacks don't want to work, is "clear-as-day racist" and unfairly applied to him even though "every time I walk into a temp agency I work my butt off."
Green, who has eight kids, seven of whom live with him, said he lost faith in the temp industry and instead supports his family doing construction and other manual work for family members.
In an exhibit attached to the lawsuit, former MVP dispatcher Rosa Ceja testified that she had been yelled at by representatives of client companies when she assigned African-American workers to jobs and was warned by MVP managers and owners not to send blacks because MVP could lose the account if they did.
Another MVP employee, Pamela Sanchez, who worked as an on-site manager at a bakery named in a prior lawsuit, said in an exhibit that she was instructed directly by bakery employees not to send black workers and to "DNR" (Do Not Return) them on the rare occasions she did. She said she would review lists of laborers to be sent to a shift and if a name didn't sound Hispanic, she would cancel them, even once they had already been assigned, because she knew they would be rejected. She added that she was told to have black applicants complete criminal backgrounds disclosures but not Hispanics.
Williams estimated there could be 8,000 to 10,000 potential class members for Tuesday's lawsuit.
Andrew Wells, director of workforce development at the Chicago Urban League, said he believes hiring discrimination plays "a fairly big role" in persistently high black unemployment, which he links to high crime rates.
"You see so much chaos and violence in the community, that's because you're seeing so many people not working," said Wells, who is not connected to the complaint.
Wells said spotlighting discriminatory patterns is one step toward starting conversations across sectors — government, nonprofit and private — about how to address the problem. His organization also helps people build workplace skills, buy homes, rebuild credit and start their own businesses that employ people from the community.
"People should be employed based on their ability to do the job, their talent," Wells said.
The lawsuit comes during a heightened debate over immigrant labor as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office with promises of restoring American jobs.
Williams said there are plenty of jobs for everyone as the temp industry continues to expand, but hiring needs to be fair and better reflect the population that is applying. Currently about 70 percent of the population around the Cicero office is Hispanic and 30 percent is African-American, but 98 percent of job placements go to Hispanics, he said.
"If we can shift the balance, our hope is that the jobs continue to be available to anyone in the community who wants to work," he said.

CNN SUED BY BLACK EMPLOYEES IN CLASS ACTION SUIT (TURNER & COMCAST vs BLACK PEOPLE)

CNN SUED BY BLACK EMPLOYEES IN CLASS ACTION SUIT:

I THOUGHT CNN (TED TURNER) WAS DOWN WITH BLACK PEOPLE, NOT TRYING TO KEEP BLACK PEOPLE DOWN??


Sources: AJC, NY Post


***** Black employees file racial discrimination class-action lawsuit against CNN, Turner

Former and current black employees on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against Atlanta-based CNN, Turner Broadcasting and New York based parent company Time Warner for racial discrimination.

“As a result of the current discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of DeWayne Walker vs. CNN, Time Warner & Turner, we have uncovered stories involving abuse of power, nepotism, revenge, retaliation and discrimination,” said Daniel Meachum in a press release.

The press release provided a photo of DeWayne Walker, a CNN producer who sued CNN individually in January for $50 million for racial discrimination and retaliation for filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

He accused CNN of not promoting him over 13 years because he is black, skipped over frequently for promotions in favor of white employees.

According to his LinkedIn page, Walker is an integrated marketing manager at CNN.

Walker is not actually a plaintiff in this particular case but is a client of Meachum’s and his individual lawsuit is still active. Celeslie Henley, a former executive administrative assistant at CNN, and Ernest Colbert Jr., a senior manager at TBS, are the only named plaintiffs though Meachum said 20 to 30 other unnamed current and former Turner employees helped him out with information about their experiences.

“This discrimination represents a company-wide pattern and practice,” the lawsuit asserts, “rather than a series of isolated incidents.” He said the company has been discriminating against blacks for more than 20 years.
The 40-page lawsuit filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Georgiasaid blacks – especially black males – are discriminated against in evaluations, compensation and promotions.

Blacks receive “disproportionately lower scores on evaluations,” the lawsuit alleges.

It says based on data provided by Turner, blacks are terminated at a higher rate than whites and promoted at a significantly slower rate. And the lawsuit said written and unwritten policies and practices for performing evaluations and promotions discriminate against blacks. Those policies “allow supervisors to essentially handpick candidates through word of mouth for available positions and make promotion decisions on the basis of subjective criteria,” the lawsuit said. “This system prevents qualified African-Americans from competing equally for positions or even knowing that they are available.”

Meachum said at a press conference Wednesday morning at his downtown Atlanta office that he has been collecting information about CNN and Turner for three years before filing the class-action suit.

“Upon information and belief,” the suit says, “African-American employees have had to endure racial slurs and prejudicial biases from superiors such as, ‘it’s hard to manage black people’ and ‘who would be worth more: black slaves from times past or new slaves.’ ”

Meachum said he is “outraged as an African American lawyer to have to sit down and go through the facts with people telling what I’ve been told these past three years.”
While blacks make up 30 to 35 percent of CNN’s mid-level managerial and staffing positions, the lawsuit said, “they are drastically under-represented at higher pay grades and senior positions, while still being required to generally labor three times as long as Caucasians [for promotions.].”

And even blacks in the highest positions are not in the more crucial departments, the lawsuit said. In the Media Group Division, the Legal Division and Strategy Division, for instance, not a single black person is represented at the top levels, it said.

Henley, 44 of Fairburn, worked at CNN for seven years as an executive administrative assistant. She alleged that she was mistreated in the workforce based on race, sex and pregnancy. She said she worked far longer hours than her white counterparts.

And she said she was treated significantly worse after coming back from maternity leave. She said she was fired as retaliation for complaining to HR in early 2014.

Colbert, 44, of Ellenwood, has worked at TBS for almost 20 years. He claimed in the lawsuit that he was consistently paid below grade level compared to comparable white employees.

He also said he failed to receive a proper job description for nine years and was given senior-level managerial work without being properly compensated.

He was promoted in August, 2016 to senior manager but said he is still underpaid compared to his white counterparts with comparable jobs. “Additionally, years of Mr. Colbert’s positive performance evaluations have been nullified due to TBS’s failure to maintain Mr. Colbert’s personnel file,” the lawsuit said.

In the lawsuit, Colbert said he repeatedly requested to be promoted to a higher pay grade. A white person who had held his position previously was promoted to a job grade several levels above Colbert’s while performing the same job duties, he said.

The class action covers all blacks employed in salaried and mid-level managerial positions in the United States at any time between April, 1997 to the present.

“I’ve seen people at Turner that have worked there for 14, 15 years with a total raise over that time of $5,000 to $6,000. That’s horrible,” Meachum said. “That is not the face that I think Turner and CNN wants to put on. That’s the reality of the people who work there.”

At least three others have filed individual lawsuits against CNN over the past three years.

In October, 2014, a field producer in Los Angeles Stanley Wilson filed a $5 million wrongful termination suit against CNN.
Former CNN writer/producer Ricky Blalock filed a lawsuit in December 2015 over racial discrimination.

He left the company soon after.
In October, 2016, former producer and writer Omar Butcher sued CNN for racial and religious discrimination.

When I asked CNN president Jeff Zucker about the lawsuits last month, he declined to comment. A CNN spokeswoman today declined to comment about the latest lawsuit.

Meachum, who represents Walker, showed up on “Real Housewives of Atlanta” to help out Cynthia Bailey this season with her divorce to Peter Thomas. (She has yet to file. He said they are trying to put the entire divorce together and have it all agreed upon before filing anything.) Meachum also represented actor Wesley Snipesfor many years.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: 6 NJ Residents File Lawsuit Over "BRIDGEGATE" Scandal (Sovereign Immunity Applies)

#BRIDGEGATE


6 NJ RESIDENTS SUE STATE.....CHRISTIE.....& PORT AUTHORITY OVER "BRIDGEGATE" BUT THEY WON'T GET ANYTHING DUE TO SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.

Documents detailing an Investigation of the "BRIDGEGATE" Scandal will be released Friday by members of the NJ General Assembly.

Can you say "2016 Politics"??

#BRIDGEGATE

BREAKING CHRISTIE BEFORE 2016 ARRIVES: DEMOCRATS & THE TEA PARTY

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2016 NOMINATION HILLARY CLINTON & MARTIN O' MALLEY!!

Although I still believe NJ Gov CHRIS CHRISTIE handled himself very well Thursday during his "BRIDGEGATE" Presser, it ain't over yet!

By the time OBAMA'S Election Machine (for HILLARY)........NSA "Big Brother" Surveillance......and CLINTON Loyalists, are through with CHRISTIE I doubt he'll be in any shape to ever seek Public Office again.

That's too bad.

I really wanted to see another Meat & Potatoes Campaign in 2016 between HILLARY & CHRISTIE, just as it was with OBAMA & ROMNEY in 2012.

Unfortunately for CHRISTIE even the TEA PARTY hates him.

People like LINDSEY GRAHAM and his SOUTH CAROLINA RACISM are sitting somewhere laughing hard right about now.

RAND PAUL appears to be a good guy but he's linked to the TEA PARTY.

The TEA PARTY has undeniably RACIST Roots.

I don't care if there are a few BLACKS in the TEA PARTY (David Webb), it's still by and large a RACIST Organization.

So thanks to Stupid RACIST TEA PARTY Supporters, DEMOCRATS are most likely going to WIN again in 2016.

Why??

There is absolutely NO way a TEA PARTY Candidate can Defeat HILLARY CLINTON.

NEVER!!

So when HILLARY'S name is called as the WINNER in Nov 2016, I don't want to hear a peep from the GOP.....RNC.....nor any TEA PARTY Leaders because You had someone who could have went toe-to-toe with HILLARY and You blew it!

2016 WILL BE A WALK IN THE PARK FOR HILLARY.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2016 NOMINATION HILLARY CLINTON & MARTIN O' MALLEY!!

I CAN HARDLY WAIT.

BREAKING CHRISTIE BEFORE 2016 ARRIVES: DEMOCRATS & THE TEA PARTY






ARTICLE: "Bridgegate: Six N.J. Residents File Lawsuit Against Christie, Port Authority"

Six New Jersey residents have filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Chris Christie, the state of New Jersey, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and others over traffic jams in September.

The suit filed in federal court Thursday appears to be the first civil claim over traffic that appear to have been caused as political punishment for the Fort Lee mayor.

The plaintiffs want it certified as a class action.

Lawyer Rosemarie Arnold says she filed it after learning this week that lane closures on an approach to the George Washington Bridge were "deliberate actions." She says that her clients were late for work and that one suffered a panic attack.

Christie has denied involvement. His spokesman did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Sources: AP, CNN, NJ.com, NorthJersey.com, Youtube

Penn State Must Now Pay Damages To Victims For Cover Up Conspiracy: GUILTY!

PAY UP PENN STATE!!!

After the recent Convictions of Jerry Sandusky and Roman Catholic Church Monsignor William J. Lynn, one thing is absolutely clear about the State of Pennsylvania.

The State cares Very Little about the Well being of Low Income Children, especially BLACK Low Income Children.

And that Powerful, Wealthy, Entitled WHITE Men who reside in Pennsylvania have been Afforded the Luxury of Sexually Abusing Low Income Children without Criminal Consequences for Decades.

I don't care what anyone else says if Pres. Obama were NOT in Office, Penn. State would NOT be facing a Major Civil Lawsuit for Protecting Sandusky.

Sandusky would NOT be facing LIFE in prison for Child Sex Abuse.

Monsignor William J. Lynn would NEVER have been Convicted of Child Endangerment due to his Cover Up of a Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse Ring.

Such recent examples of Justice for Children is another reason why the GOP is trying to Destroy Eric Holder and get him FIRED.









Victim No. 6: Violation and vindication

His heart pounded under his striped, maroon polo shirt as the one they call Alleged Victim No. 6 waited in a packed courtroom Friday night to hear the verdicts in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case.

He is 25 now, lean and broad shouldered with short brown hair and big dark eyes. For years, he struggled with the fact that Sandusky, a local football hero, crossed the line with him in a locker room shower in 1998.

No. 6 was the only one of the accusers, the so-called "Sandusky 8," to come to court for the verdicts. He chewed gum with intensity, his jaws clenching and releasing as Sandusky, looking wan and bent in a brown sports jacket, lumbered into the courtroom shortly before 10 p.m.

The jurors took their seats, looking tired and sad. One woman appeared to be crying.

The young man's mother locked fingers with him with one hand, placed the other over his forearm and her head on his shoulder. She started to cry. Soon, they would hear whether there would be justice.

Count One: Guilty of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with Victim No. 1.

No. 6 smiled.

Count Two: Guilty again, of the same charge.

No. 6 nodded, and his smile grew broader.

Count Three: Guilty of indecent assault.

And so it went. Sandusky was convicted of 45 of 48 counts against him. They covered the gamut of child molestation -- everything from oral and anal sex to corrupting the morals of 10 boys over 15 years.

As the guilty verdicts tolled, a spectrum of emotions crossed the young man's face. He closed his eyes for a while, as if deep in prayer. He leaned forward when the jury foreman finally came to Counts 28, 29, 30 and 31, the ones that involved him.

"Not guilty," the foreman said for the first count, indecent assault, and No. 6 blinked with surprise.

But then, it was nothing but "guilty, guilty, guilty" -- of unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children.

His chest heaved, and No. 6 wiped tears from his eyes. His mother patted him on the shoulder. She looked at the jurors and mouthed the words, "Thank you."

And then, they both broke down and cried, clinging to each other as they have since May 3, 1993, the day Jerry Sandusky, then Penn State's defensive coordinator, took him into the football team's locker room showers and soaped him up.

"I don't think anybody really won," his mother said as Pennsylvania state troopers, prosecutors and agents with the state attorney general's office filed by to offer congratulations.

"I thought I'd be happy," she said, "but there's no joy. We all lost."

Lead prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan II leaned over, said something in her son's ear and shook his hand. As if on cue, a loud cheer erupted in the square outside the courthouse. No. 6 glanced back, and then turned his head and smiled some more before collapsing into a sobbing group hug with his mother and sisters.

'I just rolled with it'

On June 14, a Thursday, he finally got to tell his story to a jury:

When he was 11 years old, No. 6 was the ultimate Penn State football fan. He met Jerry Sandusky at the charity Sandusky founded for at-risk kids, The Second Mile. He was thrilled when Sandusky paid him a little attention, asked him to come work out.

Sandusky picked him up in his car. The coach chatted with his mother for a bit about Penn State football, and then he got into the car with him.

Suddenly, there was a hand on his leg. According to prosecutors, that was Sandusky's opening gambit with the boys he molested. It was as if he was testing their tolerance for his touch.

"He reached over and put his hand next to my knee," No. 6 said. "I remember feeling that it was a little odd."

He pulled his leg away, but remembers, "I just rolled with it." After all, it was Jerry Sandusky.

At the team's locker room, he was allowed to try on the players' uniforms, their shoulder pads and their helmets. He peeked inside Joe Paterno's office and was given a pair of socks.

"I was thrilled with that," he said.

They played "Polish bowling," rolling a ball of sports tape on a hallway floor. Then, he recalled, Sandusky showed him some wrestling moves. He said it made him feel uncomfortable, but he didn't protest.

"It was Jerry Sandusky," and he didn't want to make him mad, he said.

They worked out for 15, maybe 20 minutes, and No. 6 learned how to use the weight machines.

"I remember him saying. 'It's time to shower,'" No. 6 recalled, "and I wasn't even sweating yet." Again, he felt uncomfortable because only his parents had seen him naked.

Sandusky stepped under a shower, and turned on the one next to him, warming it up for the boy. He told jokes to loosen him up, calling himself "the Tickle Monster" and tickled him under the arms, and on the chest and abdomen.

The coach grabbed him from behind, in a bear hug, and said, "I'm going to squeeze your guts out."

By now, he recalled, he was getting "pretty grossed out."

He explained, "I remember seeing his chest hair right next to my face and thinking, 'This is icky.'"

Sandusky soaped him up and lifted him under the showerhead.

No. 6 said his memory went blank after that. "I don't even remember being put down," he said. "I got home somehow, and everything else just blacked out."

His mother saw his wet hair, and he told her he'd taken a shower. He went into his room and closed the door, he said. She followed him a few minutes later and "I told her bits and pieces. It really wasn't a big deal to me."

He added, "I didn't want to get him in trouble. I still wanted to hang out with him and go to the games. He told me he had a computer and he would invite me over, and I could sit on his lap and play with the computer. And I still wanted to do that."

He never did spend time alone with Sandusky.

His mother called the authorities, and Detective Ronald Schreffler investigated for the Penn State campus police. While he was being questioned, No. 6 recalled, "I felt I did something wrong. ... I was a very small kid then."

Schreffler and the boy's mother set a trap. She confronted Sandusky and allowed authorities to record the conversation. She tried to make him promise not to take showers with young boys. He wouldn't agree, and so she told him he couldn't spend time alone with her son anymore.

According to testimony, Sandusky responded: "I understand. I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won't get it from you. I wish I were dead."

Schreffler testified that he felt charges should be filed, but Roy Gricar, the Centre County district attorney at the time, disagreed. Gricar later disappeared, and he was declared legally dead last year.

No. 6 said he continued to occasionally see Sandusky over the years, but was never again alone with him. He sent Thanksgiving and Father's Day cards. He had lunch on campus last year with Sandusky and his wife, Dottie.

In January 2011, the police came knocking again. By this time, he was studying at a Bible college in Colorado. He agreed to cooperate.

He thought about what happened so many years ago, things he had banished from his mind.

By this time, he said, his perception of what happened had changed.

"I saw it was inappropriate," he said. "I feel violated."

And now with a jury agreeing that what happened to him in the showers at Penn State was wrong, perhaps vindicated at last.


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Sources: ABC News, CNN, Google Maps

Roy Cooper Not Suing Obama Over Health Care Law

NC A.G. Won't Join Health Care Lawsuit


N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper said today that North Carolina will not join 13 other states in challenging the Constitutionality of the health care overhaul recently passed by Congress.

Cooper said it was unlikely that such a lawsuit would succeed, and that there is plenty of time for Congress to make any changes in the law before the most contested provisions in the new law take effect in 2013, Rob Christensen reports.

"After careful consideration, I have concluded that North Carolina will not join this lawsuit," Cooper wrote in a letter Gov. Bev Perdue.

(Click here for letter to Gov. Perdue)

Cooper's decision came as little surprise.

The health care overhaul has been debated along partisan lines and was pushed through a Democratic-controlled Congress by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Republican leaders in North Carolina had pressured Cooper and Perdue, both Democrats, to support joining the lawsuit, challenging the health care law soon after its passage.

All but one of the Attorney Generals who have joined the suit are Republicans. Cooper had withheld comment on requests that the state join the suit until his staff could conduct a review of the legal issues. He released a six-page memorandum from Christopher G. Browning Jr., his solicitor general, with the letter.

(Click here for the Memo.)

The central legal issue, is whether Congress has the authority to require citizens to purchase health insurance – part of its effort to provide universal health coverage. Browning notes that the courts have long interpreted that Congress has broad authority under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to regulate matters that substantially affect interstate commerce.

Cooper writes that health insurance reform is a policy decision that should be decided by the elected representatives, not by appointed federal judges.

"There is ample time for elected for elected representatives to change this legislation since most of the provisions in question will not take effect until the year 2013," Cooper writes. "In the unlikely event that this legal challenge does succeed," Cooper writes, "any decision will likely affect all of the states, including North Carolina, regardless of whether our state joins."

Cooper also said the new law provides some provisions that will prevent insurance companies from denying people health insurance because of Pre-Existing Conditions, or because they had a serious illness or accident.


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City Of Charlotte Sued For Ignoring Minority Victims' Sexual Assault Complaints

Did CMPD intentionally allow former CMPD Officer Marcus Jackson to remain on the force after receiving several calls and complaints from East Charlotte, Minority Women (Black & Hispanic) who were sexually assaulted by Officer Jackson?

If so this amounts to Negligence and Discrimination.

That's why the City of Charlotte is now being sued by one of Charlotte's most prominent Attorneys, J. Neal Rodgers in what could be a Class Action Lawsuit.

Had those victims been Caucasian Women from the wealthy Cotswold community, Jackson would have been fired long ago.

Instead CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe only chose to do so after this story hit the mainstream media airways.

By the way where was Charlotte City Council woman Council Nancy Carter when all of those complaints were being reported?

Isn't East Charlotte her district?

With the exception of West Charlotte, Minority citizens who reside in Southwest Charlotte, East Charlotte, North Charlotte are basically ignored by the City of Charlotte and CMPD.

Why are West Charlotte Minority citizens treated better?

That's where the largest number of Charlotte's Black Straight Ticket Voters (Dems) reside.

Thus this lawsuit will help to further prove Charlotte's Black and White Leaders don't give a darn about Minority citizens especially Middle Class or Low Income Minority citizens, just like they didn't care about Tiffany Wright.

Tiffany (now deceased) was a Black Foster Care child who was a victim of Statutory Rape. (CMPD failed to protect her too)

Tiffany Wright's family vs. The City of Charlotte.

Aanother lawsuit, another blog post for a different day.





The Marcus Jackson case CMPD 911 calls.







Female Victims To Sue City of Charlotte and Former CMPD Officer


Two alleged victims of former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Marcus Jackson are suing the ex-officer and the City of Charlotte, according to attorney Neal Rodgers.

Rodgers has called a news conference for this afternoon to disclose details of the suit, which he says centers around the actions of Jackson. WSOC-TV has reported that the suit was filed late Friday morning.

Jackson faces a number of charges and is accused of inappropriately touching six women while on duty. Five of the alleged attacks happened during traffic stops, and the other was during Jackson's response to a domestic abuse call for help. He served in CMPD's Eastway Division.

Police and city officials say the Jackson case has caused them to launch reviews of the hiring process for CMPD and the way 911 calls are handled.

Chief Rodney Monroe has said that Jackson should not have been hired in 2008, because of a restraining order filed against him by a former girlfriend. And the 911 review surrounds the way dispatchers handled a call from a man who told them Jackson was groping his girlfriend. Police officials say dispatchers did not send additional officers because they believed Jackson, who told them the charges were false.

One of Charlotte's leading defense attorneys, George Laughrun, told WCNC-TV, the Observer's news partner, that the lawsuits could be costly to the City of Charlotte – and its taxpayers.

“If I were a plaintiff's lawyer, I would not only want to sue the department, I'd want to sue the city for failing to do their due diligence,” Laughrun told WCNC.




Timeline of Marcus Jackson's Alleged Attacks


Here is a list of events involving now-fired CMPD Officer Marcus Jackson:

Nov. 2: A woman is stopped by Jackson. She says the officer fondled her during an improper search.

Dec. 18: A 17-year-old girl is pulled over by Jackson, who is wearing his CMPD uniform and driving his marked patrol car. The girl later tells police that Jackson forced her into his car, drove to another location and committed sex acts.

Dec. 28: Two women in a vehicle say they are stopped for speeding by Jackson at about 11 p.m. on Matheson Avenue. The women tell police that Jackson asked them to get out of the car and asked for permission to search them. Police now say the search was conducted improperly.

That same night, a 21-year-old woman is stopped by Jackson. She later tells police that he sexually assaulted her, under similar circumstances as the Dec. 18 attack.

Also on that Monday evening, family members of the girl involved in the alleged Dec. 18 attack call police and report the incident. Police say they immediately launch an investigation. They were contacted by the 21-year-old woman involved in the Dec. 28 attack on Dec. 29 or Dec. 30.

Dec. 29: The woman involved in the Nov. 2 incident is stopped again by Jackson, she tells police, and is fondled again. This time, a male companion with her allegedly tries to stop the officer and call 911 -- only to be arrested by Jackson for obstructing and delaying a police officer.

Dec. 30: Police announce that Jackson has been fired and has been charged with sexual battery, sex offense, extortion, kidnapping, indecent exposure and felonious restraint, in connection with the Dec. 18 incident and the Dec. 28 incident involving the 21-year-old woman.

Jan. 8: Police announce details of the alleged Dec. 28 attack on Matheson Avenue and say they are asking the District Attorney's office to file sexual battery charges against Jackson.



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Sources: WCNC, McClatchy Newspapers, Charlotte Observer, Fox News, CMPD, Charmeck.org, Youtube, Google Maps