GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Friday, June 19, 2020

FULTON COUNTY DA SHOULD KNOW: 'I GOT HIM' IS NOT AN ADMISSION OF GUILT.

ICHEOKU says watching the Fulton Country District Attorney Paul Howard Jr news conference showed a man under heavy pressure to deliver for his Atlanta black community on the death of Rayschard Brooks.  The pressure was so palpable that you can see it in both his demeanor and facial contouring and he was sweaty too. He was forced to rush the indictment without first waiting for the rightful agency, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to complete their investigation. 

It is usually after they make pronouncement that the police officer's conduct warranted an indictment based on their finding, that the District Attorney then indicts. But he chose to presumptuously indict the police officer just to please his black people and such a rather perfunctory indictment for murder, of the police officer, will not stand muster and a trial. A charge of murder which is surely to be thrown out by the judge or on the application of the defense, be dismissed, because what happened, even if it was a crime, did not rise to murder. ICHEOKU is emphatic that no matter how terrible what happened was or may seem, the criminal justice system does not seek to make society feel good, but only to punish a criminal behavior. 

So, based on the circumstances, the police officer did not commit any crime when he acted as he was authorized under Georgia State law, firing back with a deadly weapon at a fleeing suspect who first fired at him with a deadly weapon which he stole from the police. This is the sole soul of the case, the determinant of whether he had the right to defend himself from an assailant who wanted to incapacitate or even kill him while on his hot pursuit. Whether the officer reacted reasonably is a different thing all together; but if as Georgia State's law empowered him, he had the right to react as he reacted, case closed. Some people might not like it, but that is the black letter of the Georgia State's law which classifies taser as a deadly weapon and when attacked with it, the officer reserves the right to respond with a deadly weapon too. 

Now, as regards to the excited utterance made by the policeman when he finally made contact with the dying victim that "I got him", it is not an admission of guilt. The expression could be interpreted in so many different ways including that he finally caught up with the suspect after chasing him upon his fleeing from the police to elude arrest. The officer did not immediately begin shooting at the victim upon the chase; he only returned fire when Rayschard Brooks fired at him. He had no intention to kill Rayschard but just wanted to arrest him for drunk driving. The victim resisted arrest, fought off the policemen, stole their weapon and then ran off, causing the chase to begin. 

Even the police officer stepping on the victim's wrist to hold him down shows that the officer did not know that his shot was fatal and thought that Rayschard was still a continuing flee risk. The officer did not say "I killed the Nigger" or "I killed the SOB", which would have registered his malicious intention and that he deliberately wanted to kill him. He did not, it was nothing deliberate as the officer merely wanted to take him into custody and keep other road users safe from a drunk driver. There is also a glaring evidence of their mutual respectful conversation which showed that things were going smoothly until Rayschard decided to escalate it by resisting arrest, fighting the police, fleeing and shooting at the police in his hot pursuit. 

But unfortunately, a showboating District Attorney, playing to the gallery of political correctness and desperately trying to win some points from Black Lives Matter, went out of his way to indict for murder and you wonder where was the malice aforethought. The officer never left for work that day intending to shoot and kill Rayschard Brooks or any other black man for that matter. Everybody saw the various video clips of how both men started off cordially and courteously before the victim decided to surprise the officers by doing exactly the same time which he had earlier assured the police officers that he will not do. According to the victim, he acknowledged that the police officers were doing their job and that he will comply with whatever the ask of him, before changing his mind when the handcuffs came out because he did not want to go to jail for drunk driving. 

Thanks for video cameras, every of their interaction were captured and it is no longer second guessing what transpired. So, all those carrying water for the victim should in fairness also speak to what the victim did wrong, many things, to bring about the harm that was done to him and these officers whose conscience is forever stained with taking another person's life. They did not intend to so do but the victim forced their hand, admitted they could have shown more restrain, but the heat of the moment proved otherwise. ICHEOKU's verdict is that the officers will beat the charges, the officer indicted with murder will also beat the murder count. If the case is not completely dismissed, they will be acquitted following a trial on all the counts including stepping on the dead body as everything happened under the same unbroken chain of passion starting from the resisting of arrest. Even manslaughter is not tenable because the Georgia State law exculpates the officer and completely exonerates them.

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