Police Department and Sheriff's Department's need to take steps immediately to remove officers who abuse their power. We live in the information age. What once lived in the shadows are now seen in clear light. If you are doing your job honestly and with justice for all, you'll be seen clearly and found clean when exposed to the light of #justice. Rich Arrington Law Enforcement (Retired)

Support the men and women who are trying to change the face of the police. They are the ones who protect and serve. It’s time we ended bad policing. Good people deserve respect and trust not to be hated because of bad cops.

Love trumps hate

Pray for my family in Fort Worth, Texas. I was held involuntarily after a deputy with Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department took me to a psych ward because he didn’t like my “attitude” in February 2017. I was upset that two police departments in Tarrant County had been so dismissive to women who were raped, attempted to be kidnapped, kidnapped, tortured & attempted to be killed, that I called Dallas FBI to report Richland Hills PD telling me that “it was the alcohol talking” & asking me “did it even happen”; and to report that Azle PD had told me they don’t “pick up trash” when I called about something suspicious in our park, where two separate rapists had recently attacked two separate women. I called Dallas FBI and an agent was mocking me for calling him and not the local police, which I had tried first. This agent was laughing when I was crying about how two police departments didn’t care about rape. His laughter was cruel. I asked for his name and badge to report him to the authorities and he hung up on me. I called him back and basically told him that I was with those who would not be ok with an FBI agent laughing at rape. Within a week, a deputy is taking me to JPS and holding me involuntarily, where they drug me, deny my pleas for counsel and interrogate me like I’m a threat. They ask if I’m planning on “taking out Trump” & “bringing down the FBI”. As if. I’m an American. I studied MLK. I’m a Historian. And to be so violated without any help is terrifying, yet it got worse after I was released, because even after another deputy threatened me to “leave politics alone”, they sent out CPS and a cruel man called me a liar and a conspiracy theorist in front of my sons and my husband because we are Democrats. We tried to fight them, yet with no funds up against a corrupted city, we were at the mercy of the courts. The court appointed me an attorney that said if I fought CPS, that they would take it that I was going to be difficult and that I would have to wait longer to be reunited with my sons. They made me go to private on Facebook, threatening me to not share history articles and news stories from reputable sources. Our sons were kidnapped for five months. The deputies were abusing me and threatening me. The people running Tarrant County Administration is saying these men that bullied me were right to do it. Today. They are still saying it’s ok what happened to us, today. I went and I got them to tell me that it’s ok that what they did happened to us, and I recorded it because I have ADD & I have to record what people are saying to listen again, & hear everything better the second time. Our family needs your prayers. We keep praying and thinking that these folks will just have some “come to Jesus” and just do what’s right because our sons deserve justice, yet they have chosen to protect a few bad people in the Tarrant County Justice Department over my life, my husband’s life and our sons’ lives. We are still organizing to turn Texas Blue, with or without their permission. We are still #UnionStrong as a Union family being attacked by anti-Union politicians, using the justice Department & even child protective services to hurt political activists that don’t support Trump. Please pray for us!! ✨🕊💖🙏🏼✨

The result of the Republican strategy has been a historic packing of the courts by ultra-conservative activist judges. As of this writing, Trump and the Republican Senate have confirmed an astonishing 218 federal judges, mostly conservative white men, many of them deeply unqualified far-right activists with little judicial experience. These judges have altered the balance not only of the Supreme Court, but also myriad lower circuit courts. These judges are not just temperamentally and philosophically conservative: most are committed Republican partisans, approved by the arch-right Federalist Society, and subscribe to a view of the Constitution in Exile premised on the belief that essentially every progressive reform since the New Deal and even Teddy Roosevelt has been an unconstitutional infringement on corporate and property rights. It is a degree of far-right judicial radicalism that most Americans barely begin to appreciate, only because the cases challenging long settled law have only just begun to wind their way through the courts. The other important context for this Republican court-packing is that it reflects an attempt to control national policy even as conservatives lose the ability to win elections nationally. Conservatives already govern illegitimately through an array of anti-democratic structures that make white exurban conservative voters count much more than urban liberal voters and people of color. Many of these structures were explicitly set up by the Founders or in the Jim Crow era to benefit Slave States and former Confederate States. The electoral college has allowed Republicans to control the White House for 12 of the last 20 years despite winning the popular vote only once during that time–and the process itself warps presidential elections toward the interests of more conservative-leaning voters in “swing” states. The Senate is controlled by a Republican “majority” despite the fact that Democratic Senators represent 15 million more Americans than Republican Senators do. State legislatures and House seats are gerrymandered such that Republicans dominate many state legislatures despite losing the statewide vote, and control more House seats than they would if districts were drawn across the country in non-partisan fashion. That’s on top of active voter suppression efforts in many states that work to shut out the rising voices of young people, urban progressives and people of color.

I hope he gets put in general population in prison

JESUS 🌏🌎🌍