A Box Of Diapers And A Life

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Peace, peace, and welcome back. Welcome back, Freedman's Affairs Radio. I'm your host, Aaron Vaughn Black, and family. We appreciate you for tapping in and joining us on this beautiful day, another day of life, for those of us who are here, still here. And today's numerical focus will be wisdom, understanding. That is the woman and the child that born's power. Right? Because when you look at the structure of the family nucleus, right? The woman and the child are our future. Well, they say the children are the future. The understanding. And the wisdom is the nurturer, is the first teacher of the child. So that family nucleus, inside of that family nucleus of wisdom understanding, it burns power, manifests power. Right?

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Ellen Garrison Clark Bio

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I had to take care of something real quick in the uh in the other room there, so I had to step out for a minute. But uh we're back in as I said, today's biography. Uh today this week's bio is a woman born in Concord, Concord, Missouri. Uh Ellen Garrison. Ellen Garrison is who she we're talking about today. She was an abolitionist. And the quick facts on her, she was born April 14th, 1823, in Concord, Missouri. Died in December 21st, 1892, at 69 years old. Who was Ellen Garrison? And what did Garrison have? What impact did she have on his civil rights? She initially uh opposed violence as a principle and advocated for Christian uh path pa uh pacifism against evil. However, recognized the necessity of armed struggle as a means to achieve uh uh the abolition of slavery and supported President Abraham Lincoln efforts to end the institution. Her role in in um in this whole thing in the civil rights movement, this is the early, I'm talking about not the 1960s. This is the she was an early civil rights advocate. And um and back in 1831 in in in in Boston with with uh with the new news with uh newspaper the The Liberator, Garrison publicly Well, wait a minute. What is this? No, this is um I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm I got the the I got the thing the thing wrong. Okay, yeah. Uh Ellen Ellen Garrison Clark was an was a uh black American educated abolitionist and early civil rights activist. I was going into another Garrison's uh bio. And um, yeah, she go look her up. Ellen Garrison Clark. I think her name was Ellen Garrison Jones Clark or something like that, due to some marriages or whatever like that. And uh she she was a very, very uh vocal woman as far as education went. She would uh learn people how to read and stuff like that. People didn't know how to read, and she was she was actually how I would say she was uh targeted for that. She was it was one of them during one of those those times, she was very targeted from what from white society for her contribution to her people. So go look up uh Ellis Ell uh Ellen Garrison, Erin Gallison, Ellen Garrison Clark. Okay, that's what we want to do. All right, so she is the bio. I was going into another Garrison, uh, another educator, and um that was William Garrison I was talking about because I'm looking and I'm saying I'm reading the thing and I'm saying, it keeps saying he, he, he. And I'm not talking about William Garrison. I'm we'll we'll save him for another time. But that's that's uh Ellen Garrison, who we're talking about up here today. She was she was the early version of Rosa Parks. Put it that way. Early civil rights activist. Okay, so that's what we wanna wanna um give you this week for this this week's uh bio.

Cohen Wiley Case Overview

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Okay, that said, family. That said, we're gonna move. We're gonna move. I'm gonna try to move down to Mississippi because we got a big case down there. We're gonna try to get that story of Cohen Wiley and um get that report in here and let's see if can we get that in here. I don't want the news conference, I want the actual, the the um, the actual incident. One second.

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Protesters met with tear gas outside the Mississippi Walmart where the incident took place, demanding justice for Cohen Wiley. According to investigators, the shooting on Sunday happened when Cenatobia police responded to a shoplifting call involving two adults and a child. One witness telling a local reporter of the two adults, one was carrying the boy, the other a box of diapers. Policeman shot open fire in a public setting over allegedly some pamphlet. Authorities say the adults, now identified by the family's lawyer as the boy's mother and her friend, tried to get away, driving toward and nearly hitting an officer. Another officer then firing at the car. The boy's mother says she tried to communicate to police that a child was in the vehicle.

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I raised my baby up trying to show them that he was in the car. By the time I set my baby down, it was like three to four shots. One of the shots hit him in his real cage, and the other shots hit her in her arm and her thigh.

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Cohen was pronounced dead at a hospital while the driver had critical injuries, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, which is now handling the case.

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Make no mistake, this is a very tragic situation. I would ask that the public maintain patience as much as possible. And I know this is a very frustrating time, but maintain patience as this process is done.

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Attorney Ben Crump, now representing the family, and saying in a statement, we intend to seek justice for baby Cohen and the life that was stolen from him. Protesters now calling for accountability and transparency.

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Need to be exactly what it needs to be reviewed, and to actually see what it says. Go with the evidence.

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June 14th, this happened in in um in Mississippi, right? So I it was the incident happened because there was uh a reported theft to the law enforcement there in that in that township at this Walmart. They called the I guess the store called the police and said there was a shoplifting incident. Police arrived. There was supposed to be some pampers that were shoplifted out of the store. The the the mother uh or the adults that were involved in this in this incident, they saying there's a receipt for the Pampers. Uh I don't know what the particulars are or or the facts of any of that. I'm just doing the reactionary report, and we're just trying to tie in tie in some things here uh to get some understanding. Now, you know, this happened in what uh uh Sanatobia, Mississippi. The uh police comes for for a for a minor nonviolent property dispute at a Walmart parking lot. This is the allegation, right? Shoplifting specifically a box of diapers. Minutes later, police officer fires his weapon into a moving vehicle. A one-year-old baby boy, Cohen Wiley, dead. Right? We're gonna look at exactly what happened, the massive contradictions in the story, and why this tragedy connects directly to a stalled federal policy debate that affects every single one of us. So that that's the focus for today, family, and we gotta move fast to get you out of here and get you on with your day. But here is what the family, uh, their attorney, Ben Crump, they then went and got old mumbling, bumbling Ben Crump, right? And witnesses are saying that uh they state the vehicle was turning away, trying to leave, and that the diapers had actually been paid for. Right now, the community is on fire, uh demanding body cam, the body cam and and Walmart security footage. The state is refusing to release it until the investigation is complete.

Body Cam Footage And Public Trust

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Now see this, this is right here, this what ties goes back into the to the um the George Floyd uh policing act bill. This ties right into it because what that what that bill, what that bill would would would allow to happen is that that footage is whatever body cam and camera footage from the area, media area, wherever incident takes place at involving the police, that would allow that that those videos or that those imageries to be released immediately uh for public um public uh viewing. This way the k the attorneys can get it and you know and and so on and so forth. And uh this is why they they don't want these, you know, saying we now we've seen this uh recently with the uh case in there in in in uh Frisco, Texas, with um Camelo Anthony and in and the um Austin Metcalf incident. They're just now releasing some of the videos and and things of that nature just now. Now this is the trial is over with, and they're starting to release these things. And I think that we're in a time social media is such a juggernaut when it comes to information that people are not relying on legacy media anymore. When it we're just not peep most people are not get getting their information from legacy media. The NBCs, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, Fox, they just not depending on you. You have still have people that watch those things or tune into those things, because I do from time to time to just get a different perspective. But with the the advent of social media, YouTube, uh, Instagram, and all these different platforms has become the juggernaut. And I think that that that the traditional system, the judicial system is afraid to really uh unleash the beast that this could potentially be in incidents like the George Floyd Policing Act. Let's see, can I find something that that will tie us into that before we go? Because we only we we only gonna be up here for a few minutes as I as I promise to shorten these uh these programs because you wanna get on with your day. Um let's see the uh policy link, policy link, George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. Yeah. Um now we have we have three parts that we can look at, right?

George Floyd Policing Act Explained

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Of this of this policing yet bill that's still collecting dust. It's still sitting in the Senate somewhere. Oh no, not even in the Senate, in the in the Congress floor, right? Anyway, necessary versus reasonable standard. The bill shifts the legal standard for using force from what a reasonable officer would do to make lethal force an absolutely last resort when necessary, right? Think about that. Think over think over that. Right? Things like choke holes and and firing at vehicles. This goes right into the case. This would be used to highlight the bill's restrictions on high-risk tactics. Firing into moving vehicles is widely condemned by modern policing experts due to the risk to passengers and bystanders. This is what the young lady said in when they whatever news was interviewing her, she said this they shooting in this in public space like this. But the police have a hard job, as we know. We're not gonna sit up here and act like they don't have a hard job. So you know, in split decision, split second decisions is really a very hard burden to carry. I would say that. Because we about fairness up here, fairness and truth. Always. Okay? Now the other one is transparency mandates. The bill uh would condition federal funding on departments reporting use of forced data. Uh connect this to the current local stonewalling of the Wiley body cam footage. Right? In this case with this kid. They're stonewalling the public for this body cam footage. And it shouldn't be like that. The same way they did with with the uh with the Comelo Anthony case out in Texas. Now, there's a lot of people talking about, well, the video they showed in court is grainy, you really can't see what happened, and this and that, and the fourth. There's supposed to be some 4K video out. Let's be honest with you about that. And I'm I don't want to talk about go into the Comelo Anthony case because people are talking about that case, ad nauseum, and I don't want to talk about it up here again today, maybe some other time as events unfold in that case where we will revisit it. Definitely revisit it, because it's a big case. But let's let's just keep it here for now, right? You got people saying there's 4K video out there, and then see the jury didn't see that. For whatever reason, uh we haven't seen the 4K video. So as far as I'm concerned right now, it's just uh internet talk because nobody's seen the video, and I believe me, believe me, I ain't on no boot licking coon shit. I wanted that kid to to walk out of that courtroom uh innocent of the charges. Because I know I don't believe that he uh intended to kill the Metcalf kid. And it's unfortunate. And I wanted him to walk out of that courtroom exonerated. You know, he was charged, but I wanted him to walk out exonerated, but that didn't happen. Now, all of the stuff people are talking about after the fact, the jury never heard none of this, they never saw this this 4K video. They had only four witnesses for the defense. They had 20, I think 20 or 21 witnesses for the prosecution. So what you have is taking the motion out of it, what you have is you have a dead body and you have a confession. Because he did talk in the video that I saw. He was crying, he said he, you know, he put his hands on me, and I told him not to. Now people are saying, well, he got jumped. There's video footage of him being jumped, but nobody seen it yet. And from his statement, he said, I told him, he didn't say I told, he didn't say I told them, which would mean plural, there was more than one. He said I told him not to touch me. He touched me first. I was defending myself. You admit it, you admitted to the crime. So you have a dead body, you got an admission to the crime. There was no way he was gonna walk out of that courtroom. He was gonna be found guilty. I wish it had been to a lesser degree, maybe a manslaughter, incidental type of thing, or something of that nature. Some lower level of manslaughter. Uh, but he got hit with murder one. But I'm saying, family, this is why we need these crime bills to. Pass and go through and become legislation. Because when things like these happen, we can know we get we get the information instead of depending on online because a lot of cats on people online are bullshitting and grifting. This is about likes, clicks, and views. So the more I can post and talk about it, the more revenue is gonna come in for me on these YouTube channels. And I'm not holding back anything. It's the black content creators, too. They're grifting too. On both sides. On the conservative and the liberal side. This is a fact. And this is why we need these policing acts to pass. So we can avoid these things. We can get right to it. But it's always about some kind of bureaucracy in these dealing with these things because there's money involved. Right? Um by the way, what what what why hasn't the

Qualified Immunity And Federal Gridlock

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bill passed? The bill remains stalled federally primarily over the elimination of qualified immunity, which protects officers from civil lawsuits and protects their pensions. Without federal standards and accountability, relies entirely on the patchwork of state laws and local political pressure. This is why. This is why, family. So we only got a few minutes we're gonna stay and we're gonna get out of here. I just wanted to bring this up to you and put it to you where you can look look at these things. But one thing I want us to do is have a less emotional response to these incidents. That's what I want. Right. Now the first thing is going back to the Cohen Wiley thing, uh, as far as these policies stuff go, uh, these these these things, it it it attacks the legal standard of force. Right now, the Supreme Court uh precedent uh Graham versus Connor and officers' actions are judged by whether they were objectively reasonable in that split second. The Justice and Policing Act wants to change the standard from reasonable to necessary. That means lethal force is legal or is illegal unless every single de-escalation tactic and non-lethal option has been completely exhausted. Now, what do you think about that? I know what I think about that, but what do you think about it? Secondly, the bill specifically targets high-risk tactics, including this is this is the policing act bill, including strict restrictions on firing into moving vehicles when there is no prior imminent deadly threat. And I'm gonna pause there and go on. That is left up in my analysis of it, is left up to interpretation. I don't know if if you can legislate something like this when it comes down to to um tactics or whether somebody can determination of somebody's understanding of what a deadly threat is. That's a very murky water to to to tread, right? Third and most relevant to the protests in in uh in Cenatobia right now, Cenatobia, Mississippi. The bill mandates transparency. It ties federal public safety grants directly to whether local departments use body cameras and upload their use of force data to national debt to a national database. If this act were law, local authorities couldn't easily stonewall the public by hiding the tape. Right? That's what they do. They hide these tapes. Like they hit a lot of stuff in the Camelo Anthony case. But again, I'm not going into that now. The bill remains completely deadlocked in Congress. I told you, sitting on the Congress floor, the main sticking point is qualified immunity. The legal doctrine that protects individual officers from being sued personally for violating someone's constitutional rights. Law enforcement unions refuse to budge on it. And the Senate remains. But while Washington stalls, families like Cohen Wiley, Cohen Wiley's pay the price. Without national standards, accountability relies entirely on a patchwork of local politics and how loud a community can yell. So, you know, a box of diapers family can cost a toddler his life. The system isn't broken. It's operating exactly how the laws currently permit it to act. Understand that. We're gonna keep demanding footage. And I gotta get ready and blow out of here, family. I get it, gotta get ready and blow out of here. But we're gonna we're gonna keep on these people's backs and keep on their necks until you know until we get the the footage we need to get, we get the things we need to to so these cases can be be prosecuted and and properly. Right?

Staying Clear Eyed About Accountability

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So that said, family, till next week. Remember this, we love y'all. We love y'all. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace. That was the wrong one. There we go. Like I said, in the words of King, must respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, and treasure the peace. Y'all go in peace and keep the peace until next time. To next time, family. We get together, we're gonna sit down, we're gonna talk again. We're gonna sip some tea, and I'm gonna have my ice and we're gonna talk. Love y'all. Take care. Peace.