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Tyranny, Anarchy And America’s Downfall
By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
- July 28, 2020





[Editor’s note: The following article contains excerpts from the Thursday, June 11, 2015 interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan conducted by Cliff Kelley of WVON 1690’s The Talk of Chicago program, at WVON Studios in Chicago, Illinois. For the full interview on CD, DVD and MP3, visit store. fi nalcall.com, or calling 1.866.602.1230, ext. 200. We encourage you to order the full message to get every word spoken during this vitally important interview.]

As-Salaam Alaikum.

J.B. Stoner’s letter and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s response can be found on pages 330-341 of Message to the Blackman in America

In the early 1950s, maybe the latter 1950s, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in a controversial debate, but with pen and paper rather than over spoken words, with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, J.B. Stoner. And the latter part of this “debate,” if you will, J.B. Stoner made this statement, “we are going to give up wearing the hood and the garment of the Ku Klux Klan, but soon we will be in the police departments of America, we will be judges, we will be bankers…”—everywhere you look you will see the attitude of the Ku Klux Klan. When Thurgood Marshall was the first Black Supreme Court justice, before he left the Supreme Court, he said, “The Ku Klux Klan used to wear white robes and hoods. Today they wear black robes.”

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DECEIVING, DEFAMING, DESTROYING: The Jewish onslaught against Blacks as part of campaign to destroy Farrakhan


The Jewish assault on entertainer Nick Cannon and efforts to bludgeon him into submission were the latest moves in a long history of anti-Black bullying and coercion by Jews obsessed with the destruction of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan—no matter the cost or the collateral damage.


Nick Cannon Photo: MGN Online

“The Masked Singer” television show host, who has also been active in demands for Black justice, was targeted after an interview with Professor Griff of Public Enemy was made public. In the interview, which has been removed from the internet, Mr. Cannon talks about how the experience or harsh life in the caves of Europe deprived Caucasians of melanin, which causes dark skin pigmentation, and created a less compassionate, more aggressive being, which ravaged the globe—especially the darker peoples of the earth.

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A Response to Alan Dershowitz, Esq: ‘You Are OF Your Father the Devil (Satan)’

BY ABDUL ARIF MUHAMMAD, ESQ.

July 9, 2020


Abdul Arif Muhammad, Esq., Student General Counsel for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam


Abdul Arif Muhammad, Esq., Student General Counsel for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam


Mr. Dershowitz, in writing and publishing several false claims in your article of July 8th, one of which is the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan “threatened” you during his worldwide address on July 4th, proves that his words are true.

“You’re such a skillful deceiver; you are Satan masquerading as a lawyer. Satan, walking in full sight, deceiving whoever they can deceive. That’s Satan.”

As Jesus told a party of the Jews in the Bible. “You are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8:44 KJV).

There was no threat to inflict physical harm upon you. In fact, his words on July 4th were directed at you, because you were the one advancing a threat, which was publicly advocating that the government could forcibly vaccinate citizens against their will. It is deceitful, how you sanitized your words in the article, that you were “urging people to take COVID-19 vaccine if a safe and effective one were developed.” Here is the main thrust of your words as published in your May 19 statement:

“If you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.”

These are your words Mr. Dershowitz. So, you were threatening to have the constitutional rights of the American people taken from them by the State. Your words prove the meaning of the Bible when it says:

“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?” (Ps. 94:20 KJV).

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was responding to your advocacy for forced vaccinations. His true words are:



In this Dec. 2, 2019 file photo, Attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves federal court, in New York. Photo: AP Photo/Richard Drew


“So, Mr. Dershowitz, if you bring the vaccine and say you’re going to bring your army to force us to take it, once you try to force us, that’s a declaration of war on all of us. You only have this one life. Fight like hell to keep it, and fight like hell to destroy those whose heart and mind is to destroy you and take your life from you.”

Like the Serpent did in the Garden of Eden, you willfully misinterpret the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s words to deceive those who would listen to him. This is the way of Satan to misinterpret the context and meaning of God’s words to deceive. This, the Satanic Jews, like yourself, have done, against the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

For thirty-six (36) years, since 1984, you have falsely accused Minister Farrakhan of calling “Judaism a Gutter religion”; and of calling “Hitler great” along with falsely accusing him of being “Anti-Semitic”, homophobic and a misogynist none of which are true. It was in fact, Nathan Perlmutter of the ADL, and Nat Hentoff, of the Village Voice who called Minister Farrakhan a “Black Hitler,” for his defense of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, whom the Jewish Defense League (JDL) was threatening to kill for his support of Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian people during his 1984 Presidential Campaign. We will not allow you anymore to continue to change history and misinterpret the truth!

The words of the Minister Farrakhan are synonymous with the words in the Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4th, speaking to the abuse of power of the Government.

“That to secure these rights,(life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness) Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

These words ring true today. It is an improper constitutional interpretation to place the government above the people. Governments are instituted and they derive their powers from the consent of the Governed.

The citizens of America, and especially the Black, Brown, Red and poor White, have the right to protect their lives against abuse by a government seeking to inject them with vaccines that are proven to have been injurious to populations around the world. Further we believe that the intent of the proposed COVID-19 vaccine is designed, not to relieve the people of the virus, but to carry out the Henry Kissinger doctrine, as outlined in his 1974 NSSM-200 Memorandum, which call for a massive culling of the world’s population by two billion people.

We, the Black and native people are very well aware of this history of government abuse, regarding vaccines and biological experimentation. Minister Farrakhan said on July 4th;

“Remember the syphilis experiment? Remember what they did to the Native Americans with smallpox? Remember the vaccine that they gave us for polio that was cancer itself? So, how in the hell could you trust them with a vaccine after you know what they have done and that they are capable of doing it again on a bigger and broader level?”

That is why Minister Farrakhan said on July 4th; based upon this wicked History:

“We can’t trust you any more White folks not with our lives. We’re not justified in so doing.”

Again, Mr. Dershowitz, using your skillful deceit, you try to falsely apply the Brandenburg v. Ohio standard, to the Minister’s speech.

Of course, most are uninformed of the meaning of this case. In fact, the decision in the case was the exact opposite of what you assert in the article. In brief, the facts of the case are; a Ku Klux Klan member invited a reporter to come to his KKK rally. At the rally the KKK member made several racist statements against Blacks and Jews, and said although they were not a “revengent” organization, if the government continues to suppress the White race, “there might have to be some revengeance taken.” They were prosecuted and convicted under an Ohio Statute for “assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrine of criminal syndicalism.”

The Supreme Court overturned the conviction and issued the following ruling and principle of law: “These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation, except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

Further, you falsely claim a “more direct threat of violence” by picking out a phrase from the Minister Farrakhan’s July 4th, message, “When you see Satan pick up a stone as we do in Mecca.” Your misinterpretation is a deliberate perversion. Minister Farrakhan’s complete remark on that point was:

“Every Muslim when he sees Satan, pick[s] up a stone as we do in Mecca. When you know who Satan is, you don’t have to kill him. No. The stone of Truth, see, that’s what you throw.”

The words of the Minister on July 4th and the true context and meaning of his words could never legally fit into the exception of the Brandenburg v Ohio ruling. And for the record, a few years ago, a Jewish attorney, did file a lawsuit against Minister Farrakhan in Federal Court in Texas, on this very same argument you’re advancing, and the Court dismissed the action.

Mr. Dershowitz, let’s address the “Anti-Black” history and actions of the Satanic Jews, who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan. (Rev. 2:9 KJV)

Your rabbis created the Talmud, and concocted the so-called “Hamitic Curse” and claimed that Black people (Africans) were cursed by God to be “black and ugly” and punished to be your slaves forever. This wicked Jewish tale justified the Holocaust against the Indigenous people and motivated the kidnapping and enslaving of the African people, killing untold millions during the Middle Passage and beyond.

Our research, published in the Secret Relationships between Blacks and Jews, Vols. I and II quotes many Jewish scholars who admit that Jewish merchants owned, insured and financed slave ships and outfitted them with chains and shackles. Jews were slave auctioneers, brokers, and wholesalers, keeping the slave economy oiled with money, markets and supplies.

In the South Jews were significant owners of cotton plantations and slaves. There were rabbis who owned, rented and sold slaves and denounced the abolitionists. Jewish merchants and peddlers collaborated with slavery, and financed plantation operations and even bought and sold whole plantations—slaves and all. They sold to plantation masters everything from slaves, to drugs, to whips, shackles, and chains.

Jews allied themselves with the Southern Confederacy against Abraham Lincoln and the North in the Civil War. They financed the Confederacy, and the Jews’ support for their pro-slavery cause was so massive that they put the face of the most prominent Jew in America—Judah P. Benjamin—on their money! Jews supported and helped set up, main­tain, and strengthen America’s “slave codes” and “Jim Crow” legal system through an extensive Jewish banking and financing net­work.

During Reconstruction Jewish merchants targeted and exploited the poor Black cotton sharecroppers growing extremely wealthy in the process. Many Jews, like the Lehman Brothers, were major dealers of slave picked cotton, as well as owners of cotton mills. Many Black sharecroppers fell into debt and lost their land to these overcharging Jewish merchants.

On February 26, 1877—the day of the Birth of our Saviour, Master Fard Muhammad—a Jewish congressman from Louisiana named William M. Levy argued for the Compromise of 1877 which saw Rutherford B. Hayes become President in exchange for removing federal troops in the Southern states. This notorious act resulted in the death of Reconstruction and the imposition of “Jim Crow Segregation” creating a condition of “defacto” slavery, which lasted until the Supreme Court Decision, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. So wicked was Levy’s plan that it is known by historians as the “Great Betrayal of the Negro.”

In the post-Civil War and Reconstruction era, Jews became leaders in the trade union movement and set up racist policies that forced millions of Blacks out of employment in the skilled trades. A Jew invested in a new group of White terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan. Jewish merchants sold sheets and guns and rope to the Ku Klux Klan and many Jews became Klan members, supporters, and even high officials.

In the early 1900s Jews attacked economics-minded Black leaders like Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey and financed only the Black organizations that promoted an anti-economic agenda, like the NAACP. In fact, the NAACP’s first president, Joel Spingarn, who was Jewish, and also a major in the intelligence branch of the military, spied on the group for the U.S. government!

During the 1970s Jews were against Affirmative Action, and agreed with the concept of “reverse discrimination” which was used to help cripple Black progress in every field.

Most importantly, you have been “Anti-Black” in your opposition and attacks against the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who is without question, the instrument and voice of God and His Christ in our midst, bringing Salvation to His people, the Black, Brown, and Red, and the oppressed throughout the world. As he said July 4th, “God has made me His mouthpiece.”

What is your aim, Mr. Dershowitz in this wicked and willful lie against the words of Minister Farrakhan?

We have been taught and know that the ultimate aim of this world is to kill the Messenger of God. Your article attempts to incite and urge the government against Minister Farrakhan, by calling him “Anti-American.” and labeling his speech as “inciting to imminent lawless action.”

What you fear is what Minister Farrakhan also said on July 4th, “And it’s my job now to pull the cover off of Satan.” As the Minister pointed to the Ayat (verse) in the Holy Qur’an: “Allah says, ‘Had we wished to take a pastime from before, surely we would have done it. Nay, we hurl the Truth against falsehood until we knock out its brains.” [Holy Qur’an 21:17-18]

The throwing of the stone “of truth” is to put an end to Satan, his evil and unrighteousness that has nearly engulfed and affected the entire human family of the planet earth.

Why do you hate Minister Farrakhan? He answered the reason for your hate, on July 4th.

“The reason they hate me [is] because they know I represent the end of their civilization. I represent the uncovering of their wickedness, fulfilling the judgment that God has come to bring down on America and the world.”

Your hatred of Minister Farrakhan is that the two men that have made him, God and His Christ, are producing the Salvation that God sent Jesus in the World to bring, when Jesus said, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” This brings Satan’s world and civilization to an end.

As Minister Farrakhan on July 4th concluded with a prayer, we end this response, with his words, on that same wise.

“May Allah fill you (the righteous) with knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and power that we together may put to a perpetual flight Satan, the arch deceiver, the imposter Jews who are worthy of the chastisement of God.”

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The Criterion: Minister Farrakhan offers light, life to a world facing darkness and death

BY NABA’A MUHAMMAD EDITOR @RMFINALCALL



CHICAGO—In the Bible, Jesus prays in the garden of Gethsemane as the fateful, final hours in his life approach. He accepts his fate, placing his life and what is to come in the hands of his Father, obedient to the will of his Father, whatever the consequences.

In a time of world crisis and widespread scoffing at religious obedience, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, resplendent in a white robe and fez embroidered with gold threads and bedecked with small gems, stepped into a beautiful garden to deliver a message of warning, guidance and instruction.

As an opening to his July 4 message, “The Criterion,” video cameras captured the splendor of the garden, moving through the gates of his home, bypassing flowers, and the glory of nature to a place set for the delivery of the word of God, reflection and wisdom in a deadly and worrisome hour.



Audience listens to July 4 message by Min. Farrakhan in which he addressed the world and issued guidance and warning regarding the current state of affairs including the Covid-19 pandemic.



Serenity and peace emanated from this man as he offered the earth’s inhabitants fearing the Covid-19 pandemic answers and a way out of suffering. It is connected to seeking and embracing the mercy of God. It requires such repentance as seen in the ancient city Nineveh after the Prophet Jonah delivered a message to its ruler, who heeded prophetic guidance. Nineveh was given 300 years of grace after the king accepted a divine word.



In a near three-hour message, the Minister spoke to the U.S. president, global political and religious leaders, the world community and Black people in America and Africa.

The deadly coronavirus is a God-sent pestilence and neither America, China nor others will escape its grip, he warned from the garden.

“I want to tell you up front, you will not conquer this virus. You don’t know this virus, it mutates and goes into different directions with a different strain of itself,” he said.

If you had created the virus, you would know how to handle it, but the widespread death is beyond your power and reach, the Minister told President Donald Trump, world leaders and those who wish to purge the planet of “useless eaters,” a reference to a 1970s global population reduction goals expressed by then U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

You have planned death for others and now God is unleashing death on you, Min. Farrakhan said.

The Minister spoke on the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Nation of Islam in America. He referred often to the founders of the Nation, the Great Mahdi Master Fard Muhammad, who taught and raised the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who fulfills the prophecy of the Christ. Master Fard Muhammad fulfills the prophecy of the powerful, self-guided one in Islamic theology and was an unseen influence throughout my life, while the Hon. Elijah Muhammad was my teacher, said Min. Farrakhan.

These two powerful men, Master Fard Muhammad and the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, back me in my mission to set down tyrants, unmask Satan fully and warn the world of divine judgement, he said.

Master Fard Muhammad made His appearance known in North America July 4, 1930 to declare independence for ex-slaves suffering under the boot of merciless tormentors. “We don’t have to celebrate the firecrackers, foolishness and founders of this republic,” said Min. Farrakhan. “Great White men” founded the country, but their hearts could not make the Declaration of Independence truly real, he said.

The six White nations that represent America never represented all people, nor women, the Minister added.

The United States was not created for her slaves, who were codified as three-fifths of a human being in the Constitution, he continued.

From its inception, this country was made for privileged White people and is part of worldwide White domination of Black and indigenous people allowed by God Himself, he said.

That time is up and those who are lost to the coronavirus, like the late Nation of Islam regional Student Minister Abdul Hafeez Muhammad, are martyrs and helping to bring in a new world, he said. The painful death of Min. Hafeez Muhammad, who was also over the mosque in New York and the Eastern region of the NOI, led the Minister to seek answers from God. The result was a special message on the day America celebrates its birth, and the day God Himself came to seek and save Black people.

“Those who die in the way of Allah, the Qur’an says don’t speak of them as dead, they are alive because their death was in the cause of God. … I see my brother as a martyr. I see all of those who have died in this corona-violence to us as martyrs,” said Min. Farrakhan. Prophet Muhammad of Arabia, he said, called those who die during epidemics martyrs and the designation is fitting today.

Times are uneasy and the earth is carrying a burden, the Minister explained.

“The earth is burdened by the wicked living on a planet that was made for the righteous. And so, the burden is now being shaken. The burden feels something coming because they are being overthrown. You can’t live in a world made by God on the basis of truth and live your life on the basis of a lie,” he said.

“This virus is a pestilence from heaven, so scholarship from hell can’t deal with a pestilence that came from heaven,” the Minister said.

World leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Trump, should go into their closets and recount their sins, said the Minister. Call your people together and ask them to go into their chambers and ask repentance for their sins, which have reached to heaven, the Minister told the leaders of two of the most powerful nations on earth.

Mr. Trump needs to try to make America safe because of all her evil but it looks like God will have to knock him down because of arrogance and false pride, he said.

Try to keep the U.S. out of war and out of God’s judgement, the Minister advised President Trump.

“You would be wise to put on a mask. It would be the greatest irony that you would die in office from coronavirus. I’m not wishing that on you. But if I did you would have to worry,” said Min. Farrakhan.

China is mistreating the Uighur Muslims, but you can’t be a tyrant and win today, he said. He warned President Xi, saying he may be president for life, but God determines how long one lives.

Rome, Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, centers for world religions, are shut down, Min. Farrakhan noted.

Mecca is the greatest city in the world to me, he said. But the beautiful city is desolate, and Mecca must be warned, the Minister added. Hate stands in the place where love for God, your fellow Muslims and others should be seen, with weapons purchased from the U.S. used against your Muslim brothers, he said.

“Mecca, you must repent,” said Min. Farrakhan.

Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan must also be warned, he said.

Pope Francis seems to want to do good, but the Catholic Church has done much evil, he said. During confession priests hear sins, but priests, presidents, rulers and kings need to confess, the Minister said.

Don’t try to appease Black people by taking down false images of a White Jesus because you were a part of White supremacy, and taking down White Jesus means nothing unless you can tell the truth about the Black Jesus, he said.

But, “you haven’t seen the worst of this yet,” said Min. Farrakhan.

Smooth words, founding hypocrisy

Despite words written by Thomas Jefferson about the equality of men, America has never been equal and the “dog whistle in President Trump’s cry, make America great again under it is make America White again,” said Min. Farrakhan.

White nationalists and those of that ilk are flocking to the president, he noted.

Are you a hypocrite, America? the Minister asked. You cannot pacify Black people with a “smooth crooked tongue,” false promises and fake citizenship, he said.

Either America means what she says to Blacks or it’s a covenant with death that will be annulled and an agreement with death that will be destroyed, said the Minister.

The Saviour, Master Fard Muhammad, came to make Black people move on the Will of God and the Qur’an describes us as the best nation because we forbid evil and promote good, he said.

In the past 43 years, and over 20 years before that, I have never shed blood to occupy the place I am in today, Minister Farrakhan added.

“You can say I’m a hater but you can’t prove it. You can say I’m a bigot but you can’t prove it,” he said. You can’t say I hate LGTBQ-plus because I come from a God who came with the power to save, Min. Farrakhan said.

Covid-19 pandemic explained

Mr. Trump was looking forward to easy reelection with a booming stock market, but suddenly Covid-19 struck.

Overnight countries were shutdown, the Minister observed.

“Mr. Trump, and all your scientists, why don’t you put on your mask and sit down for a minute while one of the ex-slaves whom God has awakened gives you guidance on what you seek,” Minister Farrakhan said.

“It (Covid-19) didn’t come from Wuhan, it did not come from Ft. Detrick in Maryland. If you had made it, you would know how to handle what you made,” the Minister explained. “But you don’t know this virus. It’s new, it’s different. … You’re running to try to get a vaccine like you are really interested in saving the world from this virus.”

The Minister cited the biblical verses, Isiah 26: 20-21. “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast,” reads verse 20.

“Shelter in place, hide yourself,” said the Minister, describing how the Islamic month of Ramadan, observed in April through May, kept Muslims at home and allowed for more focus on the Creator and Quranic readings.

God is coming out to punish the inhabitants of the entire earth for their iniquity—willfully sinning, committing sin without conscience, Min. Farrakhan explained.

“Our behavior is a pestilence on earth so God answers with a pestilence,” said the Minister.

The punishment includes loss, lost jobs, lost friends, lost loved ones and lost love in households, Minister Farrakhan said.

Mr. Trump called for a liberation from the virus by not wearing masks, ending social distancing and opening society, but as soon as Americans tried to reopen society, the coronavirus and death showed up.

“You want it to end, Mr. Trump, so you can go back to what was. But I’m here to tell you sir, you will never see what was again. That is over,” said the Minister. “We are under the judgement of God.”

Min. Farrakhan warned African leaders and African people not to blindly accept Covid-19 cures from Caucasian people.

The history of White people shows they cannot be trusted, he said. Blacks and non-Whites have been subjected to medical experimentation from Whites, including gynecological techniques on slaves, smallpox in blankets to the Native Americans, a contaminated polio vaccine, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service purposely left syphilis untreated in Black men. The U.S. Public Health Service and Guatemalan government also infected and studied Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.

During the colonial era and afterward, there have been experiments in Africa whether through uninformed consent or forced procedures. In the 1990s, there were complaints as the U.S. sought treatments or cures for AIDS and meningitis. Nearly 20,000 HIV-positive women in Zimbabwe were not informed about trials for development of the AIDS drug AZT. Pfizer lost several informed consent lawsuits after testing 200 children in Kano, Nigeria with an experimental drug to treat bacterial meningitis. Millions were paid to the Kano government and other payments made to four parents who lost children. South Africa tested different ways to kill Blacks under apartheid. Some believe AIDS is connected to oral polio vaccine research in the Congo, though other scientists insist it’s untrue. In the 1970s, the female contraceptive Depo-Provera was clinically tested on Black women in Zimbabwe. In the late 1800s to 1910s, Namibia, then known as German South-West Africa, saw doctors conduct forced sterilization on native Herero women and mixed race children.

In a 2017 study, Wemos, a Dutch group, outlined problems with clinical trials in Egypt, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The “global pharmaceutical industry has increasingly been conducting clinical trials in low- and middle-income countries. In 2005, 40% of all clinical trials took place in emerging countries,” it said.

Africa and developing regions are hot spots for trials and research offering “faster and cheaper recruitment of clinical trial participants, weak health systems, and treatment-naïve, often medically illiterate populations with a wide range of diseases. Also, it is easier to bypass ethical rules and regulations because of lack of legislation and less stringent or weak monitoring,” the study states.

In April, French doctors came under fire for saying Covid-19 vaccine research should be targeted for Africa. “It may be provocative. Should we not do this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment or intensive care, a little bit like it’s been done for certain AIDS studies, where among prostitutes, we try things, because we know that they are highly exposed and don’t protect themselves?” said Jean-Paul Mira, head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris,” reported Al-Jazeerah.

Min. Farrakhan told Blacks in America and the Motherland not to take any Covid-19 medicines until Black experts vouch for its safety.

We need to call a meeting of Black epidemiologists, virologists, students of biology and chemistry to look at what they give us and we need to give ourselves something better, he said.

The Minister said he was speaking for the interests of Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and those who desire life.

The Minister also blasted the state of Florida, Cuban emigres and the U.S. for the blockade of Cuba and keeping away treatments that could help with Covid-19.

Pointing to rising infection rates in the Sunshine State, the Minister said he asked God to strike Florida with the disease as she prevented others from possible help. At Final Call press time, Florida’s Department of Health logged 6,336 additional Covid-19 cases, reporting 206,447 cases statewide and 3,778 deaths statewide. The Associated Press reported July 2 that 40 of 50 states reported rising numbers of coronavirus cases.

“Florida are you becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus? I asked God to do that. That I asked Him for,” said Min. Farrakhan. “I just want to show you, this man you see talking has power with God.”

Companies are plotting to give over seven billion people vaccinations, but Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill and Melinda Gates want to rid the planet of billions of people, he warned. If you try to force vaccines on us, that’s war, he vowed.

The Minister spoke to a relatively small crowd of Nation of Islam laborers, Believers and special guests under a white tent.

Chairs were carefully spaced apart; masks were worn by everyone and social distancing was practiced. His message was webcast via the Nation of Islam website, The Final Call newspaper website, Revolt TV, WVON AM radio in Chicago, WPFW AM in Washington, D.C., Dr. Boyce Watkins’ media company and others. Believers, supporters and friends used Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other digital means to share the webcast or distribute clips. Celebrities like Madonna shared images or information with millions of followers, often using #Farrakhan. The Minister’s address trended for several hours on Twitter and was heard globally.

Prophecy, history and deliverance

Black people fulfill the prophecy of Abraham’s seed being enslaved under a strange people in a strange land, starting in 1555 with a ship named Jesus bringing Blacks out of Africa to the Americas, Minister Farrakhan explained.

When journalists asked Blacks about the unrest, pain and anger following the death of George Floyd, Blacks often mentioned 400 years of suffering under Whites, starting from 1619 when Negroes were introduced into Jamestown, Va. But, Min. Farrakhan said, the Hon. Elijah Muhammad taught about 64 years of hidden history that went into the making of the Negro.

Wherever Whites are in relationship to people of color, Whites dominate with tyranny and get rid of Blacks who show intelligence, Min. Farrakhan noted.

Today, he declared, Blacks must stand up on truth wherever they are.

He condemned abusive police officers and police unions for protecting killer cops. We are not going to remove bad cops and leave evil police unions in place, he thundered.

George Floyd, who died in the custody of Minneapolis police officers Memorial Day, was a peaceful man, said Minister Farrakhan. He died over a counterfeit $20 bill but the same ones who bring drugs and guns bring in counterfeit bills to entrap Black people, he said.

The days of officers abusing Black people, exploiting Black females and exerting unchecked power are over, the Minister warned. “You (police) should all quit, if your presence there thinks you are going to come in the Black community and do what you’ve been doing, you better quit. The ‘Jump Out Boys’ better stay in the White community. Don’t come where we live and jump out—because you may never get back in. Real talk now!

“We can’t take it no more; we won’t take it anymore!”

Mayors and governors, stop allowing your police to go to Israel for training in killing us, said Min. Farrakhan. “Your days of killing us without consequence are over, you will pay a heavy price,” he said. “Israel, the God of Justice has something for you. You won’t be there long if God gets after you. You’re not kindred to that place.”

The Minister warned young Blacks to stop slaughtering one another, saying 18 Black lives were recently lost in Chicago over a single day. Do you think God will allow you to get away with that? he asked.

Unmasking Satan

Referring to a parable in the Bible of Jesus speaking to Jewish leaders of wicked husbandmen who slay the son of the owner of a vineyard, the Minister explained the relentless efforts of some Jews to destroy him.

The Jewish leaders, answering a question from Jesus, say the owner of the vineyard will utterly slay those who killed his son and failed to be faithful to their trust.

The “so-called” Jews have broken their covenant relationship with God and abandoned his commandments, said Min. Farrakhan. They placed the Talmud, writings of Jewish scholars, over the revealed word of God and know a day of judgement is coming, he said.

“Jewish people don’t think that I hate you, I am solicitous for you,” he said. Jewish leaders, however, don’t want correction, he added. That rejection brings a consequence.

I represent the uncovering of their wickedness, fulfilling the judgement coming down on their civilization, America and the world, Min. Farrakhan said.

They can’t say I am a liar, so they just say I am a bigot, he said.

Atty. Alan Dershowitz, who masterfully defended President Trump during impeachment, and ADL leader Jonathan Goldblatt, are two leading attackers and slanderers of the Minister.

Both are Satanic, said Min. Farrakhan.

Blacks should resist Jewish pressure to reject the truth and him, the Minister continued.

“If you know the truth, stand up on the truth and tell Satan ‘who the hell are you to try and pick my friends? Farrakhan is God’s man and you are from the enemy of God so the hell with you,’ ” he said.

Exposing their evil and violation of the law of Moses has brought out their anger, said the Minister.

The “imposters” pressure others, like Jewish comedienne Chelsea Handler, who was attacked for posting on social media an excerpt from a 1990s appearance by the Minister on the Phil Donohue Show, he said.

She recognized truth and shared it with millions of followers but retracted the Instagram post under pressure, said Min. Farrakhan. The Minister thanked her for posting truth and urged her to continue to learn about the truth he speaks.

Opposition has not just been in words but in death plots through poison and an overabundance of irradiated seeds for a cancer treatment over 20 years, he said. “They burnt up my insides, that’s why half my organs are gone but I’m still here.”

“If the Jews tried to kill me and you know I’m alive what should that tell you about who I am?” he said.

I don’t hate or wish death on Jewish people in public or private, he said. But Black youth have been called a threat by a member of the Israeli parliament because they listen to a man who you don’t control and you want to kill, he said.

An all-out attack on me will bring a swift, divine response and the quick destruction of this country, the Minister said. The two that back me have the power and technology to do just that, he added.

From The Final Call Newspaper

Bullies In Blue: Powerful, unapologetic and angry police unions beating back demands for change

BY BRIAN E. MUHAMMAD STAFF WRITER @GLOBALPEEKS

Since high profile police killings of Blacks sparked national unrest in cities across America, there have been loud demands for overhauling policing and radical change in how law enforcement operates.

According to the watchdog group Mapping Police Violence, 1,098 people were slain by police in 2019. Although Blacks only make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they were 24 percent of those killed, three times more likely than Whites to have a fatal encounter with law enforcement and more likely to be unarmed.

Now comes a backlash against critics and demands for change as powerful, caustic, and unapologetic police unions and their members strike back. Whether harsh words, political pressure, media campaigns or failure to come to work, the boys in blue aren’t going down without a vicious fight.

“For us to expect them to be accommodating … to recognize and understand, that will be almost like a fool’s paradise,” said Hamid Khan, director of Stop LAPD Spying, a grassroots anti-surveillance watchdog group in Los Angeles.

Much of the desired reform goes diametrically opposite the invested interests of police unions, Mr. Khan reasoned.

Critics say police unions have historically declared war over any firings or arrests of cops for wrongdoing or abusive conduct—and police unions have always flouted calls for accountability.

A reform activist and former police officer told The Final Call infractions have gone unpunished and reform have always been blocked because of the inordinate power and influence of police unions along with a justice system culture that doesn’t convict cops.






“The culture of police has to be addressed; the police unions have to be addressed. It is not going to go away by itself,” said Ron Hampton, retired Washington, D.C., police officer and former executive director of the National Black Police Association.

Mr. Hampton said police unions represent a serious obstacle to change. Unions wield too much influence outside of their scope, which is to protect officers and offer them legal assistance, he said.

“The police union shouldn’t be telling the police department what it can do or what it can’t do,” said Mr. Hampton.

Where an officer does wrong, he is entitled to his day in court and representation, but he is not entitled to be automatically pardoned and not held accountable when wrong, he continued.

“The unions have been an obstacle to the issue of accountability (and) transparency,” said Mr. Hampton, who led a group that has been a leading voice for fair policing and ending systemic racism in police departments.

How unions got powerful

Over the years, there has been a fall in union membership among many professions and industries, but police union membership has not declined, and unions are strong economically. Unions spend millions lobbying local and state governments to make sure officers have major protections and battle anything they see as a threat.

Financial contributions, fears of appearing soft on crime or labeled an enemy of cops often make politicians reluctant to speak strongly against police officers—even when they are wrong.

“Their lobbying goes very deep,” added Mr. Khan. “It’s not only related to the money, but it’s also about messaging and how they’re going to literally make or break political players,” he said.

Through collective bargaining, policies were built in police contracts that allowed a blue impunity where cops became untouchable, said activists and reform advocates.

A legal tool often used is “qualified immunity” which shields cops from personal liability and lawsuits for excessive force and other infractions in the line of duty. The law is a tool lawmakers are debating and some want eliminated as part of police reforms. Critics say the law helps maintain a “hands off police” culture cops have enjoyed and shields them from the consequences of their actions, including killing people.

A mid-June statement from a group of House Democrats, who recently passed a bill calling for police reform at the federal level, said, “It is long past time to remove this arbitrary and unlawful barrier and to ensure police are held accountable when they violate the constitutional rights of the people whom they are meant to serve.”

Out-of-control police are also costly: According to 2019 data, legal claims against police in America’s largest cities cost taxpayers over $300 million. Advocates say money defending police officers and payouts for lawsuits against cities for police abuses don’t come out of police budgets. The money comes from already financially strapped local governments, they note.

“Money for litigating these cases; that’s money out of the city’s coffers,” said Jennvine Wong, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project in New York.

Atty. Wong told The Final Call, through the city budget, taxpayers are also paying the tab of costly settlements in police misconduct cases.

It’s a domino effect where some cities have to borrow money to pay for civil judgments incurred from police wrongdoing on city time.

In addition to litigation and settlements costs, Atty. Wong said many officers are still able to collect six-figure salaries while under suspension or on modified duty—in some cases for years.

“That’s a lot of money … we are throwing at the police and essentially its going into the black hole of misconduct,” Atty. Wong added.

Analysis from the Urban Institute said between 1977 and 2017 the cost of U.S. policing ballooned from $42.3 billion to $114.5 billion per year.

The money spent, brutal and deadly actions for cops and no consequences have helped feed calls to defund police, or take money away from police departments and use it for things like mental health first responders and other approaches that would lessen encounters with cops.

Public perceptions of cops

Polls show a weariness with police behavior and dramatic shifts of opinion about policing and race. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found more Americans compared to five years ago believe police brutality is a serious problem that too often goes undisciplined and unequally targets Blacks.

The poll said more than two-thirds of the public agree the criminal justice system needs either major changes or a complete overhaul. Blacks are more likely than Whites to advocate a complete transformation. The poll said overall, 48 percent of Americans say police violence against the public is a serious problem, up from 32 percent in 2015.

That year, only 19 percent of Whites said police violence against civilians was an extreme or serious problem; now 39 percent say the same.

The survey was conducted after weeks of mass anti-police violence protests and calls by politicians and activists to “defund” police departments.

The National Black Police Association said systemic racism within police departments and the devaluing of Black life is the crux of the problem.

“The DNA of law enforcement is to send a message of fear to Black residents that creates a kind of psychological distress,” said Damon K. Jones of the National Black Police Association.

Mr. Jones said Black police professionals spent years demanding legislation and policies for police oversight.

“We recognize the pain of our communities; we are four degrees of separation,” he said in an open statement to elected officials. “We know the victim, we know someone who knows the victim; the victim is a family member, and in many cases even as Black law enforcement, we are the victim.”

What unions are protecting

According to the watchdog group Mapping Police Violence, 1,098 people were slain by police in 2019. Although Blacks only make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they were 24 percent of those killed, three times more likely than Whites to have a fatal encounter with law enforcement and more likely to be unarmed. Mapping Police Violence also pointed out that 99 percent of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime.

The low prosecution rate has a lot to do with the influence of police unions and laws that favor police—it is also driving calls for change.

The videotaped death of George Floyd, 46, a Black man who lost his life May 25 in the custody of Minneapolis cops, sparked global outrage. Weeks later an Atlanta officer fatally shot 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks in the back as he ran away in a Wendy’s parking lot. Cops involved in both cases were charged.

In Oregon, an officer lost his job and then returned to work after fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in the back. A Florida sergeant was let go six times for using excessive force and stealing from suspects, while a Texas lieutenant was terminated five times after being accused of striking two women, making threatening calls and committing other infractions, according to the Associated Press.

These officers were fired but rehired after an arbitrator reversed the decision.

This illustrates how police unions stand in the way of accountability, said experts.

“Arbitration inherently undermines police decisions,” said Michael Gennaco, a police reform expert and former federal civil rights prosecutor who specialized in police misconduct cases. “It’s dismaying to see arbitrators regularly putting people back to work,” he told the Associated Press.

“Change must come now,” declared California Democrat Maxine Waters in a June 21 statement after Andres Guardado, 18, was shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy.

For weeks, the American people and the world have marched to demand accountability, and an end to aggressive and violent police tactics, said the outspoken Black lawmaker.

“We will not stand for it, whether it is in Atlanta, or like this case, in South Los Angeles,” vowed Rep. Waters.

Union heads and law enforcement defenders blame politicians and government for the social conditions that produce problems. Politicians and city officials talk about reform but have sided with “protesters,” “anarchists,” and “law breakers,” they complain, including President Donald Trump.

Some things have changed recently with cops fired, arrested, and charged with misconduct, such as using an outlawed chokehold in New York and abusing anti-police brutality protestors.

Neither union leaders, nor many cops are happy about the scrutiny.

In Wilmington, N.C., three White cops were fired after being heard over squad car video discussing “slaughtering n****rs” and calling for a new Civil War. Each blamed stress from an “anti-cop” climate as a reason for their “venting.” (See story page 3.)

In Atlanta, many cops refused to come to work and after two officers were charged in the Brooks killing, they called in sick. Philadelphia cops threatened to get the “blue flu” over suspensions of two of their own for abusing demonstrators.

In New York, text messages circulated about an impending NYPD refusal to work on July 4 “to let the city have their independence without cops,” reported the New York Post.

“Over the past few weeks, we have been attacked in the streets, demonized in the media and denigrated by practically every politician in this city,” railed Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, in the article.

Mr. Lynch complained cops were unappreciated and abandoned.

“Now we are facing the possibility of being arrested any time we go out to do our job,” Mr. Lynch said.

Heavy violence in Chicago made national headlines but calls for “blue flu” over the July 4 weekend did not. The local CBS News affiliate reported June 22 “a new push by members of the police union to get officers on the street to stand down—and even stay home.” According to CBS 2, the move started with a text message about the need to send Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council a message. “ ‘The FOP Lodge 7 cannot advocate for it because of the contract,’ the text message reads. But, it adds, ‘individual officers can,’ ” CBS 2 reported. The Fraternal Order of Police president didn’t authorize the move but didn’t necessarily oppose it, CBS 2 added.

“When something stupid like that happens to basically tell officers to abandon their post, that is the height of dereliction of duty,” said Mayor Lightfoot.

But despite the union threats some cities and states, feeling the pressure of protests have changed some policies.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order making N.Y. police disciplinary records public after decades of secrecy.

“We’re not going to be as a state government subsidizing improper police tactics. We’re not doing it,” Gov. Cuomo said. “And this is how we’re going to do it.”

The order also requires the roughly 500 police departments across the Empire State to develop a plan by April 1, 2021 to address systemic racism in their ranks. If a department refuses to comply Gov. Cuomo threatens to strip it of state funding.

“This is a historic win for New York and a long overdue change to the most restrictive police secrecy law in the country,” said Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The change was the result of years of work led by families whose loved ones were killed by police and who were routinely rebuffed while trying to find out what the department was doing about holding officers accountable.

Problematic police culture

A blue wall of silence permeates departments where cops look the other way from bad behavior permitting wrongdoing to go unchecked.

This permitted ex-cop Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for almost nine minutes, to keep working despite an extensive record of complaints spanning 19 years as a cop.

Former College Park, Ga., police chief Ron Fears said that culture dominates and influences cops who “stand by silently,” “do nothing” or even participate in wrongdoing.

“They’re not going to change things until the leadership from the very top says we’re not going to stand for that,” Mr. Fears said. Law enforcement is not there yet, he said.

Asked about Black officers challenging the culture, Mr. Fears wasn’t optimistic. “I think the culture is one where Black officers don’t step out and stand up because if you do, there is a price to pay,” he said.

(Final Call staff contributed to this report.)

From The Final Call Newspaper

Extremists killed Black cop, used anti-brutality protests as a cover, charge federal prosecutors

BY BRYAN 18X CRAWFORD CONTRIBUTING WRITER @ASIATIC 18X


The death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police officers sparked weeks of unrest across America. There were protests, riots and looting from coast-to-coast, and civil disobedience. 



David Patrick Underwood. Photo: MGN Online


The last time America saw nationwide civil unrest of this magnitude was when word got out that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered in Memphis.

But, the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent outrage was also an opportunity for far-right believers and groups to strike at the United States government. 

Federal prosecutors have charged an active duty military member with killing a Black federal officer at the height of protests, injuring another federal officer and later killing a sheriff’s deputy.

Air Force Staff Sergeant Steven Carrillo, 32, shot and killed 53-year-old David Patrick Underwood, a Federal Protective Service Officer who was working outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, said federal authorities. The officer and his partner, who survived the shooting, were working the same night as anti-brutality demonstrators took to Oakland streets.

Initial speculation was the May 29 killing was tied to the protests. 



Air Force Staff Sergeant Steven Carrillo, 32, shot and killed 53-year-old David Patrick Underwood. Photo: AP/Wide World Photos

Prosecutors say Mr. Carrillo, and his partner, Robert Allen Justus Jr., who served as his getaway driver, committed the deadly acts.

Prosecutors allege both men have ties to the “Boogaloo Boys,” an extremist movement, and used the protests as a cover to strike at the United States government as part of efforts to ignite civil war. They were charged June 16.

The federal government said early on that left wing groups, like Antifa, and right wing groups were looking to wreak havoc during protests. While few proven Antifa connections have surfaced, right wing groups have been discovered in the ranks of demonstrators.

“The Black Lives Matter movement has had a tremendous infusion of a generation of young White folks who have not succumbed to the lie of White supremacy. The lies wear even thinner as the economy tanks,” said Omowale Clay of the New York-based December 12th Movement.

But, he added, “the fact that police know that there is an infiltration of anarchist and terrorists is much more concerning. It makes one think of the covert operations of the CIA and the National Security Agency. History has shown that in our movements, these people appear and we don’t know where they come from.”

Dr. Issa Muhammad, a history professor at Central Florida University told The Final Call, “The Boogaloo Group is an offshoot of the far right militia groups of the 1980s and 1990s. Many of these groups felt and believed that the United States government had become a barrier to the development of ‘Native,’ that is White Americans as a legitimate dominant entity in the nation.”

“The Boogaloo Group—a fringe group of anti-Black and anti-government individuals are interested in creating a civil war within the United States. Boogaloo, because of the dance movie—‘Breaking’ and the main character Boogaloo—they adopted the name. They like Charles Manson of years earlier use a vomit mixture of ideologies and motives to weasel their way into hip hop culture to spread corruption and division for their ultimate gain. Manson called it Helter Skelter.”

Charges filed in Oakland

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said, “Indiscriminate targeting of law enforcement officers by those motivated by violent extremism of any stripe is contrary to our nation’s values and undermines the powerful message of peaceful protestors.” 

FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett said, “While we cannot bring Officer Pat Underwood and Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller back, we can hold those responsible for taking them from us accountable.”

Sgt. Gutzwiller was a local deputy who was killed June 6 as federal agents moved in on Mr. Carrillo, who was eventually shot and taken into custody, said prosecutors. 

The killing of Off. Underwood set off an eight-day manhunt that came to a crescendo after a witness reported an abandoned white Ford van in Ben Lomond, Calif, said authorities. 

“The van reportedly contained what appeared to be ammunition, firearms, and bomb-making equipment and an effort apparently was made to alter the van’s appearance with spray paint and a wheel covering to disguise a missing hubcap. Nevertheless, evidence from the van, led deputies from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office to Carrillo’s residence in Ben Lomond. There, Carrillo allegedly opened fire on the deputies when they arrived at his property, killing one deputy and injuring a second. During the attack there was also an explosion on the property.”

Federal authorities said Mr. Carrillo was shot, fled initially on foot, and then carjacked a vehicle. “The chase came to an end when, still bleeding from his hip, Carrillo was taken into custody,” they said.

Recovered from Mr. Carrillo’s Ben Lomond residence were an AR-15-style short-barreled rifle fitted with a binary trigger that fired one round of 9mm ammunition at the pull of the trigger and another round at the release of the trigger, said authorities. 



Observers say opportunists have used the pain and suffering of Blacks to push their own agendas. Many fear any political or economic windfalls will bypass Black businesses and communities heavily damaged during the George Floyd protests. Photo: MGN Online

“The rifle was fitted with a silencer that suppressed the sound of gunfire from the rifle. In addition, Carrillo appears to have used his own blood to write various phrases on the hood of the car that he carjacked. The phrases relate to an extremist ideology that promotes inciting a violent uprising through use of militias,” said federal authorities.

Cell phone records tie him to Mr. Justus, who he communicated with in days leading up to the drive-by shooting in Oakland, they said.

Mr. Justus later surrendered to the FBI in San Francisco, authorities added. 

The case is being prosecuted by United States Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson and the Oakland Branch of the Office of the United States Attorney with assistance from the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

George Floyd was killed on May 25, which was Memorial Day. The following day, protests began in Minneapolis, and 48 hours later, much of the country was expressing their outrage over video showing the eight minutes and 46 seconds that former officer Derek Chauvin spent with his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck. 

Mr. Carrillo is not alone in being accused of committing violent acts against law enforcement. 

In South Carolina, 22-year-old Kevin Ackley was arrested and subsequently fired from his job as an EMS worker, when police said he’d thrown a bottle of water at police during protests in his area. When he was taken into custody, police allegedly found articles of clothing and other paraphernalia associated with the Boogaloo Boys movement in his home. 

In Columbia, S.C., 24-year-old Joshua Bernard was arrested, and like Mr. Ackley, was charged with inciting a riot and aggravated breach of peace. 

In Texas, 37-year-old Aaron Swenson was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat against a peace officer when he went on Facebook Live and said that he planned on ambushing and murdering a police officer, and was in his truck, “hunting for red and blue lights.”

In Las Vegas, three men, all with U.S. military experience, and with alleged ties to the Boogaloo Boys, were arrested. They are accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails to firebomb businesses during protests in the area.

Andrew T. Lynam Jr., 23, Stephen T. Parshall, 35, and William L. Loomis, 40, all face federal charges of conspiracy to damage and destroy by fire and explosive, and possession of unregistered firearms. Mr. Lynam is in the Army Reserves, Mr. Pashall had enlisted in the Navy, and Mr. Loomis was in the Air Force. 

“White supremacists feel the government is taking away their freedoms. This is why many of these groups now advocate for state’s rights,” Tariq Nasheed, noted filmmaker, author and social justice advocate, told The Final Call. 

“The Boogaloo Boys is just another incarnation of the alt-right. It’s like a younger version of the Ku Klux Klan. And what they do is include a lot of these Latinos who identify as White, and Asians who also align themselves with Whites. They communicate on websites like 4chan, and they’re planning on trying to start a second civil war.” 

“They walk around with Hawaiian print shirts to identify each other,” explained Mr. Nasheed. “They’ve been organizing ambush hits on police. Some in law enforcement have been shot at by them, and there have been some who have even been killed.”

“So, when you hear them talk about being anti-government, they mean they want the government to not interfere with anything they want to do; including doing harm to Black people. They want to be able to do with us, whatever they want to do,” he said.

New day, same game?

Anarchists using the pain and suffering of Black people aren’t new. They were on the ground in Ferguson, Mo., when people took to the streets outraged over the killing of Mike Brown, Jr., by a White police officer in 2014. 

“The fact that these people had been in the service, and were planning to kill their own military and law enforcement comrades shows you what kind of mindset they have,” said Anthony Shahid, a longtime community activist based in St. Louis. Ferguson is a nearby suburb and Mr. Shahid is an advisor to Mike Brown, Sr., whose son was killed. Mr. Shahid also led protests and demands for justice in the case.

“They’ve come to the realization that this government is no good, going all the way back to the way they slaughtered the Native Americans, to how they treated Black folks during slavery, and they know that America’s foreign policies aren’t right,” Mr. Shahid said. “But the only problem he has is they use us, Black folks, as a shield. They throw rocks, and then they hide their hands. And the next thing you know, some brothers—or sisters—are getting the hell beat out of them by the police. Or, they’re getting pepper sprayed or shot with rubber bullets, you name it. And all of that comes because of White people who come out there already mad, and trick us into thinking they’re supporting our movement, when really all they’re doing is making it harder for us.”

Elaine Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, who now serves as a prison activist, feels Whites who hide behind Black movements to start their so-called wars are cowards. They’re not actually willing to pay the price that comes with being out front and center and expressing their revolutionary ideas and tactics, said the Bay Area activist.

“The White people who are against the government haven’t had to pay a price yet,” Ms. Brown told The Final Call. “They’re having fun tearing down symbols, but they aren’t tearing down the government. They’re still trying to figure out who they should vote for. They’re not really trying to tear down America; they love America. They wear a flag every day. They’re not going to take a true anti-government position that we (the Black Panther Party) took.”

Mainstream media has focused little attention on the Boogaloo Boys and the charges against Steven Carrillo.

Mr. Nasheed believes that’s by design. “The media is going out of its way to not show all of these White people ambushing Black people, or causing police to become violent with Black people, because they know if we keep seeing it, we’re going to start retaliating. That’s why they’re trying to downplay this story, and others,” he argued.

Despite any outside agitators, infiltrators or extremist groups, demonstrations calling for justice for Black men and women brutalized, and oftentimes murdered by police, must not stop, said Ms. Brown.

“If you quote me on anything, quote me on the fact that we have to keep soldiering on,” she said, adding, “Whatever the setbacks are, we have to fight on. You have to know who the enemy is.”

Steven Carrillo is currently facing 19 charges, some of which include murder, six charges of attempted murder, assault on a firefighter, and two counts of attempted carjacking. 

His attorney, Jeffrey Stotter told the media Mr. Carrillo suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009 and has been scarred over his wife committing suicide. If convicted on the federal counts alone, Mr. Carrillo could be put to death. And he faces a maximum of up to 20 years in prison on the attempted murder charge. His alleged accomplice faces similar charges and penalties.

(Final Call staff and Nisa Islam Muhammad contributed to this report.)

From The Final Call Newspaper

‘We are tired’ Police killing of Black man takes toll on his family and those familiar with heavy handedness of police

By Brian E. Muhammad and Eric Ture Muhammad The Final Call @TheFinalCall




ATLANTA—The young mother and wife was poised initially, holding her child and facing the media at an extremely difficult time. Her words, however, and clear pain were heartbreaking.

“There is no justice that can ever make me feel happy about what was done,” said Tomika Miller, whose heartrending words were broadcast live. “I can never get my husband back, I can never get my best friend,” she said, fighting back her tears. “It’s just going to be a long time before I heal … before this family heal,” Mrs. Miller lamented.

The grief of the 27-year-old widow of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot to death while running away from Atlanta police officers, and his tight knit family was palpable.


Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot and killed by Atlanta police after they responded to a call about someone being asleep in a Wendy's drive thru. Photo: MGN Online

They spoke from their hearts, they spoke of who the father of three girls, and a 13-year-old stepson was. They cried. Then together, they walked away from the cameras and microphones—still hurting, still broken.

Silently echoing through the room was a simple but profound question, what is justice? What equals the loss of a father, a husband, a brother, a nephew, a cousin, a friend? How can the void of his loss be filled?

Protestors were still in the streets filled with rage, anger, hurt, frustration and a spirit of resistance near a now-torched Wendy’s and other places 21 days into anti-police brutality protests that have rocked America—but not stopped cops from killing.

Mr. Brooks’ cousin, Decatur Redd, is demanding answers from a city he “thought was better” than this.

“We’ve been watching this happen for so many years, with young Black boys around the country just dying in vain,” said Decatur Redd, who cried over the death of his cousin. Cameras from CNN and other outlets captured his words.


A protester marches, June 13, near the Atlanta Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by police following a struggle in the restaurant’s drive-thru line. Photo: AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

“I didn’t think it would hit right here … I thought this city was better than that. They’ve got to answer. Somebody’s gotta say something,” he said. Tears flowed.

“We need to at least know that the city is with us,” Decatur Redd said.

Other family members spoke of their pride in living in Atlanta and their sense that this was their city. They hurt when buildings were burned and windows smashed during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a White cop kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes on Memorial Day.

Now, said family members, this has happened in our city. The death was senseless, they said. It didn’t have to happen and should not have happened, they added.

Police were called to the Wendy’s with a report of a man asleep in a car in a drive thru. Two officers, both Caucasian, eventually were on scene and initial contact, captured on body cam seemed to be cordial. Mr. Floyd told cops June 12 he had plans for his daughter’s birthday and could walk to a relative’s house nearby. Police say he failed a breathalyzer.

Officers moved to handcuff him, and he twisted to get away. The officers and the young Black man tumbled to the ground. One officer tried to tase him. Mr. Brooks got control of the taser and ran away.

The officers chase him; he turns taser in hand and runs away. An officer fires shots; two strike him, according to a medical examiner. He dies from his injuries.

Fleeing an officer, grabbing a taser and even drunk driving are not capital offenses, say advocates, attorneys and ordinary Black people. Many point to online videos of Whites who fight, beat, take officers’ tasers, steal their patrol cars and don’t die.

Paul Howard, Jr., Fulton County district attorney, told CNN that his office will decide the charges, if any, against officer Garrett Rolfe, who was quickly fired. The other officer, David Bronsan, was put on administrative leave and could face charges.

“(Mr. Brooks) did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone, and so the fact that it would escalate to his death just seems unreasonable,” Mr. Howard said.

“If that shot was fired for some reason other than to save that officer’s life or prevent injury to him or others, then that shooting is not justified under the law,” he added June 15.

The Fulton County medical examiner ruled Mr. Brooks’ death a homicide, an autopsy found he was shot in the back twice and died from organ damage and blood loss.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his death marks the 48th officer-involved shooting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called to look into in 2020 alone.

Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad, who heads the Nation of Islam mosque in Atlanta, watched the videos and heard accounts of what happened.

He sees the results of a false sense of entitlement that ofttimes comes with police officers’ authority. “This speaks directly to what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says dealing with the ego. His (the shooting officer’s) ego got the best of him,” said Min. Sharrieff Muhammad. “He believed the act of running challenged his authority. Training becomes the issue with law enforcement everywhere when dealing with the citizens who they have pledged to protect.

“And who is to say that there won’t be more deaths like this in a few days?” he asked. “Everything leads to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s call for separation. Everything leads to separation.”


Demonstrators react after getting onto I75 and shutting down the interstate in Atlanta, June 13. Photo: Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

Former city police chief Erika Shields resigned but will stay employed, said Mr. Muhammad. “She will get another job. She will replace her salary and she will be replaced I believe with a Black police chief. That in this case is a swift necessary action, but it is not going to stop or heal anything. God has his hand on this moment all over the world. And when His voice, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaks to the world July 4, we will gain a full understanding of where all of this is heading.”

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued new orders June 15 regarding use of deadly force, calling for reasonable use of force, and directing that de-escalation be used before deadly force.

“We do want everybody’s support; we’re looking forward to the D.A.’s findings in this situation,” said L. Chris Stewart, an attorney for the Brooks family.

“One thing that we could ask for is some semblance of an idea of justice because there is no definition anymore of what it is. But what we do know right now is that a man’s life was taken when it should never have happened,” said Atty. Stewart.

Besides being a father, Mr. Brooks comes from a large family of siblings and cousins.

Days earlier, family attorneys described the impact of the police killing. “We sat and watched them (Mr. Brooks’ children) play and laugh and be oblivious to the facts that their dad was murdered on camera,” said Atty. Stewart.

“A scene that we keep repeating as we watched Gianna Floyd play in Houston, oblivious that her dad (George Floyd) was knelt on and murdered. How many more examples will there be?” asked Atty. Stewart, who also represents the child who lost her father in Minneapolis.

Protests began at Wendy’s and flowed into nearby streets in the nights that followed. Highways were blocked. Protestors marched June 15 through downtown Atlanta and to the state capital.

“I am tired of them constantly killing us. They still see us as three-fifths of a human being. So until they value our lives we have to keep saying Black Lives Matter! There’s an obvious distinction between us and them,” said a Black registered nurse who joined the protests.

Brandi, who preferred to be identified by her first name, added, “When they do mass killings like Columbine shooting and Dylan Roof at the church, they will talk a White man down and allow them to live. But here’s a Black man sleep in his car and he ends up dead. That’s not right.”

John Wade was part of a morning protest in downtown Atlanta and sometimes spoke through a bullhorn.

“After the 20 or 30 minutes conversing with Brooks, they decided to handcuff him. I believe he was scared. So, my question is why not give him the option to sober up and then try to put him in handcuffs? I feel that was a tactic that they were using to pretty much lynch him and get rid of him for whatever reason. He was a positive role model in the community, Rayshard Brooks. He had three children by one woman,” said Mr. Wade.

Standing among the remains of what was once a Wendy’s restaurant, Gerald Emerson Rose of the New Order National Human Rights Organization, said, “What we need to do is stay woke. Another Black man killed at the hands of the police. People are angry. We are still reeling from the George Floyd murder. I just got back from Brunswick, Ga.,” he said. Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was killed by a White man who chased him in a truck in Brunswick.

“I can go on and on. We are tired. We are tired. You’ve asked for our vote; you keep asking us to be patient, but people want some solutions.”

“There is a turning point … they (police departments) have to do it now, (because) the consequences are too great with all that’s happening,” commented Ron Fears, a retired College Park, Ga., police chief.

“Society is being overwhelmed,” he said. “White society is scared. This is different for European Americans.” They didn’t see it coming, said Mr. Fears.

“George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbury and Rayshard Brooks were all Black fathers,” said khalid Kamau, councilman in the city of South Fulton, Ga. “This is an assault on Black fathers, this is genocide.”

Pointing to the bevy of police killings over the last several years—particularly of Black males—Councilman khalid said its hunting season on Black men. He spells his first name lowercase and prefers to be identified as Councilman khalid.

He told The Final Call as an elected official, he agrees with calls for defunding police departments.

“I don’t normally talk about defunding the police, I talk about reimagining policing,” explained Councilman khalid. “Let’s reimagine calling somebody other than an institution that was built on fugitive slave catchers and incarcerating Black men for Jim Crow era forced labor.”

Advocates say modern American policing is an outgrowth of White supremacy and Black oppression that evolved from slave catching. Police also enforced racist laws or customs, like keeping Blacks out of White neighborhoods, grabbing Blacks for loitering or arrests for not obeying dictates to get out of town before sundown.

“That’s what that institution is about,” said Councilman khalid. “Maybe that’s not the institution you want to call for Black people when they’re in trouble,” he said.

He argues cops were not endangered by Mr. Brooks but were suffering from bruised egos after the taser was taken.

Yonasda Lonewolf, a Black and Native American activist based in Atlanta, said the Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to be “still” and tune in to phones and television where they are regularly exposed to injustices.

“We were able to visually see White supremacists’ gun down and kill Ahmaud Arbury, we were able to see a White cop putting his knee on a Black man, George Floyd,” she noted.

“Now we’re seeing what injustices have been happening to Black and Brown people—not just nationally, but locally and globally,” said Ms. Lonewolf.

Heru Ranesi-El, Grand Sheik of the Moorish Science Temple of America in Atlanta said the police are more like an “occupying force” than a “protect and serve” unit in Black communities. His group had made efforts to bridge the widening gap between Blacks and law enforcement. “It makes it impossible to bridge the gap when these types of murders are taking place,” said Sheik Ranesi-El.

Some see the police chief’s quick resignation and termination of officers in recent incidents as a result of protests and unrest.

“It had to take the city to burn,” observed Ms. Lonewolf. “Much of the resistance was necessary because a shift is happening across America where the police is being dismantled and defunded. And, they’re actually listening to those that they have swept under the rug for so many years,” she said.

According to Brooks’ family attorneys, Justin Miller and L. Chris Stewart, Mr. Brooks’ daughter had her birthday dress on the morning after his death, waiting for her dad to come pick her up and take her skating.

“They were having a birthday party for her, her eighth birthday with cupcakes while we were sitting there talking to her mom about why her dad was not coming home,” said Mr. Miller.

“We have more family members at that house than I could count. A ton of brothers and sisters that love him more than life.”

Mr. Stewart told the press he was tired and out of answers. “There’s not much more we can do or say as a society. If people that are refusing change, not understanding that now is the time for a complete and full systematic change, take a look. Compare it to all of the other videos online where there was a White individual that had a deadly weapon and wasn’t killed. We are trying to understand why they didn’t get shot and why did Rayshard have to while he is running?”

(J.A. Salaam contributed to this report from Atlanta.)

From The Final Call Newspaper

Questions remain in the fight for justice for George Floyd and Black America

By Nisa Islam Muhammad and Michael Z. Muhammad The Final Call @TheFinalCall |


In the days since the country erupted in protests after the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police officers, a public memorial service was held in that city, followed by another memorial in Raeford, N.C. before the father, brother and uncle was laid to rest in Houston.

Emotions are still raw despite the cops being fired and charges being filed. Millions witnessed White officer Derek Chauvin press his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes as the 46-year-old Black man lost his life.


George Floyd’s memorial service held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: MGN Online


After explosive uprisings and demonstrations in cities large and small, murder charges were filed against Mr. Chauvin with the three other former officers involved—J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao—charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. All four men are behind bars with bails set with million dollar bonds or close to it.

While some saw charges filed as a victory, others cautioned it was only the first step in the ever-elusive fight for justice for Black people and question remains: What is next?

“I want us to not sit here and act like we had a funeral on the schedule. George Floyd should not be among the deceased. He did not die of common health conditions. He died of a common American criminal justice malfunction. He died because there has not been the corrective behavior that has taught this country that if you commit a crime, it does not matter whether you wear blue jeans or a blue uniform, you must pay for the crime you commit,” said Rev. Al Sharpton who delivered remarks at the June 4 memorial in Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis city council banned the use of chokeholds by police and requires them to report and intervene when they see another officer use unauthorized force. Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero said the changes are necessary to stop ongoing harm to people of color “who have suffered generational pain and trauma as a result of systemic and institutional racism.”

“This is just a start,” she said. “There is a lot more work to do here, and that work must and will be done with speed and community engagement.”

By June 7, the Minneapolis city council was saying it wanted to disband the police department and create something better with an expanded view on what constitutes safe and delivering services with less focus on the use of force. In other cities and towns, police departments have been disbanded and county police or sheriffs’ departments have taken over law enforcement. It does not mean zero officers will be on the streets.

Community control of police

The no chokehold provision requires court approval and would be enforceable in court. This ban is different from the police department’s current policies on the use of force and officer responsibilities to intervene when excessive force is used. The new ban requires officers to immediately report to their superiors when they see use of any neck restraint or chokehold.

Eliminating chokeholds is part of the solution, said Zaki Baruti, president of the African Peoples Organization. But he stressed that there must also be community control of the police. “The police force should reflect the racial ethnicity of the community and live in the community they serve. There must also be a civilian oversight board with subpoena power. We also want chokeholds and kneeling on necks barred. If an officer has more than three or four complaints he is suspended,” the St. Louis-based activist said.

“We also want proportional political power. We are 13 percent of the population. We only hold 4 percent of political offices. If we held more that would open up more jobs and contracts with conscious elected officials. There’s not one Black governor and that’s a damn shame,” he said. “In Ferguson, (Mo.) which was 68 percent Black before Mike Brown’s death, we only had one Black person on the city council. A police force of 53 officers only had 3 Blacks. This shows a lack of political power.”

He added, “We need to appeal to the African Union and CARICOM (the Caribbean Community regional organization) to condemn the U.S. for its treatment of Black people. To ensure reforms, we want sustained economic boycotts. You kill us, we kill your economy so says Rev. Clinton Stancil from St. Louis.”

In the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser responded to moves by President Donald Trump to bring the military into the District by renaming a street in near the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” She had the slogan painted on the asphalt in massive yellow letters to honor demonstrators urging changes in law enforcement.

Salim Adolfo, a D.C. Ward 8 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and national secretary of the Black United Front, said, “Unfortunately, there is no way to legislate against the ill-will or the hate someone may hold towards another person. However, what we can do as elected officials is implement policies that work towards protecting the human rights of our residents.”

He suggests people become actively engaged in organizations, or financially support groups working toward improving the quality of life for Black people. He also advised holding voter education and registration forums on how to nominate, finance, elect and back progressive politicians in support of radical police reform. People should file police complaints and become part of a Citizen Advisory Council, he added.

Reasons for skepticism

Dr. Issa Muhammad, history professor at the University of Central Florida, is skeptical about what he’s seeing. “Real change will come from the outside—that is, the people of the world. Pressure such as economic sanctions on the USA that is being discussed now and a global investigation of human rights violations; again, something that is being discussed among several representatives in the UN. However, the African American community lacks the full strength of taking the resistance movement to the next level,” said Dr. Muhammad.


A woman lights a candle in front of a display of images commemorating victims of police violence, during a peaceful demonstration denouncing racism and calling for justice, in Mexico City, June 4. Photo: AP Rebecca Blackwell

“If you listen to my peers, political pundits, and religious leaders—they are all saying the same thing. That is, giving an analysis on race that we all know; and creating review panels, registering people to vote and developing new legislation. In the meanwhile, Whites are becoming more grounded. That is, increased arms, radical anti-Black polemics and an ideal that its ‘us against them.’ They’re seeing this as their last stand. Remember, Custer?”

Whites are ready to “go the distance,” Dr. Issa Muhammad explained. “I am not quite sure if we are. Our rebellion stops as mentioned before—voting, court cases, and legislation. Also, note, the narrative now is not being pushed by the grassroots any longer. But by political-corporate entities who will manipulate this setting for themselves.”

Keith Howell, an educator and activist from Newark, New Jersey, told The Final Call he has mixed emotions because “we have been through this before.” “It looked like it was going to be justice only to have the rug pulled from under us. I just don’t know. First the police officers should be convicted. If they are not, then a tremendous fight will lay before us,” he said.

Youth have to be galvanized, added Mr. Howell. “They have had enough. I think we are looking at revolution. Being a student of history, we are witnessing history in the making. It’s larger than just police killings. I’m not convinced a conviction is forthcoming.”

Pam Africa of MOVE agrees that involvement of youth is a key in moving forward. “We can’t make the mistakes of the past by relying on politicians. This protest to me was more spiritual with support from people around the world. Politicians speaking more strongly than they have ever spoke before. It is our job to keep the pressure on and don’t back up,” said Ms. Africa. MOVE is all too familiar with police terrorism and brutality. The Black revolutionary organization was the victim of one of the most heinous acts of terror in American history when their compound was bombed by the Philadelphia Police Department in 1985 killing 11 people including children.

“The focus going forward should be local, in Philly, with our city council,” argued Pam Africa. “Let’s check police budgets. We need people from the community to voice how things in the future should go,” she added, before cautiously noting that the fight is not over.

“Right now the power structure is trying to figure out how to get around this movement. I have watched. I have seen them turn people against one another. People have got to stay consistent. They need to stand on truth, the principle of righteousness, and don’t move from it. This protest movement was not an organized thing; it was a spontaneous thing. It was organized by a much higher force. It is up to us to keep this momentum going. Now people are going back into their communities and they need to teach. There are a lot of people who still don’t know the real issues,” said Ms. Africa.


Photo: MGN Online

“We have enough history behind us to know all the tricks. For the young folks today enough is enough for them. They are tired of business as usual. What we have to look out for now is the diversion. We saw it in the Vietnam War demonstrations, 9-11, the War on Iraq, etc., all diversions to take the peoples’ focus somewhere else. Here we are again. We cannot allow the energy of young people to be railroaded or watered down.”

“We must not allow division,” she continued. “The issues are at a level where they have never been before. We must keep that momentum going. For us in MOVE it has been a very good year. All of the MOVE 9 are out of jail and home. The issue of police terrorism is front and center, the (former Philadelphia police commissioner and mayor Frank) Rizzo statue came down. What a great year. The power of truth is final.”

Confronting systematic problems

In 1987 Ford Heights, Illinois, was considered the poorest suburb in America. Not much has changed if you ask Emir Hardy, executive director of that city’s F.U.T.U.R.E. Foundation. It was established in 1987 to improve the quality of life in Chicago’s south suburbs.

“People have basic needs that must be met before they can be a good citizen or a good neighbor. They need food, clothing, shelter and love. We’ve never been accepted here. We’re not feeling love here. We need to get to the basics after that we can get to the other things,” he told The Final Call.

“Some of the people looting were opportunistic but others were just getting things they needed. We need to know these changes will take time. I’ve been doing this for 35 years. These problems are systemic. People have seen their parents in this situation. In Ford Heights there are no grocery stores, no fresh fruit, only corner stores,” said Mr. Hardy.

The problem with corner stores in the Black community was a catalyst that led to cops being called on George Floyd. He was suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 at a corner store and a clerk called the police. There are challenges with immigrant-owned businesses in predominantly Black inner city neighborhoods.

IMAN (Inner City Muslim Action Network) in Chicago launched The Corner Store Witness initiative on June 5. The initiative begins with the presumption that there is no “race-neutral” space in America and that many corner stores, gas stations, food and liquor establishments in inner city communities across the country occupy a highly charged and racialized space crafted by decades of disinvestment, redlining, food deserts, criminalization and violent policing tactics.

Rami Nashashibi, IMAN executive director, said at the initiative launch, “These Palestinian store owners in Southside Chicago are behaving in a manner similar to Israeli settlers on occupied Palestinian land. Go beyond logic and dictates of capitalism. This logic abuses people,” he explained.

The initiative will provide trainings for store owners on how to properly interact with the Black community.

Dr. Tony Monteiro, a Philadelphia-based activist, said the question of what must be done moving forward is an important one. “I think what we have witnessed over the last 10 days is an emotional outpouring. We watched demonstrations in large cities with significant Black populations. But, the majority of marchers were White. It is as if it was a collective psychological outpouring of White folk trying to come to terms with White guilt over White supremacy,” said Dr. Monteiro.

“As for the question of going forward, some significant reforms have to be made rather than ‘willy nilly’ ideas of the past. Reforms including taking money from police budgets and transferring it to social programs,” he said.

The fight continues

For many what’s next is more protests and demonstrations. That concerned Chicago’s Khadijah Willis when she saw how protestors were getting beat with batons by the police. She gathered friends and together they are producing care packages for community protestors that include goggles, drawstring backpacks, water, heat resistant gloves, snacks, bandanas and face masks.

“I researched how demonstrators protected themselves in other countries like Chile and China. They were able to sustain their protests because they were prepared. We are raising funds to purchase supplies and we will give them to Chicago protestors,” she told The Final Call.

“The question of the hour for me is the exclusion of the ‘Excluded Middle,’ the Black community led by its religious, civic and political organizations. We are not in it yet. We need to reshape the battlefield. Again, the larger question is who is organizing these marches?” asked Dr. Monteiro.

Student Minister Dr. Ava Muhammad, national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, said the 90-year-old Islamic movement offers a solution to continued problems plaguing Black people in America as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad—separation.

“The latest cycle of violence from Ahmaud Arbury to Breonna Taylor to the brother in Central Park to the torture of George Floyd, God is showing us there is another solution, an independent safe haven of states where we control the environment and we can move into the world with respect,” said Student Minister Ava Muhammad.

“Dissatisfaction in all people has reached 100 percent. They are looking for divine leadership. People who are righteous are looking for freedom, justice and equality in leadership. The U.S. completely failed us in Covid-19, the U.S. completely failed us in the justice system. We need a more permanent solution.”

Final Call staff contributed to this report.