Anti-cop activist accused of blowing $75K in donations, failing to pay employee



A nonprofit adjacent to the "Defund the Police" movement and its founder are in hot water after the attorney general of Washington, D.C., accused them of blowing tens of thousands of dollars on luxury trips and services while failing to pay an employee her due.

On Monday, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia announced a lawsuit against Raheem AI, a nonprofit dedicated to so-called police reform and accountability, and founder and executive director Brandon Anderson.

'My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law, cheating taxpayers, or stealing from their workers.'

Since 2021, Anderson has allegedly spent $75,000 in Raheem AI donations "for his own personal use," the AG press release claimed. His lavish expenditures allegedly included $40,000 in high-end vacation rentals, $10,000 for a trip to Cancun and other "personal travel," $10,000 on designer clothing, and even $5,000 in emergency veterinary bills.

Meanwhile, the Raheem AI board of directors apparently did little to stop these questionable alleged splurges. For one thing, since 2020, the nonprofit has not had a separate treasurer to manage finances and oversee spending as required by law, the press release claimed. The board also allegedly "failed to implement any measures to oversee the organization’s finances, including Anderson’s corruption."

Finally, Raheem AI apparently had only one D.C.-based employee — a deputy director whom the New York Post identified as Jasmine Banks — but failed to pay her "tens of thousands of dollars in earned wages," the press release said. The organization also allegedly compelled Banks to sign a noncompete clause, even though such clauses are illegal in D.C. for employees like Banks who made less than $150,000.

In filing the lawsuit, the D.C. attorney general hopes to dissolve Raheem AI, recover the misspent funds and Banks' alleged lost wages, and prevent Anderson from leading any D.C. nonprofit ever again.

"Brandon Anderson misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI Board of Directors let him get away with it," Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a statement.

Schwalb's statement also indicated that the police reform demanded by Raheem AI was a "noble cause" but that the organization had used it to shield itself from proper oversight.

"My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law, cheating taxpayers, or stealing from their workers," he said.

Anderson did not respond to the Post's request for comment regarding the lawsuit.

'Individual expenditures are easy to mischaracterize without the burden of context.'

Banks, who no longer works for Raheem AI, told the New York Times back in August that she now believes that Anderson and his organization may have been a "con" job all along.

Anderson, who supports abolishing the police, founded Raheem AI in 2017, initially to create an app where victims could report police misconduct and later to provide an app alternative to calling 911.

The organization is also obsessed with race, promising to "equip black, brown, and indigenous community crisis responders with the tools, training, connections, and funding they need to provide care," according to the press release.

Anderson claimed he named the organization after a boyfriend who died in Oklahoma in 2007 during a "routine traffic stop." Anderson alleged that the cop involved in the incident had a history of violence. However, the Times was unable to identify any homicide victim in Oklahoma with the name Raheem or any case of alleged police brutality in the state that matched Anderson's description.

Banks claimed she came to suspect that Anderson had never actually experienced police-related violence after he declined to join a group of survivors. "He wouldn’t engage with other impacted family members. I would invite him all the time, and he just wouldn’t do it," she said.

Anderson told the Times that the accusations lobbed by Banks and others were "rife with untruths" but did not provide any specific examples. He also acknowledged that his plans for Raheem AI have been a "failure."

"It’s easy to assign failure to one cause or another in hindsight, and individual expenditures are easy to mischaracterize without the burden of context," he said in a statement. "The bottom line is simply that it didn’t work, and as the leader of that effort I share most of the blame."

The Raheem AI board has recently "ceased operations" and placed Anderson on leave, the press release claimed.

As of Tuesday morning, the organization's website, Raheem.org, currently purports to be "under construction." An archived version asserted that "getting killed by police is the sixth leading cause of death for young Black men in America."

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Tyreek Hill is the NEXT George Floyd



Tyreek Hill found himself face-down on the pavement in handcuffs after he was detained by Miami police for reckless driving near Hard Rock Stadium before the Dolphins game.

“People are looking for the next George Floyd, and that’s why I think people are making a big deal out of what happened to Tyreek Hill,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments, noting that a similar thing happened to golfer Scottie Scheffler.

However, because Scheffler is white, no one cared.

“This is incredible. Tyreek Hill gets briefly detained, put on the ground, and gets to go on and play the football game,” Whitlock says. “Jemele Hill somehow connects this to Steven Ross, the owner, and so she tweets out ‘A reminder that Steve Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, is a huge Donald Trump supporter — the same Trump who supports giving ALL police immunity from prosecution. Do with that what you will.'”

“They’re trying to immediately turn this into a political issue. There’s no authenticity here, there’s no fairness here. It’s like ‘Oh, we’ve got our George Floyd, we can use this. America’s all racist because Tyreek Hill got cuffed briefly,’” Whitlock mocks.

Stephen A. Smith is really pushing the political race-bait, calling what happened to Hill “totally unnecessary.”

In a post to X, Smith wrote, “I know the Scottie Scheffler incident was in Georgia — not Florida — and he was arrested, detained, booked. I also know we don’t know all the details, blah … blah … blah! But he wasn’t faced down on the ground in cuffs, then forcibly sat down again by officers a second time. Nah! This story isn’t going away — and it doesn’t need to.”

Whitlock notes that Hill has been accused of domestic violence and has several “baby mamas” — so he’s not a totally innocent man anyway.

“People act like there’s no through line, that there’s no connection, that ‘Hey, if I’m irresponsible here, that doesn’t mean I’m irresponsible over here,’” he says, adding, “Yes, it actually does. Irresponsible people do irresponsible things.”


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Louisville officer shot in Breonna Taylor raid shares the UNTOLD story



Breonna Taylor became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement when she was shot and killed by Louisville police — but the narrative surrounding her death has done a 180.

Years later, those who jumped to demonize the police have been proven wrong after a judge ruled that Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was the individual whose actions led to her death, not the Louisville police.

But that didn’t stop the cops present on the scene from being smeared by celebrities, politicians, the media, and activists.

This is why Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly is telling Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” — who calls the outrage following Taylor’s death a “racial hoax” — what really happened on Friday, March 13, 2020.

That night, Mattingly was serving a warrant in a drug investigation — and was initially lauded as a hero for his actions.

“Something happened, and I’m not sure when it took place, but it was fairly quickly,” Mattingly tells Whitlock. After the shooting, Mattingly was in surgery to repair his femoral artery, which was severed when he was shot by Walker.

“That night we went, and they said knock and announce, because Jamarcus Glover, he’s not at this location,” Mattingly explains. “So I said, ‘That’s fine.’ They said, matter of fact, she’s a heavy-set black female, give her extra time to come to the door.”

“After about a minute, no answer, my lieutenant says, ‘Go ahead, and hit the door.’ The breacher hits the door, when it comes open, I’m standing on the left of it. He’s on the right of it,” Mattingly continues, noting that the situation inside was strange.

“Normally people are giving up, they’re hiding, or they’re running. There’s never two people down a hall just in wait, and by the time my mind’s registering this, and I get my gun around to them, I see the tip of Kenneth Walker’s silver gun, and it’s too late.”

“Boom, shots fired, I feel the impact on my leg, I return four rounds and get behind the door. He dives into a room as soon as he shoots and leaves Breonna in the hallway. She attempts to follow him in the room ‘cause her feet crossed the threshold of the door, where she then fell back,” he explains.

“So she ran into the line of fire, chasing this guy who had abandoned her in the hallway,” he adds.


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Man awarded $900K after brutal police interrogation leads him to confess to murder that never happened, attempt suicide



A mentally disturbed California man is now nearly $1 million richer after settling a lawsuit in connection with a brutal police interrogation about a murder that never even happened.

On Aug. 8, 2018, Tom Perez Jr. called police in Fontana, California, just outside San Bernardino, to report that his father, Tom Perez Sr., was missing. When cops arrived at the home the father and son shared, they reportedly found Perez Sr.'s cell phone and wallet as well as bloodstains. A K-9 cop also reportedly detected a "deceased human remain odor," a court document said, according to HuffPost.

'They could get you and I to confess to killing Abe Lincoln if they wanted to.'

Perez Jr. was then brought to police headquarters for questioning. What followed was a grueling, hours-long interrogation into the alleged murder of Perez Sr.

During the interrogation, the cops — who have not been identified — repeatedly told Perez Jr. that his father had been stabbed to death and that he had killed him. "We just told you we found your dead dad, and you don't give a ****," one detective said.

Perez Jr., who was never formally arrested in connection with the alleged murder, insisted he couldn't remember doing any such thing. Police, however, claimed that he was simply suppressing painful memories.

On at least one occasion, Perez Jr. asked for his psychiatric medication, but that request was denied. Between possible medication withdrawal and the pressure of the interrogation, Perez Jr. eventually descended into a severe mental breakdown. He began tearing at his shirt, hitting himself, and pulling his hair, video evidenced showed.

And yet police pressure did not relent. In fact, cops brought in a friend of Perez Jr. in hopes of eliciting a confession. "They say they have enough evidence," the friend allegedly cautioned Perez Jr.

Investigators even brought Perez Jr.'s beloved dog into the interrogation room and threatened to euthanize her unless he confessed to the alleged murder.

"How can you sit there, how can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad?" an officer asked.

"Look at your dog. She knows because she was walking through all the blood."

Overwhelmed mentally, Perez Jr. finally gave police what they wanted: He confessed to murdering his father. Shortly thereafter, officers left him alone in the interrogation room. At that point, Perez Jr. strung together some shoelaces and attempted to hang himself, court documents said.

Investigators disrupted the suicide attempt and then placed Perez Jr. in custody in a mental hospital, where they left him for three days. During that time, cops prevented Perez Jr. from having contact with any family or friends, and he wallowed in anguish, presuming that both his dog and his dad were dead.

Only they weren't. Not only had his dog been taken to a shelter from which she was later rescued, but Perez Sr. was soon located in El Monte, California. He had simply gone to visit a "lady friend," his daughter told police.

Perez Jr. was eventually informed that his dad was very much alive, released from custody, and reunited with his dog. Not content to let bygones be bygones, Perez Jr. soon filed a lawsuit against the City of Fontana for the horrific experience, and last summer, Judge Dolly Gee ruled that a jury could very well determine that the brutal interrogation amounted to "unconstitutional psychological torture."

Last Thursday, nearly six years after the incident, Perez Jr. agreed to a settlement of $900,000, his attorney, Jerry Steering, announced. In the announcement, Steering echoed Judge Gee's ruling and claimed that police had "mentally tortur[ed]" Perez Jr. into making a false confession.

Steering also accused police of engaging in deliberately cruel interrogation methods. "They're not amateurs, and they know what they're doing, and they know how to do it," he explained.

"They could get you and I to confess to killing Abe Lincoln if they wanted to."

Thankfully, Perez Jr. is "doing fine" now, Steering said, adding that his client agreed to the settlement now because of the "looming possibility that the Fontana Officers might have prevailed on an appeal."

The City of Fontana and the Fontana Police Department did not respond to requests for comment from HuffPost and KCAL News.

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Horrifying bodycam video shows Missouri police officer shooting, killing non-aggressive deaf and blind 13-pound dog, city defends cop



Extremely disturbing police bodycam video shows the moment that a cop shot and killed a "non-aggressive" deaf and blind 13-pound dog.

On Tuesday morning, a Sturgeon Police Department officer responded to a report of a missing dog.

Nick Hunter, 35, reported his fluffy, 13-pound white Shih Tzu mix missing. Most concerning for the owner, is that the 5-year-old dog was deaf and blind. Hunter reportedly informed the dispatcher that the dog was "not at all" aggressive.

Sturgeon Police Department Officer Myron Woodson reportedly responded to the missing dog report.

Within minutes of attempting to locate the disabled dog, Officer Woodson reportedly fired two shots into the 13-pound pup.

Officer Woodson located the small Shih Tzu dog.

Bodycam footage shows Woodson approaching the small dog, and he is armed with a catch pole.

According to bodycam footage, the dog named Teddy is seen aimlessly trotting around. The officer is seen attempting to lasso the distressed dog, but is unsuccessful. The dog continues to walk randomly around the grass yard.

The dog is seen on video playing with a vine on a tree.

Suddenly out of nowhere, the officer is seen shooting the dog only three minutes after encountering the small dog without the animal being aggressive toward the cop.

Police bodycam video shows the officer shooting the dog at the 5:35 mark and firing another shot at the 5:41 mark.

Bodycam footage shows the officer walking back to his cruiser to retrieve a bin, walking back to the scene of the death, and putting the lifeless body of the dog into the receptacle. He places the bin with the deceased animal in the back of his cruiser.

The owner of the slain dog – a very distraught Nick Hunter – is seen confronting the police officer before he can drive away. According to the video, he is recording the officer as he questions him.

Hunter tells the officer that his dog was "completely blind and completely deaf."

Officer Woodson attempts to defend his fatal actions by saying that he saw a "dog walking around blindly," and he only can respond to situations with "information at hand" and claimed he had spent 10 minutes dealing with a dog that was "walking around blindly."

Woodson claims that he doesn't "enjoy shooting dogs."

"I'm not happy that I had to shoot a dog," Woodson says on video.

Hunter informs the officer that there are numerous non-lethal alternatives to making a dog respond.

Woodson states, "I'm sorry I had to do it. That's all I'm saying."

Hunter declares, "I can handle a dog dying if the dog was put down for a proper reason."

He adds, "He was not aggressive to a person, and not a harm to anyone."

Hunter accuses the officer of not attempting "to do anything properly besides lethal force."

The dog owner claims the dog escaped from its kennel after its collar slipped off.

The city of Sturgeon defended Officer Woodson's fatal actions with a statement that reads:

The city has reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage regarding the recent dog at large incident. The city believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens from what appeared to be an injured, sick, and abandoned dog. The dispatch indicated that the person calling in did not want to be contacted, and had reported that the dog, though not in her view dangerous, was injured, maybe blind, and had mud and dried blood in its fur. The dog’s strange behavior appeared consistent with the dispatch report of an injured or possibly sick dog. In order to better equip officers for future animal at large call outs, the city will be sending all officers to Boone County Animal Control for training and education, in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again.

Hunter told KMIZ, "I filed a complaint formally with the city of Sturgeon and requested to speak with the mayor. The mayor did not contact me, instead posted a statement contradicting everything that me and the officer spoke of, saying the officer's fear was Teddy having rabies."

Hunter proclaimed that his dog was updated on its rabies vaccines.

"The officer was going strictly based off the fact that the dog walks with his head sideways due to him being deaf and blind," Hunter alleged.

He added, "I'm hoping these officers and future officers can find a way to follow the the fourth continuum, our levels, correctly versus going straight to lethal force. That should always be a last resort in dealing with any life."

Hunter told the news outlet that he plans on suing the city of Sturgeon over the shooting death of his dog.

(WARNING: The following police bodycam video is extremely disturbing and graphic)

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Why haven't we seen this VERY telling study on police & racism? Probably because the left covered it up



Author Coleman Hughes recently brought an argument in favor of colorblindness to the leftist panel of "The View," and they weren’t having it.

“Your argument for colorblindness is something that the right has co-opted,” one of "The View" cohosts said to Hughes. “You are being used as a pawn by the right,” she added.

The host then accused Hughes of saying that he was a conservative, which he denied.

“I think it’s better, and it would be better for everyone, if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about me with no evidence that I’ve been co-opted,” Hughes said.

“Who’s the racist here?” Glenn Beck asks, astounded. “We have gotten to a place or we were at a place to where we wanted to see people for the content of their character, thought that was right, and in many cases, that’s the way we judged the world.”

Hughes also mentioned a study brought up by Roland Fryer during a speech at the Free Press. The study was on police violence — and it didn’t fall in line with the left’s assumptions of bias in the police force.

“I collected a lot of data,” Fryer, who is also African-American, said. “We collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn’t lethal. We collected thousands of observations on lethal force, and it was in this moment in 2016 that I realized people lose their minds when they don’t like the result.”

Fryer noted that he found “some bias in the low-level uses of force everyday,” which included “pushing up against cars and things like that.”

“People seem to like that result,” he said. “But we didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings,” he continued, noting that he had eight full-time RAs that it took to do the study over the course of a year. When he found the result, he hired eight fresh ones — and the study came back the same.

“I had colleagues take me to the side and say, ‘Don’t publish this, you’ll ruin your career,’” Fryer explained. “I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘What’s wrong with it?’”


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Harvard professor needed ‘police protection’ after publishing study condemned by Claudine Gay



Although Claudine Gay has since stepped down as the president of Harvard University, she once wielded her powers to further the woke agenda.

Many are aware of Gay’s refusal to address anti-Semitism on campus and the alleged plagiarism in her academic work, but fewer are familiar with how she attempted to destroy the career of Dr. Roland G. Fryer, a professor of economics at Harvard.

What was Dr. Fryer’s crime? Publishing research that found no racial disparities behind the killings of unarmed black men in Houston, Texas.

Pat Gray plays a clip of an interview of Dr. Fryer explaining his research:

“Yes, we saw some bias in the low-level uses of force — everyday pushing up against cars and things like that — people seemed to like that result. But we didn't find any racial bias in police shootings,” Dr. Fryer explained, adding that this research took place over a year’s time and involved the help of eight others.

However, because the result wasn’t what he expected, he restarted the research with eight new RAs.

“They came up with the same exact answer,” he said, but when he published his findings, “all hell broke loose.”

“It was a 104-page, dense academic economics paper with a 150-page appendix, okay? It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email [saying], ‘This is full of s***’ ... and I wrote back, ‘How'd you read it that fast?!’"

“I had colleagues take me to the side and say, ‘Don't publish this; you'll ruin your career,”’ Dr. Fryer continued. “I said to them, ‘If the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it then?’ and they said, ‘Yeah, then it would make sense.”’

Thankfully, Dr. Fryer wasn’t swayed by his colleagues and responded with, “I guarantee you, I’ll publish it.”

His boldness didn’t come without consequence though.

“I lived under police protection for about 30 or 40 days,” he said. “I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard. It was crazy.”

“People don’t like the truth,” says Pat.

“All he did was present facts, but that'll get you in trouble,” agrees Keith Malinak.

To hear more of Dr. Fryer’s story, watch the clip below.


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Teen hospitalized after Delaware state trooper allegedly 'beat the living hell' out of boy over ding-dong-ditch game, officer suspended



A Delaware state trooper has been suspended for allegedly beating a 15-year-old boy after the teen played the ding-dong-ditch game at the officer's home. The Delaware state trooper has been suspended after officials reviewed the bodycam video.

On Monday, a teenager and three of his friends participated in the ding-dong-ditch game on homes in Wilmington, Delaware. The game is a children's prank in which participants ring the doorbell of a home, and then the pranksters run away before the occupants of the home get a chance to open the front door.

The pranksters reportedly carried out the hijinks on a home that was owned by a Delaware state trooper.

The Delaware state trooper and his partner allegedly hunted down the teens. About 45 minutes after the prank, the state trooper and his partner allegedly confronted the teens.

The family's attorney, Samuel Davis, claimed that the state trooper pulled up behind the teens with the lights activated on his police cruiser. He allegedly ordered the boys to lie down on the ground.

The family of one of the teens only identified as "Jayden" accused the officer of police brutality.

USA Today reported, "The teen, who was eventually hospitalized with a broken orbital bone and concussion, was then handcuffed and pushed face down on the concrete, where the trooper put his knee on the teen's neck."

The lawyer for the family alleges that the state trooper handcuffed the teen, put him in the back of the cruiser, and then used one hand to shine a light in the boy's eyes, and the other hand to "hit him with a haymaker" punch.

The outlet added that the teenagers were taken to the parking lot of a hardware store. At that point, the lawyer claims that another state trooper advised that the boys be taken to the hospital because of their worrisome injuries.

The family of the boy has requested access to the police bodycam video and dashboard cam footage of the alleged incident.

Davis said, "We believe that the truth is going to come out in short order. The family wants the truth, and they want this trooper or troopers to be held accountable for these violent acts."

Jayden's aunt wrote on Facebook, "The two state troopers arrested my (nephew’s) friends, then beat the living hell out of (my) nephew."

The aunt claimed that the troopers "almost killed" her 15-year-old nephew.

She posted photos of Jayden's alleged injuries suffered during his encounter with the state trooper. Photos apparently show the teen with his face bloodied and swollen.

The aunt claimed that Jayden suffered from a concussion, bruises, and a broken orbital bone around his eye — which will require surgery.

"Additionally, we are also investigating whether or not there was any failure to intervene by other DSP personnel who were present at the time of the incident. We assure you that a comprehensive investigation is underway and we are examining all available evidence. At our core, the Delaware State Police values our community's trust and we will provide additional details as we are able," Delaware State Police said after reviewing bodycam footage, according to WDEL.

The Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the alleged incident and suspended the suspected officer after reviewing the police bodycam video. However, they did not name the officer reported to be involved in the alleged assault.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

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