The police murder of Iraq War veteran Brian Easley
10 July 2017
On the
morning of July 7, 33-year-old Iraq War veteran Brian Easley walked into a
Wells Fargo bank in Cobb County, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, and told the only
two people there—both bank employees—that he had explosives in his backpack and
was holding them hostage.
He called a
local television station and, in a calm voice, explained that he was not
robbing the bank. He said he had one demand: The Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) had unjustly eliminated $892 in monthly payments for an injury he
sustained in Iraq, and he wanted the funds reinstated.
He pleaded,
“They took my disability check and I have nothing and I’ll be out on the street
and I won’t have any money for food or anything, and I’m going to starve.” He
was particularly worried about the fate of his eight-year-old daughter.
Meanwhile,
police in assault gear massed outside. The area was placed on lockdown and
armored military vehicles were brought in to encircle the bank. An FBI
negotiator called the bank and Easley repeated his demand: $892.
It was clear
to all involved, including the hostages themselves, that Easley posed no threat
to anybody. In the phone call with WSB-TV, Easley said he was not going to hurt
either of the employees. “These ladies are very nice and they have been very
helpful and supportive,” he said.
The hostages
told the press that Easley was “kind” and “respectful.” According to a local
newspaper, a police spokesman let slip that “no one inside or outside the bank
was ever at risk of being harmed.”
That did not
prevent a SWAT team from using an armored vehicle to burst through the bank’s
wall and riddle the young man’s body with bullets. Police later confirmed what
was already clear from the phone conversation: Easley had no bomb, either in
his backpack or his hotel room.
No matter.
Easley’s death was the police’s preferred outcome. This was a calculated act of
state murder aimed at conveying a message to the general public.
The recorded
conversation between Easley and WSB-TV assignment desk editor Stephanie Steiger
is a desperate man’s cry for help. “I got the feeling he just wanted somebody
to talk to,” Steiger said.
Easley, a
lance corporal, fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2005—the period of the invasion
and its immediate aftermath, when the fighting was at its worst and the
civilian death toll at its highest.
BLOG:
THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY STARTED TWO (2) WARS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ
ON BEHALF OF THEIR PARTNERS AND PAYMASTERS, THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS,
WHO NOW HAVE FUNDED THE BUSH, CLINTON AND OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND
THE PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION.
The invasion and occupation destroyed Iraqi
society and led to the deaths of up to a million Iraqis, as well as some 2,000
US soldiers.
The lexicon of the invasion emerged while Easley was deployed:
Shock and Awe, Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, Mission Accomplished, black
site, Haditha.
Like most
veterans, Easley found it difficult to acclimate to civilian life. He took a
low-wage job at a warehouse in Georgia and moved in with his parents. He tried
to go back to school to pursue an interest in film studies, but he couldn’t
seem to get on his feet. He and his wife divorced and he struggled to make ends
meet.
Easley said
that after the VA cut off his disability payments he began to run out of money.
He was living in a nearby motel but could afford only one more night. On
Saturday, he would be homeless.
He loved his
daughter and worried about having no way to care for her. Several days earlier
he had visited a VA hospital to seek help, but instead of offering him mental
health support, the VA called the police and had him dragged away.
Easley’s
relatives were horrified to learn of his death. “This is not the Brian I know,”
Jazzima Damons said. “He would not hurt nobody, nobody.”
Sierra Damons
said, “Our family is just in shock right now because the Brian they are saying
that he went up in this bank, that is not him, he is a very loving person.”
The exact circumstances
of Easley’s death remain unclear. One account has Easley releasing the two
hostages before being murdered by police. According to another version, police
burst in and fired at Easley in an unnecessary and reckless attempt to free the
bank employees.
News of
Easley’s death has set off a wave of anger on social media, with residents of
the Atlanta suburb denouncing the government for abandoning Easley after
sending him to fight in a war for the rich: “Brainwash them, send them off to
war to steal, kill and destroy, and when their false agenda is accomplished,
you’re sent home and fed to the wolves. So sad,” wrote one commenter on
Facebook.
Another
commenter noted, “Even the war in Iraq was based on lies. Never any WMDs. Lies
and more lies. Look at the stockpile of banned weapons the US government has.”
A third
comment reads, “This is sad and needs to be fixed. ‘Support our troops’ is only
a friendly phrase politicians use to secure votes and get funding for military
equipment contractors. They care nothing about the well-being of the mental and
physical state of our veterans when they return from duty.”
BLOG:
THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN AMERICAN HISTORY IS SENATOR DIANNE
FEINSTEIN AND HER PIMP HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM. BLUM HAS TUCKED BRIBES
INTO HALF OF CONGRESS INCLUDING CLINTON AND OBAMA SO THEY KEEP THEIR
MOUTHS CLOSED ABOUT FEINSTEIN'S DIRTY DEALS IN CONGRESS THAT HAVE
STUFFED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS INTO THE POCKET OF THIS PIMP AND HIS
WHORING WIFE DIANNE.
Easley’s
death has touched a nerve because it exposes the devastating social impact of
the permanent state of war, the militarization of the police and society as a
whole, and the growth of poverty and social inequality. War crimes abroad are
accompanied by social crimes against the working class at home.
This brutal
and arbitrary state killing exposes the political establishment’s ritual
worship of veterans as nothing more than empty propaganda aimed at building
support for wars fought by the poor to enrich the wealthy.
Since the
launching of the “war on terror” in 2001, the phrase “God bless our troops” has
become a national liturgy, repeated ad nauseam by politicians of both parties
and innumerable talking heads on television. The military pays sports teams
millions of dollars to unfurl giant flags, feature patriotic songs and “honor
our veterans” by flying bombers and fighter jets over stadiums. Multiple
federal holidays are dedicated to the glorification of the military and the
“men and women who risk their lives to protect the nation.”
Official
paeans to veterans drip with hypocrisy and cynicism. Easley’s death shows how
the ruling class really views the poor and working-class youth it sends to war.
They are corporate cannon fodder. When their fighting is done, their bodies and
minds having been ravaged in the process, the government tosses them aside like
so much trash. To the state and the oligarchs it serves, their lives are worth
less than the $892 Easley asked for.
Each night,
50,000 war veterans are homeless in the United States. One third of disabled
veterans between the ages of 35 and 54 live in poverty. Twenty veterans kill
themselves each day. Since 2001 alone, over 128,000 veterans have committed
suicide—more than the population of Topeka, Kansas; Lansing, Michigan; or Santa
Clara, California.
The ruling
class’s view of veterans struggling with the consequences of war was expressed
by US Army Maj. General Dana Pittard, who said in 2012, “Suicide is an
absolutely selfish act… I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing
to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult,
act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us!”
At the root
of the crisis facing veterans is the capitalist system, under which imperialist
war is inevitable. The US government has spent roughly $5 trillion on the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, and over half of the government’s budget
goes to the military for the purpose of protecting the global interests of US
banks and corporations. The vast resources squandered by the US government on
death and destruction must be redirected to meeting the urgent social need for
health care, housing, transportation, jobs, and mental health services for all.
Eric London
AMERICA: LAND OF FREE COP MURDERS ON INNOCENT PEOPLE
Of the 25 people shot to death by the police in the past week,
beginning with Tyre King, at least half were white, according
to the
grisly tally kept by killed by police.net.
Of the 702 people shot to death by police this year, according
to a database maintained by the Washington Post, 163 were
black men, about 23 percent of the total. Whites made up
roughly half
the victims, while Hispanics, Native Americans,
Asians, black women
and people of mixed race made up
the balance.
DEATH BY SUICIDE:
What caused the destruction of the Democrat Party in
America?
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/peter-beinart-how-democrats-lost-their.html
AMERICA'S ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THE AMERICAN THINKER.com
AMERICA THE HOME OF THE HOMELESS:
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS AT WORK!
"The decline in
home-ownership is one sign of the deep social crisis in the United States.
As rents and housing costs have soared, spurred on by financial
speculation that has enriched the ruling elites, incomes and jobs for
most Americans have shriveled."
Amnesty would add 100 million more illegals and cost Legals trillions!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/03/heritage-foundation-amnesty-would-add.html
WE SOLVE OUR JOBS AND HOUSING CRISIS WHEN WE END MEXICO’S OCCUPATION!
DID THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND FUNDING OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” FINISH AMERICA OFF?
“The next
Democratic presidential candidate should say again and again that because
Americans are one people, who must abide by one law, his or her goal is to
reduce America’s undocumented population to zero.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/peter-beinart-how-democrats-lost-their.html
Peter Beinart, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, New
York Review of Books, Haaretz, and former editor of the New
Republic, blames immigration for deteriorating social conditions
for the American working class: The supposed “costs” of
immigration, he says, “strain the very welfare state that liberals
want to expand in order to help those native-born Americans with
whom immigrants compete.”
York Review of Books, Haaretz, and former editor of the New
Republic, blames immigration for deteriorating social conditions
for the American working class: The supposed “costs” of
immigration, he says, “strain the very welfare state that liberals
want to expand in order to help those native-born Americans with
whom immigrants compete.”
JOE
LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s
how it breaks down. It will make you want to be an illegal!
…. which one has it
good under the Dems???
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WHICH SIDE OF THE EQUATION ARE YOU DIGGING YOUR CHILDRENS’ GRAVES?
“Millions
of middle class families have been driven to bankruptcy by illness
and
medical bills.” ..... but illegals suck up billions in "free" medical!
“This dramatic contrast in
life expectancy between the rich and poor is directly correlated to the growth
of obscene wealth at the top among a tiny elite and entrenched poverty among
growing numbers of people at the bottom.”….. BUT AMERICA STILL FINDS BILLIONS
TO HAND TO MEXICAN INVADERS, WHICH INCLUDES “FREE” HEALTHCARE.
In the first part of
the Lancet series, “Inequality and the health-care system in the
USA,” the British medical journal’s researchers found that these income-based
disparities in US life expectancy are worsened by the for-profit US health care
system itself, which relies on private insurers, pharmaceutical companies and
health care chains. It is also the most expensive health system in the world.
NOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HANDS
MILLIONS OF MEXICAN SOCIAL SECURITY? THEY GO BACKE TO MEXICO TO CASH THEIR SSI
CHECKS AND VOTE BY MAIL FOR MORE!
“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive
amnesty would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation
expert Robert Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance
by Breitbart News.”
Plenty of money for ILLEGALS……AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA UNDER
MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number
of elderly persons who are homeless in the US will have doubled by 2050.
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM …. is it yet time we started
helping our own???
.... A Glimpse...
$640,000 and breeding anchor babies like bunnies
MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
EACH ILLEGAL WILL COST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE $640,000
and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
AMERICA: One paycheck
and two illegals away from homelessness.
"The economists found that the pre-tax share of
national income received by the bottom half of the US population has been cut nearly
in half since 1980, from 20 percent to 12 percent, while the income share of the
top one percent has nearly doubled, from 12 percent to 20 percent."
SOARING POVERTY IN AMERICA’S OPEN
BORDERS
BORDERS
TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE SUPER RICH:
“In the US, the working class will confront a government unlike
any other in American history, which will continue and intensify a decades-long
social counterrevolution overseen by the Democrats and Republicans. The
incoming Trump administration is manned by billionaires, generals and arch
reactionaries. It is a government of, by and for the oligarchy, committed to
destroying every remaining gain won by workers over the past century.”
SAUDI 9-11 INVADERS!
GLOBAL FINANCIERS OF HATE AGAINST
AMERICANS, CHRISTIANS AND PEOPLE
OF JEWISH FAITH!
They’ve also pumped big bribes into
the BUSH CRIME FAMILY, HILLARY AND BILLARY’S BULLS HIT CHARITY AND MUSLIM
OBOMB’S PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY!
THE SAUDIS HATRED OF AMERICA
…. Their expanding Muslim invasion in the United States
THEY INVADED US 9-11 AND MURDERED
THOUSANDS OF OUR PEOPLE. THEY’RE STILL TRYING TO MURDER US AND WE’RE HANDING
THEM THE ARMS TO DO IT!
AMERICA’S BLUDGEONED YOUTH: Homeless, Hopeless and Addicted…. Will they
start the revolution?
"Public education as a whole came
under brutal attack as part of the Obama administration’s effort to shift the
burden of the financial crisis onto the backs of the working class."
AMERICA’S BLUDGEONED YOUTH: Homeless, Hopeless and Addicted…. Will they
start the revolution?
"Public education as a whole came
under brutal attack as part of the Obama administration’s effort to shift the
burden of the financial crisis onto the backs of the working class."
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, HUBBY LOOTER
RICHARD BLUM AND LAP B ITCH, BARBARA “BRIBES” BOXER…. Along with Nancy Pelosi,
four of the most corrupt and self-serving plunderers of America… These Cretans
redefine the term CRONY CAPITALIST PIGS!
FOR YEARS THEY HAVE SUCKED THE BLOOD OUT OF A DYING
NATION!
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
THE GIG JOB – In America, No Legal Need Apply
Possibly most affected by this shift in
the economy is the
Millennial generation,
those aged 18-30. The report notes that more
than half of those under age 25 participate
in independent work, not
just in the
United States but throughout the European
Union
as well."
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
pounds America’s youth as they
build a border to border Mexican welfare state
on our backs!
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE
…… ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE… they also get our jobs!
The new reports show that in addition to
“traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these
teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling
drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat
properly.
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/obama-clintonomics-their-crony.html
“This study follows
reports released over the
past several months documenting rising
mortality
rates among US workers due to
drug addiction and suicide, high rates of
infant mortality, an overall leveling off of life
expectancy, and a growing gap
between the
life expectancy of the bottom rung of income
earners compared to
those at the top.”
America’s Looming Economic Armageddon
– Can the Rich Get Even Richer During the Meltdown? Haven’t they looted us into
bankruptcy?
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-nation-in-meltdown-america-faces.html
By George Gallanis
The history of the police in the Democratic
Party stronghold that is Chicago is filled with
horrific stories of abject brutality and murder
followed by massive coverups.
Latest Chicago police killing shrouded in secrecy
By George Gallanis
11 July 2017
As warm sunlight draped North Leclaire Avenue on Chicago’s northwest side Sunday morning, a hail of police bullets trailed a fleeing man. With at least one bullet eventually striking him, the man would die at a local hospital.
The as yet unidentified man is the eighth person killed by the Chicago police this year, almost one week since the last. He was, according to killedbypolice.net, the 637th person to die by police violence in the United States. As of this writing, the total count stands at 641.
Very little information on the incident exists. In fact, as is customary for most police shootings in an effort to temporarily quell social anger, the current official account of the story will likely change in the coming weeks.
The history of the police in the Democratic Party stronghold that is Chicago is filled with horrific stories of abject brutality and murder followed by massive coverups. As it was with the cover up of the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police, what has officially been said and what will be said about the latest killing should both be treated with utter contempt.
According to the Chicago police, the incident began when the mother of the unidentified man informed police early Sunday morning that the man was holding his girlfriend and her child against their will in a house on the northwest side of the city.
Police eventually surrounded the home, with highly militarized SWAT units called onsite to wait on standby if needed to forcibly enter the home by way of flash bangs and heavy weaponry. However, the man let the woman and child go.
Afterwards, according to the police and major news outlets such as ABC, the man allegedly stepped out of the house, fired upon the police, with one cop firing back, and made his way down the street on foot. Such a story defies common sense. How was he allowed to get away unscathed when an arsenal of police and SWAT members surrounded him?
There are more questions to be asked. Afterwards, according to the official account of the police, the man climbed to the roof of a house, and jumped into a gangway, causing his weapon to discharge. Yet, police say, he then intentionally fired upon the cops, after which he was fatally wounded.
A witness to the incident tells a different story. “They were using some code words for positioning themselves, after that that’s when one shot came at them and then after that they shot several shots. It was over just like that,” said Gilberto Morales, a local resident. According to Morales, only one shot was fired by the suspect before his death. Was the “one shot” that “came at them” the bullet which was unintentionally fired after the man fell into the gangway?
Quick to justify the killing as act of self-defense, a spokeswoman for Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), Mia Sissac, told the press. “It’s still too early to say anything definitive except that shots were fired at officers, and officers returned fire.”
Sissac’s statement reveals the absolute bankruptcy of IPRA, an oversight and police accountability organization, which will investigate the incident for any wrongdoing by the police. But it will find none. IPRA’s history consists of one coverup after another. It played a leading role, in close collaboration with Chicago’s Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel, in the coverup of Laquan McDonald’s murder by Chicago police. IPRA found no wrongdoing then.
Acting on behalf of both the Democrats and Republicans, the two parties of big business, police operate as the most blatant expression of the violence of class rule. Responsibility for the senseless murders of hundreds of people does not stop at the police, but must include above all the political parties which control and rely on them to maintain the status quo and above all to suppress opposition from the working class.
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