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The President’s Taxes – Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million. The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

via nytimes: The President’s Taxes – Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

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Ballistics report raises questions in #BreonnaTaylor shooting, attorney says – #blm

The ballistics report could not determine if Taylor’s boyfriend shot an officer. The ballistics report from the Kentucky State Police could not determine that the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor shot one of the officers who responded to the scene, according to the boyfriend’s attorney. In an interview with ABC News, Steve Romines, one of the attorneys for Kenneth Walker, said “the Kentucky State Police’s own ballistics’ report could not determine that Kenny’s shot is who hit Officer Mattingly.” Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death in her own apartment in March as police were executing a “no-knock” warrant. Taylor, dressed in her nightclothes, was shot six times by bullets fired by Officer Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said, adding that an FBI ballistics analysis determined that the one fatal shot came from Cosgrove’s 40-caliber weapon. Cameron claimed the officers opened fire when Walker fired at them first with a licensed gun, hitting Mattingly in the leg, when the officers forced open the front door in the early morning hours. Cameron said the investigation showed Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their use of force because Walker shot at the officers first and they returned fire to protect themselves. “This justification bars us from pursuing charges in Ms. Breonna Taylor’s death,” Cameron said.

via abcnews: Ballistics report raises questions in Breonna Taylor shooting, attorney says

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#ParentsForFuture Germany solidarisiert sich mit #EndeGelände anlässlich des #Aktionswochenendes im Rheinland und verurteilt die aggressive Polizeistrategie! – #polizeigewalt #FFF

Parents for Future Germany unterstützt die Forderungen von Ende Gelände nach einem Stopp der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger. Neben einem schnellen Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung richtet sich der Protest zu Recht auch gegen die Verbrennung von Gas als sogenannter Übergangslösung.Wir stehen solidarisch zu Ende Gelände, wenden uns strickt gegen die Kriminalisierung dieses wichtigen Teils der Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung und verurteilen auf das schärfste die dokumentierte Polizeigewalt durch Fausthiebe,Pfefferspray, Polizeihunde und anderes mehr!Wir stehen an der Seite der 3.000 Aktivist*innen von Ende Gelände, die an diesem Wochenende einmal mehr deutlich machen, wie dringend die gesellschaftliche Transformation mit dem Ziel der Klimaneutralität ist

via koelleforfuture: Parents for Future Germany solidarisiert sich mit Ende Gelände anlässlich des Aktionswochenendes im Rheinland und verurteilt die aggressive Polizeistrategie!

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How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail

New Jersey officers accused of violence, sexual misconduct and more have walked free in deals that dodge a tough sentencing law. Now lawmakers want to eliminate it. When New Jersey lawmakers sought advice about police accountability, one of the power players they turned to was Sean Lavin, a police union leader. Lavin testified before state senators at a July hearing, where he questioned whether civilians are qualified to serve on police oversight boards, and suggested that chokeholds might sometimes be warranted. He also argued against releasing the names of officers who have been disciplined. “It’s a public shaming to their families,” said Lavin, executive director of the New Jersey Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council. “I don’t see the value in that, and I don’t think there is one.” But Lavin’s own history illustrates something else. A state law enacted more than a decade ago to jail criminal officers and other public officials who abuse their authority hasn’t worked as intended. Lavin is one of dozens of New Jersey officers who have been criminally charged with official misconduct but avoided the jail time called for under the law, an investigation by the Asbury Park Press and ProPublica has found. Lavin was indicted in 2014 when he worked as a Mercer County sheriff’s officer. The indictment accused him of using pepper spray on a handcuffed woman, filing a false report about the encounter and encouraging other officers to fake their reports, too. The charges included three counts of second-degree official misconduct, which is reserved for public employees who are accused of criminally misusing their position. A conviction on each charge should come with mandatory jail time — up to five years with no parole, in this case — according to state law. But Lavin received no jail time, no probation, no criminal record. In exchange for his resignation from the force, in October 2015 he entered a “pretrial intervention” program ordinarily reserved for low-level crimes. It wiped the charges from his record.

via propublica: How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail

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#Islamophobes target #women 9 times out of 10

Muslim women made up 90.6% of victims of Islamophobia in Belgium in 2019, according to a report presented by the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en Belgique (CCIB) on Friday. The CCIB last year received 108 complaints of Islamophobia, of which 96 led to the opening of cases, the group noted in its report, presented at the launch of the Brussels Week of Action against Hate and Islamophobia, SBAHI. Eighty of the 96 investigations confirmed that the actions were in fact Islamophobic. For the 64 cases in which at least one of the victims was known, nine times out of 10 they were women. Men made up 9.4% of those targeted. In almost nine cases out of 10, the perpetrators’ actions were against the law: more than half (51.3%) were cases of discrimination, 16.3% constituted incitement to hatred, 15% were hate crimes and five percent were acts of harassment, mostly in the workplace. To fight against Islamophobia, the CCIB is seeking to raise awareness in the media and among political and opinion leaders.

via brusselstime: Islamophobes target women 9 times out of 10

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#AfD-Kandidat – #Streifenpolizist beschimpft die #Kanzlerin – #schauhin #hetzer #polizeiproblem

Polizeipräsidentin lässt rechtliche Maßnahmen gegen ihn prüfen. Dietmar Gedig kandidiert für die AfD für den NRW-Landtag. Für helle Aufregung in Polizeikreisen sorgten Äußerungen des AfD-Mitglieds und Solinger Streifenpolizisten Dietmar Gedig über Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) und NRW Innenminister Ralf Jäger (SPD). Gedig bezeichnete auf der Delegiertenversammlung der AfD zur Aufstellung einer Landtagswahlliste in Euskirchen Merkel als „wahnsinnig“ und „kriminell“. Dies sorgte am Montag dafür, dass die zuständige Verwaltung des Polizeipräsidiums Wuppertal prüfte, ob disziplinarrechtlich Schritte gegen den Kommissar eingeleitet werden müssen. Zudem griff der AfD-Kandidat für den Landtag seinen Dienstherrn, Ralf Jäger an. Gedig wirft ihm vor, „völlig versagt“ zu haben. (…) [Verwaltung] Diese solle prüfen, ob es eine Handhabe aufgrund des Disziplinarrechts gegen Gedig gebe. Die könnte sich etwa aus dem Beamtenstatusgesetz ergeben. Darin heißt es unter anderem zu den „Grundpflichten“ eines Beamten gehöre, er müsse sich „zu der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung“ bekennen und „für deren Erhaltung eintreten.“ An einen Polizisten, der sich derart politisch geäußert hätte, kann sich Arnold Plickert, stellvertretender Bundesvorsitzender der Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP), nicht erinnern. Er plädiert dafür, auch strafrechtliche Schritte zu prüfen. Was Gedig gesagt habe, sei eine „Bemerkung über den Durst hinaus“, erklärte NRW-GdP-Pressesprecher Stephan Hegger. Man sei heute froh, dass Gedig schon länger nicht mehr GdP-Mitglied sei. Auch bei der Deutschen Polizei-Gewerkschaft bezeichnet man das Verhalten von Gedig als „verwerflich“.

via solinger tageblatt: AfD-Kandidat – Streifenpolizist beschimpft die Kanzlerin

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Who’s behind Lancaster Patriot? An alt-right podcaster from Texas, investigation shows

A man believed to be Norman “Trey” Garrison crouches near a table set up at Art Park in downtown Lancaster during a nighttime protest following the police shooting of Ricardo Munoz. The video was streamed live on Facebook. Norman Asa Garrison III once joked about the Holocaust, saying “nothing is better than throwing some Hebrews on the fire.” He scoffed at films starring Black actors in lead roles, describing the actors as “ridiculous coal-skinned, bootlips blue gums.” And he encouraged his supporters in the alt-right, a loosely connected group of white nationalists, to commit violence against women and smash journalists in the face with bricks. Now the long-time Texas resident, described by experts who study hate groups as a notorious white nationalist with a history of instigating harassment campaigns, has set up shop in Lancaster County. The 51-year-old former journalist, who does not reveal his name on his social media accounts or on his website, claims to be launching a conservative, weekly print newspaper called The Lancaster Patriot. Identifying himself only as “Trey,” Garrison has used his social media accounts and website to claim without evidence that members of antifa — far-left-leaning militant groups that resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists — infiltrated the recent rallies against police violence in Lancaster. His posts focus disproportionately on civil unrest in Lancaster city and cast the Black Lives Matter movement in a negative light, playing on fears of racial violence among the primarily white and Republican population living in the suburbs and rural parts of the county. Reads one Lancaster Patriot headline: “BLM/Antifa Rioters Clash with Police in Lancaster After Police Shoot a Violent Knife-Wielding Felon.” Garrison’s web presence alarms local racial justice advocates, media experts and political analysts. Michael Hayden, who has reported on Garrison for the Southern Poverty Law Center and who also reports on the rise of extremism in America since 2016, said the partisan nature of Garrison’s writing stands out because it’s based in Pennsylvania, a top battleground state for the 2020 election. “It is certainly disappointing to see a Dallas-area conman, who for years lied and pretended to be a wealthy psychiatrist while living a double life, descend on a city like Lancaster and raise hell in it,” Hayden said. “Garrison is a white nationalist, a misogynist, a bully and a grifter.” While evidence does not show that partisan sites like this one actually sway votes, it has the potential to exploit confusion around the election or deepen tensions in the community, said Stephen Medvic, a government professor at Franklin & Marshall College.

via lancaster online: Who’s behind Lancaster Patriot? An alt-right podcaster from Texas, investigation shows

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