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California governor signs off on series of police reform bills
One of the laws allows the state to decertify officers, which its author said will end the "wash, rinse and repeat cycle of police misconduct."

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Sept. 30, 2021, 7:50 PM PDT
By Phil Helsel
California's governor has signed into law a series of bills that give the state the power to strip the badges of officers who commit misconduct, raise the minimum age of officers and take other steps to change policing following nationwide calls for reform.

The bills signed Thursday also limit when police can use things like rubber bullets and beanbag rounds at protests. They bar restraints that can cause someone to asphyxiate and require officers to immediately report excessive force by others.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said some of the measures were long overdue. He said 46 other states already had the authority to decertify police officers for misconduct.

State Sen. Steven Bradford, a Democrat who authored the bill, said it aims to end "the wash, rinse and repeat cycle of police misconduct," in which officers can quit one department before they are fired and get re-hired elsewhere.

"This bill is not just about holding bad officers accountable for their misconduct," Bradford said. "It's also about rebuilding trust between our communities and law enforcement."

The law allowing decertification comes 18 years after legislators stripped the power from a state police standards commission. That left it up to local agencies to decide whether officers should be fired.

The bills were signed more than a year after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck and was later convicted of murder. The death of Floyd, who was Black, by Derek Chauvin sparked outrage and calls for changes to policing across the country.

Police departments in California will also be banned from authorizing techniques or transportation methods that have a risk of "positional asphyxia" — which is what experts said happened to Floyd but also can occur when people are restrained and left on the ground.

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Also among the bills signed Thursday is one that raises the minimum age of officers from 18 to 21 and adds education requirements. Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer said data have shown that more mature, educated officers are less likely to use excessive force.

Another is aimed at increasing transparency of records dealing with police misconduct.

The governor and legislators were joined at Thursday's bill signing by parents of people who died after police encounters.

Among them was the family of Angelo Quinto, who was having a mental health crisis in December and died after police in Antioch restrained him. His family said police knelt on his neck, which police have denied. The family has sued.

"Even the last four minutes of the restraint, he was unresponsive, and they didn't address that at all ...," said his sister, Bella. "It was just absolutely excessive and unnecessary."

Big jobs miss today and the POTUS will blame Trump/Covid. Small business is competing with the government handouts now and cant win.
Despite the goon squad making people get a jab to keep their job many wont. Nice job Joe!

Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube space series featured child actors in its first installment.

The YouTube Original Series, entitled "Get Curious with Vice President Harris," is aimed at getting children interested in space and included an appearance by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough from the International Space Station. But the children featured in the first installment of the series were child actors, including 13-year-old Trevor Bernardino.

In one scene, Harris tells the children that they are "going to learn so much," adding that they will "literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes. With your own eyes. I’m telling you.
The kid actors appear to be genuinely excited, and Harris seems to be revealing something to them that they don't already know. The kids are relentlessly ebullient throughout the video.

Bernardino, a Carmel, California teen who was one of five child actors in the video, told KSBW TV that he submitted a monologue and was interviewed for a role in the series.

"And then after that, like a week later, my agent called me, and he’s like, ‘Hey Trevor, you booked it,’" Bernardino told the outlet.

Child actors Derrick Brooks II, Emily Kim Zhoriel Tapo, and Sydney Schmooke rounded out the cast for the show, which was filmed in August for its release during world space week.

The video, which was produced by a foreign entity, Canada’s Sinking Ship Entertainment, shows the group meeting Kimbrough from the International Space Station via Zoom. He remotely leads the children on a scavenger hunt to buy tools to build a telescope. The group then meets with the Harris, which Bernardino thought was the highlight of his visit to the Naval Observatory.

The chairman of Nike's successful Jordan brand has revealed he murdered an innocent 18 year-old boy in 1965 while he was a gang member.

Larry Miller, 72, announced Wednesday in a Sports Illustrated interview that he served time in prison after fatally shooting Edward White when he was a 16 year-old member of Philly's Cedar Avenue gang

Miller says he took to the streets drunkenly and in search of revenge after one of his friends and fellow gang members was fatally stabbed by a member of the rival 53rd and Pine gang.

The business tycoon didn't know White, but wanted to avenge the murder of a fellow gang member, and says he ended up shooting and killing the first person he saw.

White did nothing to provoke him, and there's no suggestion he was a member of any other gang. He died on the spot after being shot with a .38 Miller had gotten from his girlfriend.

Explaining himself, Miller said: 'We were all drunk. I was in a haze. Once it kind of set in, I was like, "Oh, sh*t, what have I done?" It took years for me to understand the real impact of what I had done.

'That’s what makes it even more difficult for me, because it was for no reason at all.

'I mean, there was no valid reason for this to happen. And that’s the thing that I really struggle with and that’s—you know, it’s the thing that I think about every day. It’s like, I did this, and to someone who—it was no reason to do it. And that’s the part that really bothers me.'

Miller has not revealed exactly what he was charged with in connection to White's death or how long he spent in jail, but did indicate he was in and out of juvenile detention and prison for various offenses between the ages of 13 and 30.

He says he came from a good home, with a mom and dad who loved and provided for him, and was a straight-A student. Miller says he went off the rails at 13 after deciding he wanted people to 'respect' him more.

He say's he'll share more details in his upcoming book, which is being co-written with his daughter. No photos of White have been shared, and members of his family have yet to comment.

Nike, famed for its desire to present itself as one of the United States' wokest corporations, has come out in support of its CEO with a gushing statement.
CEO John Donahue gushed: 'Larry Miller has played an influential role in Nike history and is a beloved member of the Nike family.

'His story is an example of the resilience, perseverance and strength of the human spirit. I hope his experience can create a healthy discourse around criminal justice reform, by helping remove the stigma that holds people and communities back.'

Although he claims he never lied on a job application, Miller said he lived in fear, especially as his career progressed and he was constantly in the spotlight.

He was able to get out of disclosing the murder, because most employers only asked for details of criminal convictions from the last five years.