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A federal grand jury on Wednesday, Sept. 23, returned a superseding indictment charging Andre Ricardo Briscoe, a/k/a Poo, age 37, of Baltimore and Cambridge, with federal drug distribution charges, use of a firearm to commit murder in relation to the drug trafficking crimes, killing a witness to prevent communication with law enforcement, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

According to the superseding indictment, from March through October 2015, Briscoe allegedly conspired with others to distribute heroin. The indictment alleges that on May 27, 2015, in connection with his drug distribution, Briscoe allegedly committed an armed robbery and during the course of the robbery in the Upland Heights area of Baltimore shot and killed Jennifer Jeffrey and Jeffrey’s seven-year-old male child. The indictment also alleges that Briscoe shot the child multiple times, including in the head and mouth, killing the child to prevent him/her from communicating with law enforcement.

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Hur stated, “These murders are shocking and unconscionable. This indictment should make one thing crystal clear: If you touch a witness, especially a child, the full weight of federal law enforcement will be harnessed to find you and bring you to justice. And we will not stop investigating until we bring to justice anyone else who was involved.”


If convicted of the murders, Briscoe faces a possible maximum sentence of death or life in prison. Briscoe also faces death or a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted of the witness tampering murder, a mandatory minimum of five years and a maximum of 20 years in federal prison for the conspiracy to distribute and for possession with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, and a maximum of 10 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
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“A seven-year-old child should be playing with friends and dreaming about the future, not dying in a heinous act of violence,” said Boone. “Violence and intimidation of witnesses will not be tolerated. Let this indictment send a clear message; if anyone attempts to tamper with the justice system, they will be caught and held accountable.”
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Jennifer Jeffrey and Kester "Tony" Browne III

These murders happen during the huge spike murders in Baltimore right after the Freddy Gray protests in May 2015, when murders doubled, even tripled, from the norm (which were already pretty damn high). I suprised they closed this case with all that has been going on, but it is the feds doing it, not BPD. I can't seem to find a pic of the suspect at this time.
 
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I haven't seen BLM anywhere. Guess this little one's life didn't mean much. It can't further their agenda.
Thank goodness...I thought for a minute we were going to mourn the senseless death of yet another child without someone commenting on BLM.
Do you comment about the All Lives Matter yahoos every time a white child is murdered?
 
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Yes, of course I agree. BLM leadership has made no effort to hide the fact that they have a Marxist agenda which is not really going to benefit anyone in the end. If it was really about promoting causes actually related to benefiting and providing institutional civil rights protections for people of color, I would be supporting it, but that will not be the case because the actual goal is Marxism; changing the very fabric of our democracy so it won't be democracy in the future.

Marxism-Leninism has been widely criticized, including by other communists and by democratic socialists. Many Marxist-Leninist states have been marked by totalitarianism, mass repressions and killings of political dissidents and social classes (so-called "enemies of the people"), religious persecution, ethnic cleansing, forced collectivization and use of forced labor and concentration camps.

We know how it works out, because we can look at history.
 
What makes you think it's not the case anymore? What do you feel it has morphed into?

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Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.
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“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk,” Cullors added in the interview with Jared Ball of The Real News Network.

While promoting her book “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” in 2018, Cullors described her introduction to and support for Marxist ideology.

She described to Democracy Now! how she became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, which she called her “first political home” under the mentorship of Mann, its director, Breitbart reported.

The center, which describes its philosophy as “an urban experiment,” uses grassroots organization to “focus on Black and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the US empire,” according to the outlet.

It also expresses its appreciation for the work of the US Communist Party, “especially Black communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” Breitbart reported.

So, BLM may have started out with good intentions, but it's been taken over by Marxists.
 
I don't believe they're Marxist. I'm aware of the comment from the 2015 interview. I think it was a poor/dumb choice of words, honestly. It doesnt go along with everything else that was said along with it and everything else that's been said 10x over in regards to what they're fighting for which is racial equality and for black lives to matter (too). They dont wanna destroy America; they want to change the societal and political dynamic that has terrorized, dismissed, and destroyed black lives. I also feel that movements grow and evolve and that comment doesnt represent or speak for the BLM movement and those that stand behind it or its goal of equality. I get how the comment was off putting but I forgive it. It seems to more of a slanderous distraction to me.
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That comment was made when blm was first formed so i dont see it as what its become. If it ever were the case then (I dont think so truly), it isnt now if anything.
 
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@rottenBANANAReRe as a Native American I understand mistreatment and abuse. I agree with @Satanica. I also see it being used as a get free card because people and government agencies do not want to be seen as racist, do not want to be boycotted or looted. A movement does not require intimidation, demands or violence. I agree there needs to be changes but this movement has snowballed into a detrimental and negative movement for our country. I read more and more about leaders of local BLM sections that are being exposed for using donations for personal resources. Reverse descrinimination and appointmenting unqualified individuals to positions because of minority reverts to affirmative action which failed miserably. As a certain percentage of my heritage I am entitled to a number of free things in life like college. I do not choose to use those 'perks'. I want to be known and accepted for my merit and personal accomplishments. I am sure we are going to disagree and that's fine.. I just have a different opinion and that's completely acceptable.
 
@rottenBANANAReRe as a Native American I understand mistreatment and abuse. I agree with @Satanica. I also see it being used as a get free card because people and government agencies do not want to be seen as racist, do not want to be boycotted or looted. A movement does not require intimidation, demands or violence. I agree there needs to be changes but this movement has snowballed into a detrimental and negative movement for our country. I read more and more about leaders of local BLM sections that are being exposed for using donations for personal resources. Reverse descrinimination and appointmenting unqualified individuals to positions because of minority reverts to affirmative action which failed miserably. As a certain percentage of my heritage I am entitled to a number of free things in life like college. I do not choose to use those 'perks'. I want to be known and accepted for my merit and personal accomplishments. I am sure we are going to disagree and that's fine.. I just have a different opinion and that's completely acceptable.
I hear ya, and I don't agree with what some representatives of BLM has done or said myself. Those bad apples, to me, and it tells me that there needs to be improvements in organizing, public speaking, staying grounded, leadership management, handling, etc. I see comments on here daily about how people should be hung by their balls, gutted, set on fire, and dragged by horse for the harm theyve done to others with consistent agreement so I cannot say what should and shouldnt be done about the law murdering peoples children, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. I dont like violence much but I think all avenues are being exercised and have been for a longer time than should be required. BLM still needs support. Thats just how I feel and I wish the slander and distractions were not as effective as they are just as much as I wish there was no fuel for them. Respect.
 
BLM is the New Al Sharpton shaking corporations down for money.

When people speak you should listen to them- BLM wants to destroy the already fractured Black family they have said it just because they remove it from their manifesto does not mean they do not still believe it.

The honest truth is the biggest threat to Black people will always be other Black people.

A Black man's death by police justified or unjustified does not mean you get free sneakers, weave, alcohol or other luxury items.
 
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According to an in depth analysis by Accuracy in Media, Garza, Cullors and Tometi all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).

Nelini Stamp's ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names—works with all four organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and others. FRSO is a hereditary descendant of the New Communist Movement, which was inspired by Mao and the many communist revolutions throughout the world in the 1960s and 1970s.

FRSO split into two separate groups in 1999, FRSO/Fight Back and FRSO/OSCL (Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organizacion Socialista del Camino para la Libertad). Black Lives Matter and its founders are allied with the latter group. Future references to FRSO in this article refer to FRSO/OSCL.

AIM also analyzed the funding resources for the radical groups and shows the same big donors to the foundations. These groups like Freedom Road are committed to breeding racial strife rather than solving racism.

As rioters continue to terrorize major cities across the US, mainstream media is not discussing the true motivations of BLM. Politicians who are supporting the BLM movement fail to realize they are supporting the very groups who seek to overthrow them.
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We didn’t find that Garza and Tometi have referred to themselves as Marxists. But the book publisher Penguin Random House has said Garza, an author, “describes herself as a queer social justice activist and Marxist.”
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The project started with a mission “to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes,” the group’s website says. “In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic and political power to thrive.”

Included on its list of beliefs is one that has drawn criticism as being consistent with Marxism:

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

A spokesperson for Black Lives Matter; Kailee Scales, managing director at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation; and the three co-founders did not reply to our requests for information.

“On one level, these are just put-downs,” University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Richard Woolf, author of Understanding Marxism, told PolitiFact about the attacks on Black Lives Matter.

If people declare themselves Marxists, they are in effect Marxists, but “there really is no standard” of what Marxism is, “there’s no way to verify anything.”
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Noting Cullors’ declaration of being Marxist trained, “one has to take that seriously: if the leadership says it is Marxist, then there’s a good chance they are,” said Russell Berman, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its conservative Hoover Institution who has written critically about Marxism.

But “this does not mean every supporter is Marxist — Marxists often have used ‘useful idiots.’ And a Marxist movement can be more or less radical, at different points in time,” he said.

Black Lives Matter’s “emphatic support for gender identity politics sets it apart from historical Marxism,” and the goals listed on its website “do not appear to be expressly anti-capitalist, which would arguably be a Marxist identifier,” Berman added.

The group’s support is broad.

Even as some Americans express support for socialism, most view it negatively, and few of the supporters would identify themselves as Marxist.
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“I am fairly convinced these are mostly attempts to smear anti-racist activists. I think in some media, ‘Marxist’ is dog-whistle for something horrible, like ‘Nazi’, and thus enables to delegitimize/dehumanize them,” Miriyam Aouragh, a lecturer at the London-based Westminster School of Media and Communication, told PolitiFact.
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Black Lives Matter “is not an organization, but a fluid movement; it doesn’t actually matter if one of its founders was a liberal, Marxist, socialist or capitalist.”

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I'm totally white but I've never been a racist. No one is born racist; that is inculcated during domestication programming. My parents sent me to church, so I was inoculated again racism at 4 yrs old by the little children's song that goes "Jesus loves all the children. Red, yellow, black, or white all are precious in his sight." (I don't know why "brown" was left out or maybe that's my own Mandela effect.)
 
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What makes you think it's not the case anymore? What do you feel it has morphed into?
Since the BLM corporation sends donations to politicians instead of needy communities, hardly anyone thinks they actually accomplish anything. And BLM as a mere statement of principle is becoming a useless slogan because it can't be separated from the fraudulent organization.
If you have to constantly explain that they aren't the same thing, you've already lost the battle.
 
@santanica which of those articles are you agreeing with? If it needs to be said I dont believe being white means youre racist and that people are born racist and its not a general belief of others.
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@Muriel Schwenck I respectfully disagree. I also think the fraudulent can be removed from the organization. I find it frustrating sometimes "explaining" anything about BLM because I feel like it can become never ending with some people and they'll always look for a counter point to throw back like we're battling for some reason instead of sharing views to the point that the issues being protested starts to feel worse than I thought, you know what I mean? Like I said before I don't see it as perfect, but I think it can still accomplish some good things, especially with growth, and im not ready to denounce it. What would be a way the donation money could be used to help needy communities? what do you feel is the way to go about doing that? Not being a smart ass I just never personally asked someone how they'd use donation money to help a needy community, but have thought about it and asked myself many times.
 
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@Sugar Cookie the black community definitely has so many issues and can be so hard on eachother. I've cried many times watching my family and friends and neighbors having such lack of support and empathy for each other sometimes in so many different ways. I guess my outlook on it becomes less harsh because I feel its so deep rooted and my heart gets involved. Some of your comment is insulting to me and that shit feels disheartening but ill shake it off. I think you should also listen when people speak and hear with your heart as well as your ears. Respect.
 
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You do not know me to judge how I listen to anything, Just like I won't judge you for coddling and making accuses for conduct that is appalling and should not be condoned for anyone.

I give no fucks about what a Black (or any race) child abuser, rapist, or murderer has to say. Yes I will be hard on them - they have enough people like you willing to destroy your children by opening your homes to them.

People featured on this site are ridiculed all the time and if I don't have a problem with that I am not going to be a hypocrite and get in my feelings when it is a Black person being made fun of.
 
What would be a way the donation money could be used to help needy communities? what do you feel is the way to go about doing that? Not being a smart ass I just never personally asked someone how they'd use donation money to help a needy community, but have thought about it and asked myself many times.
Seriously? I'm white so I'm automatically a racist, but here's a start.
It is our duty to ask an organization how they use our donation money to do good in the community and not enrich themselves or their cronies. Since BLM is a registered corporation, not a non-profit, they've set themselves up so they don't have to answer those questions. So I can't see how they are benefiting any community.
Can you help me out? What does the BLM organization actually do with donations? What on the street benefits are there for black people? Free legal help for all the black people abused by police? Free tutoring for students? Grants for charter schools or health clinics? Co-op markets in the ghetto food desert? Safe houses for abused trans BIPOC? 0% interest loans to black business people whose property was damaged in riots? You know... practical help?
 
LMFAO... @rottenBANANAReRe .. @Sugar Cookie is black .. SURPRISE .. wrong battle to pick LMFAO
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“Right now, our programs are focused on civic engagement, expansion of chapters, Arts & Culture, organizing and digital advocacy resources and tools,” Scales explained during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session last week.
The organization aims to step up its education platform in the year ahead, developing a curriculum around its contributions to media and a political education program. It also plans to devote more resources to its Arts + Culture program.
In the upcoming year, we will provide resources to those new to the movement and interested in Black Liberation strategies by developing curriculum. In this stunning moment in American history, we will honor those lost, and those who have come before us in the fight for Black Liberation,” co-founder and chair Patrisse Cullors said in a statement.
Although Black Lives Matter does not fund Democratic candidates, it has launched a #WhatMatter2020 campaign aimed at increasing the voice of black voters that could potentially benefit Democrats. The campaign’s priorities include racial injustice, economic injustice, LGBTQ rights, voter suppression, and “common-sense gun laws”—all items high on the Democratic Party’s agenda.
According to information provided to FactCheck.org by Thousand Currents, about one-quarter of Black Lives Matter expenditures in fiscal year 2019 went to salaries, benefits, and payroll taxes and 46% went to “consultant fees,” but the audit provides no further details. A small fraction was spent on grants, and much of the rest was allocated to accounting, bank fees, information technology, insurance, legal fees, and office expenses.
If I were black I would be outraged. Changing culture starts within.. I honestly fail to see how BLM is supporting average citizens to improve their lives to fight the racist stereotypes. I agree civil rights need to be improved but damn how about building communities up in the process. I fail to see how Arts and Culture, a curriculum on fallen humans blah blah blah. How about dump tons of money into inner cities and education! Create jobs! Provide schooling and trade school opportunities. I know I am racist.. so be it.


 
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