Federal Judge Orders New Trial for Ex-MPD Officers Convicted in Tyre Nichols Case

Just like every major city in the United States of America, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has had its share of corruption. going back to the days of the notorious Boss Crump.

Within my lifetime, Memphians have borne witness to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the infamous Ford family of municipal and state politicians whose  corruption carries on to this day.

I’m pretty sure that’s why Harold Ford Jr. got the heck out of Dodge and moved up to the Northeast.

In September 2018, Chamber of Commerce President Phil Trenary was on South Front Street near G.E. Patterson, coming home from running in a race held in Downtown Memphis when someone in a white truck drove up and shot him. The suspects then took off.

He had previously been CEO of Pinnacle Airlines and was a tireless advocate for Memphis.

Two men were later arrested and tried on lesser charges than murder, and given 25 and 35 years respectively, with time served, which knocked off 5 years.

Their story was that they were looking for somebody to rob. In the trial, the Defense argued that one of the men was mentally impaired because of alcohol and cocaine in his mother’s bloodstream.

The question remains to this day: What are the odds that they would choose the President and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce?

What started me thinking about the subject of corruption was the news that came out late this week concerning the former Memphis Police Officers found guilty of the murder of Tyree Nichols.

Per WashingtonExaminer.com,

“A federal judge on Thursday granted three former Memphis Police Department officers  convicted for their roles in the death of Tyre Nichols a new trial due to concerns about judicial bias.

Nichols’s death while in MPD custody in Tennessee sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform in 2023 due to accusations that he was unfairly targeted and treated by law enforcement during a traffic stop.

The case took a new turn this week when Chief United States District Judge Sheryl Lipman granted Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith a new trial because of concerns that Judge Mark Norris, who oversaw the previous trial in which the three men were convicted last October, was biased against the officers and the MPD.

Norris recused himself from the case days before the officers’ sentencing, leading Lipman to take over proceedings in June.

Lipman said she believed Norris made rulings that were “sound, fair, and grounded firmly in the law.” However, “the appearance of judicial bias against the MPD created “an unconstitutional probability of bias” requiring a new trial, she wrote.

“Justice must not only be done but must manifestly be seen to be done,” she said in the ruling, arguing that the perception of bias could undermine public confidence in the verdict.

The concerns about the appearance of bias against the MPD stem from an incident involving one of Norris’s law clerks who had assisted the judge during the Nichols trial.

After the clerk was attacked in a separate shooting, Norris met with federal prosecutors and an FBI special agent about the incident, and alleged during that encounter that “at least one” of the MPD officers charged in the Nichols case was also involved in targeting his clerk.

During the May 2025 meeting, the judge also said that the MPD was “infiltrated to the top with gang members,” an assistant U.S. attorney present at the meeting said, according to court documents.”

Mark Norris is known as a very honest man and a very fair and smart judge.

Sheryl Lipman is a Chief US District Judge appointed by former President Barack Hussein Obama.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If gangs have indeed infiltrated the Memphis Police Department from top to bottom and if the shooting of Judge Norris’s Clerk was done to intimidate the judge to drop the case or to recuse himself as he did, then this case screams for the FBI to look into it.

Given the crime rate in the outrageous number of homicides, carjacking, assaults, and robberies in Memphis, which are now moving like a crippling fog spreading to the suburbs including those across Mississippi State Line, I believe that Memphis needs a Clean Sweep Operation such as was just ordered by President Trump and carried out by the National Guard.

Just like other Democrat-run cities, the Memphis mayor and his administration have gotten in front of the cameras and said they would not cooperate with such an operation.

Perhaps, it’s not just the Memphis Police Department that the gangs have possibly infiltrated.

Just like every law-abiding average American, Memphians deserve to be able to enjoy the city that their tax money pays for without fear.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Thoughts For a Palm Sunday: What Would Jesus See If He Rode Into Washington?

As I sit here on Palm Sunday morning, I was wondering what Jesus would see if he came into Washington, DC riding on a donkey.

I believe that Christ would see a country divided thanks to the views of two political parties.

What I mean by that is he would see one political party who is trying to bting our country back from a spiraling collapse by trying to reemphasize America’s place as a world leader while strengthening our country domestically and attempting to bring back the traditional American faith and values which made our country strong to begin with.

The other political party and their followers are advocating a cradle-to-grave totalitarian government in which 50% or more of taxpayers’ income would be relegated for use by the state to appease those they deem worthy of Americans’ money.

On this side, he would see a political party trying to rewrite the Bible as a book advocating sin, “non-traditional families”, and “fighting fascism”, while the advocates of this political ideology don’t have a clue as to what fascism is

People have taken the word of God and thrown away salvation through repentance by proclaiming that Jesus would accept people’s sin.

Yes, He loves us all, but he hates sin.

And that’s enough of my preaching for today.

The government viewpoint, which those out of power at this moment, are espousing can be seen in their fight against the elimination of financial corruption in our government.

You can also see what they really believe in their fight against Israel and their support of those who would destroy her and her people ,

The Israelis are proclaimed by God to be his people in Genesis 12: 1-3.

The bottom line is, unless this country can find its way back to embracing what is right and stop embracing what isn’t, this country could very well eventually be assigned to the Dustbin of History.

As a brother-in-Christ always tells me, it’s not politicians who are going to save this country.

It’s God.

Hosanna!

Until He Comes,,,Again,

KJ

DC Pakistani Uber Eats Driver Killed by 2 Teenage Girls During Carjacking Attempt, Tone-Deaf DC Mayor Posts “Preventing Auto Thefts” Tweet

FoxNews.com reports that

Just days after two teenage girls in Washington, D.C., were charged with a botched carjacking that led to the brutal death of an Uber Eats delivery driver, D.C. police arrested two more teens in another armed carjacking.

The two boys, ages 13 and 14, and both from Southeast D.C., were arrested Thursday evening and charged with armed carjacking, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department said.

The carjacking occurred Thursday around 8:50 p.m. in the 100 Block of 42nd Street, Northeast, police said.

The victim was in the driver’s seat of their vehicle when two suspects approached. One suspect opened the vehicle door and assaulted the victim, police said. The victim got out and the second suspect also started to assault the victim.

One of the suspects produced a knife and they both got into the victim’s vehicle and fled the scene. Responding officers located the vehicle and arrested the two suspects. Police said there were additional suspects who fled the scene on foot.

MPD told Fox News that the vehicle was returned and towed by the owner. No additional arrests were made and the case is still under investigation.

The boys’ arrest comes after horrifying video has emerged of the deadly botched carjacking by two teenage girls that also took place in D.C. last Monday. The footage is so graphic that Fox News has decided not to share it.

The video, taken by a witness, shows the moment after two teen girls had entered the car of Mohammad Anwar, a 66-year-old Uber Eats delivery driver, with a Taser.

“This is my car!” Anwar can be heard shouting.

Other witnesses on the street can be heard calling for the cops. The car then drives forward, with Anwar halfway out of the car, pinned between the driver’s seat and door.

“She’s stealing the car!” witnesses can be heard shouting off-camera.

The car drives to an intersection, where it makes a sharp turn and crashes between two parked cars. Anwar was lunged forward and could be seen laying lifelessly on the pavement.

Two National Guard members who happened to be at the scene pulled the girls out of the car. One of the girls can be heard trying to get her phone as she walks past what appears to be Anwar’s lifeless body on the pavement without looking at him.

The two teens are each charged with felony murder and armed carjacking and are being held in custody pending their next court date on March 31.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser drew heat on Sunday for retweeting a video on “preventing auto thefts” amid her silence on the death of Anwar.

“Auto theft is a crime of opportunity. Follow these steps to reduce the risk of your vehicle becoming a target. Remember the motto, #ProtectYourAuto,” Bowser wrote in the caption, provoking an instantaneous backlash.

By Sunday afternoon her tweet appeared to have been deleted.

Carjackings have been increasing significantly over the last few years. Statistics provided to Fox News show there were 95 carjackings between Jan. 1, 2021, and March 23, 2021 – up from 21 in total from the same time period in 2020. Last year saw a 143% increase in carjackings from 2019, according to the statistics.

Do you want to know what struck me about these carjackings?

First, the age of those boys.

I have a 13-year old grandson.

 in fact, he was over at our house yesterday visiting his Samsung Tablet (as l like to tell him).

That boy would no sooner think about committing a crime than getting up early on the weekend.

So, what its the difference between my grandson and those those two boys?

Not the color of his skin.

That’s no excuse.

Rather, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would say, it is about “the content of his character”.

And, where does a young person’s character come from?

As we put it in the South, it comes from their “raising” or lack thereof.

Back  in the 60s, President Lyndon Johnson (whose big hand I once shook, at his ranch, as a little boy, after his presidential term) and the Democrats, brought forth a plan, called “the Great Society”. It was decided, in order to ensure that everyone would have an equal opportunity in America, that Uncle Sugar would step in to fill in the gaps.

Two seminal pieces of legislation were passed.

First, the Civil Rights Bill that JFK promised to sign, before his assassination, was passed into law. This Act banned discrimination based on race and gender in employment and ending segregation in all public facilities.

It also helped to cement in stone, minorities’ loyalty to the Democratic Party, which continues to this day.

The second bill that LBJ signed into law was the sweeping ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964. It created the Office of Economic Opportunity whose stated purpose was to attack the roots of American poverty. A Job Corps was then established to provide vocational training.

A preschool program designed to help disadvantaged students arrive at kindergarten ready to learn, named HEADSTART, was then established. Then came VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO AMERICA (VISTA), which was set up as a domestic Peace Corps. Schools in impoverished American regions would now receive volunteer teaching attention. Federal funds were sent to struggling communities to attack unemployment and illiteracy.

What Johnson told Americans, as he campaigned in 1964, was that the establishment of this “Great Society” was going to eliminate the problems of America’s poor.

It had the opposite effect

The Great Society created a dependent class, which, instead of diminishing as it’s members joined the workforce, increased from generation to generation, relying on the federal government to provide their every need.

Uncle Sugar became Mother, Father, Preacher, and Doctor to generations of Americans. This “Plantation Mentality” continues to this day, encouraged by those who make their living off of the misfortunes of others…Democratic Politicians and the Owners and Operators of Numerous Shady Politically Motivated “Non-Profit” Organizations.

I know. I spent from January 2011 – June 2012 working in our county’s WIN Job Center.

While at this Employment Office, I was able to observe folks down on their luck, struggling to find work and survive in this economy.

I also saw American families whose existence living on the Government Dole had become generational.

It is these people whom the Democrats continue to hypnotize into believing that Uncle Sugar loves them, and is their only solution to surviving a stifling existence.

They are so, so wrong.

The strength and vitality of America does not come from the benevolence of a Nanny-state Federal Government.

As the greatest American President of our lifetime, Ronald Reagan said:

The nine words you never want to hear are:  I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.

Being enslaved to the Government Dole steals one’s ambition.  It takes away any impetus or desire to create a better life for yourself and your family, to challenge yourself to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and pursue the American Dream.  It makes you reliant on a politically motivated spider’s web full of government bureaucrats who view you and your family as job security.

I watched American citizens trapped in this web of government bureaucracy,  so numbed of any initiative that they once ha, that they seemed offended that they actually had to prove that they inquired about three jobs that week in order to keep their “benefits”.  Others seemed puzzled that they had to search through the state data base and pick out a job that they wanted to talk to an interviewer about receiving a referral to, and weren’t just simply handed a job when they walked through the door.

Additionally, now there is a preponderance of Americans of child-bearing age who don’t have enough self-control, self-esteem, and moral turpitude to actually get married before they bring an innocent life into this world?

I’m not a bit surprised.

Welcome to the Democrats’ “Great Society”.

Where even the Black Mayor of Washington, D.C. accepts the lawless actions of Black youth as “just a part of life”

Perhaps the Democrat Elite did not build a wall around the Capitol to keep “White Supremacists” out as much as they did the violent culture which they themselves have created.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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