From: "When is enough, enough?" Subject: Liar, thief and hypocrit Moonbeam Brown removes 'lynching' language from state law Message-ID: <0384d25dea2cbe036b588b8142e0e4fd@dizum.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:29:44 +0200 (CEST) Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki, alt.fuckhead.spammer, co.consumers, alt.abortion, alt.connecticut Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 194.109.206.211 Xref: csiph.com alt.healing.reiki:2243 alt.fuckhead.spammer:7 co.consumers:21 alt.abortion:367631 California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a bill striking the word "lynching" from a 1933 law that used the term to describe the crime of trying to take someone from police custody. The bill, which passed unanimously in the state legislature last week, followed outrage over the arrest of African-American activist Maile Hampton on a charge of felony lynching during a "Black Lives Matter" demonstration in Sacramento in January. The bill keeps the same punishment for the crime while only removing the term "lynching." It was one of several bills Brown signed on Thursday, his office said. Hampton's attorney, lawmakers and other supporters rallied behind her at court and on social media, saying it was ironic that she had been charged under a decades-old law originally enacted to protect black detainees from white lynch mobs. Her supporters also called for the removal of the word lynching from the penal code, saying its application was not appropriate. Thousands of African-Americans were victims of lynchings, or extrajudicial public execution by hanging, in Southern states in the 19th and 20th centuries. "It's been said that strong words should be reserved for strong concepts," Senator Holly Mitchell, a Democrat who authored the bill and represents a district including historically African- American communities in Los Angeles, said in a statement. "And 'lynching' has such a painful history for African Americans that the law should only use it for what it is – murder by mob," she added. Hampton was detained for allegedly trying to pull a friend from police custody during a January protest over the killings of unarmed black men by police, the Sacramento Bee reported. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert has since reduced Hampton's charges to resisting arrest, a misdemeanor. Trying to remove someone from police custody by means of a riot is a felony punishable by between two and four years behind bars. (Reporting by Curtis Skinner; Additional reporting by Emmett Berg; Editing by Mohammad Zargham) http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/03/us-usa-california- lynching-idUSKCN0PD01X20150703 A court ruled late Friday that California is obligated to return $331 million that it took from a fund designated to help troubled borrowers but instead used to plug holes in the state’s budget. The ruling, by a state court judge in Sacramento, came in response to a lawsuit filed last year against Gov. Jerry Brown by three nonprofit groups offering counseling to homeowners. They contended that Mr. Brown improperly diverted some of the money California received in 2012 as part of a $25 billion nationwide settlement with the country’s largest banks over mortgage servicing improprieties. The plaintiffs argued that $350 million of California’s share of the settlement was wrongly removed from a special fund dedicated to helping troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure through counseling and other educational services. California Sued Over Diversion of Money From National Mortgage SettlementMARCH 14, 2014 Judge Timothy M. Frawley agreed with the plaintiffs that $331 million of that was misused. In his ruling, he enjoined the state to return that amount to the special homeowner fund “as soon as there is sufficient appropriation ‘reasonably’ and ‘generally’ available for such purpose.” H. D. Palmer, a spokesman for the California Department of Finance, said that the state was reviewing the ruling and had not yet decided on its next step. When the mortgage settlement was completed, Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, was a lead negotiator, pushing hard for borrower assistance programs to be covered under its terms. But California faced financial difficulties at the time, and state finance officials used the settlement funds for other purposes from 2012 to 2014, such as retiring debt issued by low- income-housing authorities. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/business/california-has-to- repay-331-million-to-homeowners-fund-court-rules.html