Two White Men Arrested After Viral Vids Capture Terrifying Attack on Black Teen.

Two white men were arrested in Florida this week and accused of racial profiling after allegedly hurling a massive stone at a Black teen who was driving in the same town where Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012.

“I was racially profiled while driving through my friends neighborhood,” the victim, who identified himself as JJ, wrote on his Instagram Wednesday. “They didn’t like the way I was driving, so they felt the need to hit my car with a cone, and throw a rock through my window. All I wanted to do was de-escalate until police came, because I wasn’t about to get charges pressed on me for no reason.”

According to Seminole County records, Donald Eugene Corsi, 52, and Howard Oral Hughes, 61, were arrested Wednesday. They were first identified by social media sleuth @ThatDaneshGuy. Corsi faces felony charges for damage to property and launching a weapon into a vehicle. Hughes has been charged with felony property damage and a misdemeanor for battery. Both men have since been released from the Seminole jail on bond.

In a video initially posted on Facebook Tuesday, a man who identified himself as JJ’s father, CJ Jones, said, “This is the video my son took while calling 911. …And as you can see they [admit] to having guns.”

In the video, one man in a blue shirt stands with his hands on his hips, watching the person holding the camera, presumed to be JJ. Another man in sunglasses walks around a white Mercedes sedan with his phone pointed toward the license plate

“Right here! Tell me what you’ve done!” the man in sunglasses shouts.

The camera pans to the car, which has a broken window in the seat behind the driver.

“Burning out and racing through my fucking neighborhood!” the man in sunglasses yells in JJ’s face. The man in the blue shirt joins him in front of the camera.

“I’m not in your face,” the man in the blue shirt says after JJ tells him to move. “Get out of my neighborhood, you fuckwad!”

JJ asks the men if they have a gun, and one of them says he has a permit to carry.

After the two men trail JJ on the residential street, other people in the neighborhood come out to inspect what’s going on.

A woman in the street with a striped towel wrapped around her waist and a cross hanging from her neck accuses JJ of possessing a gun.

“Get out of this neighborhood!” she shouts. “You don’t belong here!”

JJ walks back to his car and films glass shards all over the backseat and a dent on the car door.

In a follow-up Facebook Live video Jones posted Tuesday, he mentioned that the incident happened in the Forest Lake neighborhood of Sanford.

“Not too far where Trayvon Martin got killed,” he wrote.

The video shows police arriving on the scene as residents stood outside their homes. Jones said that he wanted to go live “just so we have evidence, in case something happens to me out here today.”

He then turned the camera toward the house where his son was supposed to visit a friend.

“Even when I was coming into this neighborhood, I had a couple yell at me,” Jones says. “Black people cannot stay around here.”

The Daily Beast was unable to reach Corsi and Hughes on Thursday.

Originally reported by Brooke Leigh Howard

Thu, June 16, 2022, 12:59 PM

Enough is enough... again!

MIAMI-DADE, FL - One of the most, or maybe THE most, cherished treasure a human being can have, is their offspring. It is a well-known fact that in the animal kingdom, when a mother of virtually any species, feels her offspring is being threatened in any way, “momma” gets really upset and she becomes very dangerous. In a very similar way, human mothers are the same.

We as “rational” beings can accept the fact that even fathers (males) get sometimes violent when his descendants are somehow threatened  in any way. Said this, it’s important to point out that our children, in general, are the most precious thing we have; not only that, they are, literally, the future of society and therefore the future of the world itself. That’s why any incident when children are hurt is so disturbing to all of us or at least the ones with a spine.

This time, it was one school shooting, unfortunately one more (so far in the year 2022 there have been 21 school shootings in the US) Uvalde, Texas was the unfortunate scenario of the latest one, where 19 of our precious descendants die in a very violent and unnecessary death.

Now, is it appropriate to start the conversation, again, of gun control? or are we going to fly with the right-wing narrative of “it’s not about guns, it’s about mental health”? It’s obvious that in order to go outside with the intention of killing a lot of innocent people, you have to be somehow mentally unstable, but take that as an excuse to not talk about gun regulations when in fact, a 2018 report of the FBI on the characteristics of active shooters found that only 25% of shooters from 2000-2013 had confirmed mental illness, is unacceptable.

At this point, let’s say the same old quote that has been repeated over and over again for quite a while now: enough is enough!

It’s clear to all of us that the NRA and the rest of the weaponry industry have been buying consciousness of politicians through lobbies forever, they fund and flood their campaigns with millions of dollars and therefore they don’t even care to consider legislate against them; which is not true, by the way, another talking-point from the right. Nobody wants to “get rid of your arms”, they want to regulate their acquisition, that’s it, make it a little harder so we won’t see another derailed teenager easily and legally buying two AR-15's or any other assault weapon or semi-automatic machine gun the moment he turns 18 in order to kill us all or our children.

Is it that hard to understand? Really that hard? Or, as many of us suspect, is it a matter of money? Unfortunately paid with the blood of our children, families or our own.

Written by Ricardo Martinez

In Wake of Massacres, the Supreme Court Is Poised to Expand Gun Rights

WASHINGTON — In the coming weeks, with the nation reeling from mass shootings in New York and Texas, the Supreme Court is set to issue a major decision on what states may do to limit carrying guns in public. Based on the justices’ questions when the case was argued in November, they are likely to strike down a New York law that requires people seeking a license to carry a handgun in public to show a “proper cause.”

The decision will be the court’s first significant statement on the scope of Second Amendment rights outside the home. In 2008, in ruling that the amendment protects an individual right untied to militia service, the court said only that law-abiding citizens have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense.

The new case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, is a test of constitutionality laws requiring licenses for carrying guns in public. California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island have laws similar to the one in New York.

At the argument, several justices said the New York law imposes an intolerable burden on the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

“You don’t have to say, when you’re looking for a permit to speak on a street corner or whatever, that, you know, your speech is particularly important,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “So why do you have to show in this case, convince somebody, that you’re entitled to exercise your Second Amendment right?”

But several justices seemed open to allowing the state to exclude guns from crowded public settings or other sensitive places.

Indeed, the 2008 decision, District of Columbia v. Heller, indicated that the court would be prepared to sustain at least some gun control laws, including ones banning guns in schools.

“Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms,” Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, wrote for the majority.

Reported by: Adam Liptak on Wed, May 25, 2022,

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The tragedy of being sick is not even the sickness

MIAMI-DADE, FL - When a family member or a dear friend gets sick is not an experience recommended for anybody. When that time arrives, it’s time to run, getting fewer hours of sleep, more stress than usual and of course, the money issue, which curiously is the source of many, if not all, the aforementioned consequences of having our loved one sick. Now comes the trip to the hospital and then the real stress kicks in, not necessarily at the beginning of the hospital journey but rather close to the discharge process. Why? You may ask, well, unfortunately in our country we don’t have what other developed countries have: “Free & Universal Health Care System” or translated for us who don’t speak “medicine”: Free Health Care for everybody. (Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, among many other developed and some underdeveloped countries, have Universal Health Care). Not only that, the cost of the health treatment of any kind in the United Sates is ridiculously high, not affordable for the majority of people and the network of businesses around that health system have flourished exponentially, precisely because of that fertile ground for money, money and more money. The fact that an insurance company is the one with the final answer in a situation where your health is in jeopardy and you don’t have the financial resources to take care of the most precious gift we all have, which is our health or our family’s, is disheartening given that we all know for a fact what is the most important factor in the decision, and that is money and its ramifications. Having the consciousness that a bunch of executives from a private company are the ones deciding the future of our health is terrifying; the ones responsible for my health or literally my death, in any case my well-being is at risk because of the policies of a private company. I don’t even want to visit the fact that they’ve been advised by a medical advisory board, who responds to the money interest of their bosses. Do you see the problem here?

This is common practice in the insurance realm.

10 Bad Faith Insurance Claim Practices:

1. Unjustified delay of settlement. Insurance companies may delay your claim for no valid reason. They do this in hopes that if they take too long, you will just forget about it.

2. Lack of communication. In some cases, the insurance company may not notify you of its decision in a timely manner or may fail to respond to correspondence.

3. Lack of proper investigative techniques. When investigating your claim, the insurance company may use illegal or unethical methods to obtain information regarding your claim. In some cases, the company may refuse to investigate your claim at all and simply deny it.

4. Unreasonable demands. In order to delay the process or find a way to deny the claim, the company may ask for an unreasonable amount of documents in order to start the process. It may ask for items unrelated to the case and deny your claim if you cannot provide them.

5. Lowball offers. In this case, the insurance company may offer an unreasonably low settlement. Do not accept any offer before consulting your attorney.

6. Use of threats. The company may threaten the victim by ordering him or her to do something or to not do something or else the company will refuse to pay the claim.

7. Changing the policy. A company may change the terms of the policy after a claim is filed, and use its new terms to deny the claim.

8. Cancelling the policy. The company may cancel the policy after a person makes a claim.

9. Not disclosing the policy limits. If the adjusters will not reveal aspects of the policy, you may be dealing with a bad faith insurance claim practice.

10. Conflict of interest. An insurance adjuster may attempt to handle your claim and the claim of the other party.

One thing of paramount importance to consider in this complex and entangled situation is empathy. How much empathy those executives have for us? Do they have the same conditions if they need some health care for them or their family than any regular person that their company insured? Or do they have special treatment and therefore they simply don’t care? Those are very interesting question that not only need to be answered in an honest way, but those answers should indicate many things, one of them would be: are the insurance companies treating the insured properly, compassionately, empathetically? If there’s a no in one of those answers, which I’m pretty sure is the case, it has to be changed, the system is flawed and even though it sounds like a typical cliché, we as a developed country can’t continue giving such a deficient though expensive health care, to a community with no resources not only to afford financially but to fight back for their rights. It’s not fair, it has to be changed and it has to be now, too many lives in danger, too many families in distress, too many human beings in suffering, because a bunch of executives think about their income and their company’s more than the happiness of the same people paying their premiums. The irony!

Written by Ricardo Martinez