of course the fucking Rockefellers come up.

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Rumors Growing on Gang Involvement of Former Memphis Officers Charged in Tyre Nichols’ Death

February 4, 2023 M.D. Kittle

“There have always been rumors about that, but they’ve never been substantiated that I know of,” the official with knowledge of the Shelby County criminal justice system told The Star. “The joke in Memphis criminal justice has long been the jailers are one step ahead of being in jail themselves.”

Multiple unconfirmed reports suggest at least one of the five former Memphis Police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nicholswas involved in the notorious Vice Lords street gang.

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With the help of a Peace Corps operative and the Rockefeller Foundation, Chicago's Vice Lords created an empire which exists to this day.The gang was even the subject of a feature length documentary ("Lord Thing"), which defended the controversial support they had received. As the narrative went, the Lords were a necessary evil that helped keep the community in line during the turmoil of the 1960s. In reality, they had been part of a wider shift in the power structures of urban America, in which the existing city machines, such as that of Chicago's Richard Daley, were reformed along the lines of the elitist reformers at the Rockefeller Foundation.

At some point in the 1960s, the Lords took over what would become their part of the city, the West Side, building up a base for their apparent shift into political activism. Rebranding themselves the Conservative Vice Lord Nation, they formed an alliance with the Blackstone Rangers, who were themselves going through a similar process of becoming the Almighty Black P. Stones. Whereas the Vice Lords had their relationship to the Rockefellers, theStones got their funding direct from the federal government,through the Office of Economic Opportunity. Established as the key agency of the Johnson administration's War on Poverty, the OEO would play a key role in the transformation of America, through its support for Black nationalists such as Stone leader Jeff Fort. In their case, around a million dollars was allocated for a job training programme byThe Woodlawn Organization,a collaboration between Saul Alinsky and local religious leaders, which hired members of the Stones as staff.

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Together, the Lords and Stones joined together with a third outfit, the Gangster Disciples, forming the LSD supergang. Working with local activistssuch as Jesse Jackson, they picketed construction sites, attacking both employers and organisd labour for enforcing discrimination. At the time, corruption was institutionalised in many unions, acting as a check on demands for reform by the membership and therefore forming a key part of the machine system that was being brought down by the powerful figures backing LSD. Despite their claimed radicalism, the gangs, particularly the Black P. Stones, proved far more hostile to the Black Panthers than they did Daley and his cronies. With their demands for an end to gang violence and hard drugs, not to mention the abolition of capitalism, the Panthers were a significant challenge to more than just the Stones. Although they were no friend of the Daley machine, they had also outgrown the Black nationalist scene from which they had emerged, embracing Marxist thought in their dramatically successful, if ultimately short-lived, efforts to organise the ghetto.

As a result, Jeff Fort constantly rejected overtures by Illinois Panther chairman Fred Hampton, demanding that the leftist group submitted to his authority. In the streets, this translated into physical confrontations between the Stones and the Panthers, as the former attempted to keep the latter out. The tension even culminated in a BPP member being shot while selling newspapers on the West Side, as the Stones and the Lords continued to grow closer. In the end, the conflict was mostly ended by the murder of Hampton in a police raid on the BPP headquarters in late 1969. By this point, the battle for America was being decided on the side of the reformists, through their links to insurgent power structures such as that created by the Vice Lords. While the city machines were not completely destroyed, they were significantly weakened, to the point where they were largely helpless in the face of change.

For their part, the Lords would reap the rewards of their position, at the expense of the same people they were supposed to be uplifting. Their alliance with the Rangers developed into the People Nation, a conglomerate of street gangs believed to have at least 100,000 members. As for Lord Thing, it was supposed to have been lost to history. Then, with great fanfare, it was declared to have been found. Curiously enough, this was several years after segments of the film were used in an episode of the History Channel's "Gangland"

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Memphis Police Department Has a Long History of Cops With Gang Ties

Reports have emerged suggesting that 3 of the 5 officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols are members of the Vice Lords street gang.

by Frankie Stockes

February 2, 2023

The Memphis Police Department has a long history of its cops being tied to violent street gangs, an issue that’s facing renewed scrutiny after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, and after reports have trickled in saying that some of the cops involved are members of the Vice Lords.

Three of the five Memphis police officers involved in the beating of Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital, could have ties to, or even be full-fledged members of, the Vice Lords street gang, and may have been carrying out a gang-ordered attack when they set upon Nichols.

“We are investigating a tip that 3 of the 5 officers in the Memphis PD beating of Tyre Nichols were memebrs of the Vice Lords gang and under their direction,” Lauren Witzke, of the Stew Peters Network, reported to Twitter.

A subsequent tweet from Witzke reported thatthe Vice Lords also have members working as jail officers, and are believed to have ties to a bail bonds companyin Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In addition to those charged in Nichols’ death, who are facing counts of 2nd-degree murder among others, several Memphis police officers have been cited for their ties to criminal gangs and street violence in years past, seeming to point to a pattern of criminal behavior within the department.

In 2020, a former Memphis PD officer was tied to the Gangster Disciples, a gang that’s called for the murders of police officers in Memphis and nearby Mississippi in recent years. According to the results of a police investigation, the officer, who retired to skirt accountability, “got involved” with a high-ranking female member of the gang, who was a suspect in a murder he was investigating.

Among other things, Eric Kelly, the officer in question, admitted to getting the woman drugs.

In 2014, a female Memphis police officer named Paris Glass resigned from the department, after she was caught making a violent rap music video with members of the Bloods gang. In the video, a group of women describe themselves as “cut-throat bitches from North Memphis,” while they act out kidnappings and murders.

Furthermore, it was discovered that before she resigned, Glass used the Memphis Police Department’s internal computers to gather personal information on other cops and civilians, presumably in relation to her gang ties.

Two years before that, in 2012, another Memphis police officer, Candyace Davis, wasput under investigation for starring in a different rap video, also associated with gang violence.