A Senate resolution to end US support for Saudi-led conflict in Yemen shows that the politics of war are finally evolving.
In 1973, as President Richard M. Nixon escalated an unauthorized bombing campaign in Cambodia, Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR) asked, "Does the President assert—as kings of old—that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?" Later that year, Congress answered unequivocally that he could not, overriding a presidential veto to authorize the War Powers Act.
Forty-five years later, the Senate took an important step last week toward reclaiming the war powers that Congress has abandoned in recent decades, especially as US military adventurism in the Middle East grew in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In a surprising 63-to-37 vote, the Senate advanced a resolution introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would end US support for Saudi Arabia's devastation of Yemen. As the first time a war-powers resolution has ever advanced in the Senate, the vote marked a dramatic move toward returning control over matters of war and peace to Congress. It is also a testament to the power of antiwar activism—in the halls of Congress and at the grass roots—to force a reckoning with the consequences of the United States' endless and unauthorized wars.
The fighting in Yemen, ostensibly a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Since the conflict began in 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has launched more than 18,000 airstrikes, including the August bombing of a school bus that killed 40 children. An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five have already starved to death; another 14 million Yemenis—half the country's population—are on the brink of famine. A cholera epidemic that broke out last year is accelerating, with officials reporting 10,000 new cases each week. Growing more desperate by the day, some civilians are selling their own organs to survive.


Chad Greenway shines on the football field as a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings. Now the South Dakota native can add rescuer to his résumé.
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14th Tow Target Squadron
914th Air Refueling Squadron
Boeing KC-135 on takeoff using water injection to increase thrust
Air Refueling
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
The first predecessor of the 914th Expionary Air Refueling Squadron was organized in 1942 as the 8th Observation Squadron. It trained in the United States during World War II as a reconnaissance unit and then provided target support for antiaircraft units until being disbanded in 1944 during a general reorganization of Army Air Forces units in the United States. It was reactivated and deployed to the South West Pacific Theater of World War II and was inactivated in the Philippines in February 1946.
The 914th Air Refueling Squadron was activated by the United States Air Force in 1961 at Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas, where it was assigned to the 97th Bombardment Wing. The squadron flew Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft to support the Strategic Air Command. It was inactivated in 1964, when its mission, personnel and equipment were transferred to the 97th Air Refueling Squadron.
The two squadrons were consolidated in September 1985 but the consolidated squadron was not activated. In 2003 it was redesignated the 914th Expionary Air Refueling Squadron, converted to provisional status, and assigned to Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as needed.
1.1 World War II
1.2 Cold War
2 Lineage
2.1 Assignments
2.2 Stations
2.3 Aircraft
2.4 Awards and Campaigns
History[]
World War II[]
O-47 as flown by the 8th Observation Squadron
The first predecessor of the squadron was activated as the 8th Observation Squadron at Pope Field, North Carolina in February 1942.[1] Two months after activating, it moved to Langley Field, Virginia. Although the squadron was equipped with a variety of aircraft,[1] at Langley it flew primarily Martin B-10 and North American O-47 aircraft.[2] At Langley the unit began the target towing mission in addition to the artillery spotting mission of an observation squadron.[2] The squadron moved to Camp Davis Army Air Field, North Carolina a month later and by the end of the year was redesignated the 14th Tow Target Squadron.[1] While at Camp Davis the squadron was assigned several Women Airforce Service Pilots.[2]
B-25 as flown by 14 Tow Target Squadron
However, by 1944 the Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization, were proving less well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit,[3] while the groups and squadrons acting as training units were disbanded or inactivated.[4] This resulted in the 14th, along with other units at Camp Davis, being disbanded in the spring of 1944[1] and being replaced by an AAF Base Unit which absorbed the squadron's mission, personnel, and equipment.[note 1][5]
The squadron was reconstituted in the fall of 1944 at McChord Field, Washington and equipped with North American B-25 Mitchell bombers modified to serve as target tugs.[1] Its personnel moved to Camp Stoneman, California in November and shipped out to the Pacific Theater of Operations on 12 December.[6] It arrived on Biak, an island north of New Guinea, on 6 January 1945, then moved to Nadzab Airfield on the main island,[note 2] where it began towing targets for artillery and air-to-air gunnery training.[1] The squadron moved to Clark Field on Luzon in the Philippines, where it continued its mission until December 1945.[6] It was inactivated on 1 February 1946.[1]
Cold War[]
The 914th Air Refueling Squadron was organized in October 1961 by Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas. The squadron was equipped with Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers and assigned to the 97th Bombardment Wing as part of SAC's plan to disperse its Boeing B-52 Stratofortress units to make it more difficult for the Soviet Union to destroy the entire fleet with a first strike.[7] The squadron's mission was to provide air refueling to the B-52s of its parent wing and other USAF units as directed. One-third of the squadron's aircraft were maintained on fifteen-minute alert, fully fueled and ready for combat to reduce vulnerability to a Soviet missile strike. This was increased to half the squadron's aircraft in 1962.[8] The squadron trained for this mission until inactivation.[9]
The 14th Tow Target Squadron was consolidated with the 914th Air Refueling Squadron in September 1985 but the consolidated squadron has not been active since.[10]
On 27 March 2003 the squadron was converted to provisional status as the 914th Expionary Air Refueling Squadron and assigned to Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as needed for contingency operations.[10]
Lineage[]
Constituted as the 8th Observation Squadron (Special) on 28 January 1942
Activated on 3 February 1942
Redesignated the 14th Tow Target Squadron on 12 December 1942
Disbanded on 10 April 1944
Reconstituted on 26 September 1944
Activated on 6 October 1944
Inactivated on 1 February 1946[1]
Consolidated with the 914th Air Refueling Squadron as the 914th Air Refueling Squadron on 19 September 1985[10]
Constituted as the 914th Air Refueling Squadron, Heavy on 17 May 1961 and activated (not organized)
Organized on 1 October 1961
Discontinued and inactivated on 23 October 1964
Consolidated with the 14th Tow Target Squadron on 19 September 1985 (remained inactive)
Redesignated 914th Expionary Air Refueling Squadron and converted to provisional status on 27 March 2003[10]
Assignments[]
Office of the Chief of Air Corps, 3 February 1942
Third Air Force, 12 December 1942
I Air Support Command (later I Tactical Air Division), 17 December 1942
First Air Force, 4 November 1943 – 1 April 1944
Fourth Air Force, 6 October 1944
360th Service Group, c. 9 January 1945
XIII Bomber Command, c. November 1945
Thirteenth Air Force, 27 December 1945 – 1 February 1946
97th Bombardment Wing, 1 October 1961 - 23 October 1964[10]
Stations[]
Pope Field, North Carolina, 3 February 1942
Langley Field, Virginia, 4 April 1942
Camp Davis Army Air Field, North Carolina, 8 May 1942 – 10 April 1944
McChord Field, Washington, 6 October 1944 – 17 November 1944
Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea (now West Papua), 9 January 1945
Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, c. 17 July 1945 – 1 February 1946
Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas, 1 October 1961 - 23 October 1964[11]
Aircraft[]
Douglas A-20 and P-70 Havoc, 1945
Douglas A-24 Banshee, 1942-1944
Martin B-10, 1942-1944
North American B-25 Mitchell, 1945
Lockheed B-34 Lexington, 1942-1944
Stinson L-1 Vigilant, 1942-1944
Piper L-4 Grasshopper, 1942-1944
North American O-47, 1942-1944
O-52, 1942-1944
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1942-1944
Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, 1961-1964[10]
Awards and Campaigns[]
Award streamer
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award 23 October 1962-22 November 1962 914th Air Refueling Squadron[12]
Campaign Streamer
American Theater without inscription 3 February 1942 – 1 April 1944
6 October 1944 – 17 November 1944 8th Observation Squadron
(later 14th Tow Target Squadron)[1]
Asiatic-Pacific Theater without inscription 9 January 1945 – 1 February 1946 14th Tow Target Squadron[1]
See also[]
List of United States Air Force reconnaissance squadrons
List of United States Air Force air refueling squadrons
List of A-20 Havoc operators
Notes[]
^ At the time of the AAF reorganization, Camp Davis AAF was a subbase of Bluethenthal Field. where the 130th AAF Base Unit was organized. "Abstract, History Bluethenthal Field. Apr 1944-Aug 1945". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ During World War II, this section of New Guinea was part of the Dutch East Indies.
^ a b c d e f g h i j Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 80–81
^ a b c "Abstract, History 14 Tow Target Squadron Activation-Oct 1943". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
^ Goss, p. 75
^ Maurer, Combat Units, p. 7
^ "Abstract, History Bluethenthal Field, NC Apr 1942-Feb 1945". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ a b "Abstract, History 14 Tow Target Squadron Oct 1944-Dec 1945". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
^ "Abstract (Unclassified), Vol 1, History of Strategic Air Command, Jan-Jun 1957 (Secret)". Air Force History Index. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^ "Abstract (Unclassified), History of the Strategic Bomber since 1945 (Top Secret, downgraded to Secret)". Air Force History Index. 1 April 1975. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
^ Ravenstein, pp. 136–138
^ a b c d e f Robertson, Patsy (8 November 2011). "Factsheet 914 Expionary Air Refueling Squadron (AMC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
^ Mueller, p. 38
^ AF Pamphlet 900-2, 15 Jun 1971, p. 477
Bibliography[]
Goss, William A (1955). "The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF". In Craven, Wesley F; Cate, James L (eds.). The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. VI, Men & Planes. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. LCCN 48003657. OCLC 704158.
Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-53-6.
Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
"AF Pamphlet 900-2, Unit Decorations, Awards and Campaign Participation Crs" (PDF). Washington, DC: Department of the Air Force. 15 June 1971. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
Smith, Richard K. (1998). Seventy-Five Years of Inflight Refueling: Highlights, 1923-1998 (PDF). Air Force History and Museums Program. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
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When Ann Arbor punk pioneers the Stooges played a tribute show for their deceased guitarist Ron Asheton at the Michigan Theater in 2011, arthouse director Jim Jarmusch was in the house. Having announced that he was beginning work on a documentary about the Stooges just the year before, one might have guessed that the Cuyahoga Falls-born director behind Night On Earth and Broken Flowers was planning to include the Ann Arbor show in his film.
But the amusing stories of Jarmusch's terse interactions with townies are the only real creative legacy the director left behind from his Ann Arbor visit. There's no footage from the Asheton tribute in Gimme Danger, Jarmusch's Stooges documentary, which will open in Detroit on Oct. 28. And in many ways, that's for the best.
Jarmusch was at the Asheton tribute, and presumably has been around for other moments in the lives of Iggy and Co. over the past decade-plus, as a friend and casual observer, not a documentarian. Jarmusch first worked with Iggy Pop, the Stooges' legendary and arrestingly bizarre frontman, on a standout scene from Jarmusch's 2003 narrative film Coffee and Cigarettes. In 2010 Pop personally requested that Jarmusch make a documentary about the band. The resulting film plays not like a staid rock biopic but like an intimate conversation between friends, a fun, loosey-goosey retelling of the tumultuous tale behind one of the most influential bands in rock.
Jarmusch begins the film in 1973 with one of the band's apparent endings. At the time, the Stooges had already released their three seminal albums The Stooges, Fun House, and Raw Power, but as a title card puts it, "They were dirt." Critically maligned and dragged down by Pop's drug abuse and increasingly unmanageable behavior, the band called it quits in 1974. From there, Jarmusch jumps back to the Stooges' childhoods, examining how they got to that low point and how they bounced back in 2003 to begin touring extensively in response to broad recognition from a host of younger artists. The stories, from the tale of Pop calling up Moe Howard to request his permission to use the name "The Stooges" to Pop's explanation of Soupy Sales' influence on his minimalistic lyrics, are outrageous and often hilarious.
Jarmusch's focus is relatively narrow. He interviews almost no one other than Iggy and the Stooges themselves (including Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, who toured with the band throughout the 2000s). The interview settings are almost laughably casual; Pop gives one of his interviews in a laundry room, and he idly plays with his bare feet as he talks. Guitarist James Williamson appears to have given his interview in a public bathroom, guitar in his lap.
The director doesn't attempt to editorialize or add much of his own flair to the material. Compensating for the lack of archival photos or footage of the band, he frequently makes amusing use of period-appropriate stock footage and even a couple of animated sequences to illustrate the Stooges' tales of their misadventures. But overall he seems to revel in the entertainment value of letting the Stooges tell their own stories. When you've got the gaunt, bug-eyed, slightly anxious Pop alongside the gaunt, hood-eyed, utterly deadpan drummer Scott Asheton (now deceased), what better method than to just wind these two characters up and let them go?
The relatively straightforward documentary may seem to fit oddly into the oeuvre of the director who made such visually striking and idiosyncratic films as Mystery Train and Only Lovers Left Alive, but in a way it also occupies its own very singular territory. The tale told here is unlikely to throw Stooges aficionados any new curveballs; Jarmusch himself has noted the difficulty he had finding any new footage of the band to include in the film. And the film's relative modesty (especially given its frequently outrageous subjects) seems unlikely to cause enough of a stir to attract many Stooges newbies to the theater. Like any of Jarmusch's other films, Gimme Danger is perfectly happy being exactly what it wants to be – a thoroughly fun, no-frills, firsthand account of the story behind one of rock's greatest bands – and nothing more.
Patrick Dunn is the interim managing editor of Concentrate and an Ann Arbor-based freelance writer whose work appears regularly in Pulp, the Detroit News, the Ann Arbor Observer, and other local publications. He ain't got time to make no apologies.
Gimme Danger premiered last night, October 25th, with a special screening at the Detroit Film Theater (DFT) featuring Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch. It opens officially Oct. 28 at the Detroit Film Theater, and will expand to a wider release on Nov. 4.


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I'm not talking about the insect. I don't like insects in my kitchen, spider or otherwise. I'm talking about the cooking utensil that you've probably seen before in Chinese restaurants but might not know what it's called. It consists of a strainer and a long handle. The name? Kitchen spider.
A kitchen spider is used for scooping out pieces of meat, vegetable or seafood from hot broth or oil. Most spiders come with bamboo handles although there are also spiders with metal handles with a rubberized end so you don't burn your hand if the metal gets too hot.
Is a kitchen spider really necessary? Won't a slotted spoon do?
The thing about quick cooking is how you need to cook small pieces of food in very hot oil (or broth) and only for a very short time. If you use a slotted spoon, you will only be able to scoop out so much, leaving the rest to overcook. With a spider, you can scoop out everything in one go.
A spider is also very useful when cooking whole fish or chicken because you can scoop out the fish or chicken without breaking it.
But the spider is not only useful in Asian style cooking. It is great for cooking French fries and potato chips because the oil drains fast instead of soaking the potatoes.
Kitchen spiders come with different features.
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2. Curve. The curve of the sieve also varies as some are more flat than others. Determine how you generally want to use your spider then choose whether you want one with a flatter sieve or one with a deeper sieve.
3. Fineness. The metal of the sieve can be as fine as a window screen or as coarse as intertwined wire. If you're planning on using your spider to scoop out rather small pieces of food, the one with a fine sieve will be ideal. If you only intend to use it for frying whole fish or boiling whole chickens, the kind with a less fine sieve might be more useful.
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"Positive?"
"Just give me the damn card!"
"Fine, fine, no reason to get all shirty about it," Zera shrugged and flipped over another card onto the pile that her partner had going. Aerilyn frowned at it.
"Didja bust?" Zera inquired with an infuriating grin.
"No, whatcha got?"
"Nineteen. There's no way you can beat tha—"
"Twenty!"
"Argh!"
The pair of agents were crouched on their console chairs, leaning over a game of cards on what little bit of desk space that they had left. A hardback copy of The Silmarillion, two bottles of Bleeprin – one half empty, several CDs of various artists, and a number of papers were scattered across the surface. The rest of the response center was surprisingly clutter-free.
If one didn't count Oby-wan as clutter, of course. The vodka-loving mini-rancor was, at any given moment, lurking about in some corner or another. He belonged to Zera, who treated him with extreme affection, to Aerilyn's puzzlement. He looked very much like the rancor featured in Return of the Jedi, on a small scale, but he had a more amiable attitude, much like his namesake.
"Ready to go at it again? Or are you tired of losing?"
"I know I should never have agreed to play Blackjack with you. Next time we're playing Gin or—"
[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!]
Both agents jumped.
"Posh, we never get to finish a good round without this stupid thing interrupting," Aerilyn complained as she fumbled for the button to turn the sound off.
"'Beeeeep!' isn't any card game I know of," Zera noted sourly. "What is it this time?" She scooted over to peer over her partner's shoulder at the computer screen.
Aerilyn choked. "What in all seven hells... From the Trees the New Elf was Born!?"
"So what, she's half ent? Oh, ouch, bad mental images... So which canon character is she after? I assume it's a she. Legolas again?"
"Legolas seems to be the main target. Ugh, the grammar is passable but... the Sue pops out of a tree for Eru's sake!" Aerilyn snorted. "And she seems to think that she is Elbereth herself. Looks like we have a delirious elf Sue."
"Typical. I'll set the disguise generator... Uruk-hai?"
"Yeah, that'll do," Aerilyn said as she rummaged through the lockers for their stuff. She handed her partner a bow, quiver, and bag of supplies, and then activated the portal generator. "Ladies first."
"No, I disagree. Ex-Sues first," Zera replied easily as she sorted through her things.
"I've got a feeling that this isn't going to be fun," Aerilyn said, suddenly serious. She sighed heavily and stepped on through the portal. Zera followed behind, grabbing a couple of CDs from the desk, just in case.
"Wow, trees," Zera observed. There were a lot of them, no doubt. The agents were somewhere outside of Rivendell, in the Misty Mountains.
Such a remark sounded quite odd coming from an orc. Instead of two human agents emerging from the portal, two impressive Uruk-hai came striding out. It was an odd feeling, being in a different body, but by now they were getting used to it, especially this form in particular.
"Yeah, we've got to find the one that the Sue's going to crawl out of... Oh, look, an arm sticking out of that birch over there. I'll bet that's her." Aerilyn started off through the trees.
"Ya think? Unless it's some other elf which is being born from a cocoon..."
"I doubt it," Aerilyn replied, ignoring the sarcasm.
"Let's just kill her now while she's still like 'a baby newly born'," Zera suggested.
Aerilyn snorted. "Newborn. One word can replace those four so easily. Not that it matters, as that Sue looks fully developed to me. You know that thing called a charge list, Zera? Right now we've only got one charge. No, scratch that, two. Still not nearly enough."
Zera made a pouty face, which looked rather odd on an orc. She plopped down to count her arrows while the Sue was squeezing out of the tree and having a look around. After all, she was just 'born', so the world was somewhat of a shock.
Just for kicks, Zera waved her Character Analysis Device at the Sue.
[A Elbereth Gilthoniel. Elf female. Mary Sue. ERROR!ERROR!BEEEEEEE-] The display screen faded, and the noise stopped. The Sue glanced up at the vague noise, but soon her attention wandered elsewhere.
"Maybe the batteries are dead," Zera shook the device experimentally, as if that would help.
Aerilyn stared at the Sue. "She has ruby eyes, did you notice? Blood-shot? Gah, creepy."
"Like you have any right to call somebody creepy," Zera raised an eyebrow as she stuffed her dead analysis device back into her pack. Aerilyn had one green eye, and one blue, and silver hair, when she wasn't in some kind of disguise.
Aerilyn stared back at her coolly. "Whatever. Look, she's heading off to Rivendell now. Nothing of note happening until morning. They take her in, of course, and feed her and bathe her..."
"And treat her for fleas and name her Fido and love her forever and ever?"
Aerilyn smirked. "We wish."
The two agents headed for a closer spot towards Rivendell itself, setting up camp just outside the house. The Sue was fed and given proper clothes, and apparently taught 'proper' manners. The evening passed without much trouble, the agents entertaining themselves with various card games, particularly one called Speed, to pass some time before they turned in for the night.
Morning came far too quickly.
"Waaaake up Zeeerra!"
"ItstooearlytogetupleavemealoneIwannasleep," Zera muttered an impressive run-on sentence and rolled over, swatting feebly at the early morning sunlight which was falling on her face. Aerilyn, having prepared for this very reaction beforehand, dumped a glass of cold water over her partner's face.
"Eeep!"
"Sssh, she'll hear you," Aerilyn pointed to the window above.
"Unless my eyes are cheated by some spell, I believe you, my lady, are the same filthy creature I caught spying on me this morning," Elrond was saying. Zera's eyes narrowed as she mopped some of the water off her head with a towel, but she didn't say anything. Making Elrond quote Legolas was definitely charge list material.
"Elrond. Arwen."
"Me Tarzan," Aerilyn rolled her eyes. "Poor Elrond."
"A Elbereth Githoniel."
The agents exchanged a look.
"Is she serious?" Zera looked annoyed.
"Sadly," Aerilyn replied. "Come on, we'd better get down to the ford."
Zera trotted after her partner, still looking very peeved. "Frodo should be coming through down there pretty soon. What is she going to do about it? I notice that Arwen is up there, so apparently she can't rescue him. Bookverse? Kind of?"
"Hah. Well, I was looking over the words while you were sleeping. You're gonna love this even more than 'A Elbereth Gilthoniel'."
"No I won't," Zera muttered.
They arrived just in time to see Frodo on Asfaloth on one side of the ford, and the Nazgul on the other. It was a scene strangely... right.
"By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair you shall have neither the Ring nor me!"
Zera had a glazed over look in her eyes. "Straight from the book. It's enough to make me wanna cry... er, can orcs cry?"
"I don't know. Anyway, don't look now, but here comes the Sue to save the day," Aerilyn said. Her muttered cursing about how Asfaloth would not drop Frodo could not be heard over the sound of the river.
"How did she get down here so quickly?" Zera demanded, though she knew that this was a Sue, and with Sues, logic never worked.
"I am A Elbereth Gilthoniel! And I command thee, creature of the shadows, to go back to the dark Land of Mordor, whence thou hast cometh!" The Sue declared dramatically.
"It's hard to believe that she's serious. 'Wence thou hast cometh'?" Aerilyn huffed.
"She obviously doesn't know who Elbereth really is," Zera complained as they trailed the Sue on her way back to Rivendell. "That song isn't about this Sue. It's about Varda, one of the Valar. And Varda did not just pop out of a tree."
She had to cut off her complaints as they dodged behind trees. The Sue had decided to stop, for some reason, and was hovering over Frodo in a very disturbing way.
'What's she doing?' Aerilyn mouthed in Zera's direction. Zera shrugged.
The Sue had one hand over Frodo's shoulder and the other over his forehead. Her hands began to glow blue.
"Greeeat, she's draining herself to heal Frodo. She's going to save his life, how selfless of her." Even so, Aerilyn was surprised when the Sue stabbed herself on the shoulder with the Morgul blade, thus giving herself a scar identical to Frodo's. The Sue abruptly fainted. An elf appeared out of nowhere to catch her before she fell to the ground.
"Stupid melodramatic Sue," Zera growled. "Flounced in, saved the day, and then fainted. She's already making me sick. Now what... back to Rivendell? Geez, at least she gets to be carried. We have to walk all the way."
"Yeah, this is a classic Sue alright. Long white hair, 'ruby' eyes, saves the day, and yet has plenty of opportunities to be vulnerable... Let's see what we've got for the charge list – Impersonating, no, stealing the name of one of the Valar, showing extreme stupidity in doing so, screwing up book scenes, exhibiting a disgusting amount of melodramatics..."
"Annoying the agents," Zera added in, not bothering to be quiet. The Sue was unconscious, after all, and the elves carrying her and Frodo wouldn't have seen them if they had been walking right next to them. "Why can't we just kill her now?"
"We have more charges to accumulate," Aerilyn said darkly.
The agents weren't able to get close enough to overhear Elrond and Elbereth's touching father and daughter scene a bit later, but they saw the words. Just outside, Aerilyn and Zera made themselves comfortable on some benches in the garden. There were a few elves around, but none of them noticed the Uruk-hai conversing right in front of them.
"Wait... did I miss something?"
"What?" Aerilyn cocked her head sideways at Zera.
"This part in the words, where she calls Elrond 'he who had come to be a father to her through the years'. Years? She only came out of that tree yesterday for cripes sake. I think I'd remember a few years passing," Zera commented as she inspected the fletching on one of her arrows.
"That's one hell of a plot-hole," Aerilyn agreed.
For a while, they didn't have to chase the Sue all around Rivendell. It wasn't hard to pass the time, though. The gardens of Rivendell were beautiful, and thankfully unaffected by the Sue's presence. Of course, there were almost as many beautiful elves as there were flowers, something which neither agent complained about. Aerilyn had to drag her partner away from Glorfindel, as Zera would likely have followed him around for quite a while before she remembered exactly what they were supposed to be doing.
"Oh, we shouldn't miss the Sue's speech," Zera said sarcastically as they approached the main yard, though keeping out of sight from the balcony. The Sue had apparently taken Gandalf's place, as she was there talking to her 'father'. This seemed to be nothing more than an excuse for her to show off her 'foresight', and the fact that Sauron knew where she was, and hated her. Why he should care anything about her, neither agent had a clue.
"He tortured her. When? How? Why?" Aerilyn shook her head. "I'd like to show her some 'torture'. Why would Sauron be interrogating her in her dreams, assuming he had a chance?"
"So she could be angsty about it?" Zera suggested.
"Apparently."
"Well, the council will be starting soon... Got that CD player with you?"
"Yes, and I'm going to use it. You can suffer through Sue-ish speeches and tell me what to add to the charge list when it's over," Aerilyn said as they headed for the dais where the council would take place, or more specifically, the bushes that were just off to one side of it. Ever since she had heard the idea of bringing along a CD player to counter painful dialogue, Aerilyn had kept firm control over the one that she and Zera 'shared'. Occasionally Zera would steal it for a while.
They spent some time haggling over said electronics until the Sue arrived. She was wearing a concealing cloak, for no apparent reason. She was also clutching at her shoulder, which was causing her some amount of pain. Zera found this to be a source of some amusement, considering the fact that she'd inflicted that wound herself.
The council proceeded without too many oddities, and Aerilyn even surrendered the CD player for a while. It was nice to actually hear Elrond talk for once.
Finally, though, the Sue cried out, attracting the attention of everyone present. Frodo stood, but his presence only made her condition worse. Elrond and Aragorn immediately came to the Sue's side to ask her what was wrong.
"If she makes Elrond say 'thee' one more time, I'm going to go up there and kick that chair out from under her," Zera fumed. Aerilyn gave her a blank look, as she was once again drowning out the conversation with 80s music.
"Whatever you threatened to do – don't," Aerilyn advised sagely.
The Sue told Frodo that she had stolen the Ring's chance to return to its master. As with a lot that the Sue said, it didn't make much sense, but the canon characters accepted it without second thought. The Sue finally revealed herself, much to the council's shock. "Oh such beauty as to be equal to that of Luthien the Fair." Legolas kneeled at the Sue's feet.
Zera made gagging noises before jabbing Aerilyn in the ribs with her elbow. "It's over."
"Already?" Aerilyn blinked. "That was abrupt."
"Well, what are we going to do now? The Sue isn't joining the Fellowship, wonder of all wonders, but she's going to be a 'diversion'. Hah. You know, she's awfully up to date with things considering the fact that she just crawled out of a cocoon not too long ago. Anyway, she's going to go up to Isengard with a happy little crew of elves..."
Aerilyn nodded before reading the words with a thoughtful expression. "All she does is go off and get those poor elves killed. That one she calls Nandor falls in love with her and he dies protecting her from orcs. She angsts, then uses more of that 'blue-flamey' magic to kill off all of the rest of the orcs."
"Nandor, hm, that's just a great name for a Sindarin elf. Then let's just meet them at Moria. That's where she jumps in again, and I'd rather not suffer through a poor bit character's falling victim to her charms."
"No charges to get there, anyway. I've already got the magic down," Aerilyn wrote something down on her small notebook. She then pulled out a remote portal generator. "Shall we?"
"Let's."
The agents stepped out of the portal just in front of the gates to Moria. They had timed their arrival so that the Sue showed up just as they did. Frodo was being yanked about by the Watcher. The Sue dashed forward to catch the hobbit.
"Boromir was supposed to do that," Aerilyn commented sullenly.
"Hey! Maybe she'll drown," Zera grinned. Aragorn came forward to snatch Frodo from her, but he left Elbereth. She was still under the water, suffering from the pain of her wound from when she had touched Frodo.
"Then why didn't you just let Boromir catch him? Twit," Aerilyn growled at the submerged Sue.
The Watcher tossed the Sue around for a bit before finally throwing her away, probably out of disgust.
"Happy coincidence that she would be thrown at Legolas," Zera added. "And she's also knocked herself out on a rock underwater. Oh, let's pity the poor thing. Aerilyn, that's not a very nice face."
"Oh, come on before we get shut out of the mines."
They followed Legolas as he carried the once again unconscious 'she-elf' into Moria. Their progress halted as Legolas stopped to bandage the Sue's wounds. She had one on her ribs, which of course led him to taking her tunic off, and she just happened to wake up right then...
"So many coincidences," Aerilyn pointed out. After Legolas finished, the Sue promptly clung to him and began sobbing like a baby. "I also wonder how why they don't call Legolas a he-elf. It's as proper as using she-elf..."
"You've got me. Oooh, I'm keeping count of how many times she passes out. That's two already," Zera muttered. They would have to be quiet while she was awake, even if she was practically glued to Legolas. As soon as she was convinced to let go of him for a second, the Fellowship continued.
"Rock... rock... rock... oh, spider..."
"Zera? Be quiet."
"I'm bored. Eeyah! What touched me?"
"Ssshh! That was me," Aerilyn smacked her partner across the back of the head, quietly. "Scared of the dark, are we?"
"No... it's just the crawly things that lurk in these dark places... Eeep."
"Some Uruk-hai you are." Aerilyn took the time to wave her CAD at some of the canon characters, wisely turning off the sound before doing so.
[Aragorn. Human male. Canon. Out of Character 43.3%]
[Frodo. Hobbit male. Canon. Out of Character 38.5%]
[Legolas Greenleaf. Elf male. Canon. CHARACTER RUPTURE! CANON AT 23.1%!]
Aerilyn grimaced and turned it off. It was beginning to make odd static-y noises.
Things were otherwise uneventful until they got to Balin's tomb.
"Here they come," the Sue informed everyone.
"Stealing lines again," Zera whispered. The agents were hiding in a far corner, as far away from the Sue as possible. Aerilyn was recording this in her notebook, which was already quite full of notes.
The battle was impressive, and everything went according to plan until the troll stabbed Frodo. The Sue raised her hands, and blue flames swallowed it. Aerilyn growled, as she was getting royally sick of those flames. She'd even stolen Legolas's gratuitous kick-butt scene... Was nothing safe?
"She's got to heal Frodo again," Zera groaned. "Why can't she let Aragorn do it? And she apparently has something against Gimli."
"They all do. Stupid Sues... Gimli rocks."
"Agreed. Erg, time to go again already? Sheesh," Aerilyn dragged Zera through the door, as the Fellowship departed hastily.
Amazingly enough, though she had predicted that it would happen, the Sue was very upset over the loss of Gandalf. She took the opportunity to hiss at Legolas, when he was only showing concern. Zera had to resist the urge to knock the Sue off the bridge, even though she was still a bit dazed from seeing the Balrog, one of her favorite canon 'monsters'.
"Can we charge her yet?" she begged. "Come on..."
"No," Aerilyn didn't look too happy either.
The Sue insisted on carrying Frodo, for some reason. When they stopped, they got to learn about her 'cursed wound' and her magic. Legolas once again offered to tend to her wounds, but she insisted on her privacy. This did not last long, as she passed out in his arms.
"Three times!" Zera announced gleefully, with no fear of the Sue overhearing. Legolas merely blinked.
"She hasn't eaten in three days," Aerilyn observed, reading the words. "It's a wonder that she still can move at all. Before that, it was eight days... You'd think that they would have noticed this before."
Things weren't so bad until they got to Lothlorien. The walk itself was much shorter than it should have been, due to some plot-hole.
"Where's she going?" Zera asked, seeing the Sue run on ahead of the rest.
Aerilyn snarled. "To catch Rumil, Orophin, and Haldir by surprise, like any good Sue. They're obviously so absorbed in conversation that they didn't see her coming. Some march wardens of Lothlorien she makes them out to be."
Zera rolled her eyes as she watched the Sue mock the three brothers at sword-point. It was just too predictable.
"Are we going to miss anything if I pass out myself for a while?" She asked afterward with a sigh. "I'm tired."
"Me too. Hm. Actually, we could take a break. All the Sue does for a while is talk to Galadriel, and gets a key to wear around her neck. "'This is the key to the doorway of understanding.' That makes no sense."
Zera yawned as she found a comfortable spot to curl up in. "Why should it? Wake me up when we've got to go," she said, and promptly fell asleep.
Aerilyn sat down nearby, bow balanced over her knees as she sat, a deep frown crossing her features.
"That's it. I have had it!"
"Owww! What happened?" Zera asked groggily. Something heavy was sitting on her stomach (it had been thrown a moment earlier), which turned out to be a half-empty quiver of arrows. "Don't you ever sleep?" She grumbled as she sat up.
"Oh, sorry. Change in plans, dahling. We're getting this Sue right in Amon Hen."
"Whoot!" Zera brightened visibly. "Why, though?"
"Blood tears, Rohirrim chanting 'You can not destroy us! We have the White Witch!', and an attempted rape scene," Aerilyn said with a poisonous glare.
"Been reading ahead in the words again. Blood tears?"
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Zera hastily began packing her things up, absently flinging her partner's quiver back in her direction.
They managed to follow the Fellowship as they made their way down river, though it took a lot of work to do so for a while. They had fallen behind, but soon caught up, as they had to pause to rescue the Sue once again from drowning. This time Legolas and the Sue ended up kissing.
"Oh, I wish a really cute guy would kiss me when I was half-drowned," Zera said with a positively silly smile. Aerilyn half-heartedly lobbed a stick in her direction. "And that makes it four times," Zera added after ducking to avoid the projectile.
They set up camp just in the woods, where they would see Frodo when he ran on by, followed by Boromir. The Sue followed Frodo out into the woods. When Boromir made a lunge for Frodo, she intervened, and ended up passing out after the ensuing fight, due to a direct blow to the head.
"Again! You go Boromir! Five times, and who knows how many more she plans on. Too bad we're going to ruin those plans right now," Zera snorted, watching as Frodo ran off. Boromir looked rather confused, but he eventually wandered back towards the others, conveniently leaving Elbereth. "Got the charge list?"
Aerilyn whipped out her notepad with a malicious grin. "You bet."
"I don't make bets with you, but okay," Zera strode forward and roughly grabbed Elbereth by the back of her tunic and hauled her up. This wasn't hard to do with the feather-light Sue. "Alrighty, freak-show – wakey-wakey time!"
The Sue opened her eyes and blinked owlishly at the Uruk-hai standing in front of her. She opened her mouth, but Zera clamped a hand over it. Those red eyes really were unsettling, Zera noted, as this was the first time she'd gotten a really good look at them.
"Thank you, Zerry. I was about to suggest that."
"You're welcome, and don't call me Zerry."
"Alright, anyway, down to business," Aerilyn cleared her throat. "A Elbereth Gilthoniel, it is my duty to inform you that you have been charged with being a Mary Sue. Also, I have recorded a list of further violations against canon, which I will share with you now."
Zera didn't have to exert must effort to hold the Sue still. She didn't even try to bite, probably because she recognized this as a situation which would give her an excuse to angst more later. Being captured by orcs would certainly qualify as traumatic. Little did she know that she wasn't going to get out of this one.
"First of all, your name – not only is it stolen, but it's badly stolen. From Varda. You are also charged with altering canon biology, 'emerging from a cocoon' my orcish rear, causing character ruptures that give my CAD fits, causing every male in sight to drool over you, stealing lines, causing Elvish 'magic' to appear to work like conventional magic, displaying extremely annoying Mary Sue powers, and using enough melodramatics to make us want to hurl every five minutes since we've been here." She paused to breathe, apparently for the first time since starting the paragraph. "Anything to add, Zera?"
"You forgot 'upstaging canon characters at everything at every given opportunity'. Oh, and she created a mini – Hibbit. So, any last words that aren't painfully melodramatic?" Zera flung the Sue away and stepped back swiftly. Her partner already had her bow drawn, and Zera didn't want to be anywhere in the way. At this range, getting shot would result in Much Pain.
"I am A Elbereth Gilthoniel! You'll never—"
The twang of a bow and subsequent thudding of a large arrow into the Sue's chest cut off any further words. Aerilyn shrugged. "It was coming, you know it was," she told Zera sheepishly. The Sue fell to the ground, dead.
"Not complaining!" Zera chirped, positively ecstatic now that the Sue was gone. "You know, her getting killed by Uruk-hai here is so canonical. Job well done, old chap."
"I say that we've not quite finished the job yet, Watson," Aerilyn said in an almost flawless British accent as she hefted the Sue's body over one shoulder. "We've still got to get rid of this."
"Hmm," Zera considered. "Too bad the Balrog is already gone. We could just toss her in the river."
"Um. No."
"Okay... Hey, what about the fell beasts? They should still be in Mordor somewhere, and I'll bet they're hungry. Shouldn't be too hard to find one, anyway."
Aerilyn smiled. "Sounds good to me."
Back at the response center, the two agents returned through a portal, looking quite smug. At least, Aerilyn was momentarily, but she had the misfortune to step out nearly on top of Oby-wan. She tripped, and Zera had to pull up sharply to avoid a similar fate.
"Ugh! He's slobbering all over me!" Aerilyn pushed at the mini-rancor. He was quite thrilled to see her, it seemed. Or maybe he realized that she didn't like him, and had fun torturing her. Either way, Zera was having a giggling fit.
"It's not all that funny," Aerilyn gathered herself and brushed back her hair with an offended look.
"Sorry." Zera was still grinning, however. She gave Oby-wan a good pet before she gathered their collective gear and dragged it over to the storage locker. She almost dropped something small and shiny in with it all as well (her idea of putting away things being 'cram them all in so that they fit'), but she caught it before it was lost in the black hole of a closet.
"What's that?" Aerilyn asked, looking vaguely interested.
"Er, a key," Zera held it up on its chain, where it dangled, glittering.
"You stole it from the Sue... why?" Aerilyn asked casually. She sat down in her chair, grabbing the copy of The Silmarillion in the same motion.
"It's pretty, and you never know, it might do something useful. Maybe. Possibly... Someday."
"You and shiny things, I swear. Well, if it makes you happy..."
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Fathers of Invention: An American Story of Family, Faith and Innovation
by Andrew Pansini
"Fathers of Invention" is the engaging success story of a family that embodies the American values of hard work, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. It is a story of the life of Andrew L. Pansini the inventor of the world's first automatic pool cleaner in 1917. This was the first of many of his inventions spanning over his lifetime. He founded Jandy Industries and developed, manufactured and sold products that help to change the entire swimming pool industry.
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After the Darkness
by Rev. Candace Nadine Breen
A woman describes her life of abuse and how she was able to overcome the negativity and thrive.
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Iron or Steel: A Memoir on Living Dreams
by Linda M. Best
Marek Maria Pienkowski was born in Łódź, Poland, on Sept. 8, 1945, with a hereditary title of nobility in the country enduring the tribulations of World War II longer than any other in Europe. Pienkowski's rebellion against Poland's loss of independence after the war began at age five or six, when he became a founding member, with two friends, of the modestly-named "Organization to Liberate Poland." The trio recognized that liberation required secret identities—so the author was Snake and his... more
The Knowing - Awake in the Dark
by Nita Lapinski
The Knowing: Awake in the Dark is the true story of a young woman's journey as she struggles to find her own self-worth, dignity, and love amidst a violent predator, secrets, deception and lies.
Finding Karen Black
by Diane Bay
Forever Herself: A Son's Memoir of a Remarkable Woman
by Kerry L Stevens
A strong woman embraces life on her own terms.
Berthella Stevens is shaped by childhood adversity in an impoverished, fatherless home during the Great Depression. As an unconventional adult ahead of her time, she's inspired by natural living, flower gardening, writing and raising her family. But when she dares to be herself in her rural Indiana community, she endures ostracism and loneliness, finding solace in her faith.
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Boy 2 Man: A WAHA STORY
by James Welcome
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LOVE IS ALWAYS THE LESSON: My Stories From the Edge
by Sherry Smith R.N.N.P.
This is a collection of stories involving love, loss and life lessons. It deals with death and communication from across the veil. The spiritual messages are profound and the living examples of inspiration, courage and the many ways love weaves it's way throughout the author's life are deeply moving. Readers are raving about this book!
Pass The Torch: How A Young Black Father Challenges The Deadbeat Dad Stereotype
by Jamiyl Samuels
The touching literary debut memoir from Jamiyl Samuels about a young father determined to break the cycle of absentee fatherhood experienced during his childhood. When his father walks out of his life as a young boy, Jamiyl grows increasingly angry and resentful. Samuels finds refuge in the power of Hip Hop music channeling his angst into the art of rhyme. The birth of his child adds new purpose to Jamiyl's life and "Pass The Torch..." is his story of reflection, heartbreak, forgiveness and d... more
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by J. Calvitt Clarke III, PhD
A consummate and innovative entrepreneur and fundraiser, by the 1950s Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke was running the world?s largest Protestant organization dedicated to the welfare of children. Yet while Dr. Clarke?s life and accomplishments make him one of the twentieth century?s foremost and beloved figures in philanthropy, his legacy is sometimes recorded with confusion, contradiction, and even outright error. In Fifty Years of Begging, Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke III, author and grandson to Dr. Clarke,... more
Coming About: Life In the Balance
by Mario Dell'Olio
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by Moshe Ziv
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Q: Find the cartesian equations of $V$ Let $V\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be the subspace created by $\{(1,1,0),(0,2,0)\}$. Write the cartesian equations of $V$.
Since the two vectors are linearly independent they are a basis of the 2D-space $V$. They thus create a plane. Moreover, since $V$ is a vector space, the plane has to pass through the origin (else it would be an affine space).
In order to write the plane equation in cartesian form, I need the vector normal to it. Thus I can use the cross product, since I know two vectors of the plane which are linealrly independent.
\begin{equation}
\textbf{v}_{n}=(1,1,0)\wedge(0,2,0)=\begin{vmatrix} \textbf{i} & \textbf{j} & \textbf{k}\\1&1&0\\0&2&0\end{vmatrix}=(0,0,2)
\end{equation}
Then the wanted equation is: $\pi: 2z=0$.
I'm not convinced at all though. Can you explain to me where I messed up and how to get the right answer?
Thank you all

A: The span of $(1,1,0)$ and $(0,2,0)$ consists of the $x$-$y$-plane, or in other words: all vectors with $z = 0$. So your equation is fine.
You can test if a linear combination $u$ is part of the plane, by checking if it fulfills the normal equation of the plane $n \cdot u = 0$:
$$
n \cdot (s (1,1,0) + t (0,2,0)) = s ((0,0,2) \cdot (1,1,0)) + t ((0,0,2) \cdot (0,2,0)) = 0 \quad (s, t \in \mathbb{R})
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The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York's Civilian Complaint Review Board. "
"The City Council should be outraged and people should be marching in the streets."
ProPublica is working with THE CITY, WNYC/Gothamist and The Marshall Project to report on how allegations of misconduct by law enforcement officers in New York are investigated and to examine and analyze police disciplinary records that have recently been made public.
Last summer, New York City police officers drove by two friends sitting on a bench outside a Brooklyn school. The officers stopped, later telling investigators that they suspected the two — a 16-year-old and 21-year-old, both male and Black — of carrying marijuana. As the teenager ran, one of the officers grabbed the 21-year-old from behind, lifted him up and slammed him into the pavement.
The officer, who was 60 pounds heavier than the young man, broke three bones in the man's left foot, and among other injuries caused a brain bleed, leaving him hospitalized for six days.
The bare details we know about the case come from the city agency charged with digging into civilians' complaints of police misconduct, New York's Civilian Complaint Review Board. But investigators faced a significant impediment: the NYPD itself.
Seven body cameras worn by officers captured at least some of the incident. CCRB investigators requested the videos. The law requires the NYPD to cooperate, but the department declined to share most of the footage. The NYPD told the CCRB it was protecting the privacy of the teenager, whose face was captured in the footage. Rather than blurring the teen's face, the NYPD shared just one video. It began after the 21-year-old was already handcuffed.
When ProPublica shared the CCRB's summary of the case with the now-retired federal judge who ordered that NYPD officers use body cams, she had a clear response.
"This just seems like contempt," Shira Scheindlin told ProPublica. "I understand privacy concerns. But they're refusing to meet their obligations."
"The law requires the NYPD to cooperate, but the department declined to share most of the footage."
The NYPD declined to discuss the case with ProPublica. But the department's refusal to share evidence of its own officers' potential misconduct isn't an aberration. It's routine.
Despite its legal obligations, the NYPD has been withholding significant evidence and undermining investigations of alleged abuse. It has stopped sharing a wide variety of paper records and has been redacting the names of potential witnesses from others without explanation. For two months this year, it allowed officers to refuse to be interviewed by CCRB investigators. And, critically, it often doesn't produce body-worn camera footage.
An internal CCRB memo obtained by ProPublica enumerates roughly a dozen kinds of records withheld or redacted across the board: warrants, arrests records, documents listing who was in station house cells — key for finding witnesses — even officer injury reports.
After seeing a list of records being withheld, Dan Bodah, a former senior CCRB investigator paused. "My God, that's really bad," he said. "Those are all the tools I would use routinely in investigations."
An analysis this year by the CCRB underlines the particular power of the body cam footage that the NYPD is often withholding. The percentage of allegations substantiated against officers more than doubles when investigators can see the body cam videos. Video also increases the percentage of allegations that are deemed unfounded. The outcome that's less likely with video is the conclusion that's long been the default: Investigators file away the case without any conclusion at all.
At least on paper, the NYPD has more oversight than perhaps any police department in the country. Few other cities have an inspector general devoted to the police. The court ruling that mandated body cameras also imposed a federal monitor. And the CCRB is the largest civilian oversight agency of the police in the country, with more than 200 staffers.
But the NYPD is the most powerful department in the country's largest city. With a $6 billion budget, 36,000 officers and a direct line to the mayor, the NYPD has long wielded its clout to fend off scrutiny. And that has often left the CCRB and even the City Council struggling to exercise meaningful oversight of the department.
"The percentage of allegations substantiated against officers more than when investigators can see the body cam videos."
In a response to a lengthy set of detailed questions for this story, the NYPD offered the following statement:
"The NYPD makes every effort to provide both the IG and CCRB relevant information they need to perform their work. In certain instances, such as sealed records or information that may identify a sex crime victim, state law requires certain redactions are applied or records protected. The NYPD works with both agencies to exhaust available alternatives when such legal constraints are present."
The lack of cooperation led the CCRB to publicly raise the issue in early August. After the agency moved to do remote interviews during the coronavirus pandemic, the police unions told officers to refuse to participate, citing privacy concerns about videoconferencing. Officers stopped cooperating with the agency, and their superiors at the NYPD declined to step in.
Where the CCRB typically did around 200 officer interviews a month, the agency said it did six total in June and July. After the CCRB called an emergency meeting to take up the issue, the police commissioner, Dermot Shea, ordered officers to appear. The unions said while they don't trust the CCRB to keep the interviews confidential, their members will comply.
About 500 investigations into alleged misconduct are now awaiting officer interviews, according to the CCRB. Generally, any disciplinary action would have to be imposed within 18 months of the incident, though the state has paused that clock because of the pandemic and in particularly serious cases, investigations can be extended.
Last month, ProPublica published thousands of previously secret case histories arising from civilian complaints. ProPublica obtained the records after New York state repealed the law that for decades made personnel records for police officers, firefighters and correction officers confidential. Unions have sued to stop the release of most of the records, arguing that releasing unsubstantiated complaints, like those published by ProPublica, unfairly harms reputations because the investigations were inconclusive.
Yet, hindered by the NYPD's recalcitrance, the CCRB is only able to substantiate a small fraction of the cases it receives. In 2018, it looked into about 3,000 allegations of misuse of force and was able to substantiate 73.
"Unions have sued to stop the release of most of the records."
The CCRB does have subpoena power and could sue the NYPD. But current and former CCRB officials told ProPublica they couldn't recall a time it's done so. The agency is effectively under the control of the mayor, who historically has chosen the CCRB's leaders.
"If the mayor isn't going to back it, it's a completely meaningless entity," said Richard Emery, who was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014 to chair the agency and served in that role until 2016.
Emery said the CCRB needs to stop being "timid." But "it's really the mayor stifling the agency from doing their job."
Another former top CCRB official had a similar take.
"I blame the mayor for all of it. This is his police department. They report to him," said Florence Finkle, who most recently served on Seattle's federally appointed police monitoring team. "The City Council should be outraged and people should be marching in the streets."
The mayor's office did not address ProPublica's questions about the NYPD's lack of cooperation with investigators and de Blasio's responsibility.
"At his core, the Mayor believes in transparency and reform, as his record clearly shows," Press Secretary Bill Neidhardt said in a statement. "The Mayor's goal is to strengthen the bond between police and neighborhoods, and that starts with cooperation and a drive for reform."
Last week, City Hall informed the CCRB that it will face budget cuts and layoffs.
The CCRB itself declined requests for comment for this article. ProPublica's account is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former agency staffers, as well as public and internal records.
""If the mayor isn't going to back the CCRB, it's a completely meaningless entity,"
In the case of the officer who broke the young man's foot and caused a brain injury, the CCRB, which has only released an anonymized summary of the incident, did rule that the officer had violated NYPD rules.
But the CCRB's finding isn't binding. Before any discipline can be imposed, an NYPD judge will hold an internal trial and then the police commissioner will make a final ruling. CCRB prosecutors will have a chance to make their case. But without the footage from the other body cameras, they won't have what could be the most vital evidence in the case: video of the confrontation.
Seventy years ago, a coalition of advocacy groups in New York pushed the city to address "police misconduct in their relations with Puerto Ricans and Negros specifically."
In response, the city created the Civilian Complaint Review Board. It was a committee of high-ranking police officials.
Police unions have fought ever since to limit the CCRB's authority and independence. When Mayor John Lindsay moved to put a few civilians on the board in the mid-1960s, police unions organized a ballot measure that rolled back the change. "I'm sick and tired of giving in to minority groups with their whims and their gripes and shouting," the head of one of the unions said.
Nearly 30 years later, David Dinkins, the city's first Black mayor, sought to move the CCRB out from under the NYPD. The proposed change stirred union leaders to gather thousands of off-duty officers outside City Hall. Officers, mostly white, stormed through barricades and blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
"They drained cans of beer and pushed and screamed and shook their fists in the air and shoved people and kicked them and threatened them," wrote Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin. "Some waved toilet plungers and others held up a sign saying, 'Dump the Washroom Attendant.' This meant the mayor."
The lawless spectacle generated its own outrage and, in 1993, Dinkins' changes were enacted, among them granting the CCRB subpoena power.
"David Dinkins, the city's first Black mayor, sought to move the CCRB out from under the NYPD."
The law is clear. The agency "may compel the attendance of witnesses and require the production of such records and other materials as are necessary for the investigation of complaints."
But the hurdles are clear too. Both agencies are represented by the same lawyers: the city's Law Department. And it's been the mayor who's chosen many members of the CCRB's board, including the chair. (After a city referendum last year changed the setup, the mayor and City Council jointly reappointed the current chair, the Rev. Fred Davie. Davie, who has at times criticized the NYPD's lack of cooperation, did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)
"The CCRB would need to get permission from the Law Department before they could even serve a subpoena on the police department," said a current staffer. "It would be a huge deal." (The staffer declined to be named since they did not have the CCRB's permission to speak to a reporter.)
Even years ago, getting records from the NYPD "was a constant struggle," said Finkle, who was the board's executive director in the mid-2000s. Finkle contrasted the setup with her time later at the city's Department of Correction, where she oversaw internal investigations. "We had instant access to video and records. You could access it all from your desk. Every investigator. It makes a huge difference." (Finkle resigned from the Department of Correction after a federal investigation found the oversight there also to be lacking.)
Police obstruction has long been an issue for civilian oversight boards across the country. San Francisco's Department of Police Accountability recently outlined problems accessing documents and requested direct access.
But in some cities, civilian oversight agencies face less resistance. In Atlanta, the Citizen Review Board does not have direct access, but it seems to have no problem getting what it requests. "We haven't had any issues receiving information for our requests, so that's been beautiful," Executive Director Samuel Lee Reid II said.
The NYPD's cooperation has ebbed and flowed over the years. By many accounts, the police's cooperation with the agency reached a high point under Emery, the former CCRB chair, who was friendly with then-Commissioner William Bratton.
"I think this is a chance to get it right," de Blasio said when he appointed Emery. Before his appointment, Emery had worked as a civil rights attorney and had repeatedly sued the city.
But Emery, who clashed with police unions during his tenure, resigned two years later after two staffers filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexist remarks. (They droppedthe suit, which Emery called frivolous, after he resigned.) De Blasio also faced strong criticism from the unions early in his tenure, for what they asserted was a lack of support for the police.
"In Atlanta, the Citizen Review Board seems to have no problem getting what it requests."
The unions have long fought against what they say is the CCRB's unfair treatment of officers. The Police Benevolent Association, for example, has argued that complainants should face potential perjury charges if they were found to be lying. The union has said that civilians' testimony should be held to the same standard as officers. Civilians are required to swear to the accuracy of their testimony, just not explicitly under penalty of perjury.
Then about two years ago, CCRB investigators started to notice that documents they had been getting stopped being shared or were now being given with wide swaths blacked out.
In one case, a 15-year-old recounted walking home from a birthday party when plainclothes police responding to a fight started chasing him. An officer driving his car hit the boy, who is Black, and then officers tackled the teenager, punching and kicking him before handcuffing him and bringing him to the station.
Officers acknowledged, as a CCRB report put it, "directly interacting with the Complainant" and seeing other officers struggle to handcuff him.
As the CCRB was investigating, the NYPD gave the agency a record that would have listed other people also arrested that night and brought to the station house. Investigators have often used such lists to identify potential witnesses. But the police blacked out the civilians' names and other details.
The NYPD later told the CCRB that an officer did document the stop of the 15-year-old. But the record, which would have included the officer's name, was gone: The precinct had erased it.
The police told the CCRB the precinct had "voided" the report, an explanation that has left CCRB officials puzzled. "You can void an arrest," said Andrew Case, another former agency investigator. "But I don't understand how you can 'void' a stop report. The whole point is to record that the stop happened."
An NYPD spokesperson did not address questions about the incident.
The investigation into the boy's allegations ended inconclusively. The CCRB didn't have the ability to find out a basic fact: which officers were involved. An agency report described the case as closed because "officer(s) unidentified."
The NYPD hadn't announced any change in policy. Investigators just started comparing notes and realized it wasn't isolated cases. That's when a CCRB staffer put together a memo listing the documents the department was blocking. "When the NYPD redacts or withholds the following documents," the memo written in 2018 noted, "they do not provide a rationale."
"The CCRB didn't have the ability to find out a basic fact: which officers were involved."
In another memo, written in July 2019 and posted to the CCRB's website, the agency said the NYPD had started refusing to provide certain holding cell logs in 2018 that the oversight agency described as "invaluable" for identifying civilian and officer witnesses to misconduct.
The NYPD has made it particularly difficult for the CCRB to investigate the most serious cases, where a civilian has died or been seriously injured. The police do their own investigations on those cases, and while they do, the NYPD does not give the CCRB records or, usually, allow officers to be interviewed.
"We know people's memory degrades over time," another CCRB staffer said. "So the more the NYPD delays, the more compromised our investigations become."
The NYPD also declined to answer questions about this aspect of police oversight.
Finkle, the former CCRB executive director, said the NYPD did the same thing when she ran the agency more than a decade ago. "It was problematic then too," Finkle said. "It prevented the CCRB from being able to conduct effective investigations into the most serious, high-profile cases."
Some of the NYPD's internal investigations lead to criminal charges, usually in an indictment by a grand jury. But most don't. "I understand deferring to prosecutors when they're running a grand jury," Scheindlin, the former judge, said. "It's quite wrong to use it as an excuse not to have an independent civilian authority do its work."
In Miami, by contrast, civilian boards are entitled by law to dig into serious cases at the same time as internal police department investigators.
While the NYPD has declined to discuss the reason for its increasing lack of cooperation with the CCRB, it began around the time the NYPD's legal department expanded and a new unit was created: the Risk Management Bureau.
The office describes its mission as working with "government agencies in a collaborative effort to improve policing and community relations."
"The more the NYPD delays, the more compromised our investigations become."
Rather than publicly call attention to the NYPD blocking release, the current executive director of the CCRB, Jonathan Darche, convened meetings with the Police Department, including the Risk Management Bureau, and the city's Law Department.
"The NYPD would say, 'Oh, that's what you want, we'll work on that,'" said a person familiar with the discussions. "We kept going to meetings and nothing changed." Darche declined to comment for this story.
The CCRB declined to confirm or deny any details to ProPublica about records being withheld or redacted — though the agency's latest semiannual report cites it.
The report notes "the NYPD's failure to provide, or providing only in a redacted form, certain documents previously available to the CCRB." The mention comes at the end of a long paragraph on Page 8.
As the NYPD increasingly withheld records starting around 2018, the department was equipping many officers with body-worn cameras, as Scheindlin had required five years earlier when she ruled that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional and racially biased.
The cameras have made a difference. When the agency investigates a use of force complaint and there's no body-worn camera footage available, the CCRB found, the agency substantiates just 14% of the allegations. When the CCRB does get footage from body-worn cameras, it substantiates 40% of allegations.
The percentage of use of force cases that the CCRB finds are unfounded also climbs, from 11% of allegations without body cam video to 14% of allegations with it.
But while Scheindlin mandated the use of the cameras, control of the footage was left in the hands of the city and the NYPD.
Statistics compiled by the CCRB through part of last year show the results: The NYPD has increasingly told the agency it's found no relevant footage. This happens in about half of all cases. When the NYPD does share video, it takes longer to do so and, increasingly, redacts it. By the second quarter of last year — the latest period for which the agency has calculated figures — the NYPD was blacking out portions of footage from about two-thirds of the videos it shares.
The NYPD declined to answer questions about its cooperation with the CCRB on sharing body-worn camera footage.
Over Time, More Body Camera Videos Are Redacted Than Not
The NYPD has increasingly redacted body-worn camera footage it releases to the CCRB.
The two agencies signed a deal last fall that would give civilian investigators improved access — but with a number of limitations. According to the nine-page memorandum, CCRB investigators would be able to go into a NYPD office and watch full videos. But they wouldn't be allowed to copy any footage, nor could they use anything they see to start a new investigation. And they also agreed that during the most serious investigations, the NYPD could withhold footage from the CCRB. The arrangement has been indefinitely delayed because of the pandemic.
Civilian investigators in some cities, such as Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, have unfettered access. They have system logins and can see footage for themselves.
In New York, investigators have no way to know whether the police are sending them all the relevant footage. Indeed, the NYPD has frequently told the CCRB that footage doesn't exist, only for the agency to later learn it does when the video is cited in the news or elsewhere.
The July 2019 CCRB memo counted 18 instances where the CCRB learned of footage despite having been told none existed, but it noted it was "impossible to know" the real figure. The same memo concluded that the Police Department's current practices were "inhibiting the CCRB's ability to adequately provide civilian oversight."
"We asked for video of the arrest of a person during the protests," one of the CCRB staffers said. "They sent us back a video after the arrest. We were like: 'That's awesome. Can you please send us the video of the arrest?' And then they sent us video before the arrest. And we were like, 'We still want footage of the arrest.' And now we're waiting for that."
"It's funny if it wasn't tragic," the staffer said. "The things that stop accountability are often tiny little things like that."
Scheindlin is also frustrated about how her order for the NYPD to adopt body cams has played out. "I didn't think progress was going to be this slow," she said. "It was slower to get cameras. And now it's slower to get CCRB access to the cameras."
She pointed her finger at the mayor. "De Blasio was supposed to be a reformer. I think he's totally caved to the unions."
"The NYPD has frequently told the CCRB that footage doesn't exist, only for the agency to later learn it does."
As huge crowds protested across New York City after George Floyd's killing, the mayor and others moved to respond. De Blasio announced a series of reforms: The NYPD would quickly investigate — within two weeks — any police incident in which a civilian suffered "serious bodily harm." He also said the NYPD would also publicly release "all video and audio footage" from such incidents within a month.
"New Yorkers are speaking up, and their city is listening," de Blasio said. These historic reforms will make the disciplinary process faster, fairer and more transparent."
Days later, police arrived at the Queens apartment of a man named George Zapantis. The 29-year-old and a neighbor had been arguing about a bright floodlight in the backyard. Zapantis, according to family, had mental health issues and wanted the light on because he was afraid of another neighbor who had been harassing him.
Police showed up a few minutes later, responding to a call from a passerby who had heard the argument and thought someone mentioned a gun. Neighbors told police about Zapantis' mental health issues and suggested that the officers wait to approach until his mother came home.
"They were very arrogant," Shaniqua Noble told ProPublica. "They heard me say it. They didn't act accordingly."
Zapantis, who worked as a security guard, had called his mother. "He said: 'Mommy, I see the cops outside. I don't know why,'" his mother told THE CITY, which has reported extensively on the case.
The police approached Zapantis' door, where he appeared agitated and told them he would call the police, despite officers telling him they were from the NYPD. "We're not going to hurt you, man," one officer said, according to body-worn camera footage of the incident that the NYPD released last week.
While the footage shows Zapantis initially had a sword on his waist, he later put the weapon down and spun around to show officers he was unarmed. But then he quickly grew upset and began punching through his door. That's when officers first used a Taser on him.
As officers struggled to handcuff Zapantis, they used a Taser at least six times. Zapantis started screaming, "I can't breath!" and "Help me!"
Then he became silent. By the time he was handcuffed, officers were checking his pulse and asking, "You OK?" Zapantis was pronounced dead about an hour later.
In a statement after the incident, an NYPD spokesperson said Zapantis was "holding a samurai sword and refusing to comply with the officers' directives and orders." (The NYPD did not address ProPublica's questions about the case.)
On July 13, Zapantis' family filed a complaint against the officers with the CCRB. But the agency has been largely blocked from looking into the case. The NYPD is doing its own investigation, along with the state attorney general, so the NYPD hasn't shared key records nor has the CCRB been able to interview officers. It's now been eight weeks since Zapantis died.
At the beginning of the NYPD's video presenting footage from the incident, a police spokesman gave a preamble. He warned not to expect the internal investigation to wrap up anytime soon: "Sometimes these investigations may require a year or longer to complete."
Eric Umansky is a deputy managing editor of ProPublica, where he has overseen two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. Most recently, a series he edited on NYPD abuse of "nuisance abatement" laws won the Pultizer Gold Medal for Public Service. Umansky now oversees ProPublica's Trump administration coverage
Mollie is a Scripps Howard Foundation research fellow at ProPublica. A graduate of the University of Georgia, she previously worked as a researcher for LegiStorm and as a reporter for the Anderson Independent-Mail and Greenville News in South Carolina.
This article was co-published with THE CITY.
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The NBA's Black Power
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Federal Judge Tackles Police Immunity Law
The Black judge listed the injustices of "qualified immunity," which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law
Alene Tchekmedyian
LA's Gang-Infested Police are Deadly – and Costly
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city's Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow c
Clarence Taylor
Reviving the False Narrative on Police
The antidote to police lawlessness isn't more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
Jeff Haas and Dennis Cunningham
The Torture Machine, Racism and Violence in Chicago
Chicago's torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument.
The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism
Trump wants to "surge" against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nida Khan
When Even The FBI Can't Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Justice for Atatiana, Abolish Police Domestic Terrorism
Terror in blue: a white cop shoots through a window to kill a young Black woman playing video games with her nephew.