Associate Justice Hugo Black, born in 1886 in Clay County Alabama. From Hugo Black’s 10th birthday until 1943, there were 195 lynchings in Alabama. From 1927 until 1937, there were 16 lynchings in Alabama while Hugo Black was Senator of Alabama. During Hugo’s time in Government, Senate from 1927 till 1937 and Supreme Court Justice 1937 to 1971 there were 391 Black people lynched on his turf. Hugo Black was a lifetime member of the KKK. In his mind he could not apply the 5th Amendment to Black People, which he admitted in open court. To him, blacks were Jim Crow and needed to answer to white cops. That’s just how he saw the world. Hugo Black went from KKK meetings to Senate Briefings to Supreme Court meetings, and eventually led the inquisition, in the Terry v. Ohio oral Arguments, that instilled the most invasive Civil Rights Ruling, in the modern era, that greatly affects us today.
John Terry, a black man, is a Supreme Court case from 1963, decided in 1968. This case shifted how the Supreme court applied racism. Before 1964, they would deny Blacks basis rights. After 64, and since the crack epidemic cops created policies around Stop and Frisk to violate black peoples’ basis rights. Overturn Terry then black people will not be subjected to mass surveillance and unlawful killings.
John Terry was racially profiled, reasonable suspicion was entirely based on McFadden, a white cops thoughts/feeling towards a black man. He grabs Terry, pats him down and find a gun. Before whites were arrested they must be read their rights. (Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).) Evidence obtained by violating a white persons’ rights is inadmissible. (Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 [decided by Earl Warren who also held the Japanese without due process in 1942].) None of this applied to Terry, because he was a black man.
The Terry v. Ohio Oral Arguments are held in December of 1967. Records show that McFadden testified that he had no probable cause to arrest Terry, saying he “didn’t like how he looked”. There are three things that happen between the Oral Arguments in December of 67 and issuance of the June 9th, 1968 Opinion. In February 1968 - The Orange-burg massacre. Cops in Florida ambush and murder a bunch of black people, just like in the 1873 Colfax Massacre. And to be honest, I can’t even imagine how bad the massacre was because white-history labels it; a massacre. April 4th 1968 - Martin Luther King Junior is assassinated and riots breakout in every major city across America. We just found out that the NYPD and the FBI murdered Malcolm X. Who really murdered MLK Jr? The real crusher, that ruined America, was on June 6, 1968, Robert Kennedy is assassinated. Three days later, the Supreme Court creates Terry Laws, June 9th, 1968.
“Terry Stop” was supposed to be about just lightly tapping on ya to see if you had any weapons. From 1968 until 1976, cops did this, to only black people. It could escalate and often did. Some cop, just walks up to you and saying, hey, you look suspicious, I’m going to pat you down for weapons. Cops then created Policy, around this Terry Process. Using the “Officer safety Doctrine” set forth by the Supreme Court, by the late 1970s, and into forcing onto your knees, on your belly, handcuffing you, locking you in a car and taking you to jail. If you are ever handcuffed during a Terry Stop, The “Detainment Procedures” can be challenged in court because those things mean arrested. The definition of seized cannot be changed to detained, simply because of a racist supreme court ruling. We must challenge the definition of detained and what that means. Especially in a digital era.
