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Jay-Z's Team Roc Sues Kansas City Police over Alleged Misconduct Cover Ups

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Team ROC — the social justice arm of left-wing rap mogul Jay-Z company ROC Nation — which has previously bailed anti-police protesters out of jail, is now suing the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department (KCKPD) over allegations that the department covered up instances of police misconduct.

Jay-Z has spent years supporting far-left social organizations. In 2016, the streaming music service Tidal, which Jay-Z once held a major stake in, donated $1.5 million to the Marxist political organization Black Lives Matter and other social justice group.

The lawsuit — which was filed on Monday in the Wyandotte County District Court — is requesting access to records that it claims will expose complaints filed against members of the department’s investigative division, and documents related to the training and supervision of KCKPD officers, according to a report by ABC News.

Team ROC attorney Alex Spiro told ABC News that after requesting information through the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA), he believes the documents provided to him by the KCKPD were “not sufficient.”

“The government has attempted to block our access to those files, and so we’re suing to see what they don’t want us to see,” Spiro said.

The lawsuit claims the KCKPD has “refused to produce documents pertaining to any steps that the City has taken in response to those Complaints, including any investigations or disciplinary proceedings initiated as a result of the complaints.”

“These documents will help identify the scope of the problem, any potential evidence of a cover-up, and also the potential causes,” the lawsuit states.

KCKPD public information officer Nancy Chartrand told ABC News that “the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS has received notice that Roc Nation has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the Wyandotte County District Court today regarding an earlier open records request.”

“The Unified Government has previously produced hundreds of the requested records per the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) with some exceptions,” Chartrand added.

Chartrand went on to say that “KORA does not require the disclosure of personnel records and criminal investigation records, for example, without specific circumstances.”

“In response, Roc Nation has filed a 28-page petition stating there is a special interest in disclosing all records so the public can seek justice,” Chartrand said. “Once the petition has been thoroughly reviewed, the Unified Government will follow-up by filing a response.”

Last year, Jay-Z’s Team ROC teamed up with other social justice groups in an effort to bail out protesters arrested after taking to the streets following Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s announcement that police officer Joseph Mensah would not face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of Alvin Cole.

While the social justice arm of Jay-Z’s organization takes action against police, the rapper’s wife Beyoncé has spent years stoking anti-police sentiment in the U.S., and has emerged in recent years as one of the anti-police movement’s most affluent and influential supporters.

In 2016, Beyoncé used her platform as a performer at the Super Bowl 50 halftime to stage a tribute to the militant Black Panthers Party, which some, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, called a blatant attack on law enforcement. The pop star received a highway-clearing police escort to be sure she arrived at the Levi’s Stadium on time.

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.

OkCupid Pledges to Donate to Planned Parenthood for Every User that Promotes Abortion on Their Profile

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Dating app OkCupid has pledged to donate one dollar to the abortion mill operator Planned Parenthood for every user who promotes abortion on their profile with a special “pro-choice” badge.

OkCupid launched a “pro-choice” badge, which users can add to their profiles to inform the people they plan on meeting through the dating app that they support abortion. The company says it will donate one dollar to Planned Parenthood for every user who adds the feature to their profile, according to a report by the New York Times.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 25: Pro-choice activists, politicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood gather for a news conference and demonstration at City Hall against the Trump administrations title X rule change on February 25, 2019 in New York City. The proposed final rule for the Title X Family Planning Program, called the “Gag Rule,” would force a medical provider receiving federal assistance to refuse to promote, refer for, perform or support abortion as a method of family planning. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 25: Pro-choice activists, politicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood gather for a news conference and demonstration at City Hall against the Trump administrations title X rule change on February 25, 2019 in New York City. The proposed final rule for the Title X Family Planning Program, called the “Gag Rule,” would force a medical provider receiving federal assistance to refuse to promote, refer for, perform or support abortion as a method of family planning. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 06: Guests take a picture in the OkCupid photobooth during A Moth Summer Night’s Dream: The 20th Anniversary Moth Ball at Capitale on June 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for The Moth)

Chief Marketing Officer Melissa Hobley said the creation of the pro-abortion badge is in response to the recently enacted pro-life law in Texas, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat is detected.

“We support our users’ right to choose,” OkCupid reportedly said in a statement, according to a report by the Washington Free Beacon.

“Given the new, radical Texas law that essentially bans abortion access, it’s more important than ever to take a stand and we’ve found that our users want to be able to choose to filter for dates who are pro-choice more than they ever have before,” the company added in its statement.

OkCupid added that between September 2020 and September 2021 — before the development of the “Pro-Choice” badge — the number of users in the U.S. who wrote “pro-choice” in their bios increased by about 18 percent, reports the New York Times.

In recent years, OkCupid has made other types of badges available, so that users can signal their political stances to prospective hookups, including a “Black Lives Matter” badge, and a “voter” badge. In May, the dating app added an “I’m vaccinated” badge so that users can also disclose their private health information.

In a similar move earlier this month, the dating apps Bumble and Match pledged to help women get abortions in response to the life-saving law in Texas. The companies said they would create a so-called “relief fund” for women in Texas who want to kill their unborn children after their baby’s heartbeat is detected.

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.

Texas Mom: ‘I Do Not Want My Children to Learn About Anal Sex in Middle School’

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A Texas mother excoriated her local school board officials after reading an anal sex passage from a book that has been available in the libraries of middle schools in the district.

“I do not want my children to learn about anal sex in middle school,” Kara Bell asserted, before her microphone was reportedly cut off, according to KXAN News.

Warning: Sexually Explicit Language:

The Daily Mail provided a video of Bell’s comments to the school board:

Bell addressed the Austin-area Lake Travis Independent School District (ISD) Board Wednesday, quoting from the book Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez.

“Take her out back, we boys figured, then hands on the titties,” Bell read from the book.

“Put it in her coin box, put it in her cornhole, grab a hold of that braid, rub that Calico,” she continued reading.

Bell said she had to research the other meaning of the word “cornhole,” since she only knew the term as a bean toss game. She discovered the word is also a slang term for anal sex.

“‘I’ve never had anal sex, I don’t want to have anal sex,” said Bell, a former Lake Travis ISD school board candidate. “I don’t want my kids having anal sex. I want you to start focusing on education and not public health.”

According to KXAN, the following day the school district confirmed it pulled the book from the middle school libraries:

“Lake Travis ISD received a call (unidentified) that there was material of a pornographic nature in our Hudson Bend Middle School library,” read an initial statement from the district.

After that statement, a district spokesperson told us the book was removed from Hudson Bend and Bee Cave Middle Schools. Its contents will be reviewed with respect to board policy.

“A district possesses significant discretion to determine the content of its school libraries,” the spokesperson reportedly stated, elaborating:

A district must, however, exercise its discretion in a manner consistent with the First Amendment.

A district shall not remove materials from a library for the purpose of denying students access to ideas with which the district disagrees. A district may remove materials, because they are pervasively vulgar or based solely upon the educational suitability of the books in question.

NBC News headlined its interview with the book’s author in September 2015, with the words “Ashley Hope Perez’s ‘Out of Darkness’: Young Love Amid Racism, Segregation.”

The news story described the book as having been set “against the backdrop of a horrific 1937 explosion in East Texas which killed nearly 300 schoolchildren and teachers.”

NBC News said the book “stares unflinchingly at racism, classism, segregation, and the people who live on the margins of society.”

“From this dark, bleak horizon emerges a star-cross love story crossing color lines, between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl,” the report stated.

Perez responded to a question about what prompted her to write the book:

I wanted to do something different. And I thought, what if I write a historical novel that would be compelling to my students. What’s the novel they wouldn’t be able to put down? I wanted to write a book that would lead them to say, “Here’s an experience I can relate to, even though it takes place in the past.”

“Central Texas is one among many areas in the country that have become hotspots for these eruptions of local anger and disagreement,” Jonathan Friedman of Pen America, a group that says it “stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide,” told KXAN.

“I think to pretend books that deal explicitly with sex or sexual assault are in some way a threat to young people are doing them a disservice,” he added. “This is about having access for young people to a wide variety of literature that people from different backgrounds are reflected in.”

“You have a small contingent in many cases of parents who decide that they disagree, and that they must know better than those who are in the classroom,” he said.

Amazon.com categorizes the book as “Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction,” and provides the following editorial review:

Excerpt from School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up—This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory. The author’s note and acknowledgements pages give more background on the disaster. VERDICT Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez’s young adult novel gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history.—Ruth Quiroa, National Louis University, IL

According to KXAN, the school district said it is not clear how long a review of the book will take before it makes a decision.

Feminist Labour MP Backs Out of Conference After Threats From 'Woke' Trans Activists

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A female Labour Party MP has revealed that she will not attend the party’s conference this week over threats from “woke” straight white male transgender activists because of her feminist position that “only women have a cervix” and support for female-only spaces.

Rosie Duffield, who was elected to Parliament in a Tory Canterbury stronghold in 2017, said that she will not attend Labour’s conference in Brighton over security fears from the radical wing of her own party including from the socialist LGBT+ Labour campaign group.

The Labour MP said that she believes the majority of the threats come from left-wing “straight white men,” telling The Sunday Times: “There are some women who get involved and want to be seen to be very woke… but mostly it is men and the same men that have trolled me ever since I got elected.

“LGBT+ Labour now seem to hate my guts and I feared they’d have a massive go at me at [the] conference.”

“So it looks like, feels like and smells like misogyny, and this is just the latest cause they have latched on to… The fact that I am blonde — they call me a bimbo. The fact that I don’t like antisemitism. There is always something, but it is always the same people who attack me,” Duffield added.

Duffield, the chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party, said that for the first time in her life, she would not recommend women going into politics, saying: “I would have to really think about what I was asking them to do, and putting people into this position when they are going to be on the front line of some pretty shitty abuse.”

The Labour MP said that she took the decision to not attend the conference after discussing the threats made against her with the Kent police, the chief whip, and the Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

However, Duffield said that she did not really believe the radical transgender activists would follow through on their threats, but said that she did not want to become the “centre of attention” at the conference by attending with security guards.

The Labour MP initially drew the ire of the far-left wing of her party after liking a tweet from broadcaster Piers Morgan, in which he stated that only women could have cervixes. She has since angered the transgender wing for supporting women-only spaces, in light of her own experiences with domestic abuse from her former fiancé.

“Women have to feel safe in their own single-sex services and spaces like loos,” she said. “I have plenty of transgender friends who are completely OK with everything I say and we are able to have a completely civil dialogue about it.”

“Why are women so desperate to divorce themselves from everything they associate with being female?” she said. “Why are they so uncomfortable? Why is it such a terrible place to be? These are questions that need answering and need to be discussed sensibly. It certainly rings massive alarm bells for people like me, of my generation, who have been feminists their entire lives.”

In what has been described as an “unprecedented intervention”, the Speaker of the House of Commons waded into the debate to say that MPs should be able to exercise their duties and appear in public “without fear of harm”.

Speaking at a meeting of G7 Speakers over the weekend, Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: “Parliamentarians, who have been elected to speak up for their constituents, should be able to attend their own party conference without fear of harm.

“Too many people have been targeted for their opinion or the office they hold. In order to protect democracy, we need to ensure those participating can do so without threats of intimidation.”

He argued that social media companies should take a bigger role in policing threats made against politicians, saying: “The fact is, these people who want to say ‘I want to murder him’, ‘I want to target him’, somebody had claimed they were going to put a bomb under my car, these are the kinds of things that we shouldn’t tolerate, we shouldn’t accept.

“So we’ve got to stamp them out together and call it out. And that’s what’s so important.”

Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here @KurtZindulka

School Superintendent Resigns After Parents Disagree with Critical Race Theory in Curriculum

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Dr. Martin Cox resigned as superintendent of Clarkstown Central School in Rockland County, New York, following parent concerns over Critical Race Theory being used in curriculum.

In a statement, Cox cited “personal reasons” for his resignation, News 12 the Bronx reported Wednesday.

The school board voted five to one Tuesday evening in support of his resignation but did not explain why he was leaving.

According to the outlet, the community and board members “lost faith” in him over the past few months and he was also viewed as anti-justice and anti-police for a delayed response pertaining to a controversial presentation by a student regarding Black Lives Matter.

The outlet continued:

Parents were also critical of his decision to enforce a mask mandate for students and staff this year before the CDC and state Health Department did. Parents got so outraged at a meeting that they had to end it after just 15 minutes, with parents yelling and refusing to wear masks.

Some parents applauded Tuesday night when they heard the announcement of his departure, although some did appreciate his work for their kids. Some parents tell News 12 many disagreed with Cox’s COVID-19 and mask mandates and that there was concern over talk of bringing critical race theory into the school’s curriculum as well as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, policies.

“I don’t think Marty Cox really was connected to the soul of the community and in being disconnected that turned a lot of people off to him and his policies,” parent Joe Solari told the station.

Christopher F. Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, shared a photo of Cox on Thursday, writing, “According to sources, parents banded together, filed FOIA requests, and pressured the board to oust him”:

“This isn’t ‘cancel culture,’ ‘white backlash,’ or any other dishonest framing from the media blob,” Rufo wrote in a subsequent post.

“It’s the heart of democracy: average citizens asserting their authority as voters, taxpayers, and parents, demanding that public institutions reflect the values of the public,” he added.

The school board issued a statement thanking Cox for his service and also told parents Jeff Sobel, assistant superintendent for personnel, would serve as interim superintendent until someone else was appointed.