Airbnb hires former US Attorney General Eric Holder

What happened…Sharpton turn them down? 

Stung by complaints of discrimination and racism among some of its hosts, Airbnb has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help it craft an anti-discrimination policy.

So I got this straight.

Airbnb is going to hire this Contempt of Congress waste of skin to "ease discrimination and racism"? Are you shitting me? This guy did nothing but foment racism his ENTIRE term in office! 

My house is on fire...quick someone get me a pail of gas!

Stedman will serve a dual purpose:

Not only is he a master at reducing racial tensions...he still has some half off specials in case you are in need of a firearm during  your stay.

Airbnb is drilling holes in the bilge to let the water out. They'll have lawsuits up to their eyeballs! Guess they believe a guy that can instigate racism so well can also prevent it. That's not in his DNA.

The home rental company announced last month that it would review all aspects of its platform with an eye to fighting bias and discrimination.

Critics have said that by creating a digital space that allowed individuals to rent out their homes and apartments, and more importantly pick and choose to whom they rent, Airbnb unwittingly enabled its hosts to act on their biases.

Holder's hiring is part of Airbnb's efforts to deal with the problems that have arisen. He said he was looking forward to working with Airbnb to develop and implement what the company calls "a world-class" anti-discrimination policy.

"Airbnb is committed to building a community where everyone can belong, no matter who they are or what they look like. I'm eager to help them craft policies that will be the model for companies who share Airbnb's commitment to diversity and inclusion," he said in a statement.

Holder was U.S. Attorney General from 2009 to 2015, during which he championed the civil rights of minorities and gays. He left a year ago and rejoined his former law firm, Covington & Burling.

During his tenure he oversaw a parallel civil rights inquiry into the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. During the inquiry his office issued written guidance to police across the country, identifying best practices to help police maintain public safety while safeguarding constitutional rights.'

In a post on Wednesday, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Airbnb has "an obligation to be honest about our own shortcomings, and do more to get our house in order."

Chesky said one part of the process has been learning how to fight explicit racism and the implicit biases that can lead to discrimination.

To that end, the company also engaged well-known anti-bias expert Robert Livingston of Harvard University to help it improve its unconscious bias training.

Livingston said that after meeting with senior Airbnb staff "I've concluded that the organization has a sincere and profound interest in eliminating any and all discriminatory bias on its website, and is prepared to fight the problem using multiple tactics."

The company has also created new staff positions that will work full-time to detect and address instances of discrimination, Chesky said.

He acknowledged that Airbnb has been slow to address these issues and that while the company was begun with the best of intentions "but we weren't fully conscious of this issue when we designed the platform."

Airbnb hires former US Attorney General Eric Holder

Looks like they got the cops dead to rights on this one

Let's not confuse this with the Michael Brown case. The cops here were totally wrong! Thank God they didn't kill the guy. Hope he collects big time.

Update:

It gets worse.

Miami police: Officer tried to shoot autistic man, hit caretaker instead

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Police shoot unarmed black therapist lying flat on his back with his arms in the air while he tried to calm his autistic patient and begged cops not to open fire

An unarmed Florida therapist was shot by police while trying to calm down his autistic patient, authorities said. 

Police in North Miami were responding to a report of a man with what appeared to be a gun when they came across Charles Kinsey and his patient, who had run away from a group home.

'All he has is a toy truck — a toy truck,' Kinsey pleads with cops, lying flat on the ground with arms raised, as seen in cell phone footage of the incident. 'I am a behavior therapist at a group home.'

Kinsey tries to get his patient to comply, using soothing words so he remains calm.

'Rinaldo, please be still, Rinaldo,' he is heard saying in video released by WSVN. 'Sit down, Rinaldo. Lay on your stomach.'

Therapist Charles Kinsey, 46, (left) was shot in North Miami while he was on the ground with his hands up. Throughout the ordeal, he tries to soothe his autistic patient (right), who was playing with a toy truck

Kinsey recounts to a local TV station how cops shot him while on the ground and then cuffed him 

Charles Kinsey says he was shot while lying with his hands up

The man, 23, sits next to him and yells 'shut up' while playing with his toy truck.

'Don't shoot me,' Kinsey begs. 

An officer then fires three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, authorities said.

No weapon was found. 

Kinsey is black. Police haven't released the name or race of the officer who shot him.

Kinsey, 47, says the 911 caller must have mistaken a toy that the autistic man had for a gun. 

'I'm like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising,' Kinsey told WSVN.

'I thought it was a mosquito bite, and when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I'm thinking I just got shot! 

'And I'm saying, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' and his words to me were, 'I don't know.''

Kinsey was taken to a local hospital with bullet wounds to his legs. He is expected to go home later this week

After the shooting, Kinsey and his patient were patted down. Kinsey was cuffed. 

'I was really more worried about him than myself,' he said of his patient. 

'I was thinking as long as I have my hands up, they're not going to shoot me. This is what I'm thinking, they're not going to shoot me. Wow, was I wrong.' 

North Miami police has placed the officer on administrative leave for at least a week,' the Miami Herald reported.

Kinsey's lawyer, Hilton Napoleon, said he is in talks with city officials about a possible settlement. 

'They realize this was something inappropriate regarding the shooting,' Napoleon told the Herald. 

'If police departments come out more and admit fault, that would probably go a long way.'

Kinsey is expected to recover and go home later this week.

Looks like they got the cops dead to rights on this one

Maura Healey steps up ban on military-looking rifles

This coming from someone who couldn't point out a .22 Long Rifle standing between a 12 gauge shell and a .308 Winchester!

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Attorney General Maura Healey stepped up the ban on military-looking rifles yesterday, prompting licensed gun enthusiasts to flood gun shops on what they believed might be the last day to buy AR-style guns here.

Healey issued a notice to all gun sellers and manufacturers in Massachusetts banning guns which appear like the Colt AR-15 and the Kalishnikov AK-47, but have been altered by manufacturers to conform to Massachusetts’ ban on adjustable stocks, high-capacity magazines and other features. An estimated 10,000 so-called “copycat” assault weapons were sold in Massachusetts last year alone, Healey’s office said.

They're both .223's but somehow you're "more dead" if shot by the military-looking rifle.

If you're going to judge on looks alone do you think this Muslim

could have been elected president only 7 years after 911?

“The gun industry has openly defied our laws here in Massachusetts for nearly two decades,” Healey said. “That ends today. We have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that combat-style weapons are off our streets and out of the hands of those who would use them to kill innocent people.

Cyndi Roy-Gonzalez, spokeswoman for Healey, said the office did not consider how many shootings in Massachusetts have been carried out with assault-style rifles, but insisted the ban is an effective anti-violence measure.

According to FBI statistics, rifles of any variety were used in just two of the Bay State’s 779 murders in the past five years, which were mainly carried out with handguns. In that same period, hands and feet were cited as the murder weapon 35 times.

“This isn’t a panacea,” Roy-Gonzalez said. “This isn’t going to solve the issue of gun violence. There’s a lot more that needs to be done. There’s been a law on the books since 1998. It’s up to us to enforce the law. The point is these guns are illegal and 10,000 of them were sold last year alone. ... These are guns that are used all over the country in Aurora, in Baton Rouge, in Dallas, in Orlando. Thankfully, we haven’t had the same kind of incidents here.”

Healey said stores with existing stock can transfer the weapons out of state where their sale is legal. The move could kill as much as 20 percent of business to some Bay State gun stores, one owner estimates.

“I understand what she’s doing. She’s saying it’s always been the law and now we’re enforcing it. It doesn’t seem right. She’s just reinterpreting the statute,” said Jack Gallagher, co-owner of Collector’s Gallery, a gun shop in Stoneham. “I’m sure there will be legal challenges from all angles.”

While several gun shops yesterday quickly sold out of military-style rifle variants, Gallagher did not sell any on advice of counsel. He said the profit wouldn’t outweigh the potential legal headaches.

“If I sold every AR in stock, I’d make a few thousand, but how much is it going to cost me in legal fees down the road,” he said.


So if you buy a Ford Focus in Massachusetts and 8 months later kill someone while driving drunk. That family sues you and the Ford dealer... right?

Maura Healey steps up ban on military-looking rifles

Obama Pens Open Letter to Police: 'We Have Your Backs'

President Barack Obama wrote an open letter to the nation's law enforcement community on Facebook, encouraging them, thanking them for their "courageous service" and ending it by writing, "We have your backs."

In the wake of police massacres in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Obama reaffirmed this reminder, one that must be chilling to the families of eight murdered officers in those cities. 

"And at the end of the day, you have a right to go home to your family, just like anybody else."

Obama has a tenuous relationship with police, as president having to comment on the many shooting deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, most recently in Baton Rouge and Minnesota and dating back to Ferguson, Missouri.

 "having to comment"?

Who forced him? 

Actually, they're wrong. It extends back to Gates and the 'Beer Summit' when Barry called the cops stupid. That was before he adopted Trayvon before all the facts were in.

"Some are trying to use this moment to divide police and the communities you serve," Obama wrote. "I reject those efforts, for they do not reflect the reality of our Nation. … As we bind up our wounds, we must come together to ensure that those who try to divide us do not succeed."

"Some are trying to use this moment to divide police and the communities..."

Of course, Barry never took part in any of that. 

What horseshit! 

Obama Pens Open Letter to Police: 'We Have Your Backs'

Is she Minnesota's biggest con artist?

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

The cop in Minnesota  who shot a drug user is being crucified by the Mainstream Media who is making a hero out of the woman who filmed her boyfriend's death on Facebook LIVE. But DML reveals never before video showing the woman verbally abusing her daughter, smoking weed, smoking cigarettes and drinking booze after declaring she is pregnant. Watch video of her abusive ways. HELP SAVE A COP. Please watch and share because FB is holding back posts.

(Sorry about the lip sync)

Does this prove Diamond "Lavish" Reynolds is a liar? No. But it does give you a more well-rounded look at what the woman is truly like. BTW...the video doesn't start until after her boyfriend was shot. So unless the cop was wearing a vest camera we may never know what really happened. It sounds typical a cop would ask for registration and a drivers license. But he would direct that question to the driver "Lavish"... not the passenger.

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Is she Minnesota's biggest con artist?