06/21/2024
***Triumph over Terror! 👏🏽✊🏽👁️👀🗣️‼️
As many of you have been following, our Non-Profit Broadcasting Network, FFTSWBN, has been UNDER SEIGE by local law enforcement and judicial officials in retaliation for uncensored broadcasting. We announced intent to sue these agencies after illegal and unconstitutional raids last May, and just days later, our members were arrested for frivolous charges, framed up for unsolved crimes from 2019, harassed constantly, terrorized, sexually abused, and even faced attempts on their lives by these agencies.
Our followers are familiar with our everlasting commitment to the UNCENSORED TRUTH. We left the FM dial for this very reason. We REFUSED to be censored. We broadcast uncensored, unfiltered, TRUTH. We support our people, and speak up about injustice, discrimination, racism, classism, and large scale corruption. We will always stand with THE PEOPLE, regardless of what the “Powers that be” say we should NOT be broadcasting publicly.
This dedication to transparency has made our organization, and its champions, victims of a timeline of terror. We are now subjected to malicious prosecution for manufactured crimes, frame up’s for cold cases, public officials conspiring with confidential informants to spread rumors and try to destroy the organization’s reputation and business. We have been victims of multiple illegal raids and seizures of company property, and the latest development is proof of this long reign of tyranny.
A FFTSWBN Journalist attended a hearing for its Founder, Derrick Bernard Jr., and upon leaving, a Judge whom recused herself for reasons of “bias and prejudice”, Diana May, entered the elevator. During the 8 second ride from the 3rd Floor to the 1st floor, Judge May was asked questions about this case, that she no longer presided over, and her reasons for self recusal. Our Journalist displayed her press credentials, and identified herself as a member of the media. Judge May would later go to police and claim she was threatened during this 8 second ride.
Having no evidence of any actual or true threat, CSPD Officers, Max Nevarez III and Dan Carter, manufactured probable cause to obtain unlawful and unconstitutional warrants to search, and seize electronics. They seized our company vehicle with no warrant, obtaining one days later. The CSPD, along with the 4th Judicial District then filed felony charges against our Journalist, for “Intimidation of a Judge”. Ms. Blackcloud was forced to go to jail, and pay a $10,000.00 bond to be released.
The interaction in the elevator was being secretly recorded. Max Nevarez III used the mention of the existence of this recording to justify the illegal searches and seizures. When her phone was returned weeks later, this recording was mysteriously missing. This meant the interaction in the elevator would be left to a jury to decide the “word” of a Judge, or a Journalist. After consulting a data recovery specialist, the recording was recovered. This was the vital information that resulted in a full dismissal. This recording of the 8 second elevator ride proved that Judge May was NEVER threatened, and our correspondent was simply utilizing her 1st amendment rights to free speech, and freedom of the press.
During interviews with police Judge May accuses Ms. Blackcloud of threatening her, and also claims to have been stalked at her home by State Representative Regina English. She reported being afraid to be in her own front yard as a result of this. She personally requested “some time in incarceration”, for Ms.Blackcloud.
Max Nevarez III testified to never having any actual proof of a true threat. Yet somehow, was able to obtain authorization by Judge Laura Findorff to search, seize, and arrest. After testifying under oath that he was searching for this recording, and didn’t recover it, the recovered (previously deleted) recording was played in open court. This piece of evidence previously destroyed, was the key to the TRUTH about what really happened in the elevator. Judge Tuttle ruled that there was NEVER a threat made, and Ms. Blackcloud was acting under protected 1st Amendment privilege. Judge Tuttle ordered this arrest, warrants, and seizures, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and ordered the charges be dismissed on these grounds, and ALL property unlawfully seized to be returned immediately.
This is just one example of the sheer terror our organization and its members have endured at the hands of corrupt law enforcement and judicial officials within this city we call home. Our company vehicle was auctioned off without notice or authorization. Broadcasting equipment stolen during the unlawful raids last May has still not been returned. This is an assault on individuals, but more importantly, a covert and coordinated assault on our organization as a whole for refusing to be censored. This win coming after the dismissal of trumped up charges against our Founder, March 5th, 2024, for prosecutorial misconduct, and the dismissal of manufactured charges against our director in 2021.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. We will NOT be censored. We will continue the ELEVATION of our people and the pursuit of TRUTH for ALL.
