Jason Whitlock: The Nolan Wells case is being used to incite racial violence



As the investigation into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells continues, a growing number of public figures — who BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes are installed chaos agents — are claiming race must have played a role.

“All of these leaders — they’ve all been installed. They’ve all been installed to promote chaos. And there’s no bigger example than Ben Crump,” Whitlock says.

“This man being dressed up as some lawyer with zero command of the English language, someone that literally probably has an IQ hovering around 70. And he’s out here running around as the face of the civil rights movement and a respected civil rights attorney and being quoted in newspapers and media organizations all across the country,” he continues.

“And he’s been allowed to parachute in like a carpetbagger, to parachute into Mississippi, and just to stir racial animus. And he’s been joined by Jasmine Crockett and others to stir racial animosity,” he adds.


And a clip of Crockett speaking to TMZ only proves his point.

“Some people feel like it’s racially motivated. What do you think?" a reporter asked Crockett.

“I mean, I think that specifically as black Americans in the United States right now, we are always going to question whether or not there is a racial motivation,” Crockett responded.

“But also, if you know the history of Mississippi, I think that you’d have to be blind not to question potentially what is happening, especially in the case of an 18-year-old who ends up deceased without his cell phone, without any communication whatsoever with anybody prior to ending up deceased,” she continued.

“And he was out with his Caucasian friends. And then law enforcement tells everybody there’s no foul play to be suspected. Now, a blind man could see that there’s something to investigate,” she added.

“Well, it sounds like you think it is racially motivated,” the reporter answered.

“I absolutely think that I can tell you that we don’t have any answers, but if you think that race is not something to look at, then you are not really trying to investigate,” Crockett said.

When the reporter pressed further, Crockett pointed out that the “white kids deleted their social media accounts.”

“It looks like a racial thing to me, but hey, maybe we’ll find out that it wasn’t,” she added.

“That’s illogical thinking. That’s another reason why we need to repeal the 19th Amendment,” Whitlock comments.

“Out here running her mouth about something she knows virtually nothing about. … And oh, of course, it must be racist. Kids don’t drown in boating accidents during the summer, during Fourth of July weekends,” he continues.

“That never happens. It has to be racial,” he adds.

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A young black man died 'in proximity to white people.’ Now his family has crowdfunded over $650,000.



18-year-old Nolan Wells mysteriously disappeared on July 4th while with a group of friends, before his body was discovered just off of Horn Island in Mississippi.

The case has picked up national attention because Wells was the only black one among his white friends — and while details of what happened are still muddy, Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are all over it.

“Obviously, Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, Nolan Wells’ family are suggesting that it’s more than a drowning. And I think we’re starting to figure out why,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock explains.

The family has launched a GoFundMe, which has passed $650,000 and continues to climb.


“They’re following in a pattern that we saw from Karmelo Anthony’s family. Karmelo Anthony murdered Austin [Metcalf], somehow started a GoFundMe or GiveSendGo, raised nearly a million dollars off of murdering Austin Metcalf, and allegedly this was to offset the legal fees of the Karmelo Anthony family,” Whitlock explains.

“But clearly people have recognized that if your son or daughter — black — dies in any proximity to white people, you can racialize that, start a GoFundMe, and collect, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he says.

“What are the legal fees that the Nolan Wells family are offsetting here? Maybe it’s this independent autopsy, but this seems like a money-grab,” he speculates. “This seems like ‘my black child has died and I’m owed reparations. I’m owed some sort of financial settlement because my black child died in proximity to a white person, and I get to launch a charity off of this tragedy, and that money will help soothe the pain of the loss of my child.’”

Whitlock believes that while the argument for needing hundreds of thousands of dollars could be that “Mississippi is so racist” that the money is needed to get “law enforcement in Mississippi to pursue the truth,” "there’s also the other argument that some people could make is ‘if I don’t have money, I can’t manipulate the truth. I can’t produce the truth that I want,’” he says.

“And I’m pointing to Karmelo Anthony as he laid the blueprint,” he continues. “But maybe I should point even further back that this has been the point of the entire Black Lives Matter movement from the get-go.”

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Jason Whitlock: Race hustler Ben Crump joins Kohen Wiley’s mom in exploiting Mississippi tragedy



Tragedy struck Senatobia, Mississippi, when police were called to Walmart for a shoplifting call. When police confronted a pair of adults, one allegedly drove a car toward the officers, who then shot at the car — killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

“They are arguing that they weren’t running their car into the police and there was no reason for the police to shoot into the car,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says.

However, regardless of what the truth is, Whitlock has found the mother’s reaction tragic as well.

The mother, Vellesiya Wiley, posted photos of herself at the funeral, fanning out a stack of cash and holding a stuffed animal.

“The mother looks like a child. That looks like a teenage mother. That looks anywhere from age 15 to 20 years old to me, is what this mother looks like. But this is at the funeral,” Whitlock says. “What are you doing?”


“I have some sympathy because she’s a child, the mother seems to be. And so she’s reacting like a child,” he adds.

Attorney Ben Crump didn’t waste time chiming in on the devastating news, writing in a post on X that he “will be commissioning an independent autopsy for baby Kohen Wiley because this family deserves the truth.”

“We are calling on the Senatobia Police Department to release the body camera footage now. Kohen Wiley will never get the chance to grow up. His mother will carry this pain for the rest of her life. There must be full transparency and accountability in this case,” he continued. “Justice for baby Kohen!”

“Ben Crump, the ambulance chaser. The illiterate ambulance chaser that barely has command of the English language,” Whitlock comments.

“There doesn’t seem to be much disagreement. The child was shot. What’s the autopsy going to show?” he asks, before pointing out that regardless, “one of the major takeaways” should be, “Don’t use your child if you’re planning on committing any sort of crime.”

“Don’t take your child with you if you’re planning on shoplifting. If you’re planning on doing anything illegal, leave your child with a babysitter at home. Don’t carry your child. And if you decide to get in your car and drive away as police try to detain you, really don’t have your child involved,” he continues.

“But we’ve created a society and a mentality and a culture that says, ‘No, other people are responsible for my safety’ ... This is a toxic, poisonous, deadly mindset and culture that we’ve created that too many black people have fallen for,” he adds.

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Attorney for George Floyd's family recommends redefining crime to accommodate 'black culture' in MSNBC program



Benjamin Crump, an attorney who has at one time or another represented the families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Malcolm X, and Ahmaud Arbery, has come up with a radical solution to the problem of crime in America: rather than fight crime, the powers that be ought to simply redefine it.

Crump made the case for redefining crime to accommodate "black culture" in a new race-centered program that debuted on MSNBC earlier this month entitled "Black Men in America: Road to 2024."

According to the network, the program highlights "the intersection of society, race and culture to provide a candid and intimate look at America through the eyes of an overlooked voting block [sic] — Black men."

In one scene, Crump tells MSNBC contributors Charles Coleman Jr., Trymaine Lee, and Al Sharpton during a distracted game of pool, "We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that. And people ask, 'How, attorney Crump?' Change the definition of crime."

"Of course," responded Charles Coleman.

"If you get to define what conduct is going to be made criminal, you can predict who the criminal's gonna be," added Crump.

The Daily Caller noted the stunning proposal came about after the pool-table panelists broached the subject of the criminal justice system under President Joe Biden.

Coleman, a former prosecutor, bemoaned the "circular argument" concerning authorities going "where the crime is."

"I tell people all the time, if you looking for something, you gonna find it," said Coleman. "So it becomes self-fulfilling in terms of, 'Well, we go where the crime is.' No, you're going and you're finding crime. And if you went somewhere else, guess what? You find it there too."

After Trymaine Lee aborted his attempt to make the case that black men are treated as criminals simply on account of their skin color, Crump suggested that American laws were created to specifically target black citizens.

"They made the laws to criminalize our culture, black culture," said Crump. "So when I think of Eric Garner, I would think of stuff like that."

"They come up with things to profile us for," continued the attorney, citing baggy pants and garbage-littered front lawns as supposed examples of racially-specific causes for interventions by the law.

Crump suggested further that profiling was involved in the case of George Floyd when he allegedly attempted to buy cigarettes with counterfeit money — an act that would have been unlawful for men of all races.

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Florida mom fatally shot in front of her child amid longstanding 'neighborhood feud'



A Florida mother of four was shot through the front door of her neighbor's home Friday as her 9-year-old son stood next to her, ABC News and other outlets reported.

"I wish our shooter would have called us instead of taking actions into her own hands," Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said at a press conference Monday addressing the death of 35-year-old Ajike "AJ" Owens of Ocala, Florida.

"I wish Mrs. Owens would've called us in hopes we would've never gotten to the point which we are at today."

The incident reportedly began Friday night when children were paying near the neighbor's home. Woods said the shooter was "engaged" with the children but could not say whether she was "yelling" at them.

A press release from the victim's family's attorneys said the shooter was yelling at the children and calling them racial slurs. The press release also says the children had left an iPad behind. When they went to retrieve it, the woman threw it, hitting one of the kids and cracking the screen.

"Was something thrown at them? Yes. But not directly at them is what we're being told now. It just unfortunately may have hit them," Woods said, emphasizing that interviews are not yet complete.

After the interaction with the children, the shooter went inside her home, the sheriff said. At that point, Owens' son informed her of the interaction with the neighbor, and Owens came to the shooter's home to confront her.

Woods, emphasizing that this information came from "one side" of the story, said there was "a lot of aggressiveness" from both women in the interaction that took place with Owens on one side of the door and the shooter on the other. Woods described "banging on the door" and "threats being made."

Woods said the shooter was "cooperating" with the investigation.

Deputies responding to a trespassing call found Owens suffering from a gunshot wound. Though they immediately rendered aid, Owens passed away, Sheriff Woods said.

"We know that this has basically been a neighborhood feud over time," the sheriff said, explaining that calls about the children had been made to law enforcement multiple times from Ms. Owens and the shooter. The first report he had was from January 2021. He estimated six to eight calls in total.

Sheriff Woods went on to explain that Florida's "stand your ground" law requires law enforcement officers to follow certain instructions. Those instructions disallow making an arrest if the officers believe the law may come into play.

"What we have to rule out is whether deadly force was justified or not before we can even make the arrest. Sometimes it becomes difficult. Sometimes it becomes an obstacle, but only a temporary obstacle," Woods said.

Woods implored the community to pray for the children involved.

The neighbor who allegedly fatally shot Owens has moved out, WOFL reported. The neighbor had reportedly received death threats and someone had broken into her apartment through a window.

Owens' family retained attorneys Ben Crump and Anthony D. Thomas to represent them in the matter, the Ocala StarBanner reported.

Crump and Thomas held a press conference with family members at New St. John Missionary Baptist Church. The family are demanding that the unidentified shooter "be arrested for this unjustified shooting."

Watch a press conference below with the Marion County Sheriff's Office on the shooting death of Ajike "AJ" Owens.



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Ben Crump Picks Another Winner: A Black Man Who Died After Attacking A Black Man And Choking A Woman

Ben Crump is, once again, trying to stir up controversy as he works to get federal investigators involved in an open-and-shut local case.
Frightening photos of Alabama prisoner go viral, but state DOC claims he won't cooperate with medical advice
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Frightening photos of Alabama prisoner go viral, but state DOC claims he won't cooperate with medical advice



The family of a prisoner in Alabama has taken to social media to share photos which they say demonstrate that the state Department of Corrections has neglected his health. However, the ADOC has since released other information which suggests the man may have defied the recommendations of those treating him.

Kastello Vaughan, aka Kastellio, 32, has been housed at Elmore Correctional Facility since July 2019, serving a 20-year sentence for first-degree robbery, breaking into a vehicle, and several other crimes he committed in Baldwin and Mobile counties. Family members visited him on July 24 of this year, at which time his sister Kassie Vaughan claimed he appeared "in good condition." However, they say that they recently received alarming photos which indicate that his health has deteriorated rapidly of late. They visited him again on Sunday and said they are now convinced that prison officials have neglected his care.

"He's looking terrible," said another sister, Kascie Vaughan, twin sister of Kassie. "Just one word: terrible. He's feeling weak in spirit. He's really just, he's really feeling low. He doesn't look like Kastellio, the brother that we know."

Kassie Vaughan shared the disturbing images on Facebook, and they have since gone viral. Kastello Vaughan's lawyers — Lee Merritt, Harry Daniels, and Ben Crump — claim that he has lost 75 lbs. in less than a month. He also has difficulty walking, they say, and must wear absorbent undergarments, which a fellow prisoner must help him change.


In another post, Kassie Vaughan wrote that her brother's feet are still discolored and "swollen" to "the size of footballs," and that he "is scared to lose his legs and his life." She, other family members, and his legal team say they remain "deeply concerned about his safety in that prison."

However, the ADOC has released a statement claiming that Kastello Vaughan has been given "a constitutional level [of] care," but that he has not followed the advice of doctors and nurses. Officials claim that he has received medical attention at least 11 times since July 30, including surgery for a bowel obstruction on August 5. This bowel obstruction, the statement asserted, was a continued complication stemming from a gunshot wound he sustained previously.

However, the statement continued, Vaughan discharged himself "Against Medical Advice" five days later. After he was treated again for the same issue on September 3, the ADOC said Vaughan once again discharged himself AMA four days later and then "refused all medication."

"The ADOC offers medical assessment and treatment to all inmates but does not force them to accept that care," the statement concluded.

Kassie Vaughan dismissed that statement as "A LIE" on Facebook and denied that her brother ever signed a waiver to release his medical records, as the ADOC claimed in its statement. She asserted that he "is not in the correct mental state to sign anything."

On her brother's behalf, Kassie Vaughan also reportedly created a GoFundMe account, which has already raised nearly $51,000 for further legal expenses.

"It doesn't matter what Kastellio did, why he was in jail," said his attorney Harry Daniels. "Doesn't matter. As society as a whole, as human beings, we have a duty to one another. It doesn't matter what that person is imprisoned for.

"We need this man to get well, all right. We need him to get help. That's not asking for a whole lot."


Minneapolis reaches settlement with George Floyd's family for record $27 million



The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family. The record payout comes only weeks before the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with murder in Floyd's death on May 25.

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved the settlement Friday. Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey's office said he will approve the settlement.

The settlement includes $500,000 to revitalizing the 38th Street and Chicago Avenue business district where Floyd died, USA Today reported.

Moments after the vote, Council President Lisa Bender offered condolences to the Floyd family.

"I do want to, on behalf of the entire city council, offer my deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd, his friends and all in our community who are mourning his loss," Bender said, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "No amount of money can ever address the intense pain or trauma caused by this death to George Floyd's family or the people of our city."

Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing the Floyd family, released a statement on the record-breaking settlement.

"George Floyd's horrific death, witnessed by millions of people around the world, unleashed a deep longing and undeniable demand for justice and change," Crump said Friday. "That the largest pre-trial settlement in a wrongful death case ever would be for the life of a Black man sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end."

The Star Tribune noted that the $27 million to the Floyd family is the highest police payout ever in Minneapolis. In 2019, the Minneapolis Police Department paid $20 million to the family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who was killed by former Minneapolis police Officer Mohamed Noor.

In July, Floyd's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four Minneapolis police officers involved in the arrest that led to his death. The federal lawsuit claimed that the officers used "unjustified, excessive, and illegal, and deadly use of force."

Jury selection began this week for the trial involving Chauvin, who faces charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter in the death of Floyd. Chauvin was seen on video with his knee on Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Seven jurors have been seated as of Friday afternoon, and seven more are needed, according to KARE. Opening statements in the trial are scheduled for March 29.

The other three former officers – J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao — are scheduled to go on trial on Aug. 23. They are charged with aiding and abetting, second-degree murder, and manslaughter in Floyd's death.

Floyd died on May 25, and all four officers were fired the next day. Floyd's death spurred protests across the world.