The man who took this picture, Frank Paletta, is not the grifter this post is about, though his interest to talk to me did seem to vanish pretty quick after he told me about this picture in a text exchange yesterday.
The killing of Oscar Grant, along with the aftermath, helped set the stage for the “Black Live Matter” grift by showing parasites like Shaun King how much money can be made off the corpses of dead black men.
Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed a $25,000,000.00 wrongful death claim against BART on behalf of Grant’s family. BART settled with Grant’s daughter and mother for a total of $2,800,000.00 in 2011. It also settled with several of Grant’s friends who had sued for damages because of police brutality. A separate suit by Grant’s father did not result in a jury award, as it was decided that due to his imprisonment he was not sufficiently involved in Grant’s life.
The killing, and the protests against it, were an important precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2013. The biographical drama film Fruitvale Station (2013), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, portrays the last 24 hours of Grant’s life, his killing, and the immediate aftermath.
The various grifts of Shaun King’s “career” fill his Wikipedia page, like fundraising off the death of Tamir Rice without the family’s permission, raising money to climb mountains only to quit training after a few days, and purchasing a “family pet” for $40,000 dollars with donation money, only to return the purebred Mastiff because it was too “high energy”.
Here’s just a small portion of the claims and questions King has caused within the “social justice” community:
King has been accused of raising funds for causes that were never received by those he was fundraising for, including at Justice Together after King abruptly closed the organization. A former member of the organization who asked to have a donation returned said that King refused to refund her money. An investigation by Goldie Taylor of The Daily Beast detailed a variety of questionable financial practices, such as discrepancies in reported amounts raised the Haiti relief project as well as King’s personal income from short-lived crowdfunding venture HopeMob numbering almost 40% of the company’s total revenue. Activists on Twitter questioned if he took the $100,000 reward money for information that led to the arrest of the men who shot Jazmine Barnes. On September 12, 2019, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson wrote a lengthy article raising multiple concerns in regards to King, especially related to fundraising.
King has denied all allegations of wrongdoing. On January 15, 2019, he tweeted that he was pursuing legal action against social justice activists on Twitter who questioned his previous fundraisers, and his attorneys later sent cease-and-desist letters. David Dennis Jr. wrote in NewsOne that the purpose of the cease-and-desist letters seemed to be “old-fashioned intimidation and forcible silencing”. King wrote an editorial explaining the purpose of taking legal action and addressed some specific critiques levied against him.
The religious grift is one of the best for a parasite like Shaun King, but it’s hard to know what religion to use. Early in his “career” King was a Christian man, but, to reposition his religious approach to being a scumbag, he became a Muslim so he could make claims about being a hostage negotiator helping to free hostages in the Middle East. I’m not kidding.
“There was a time when he did good work, calling attention to racial violence with a clarity and efficiency no one else could — but lately it appears that he has gone astray and perhaps, the fame, money or other things have infected his moral compass or clarity,” associate law professor T. Anansi Wilson said.
The most recent example came in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Judith and Natalie Raanan were visiting family in southern Israel when Hamas launched a surprise attack that killed 1,400 people; Hamas also took 200 hostages. The Ranaans were the first hostages released by Hamas since the attack, and have since been welcomed home by residents of their hometown in Evanston, Ill.
King claimed to have been part of a group that helped negotiate the Ranaans’ release. The family initially disputed this claim but later acknowledged King had been in contact with one family member.
Was Shaun King in contact with Johnny Lee Perry’s family around the time of the coroner’s inquest I covered? It would appear so, but I refuse to pay any money for this article behind a paywall, so I’m unclear what King’s “reporter”, Donny Rose, reported on in regards to the death of Johnny.
Thanks to Frank Patella, an artist who worked for Nike and other “blue chip” corporations, I at least know that Johnny was a friend or relative of Oscar Grant, and that the chance to make money of Johnny’s death is, more than likely, why a piece of shit grifter like Shaun King materialized to see what kind of dollars he could extract from grief.
On a somewhat related note, if you want to buy some art to support grifters, the gallery in Santa Monica where Frank showed some art has a nice piece for you, and it only costs $25,000 dollars!
While this is above my budget, I wonder if Missoula’s academic race-baiter, Tobin, is in the market for some virtue-signaling crap?
If you want to follow a grifter on X to see how an example of how a shameless POS “Muslim” is playing the outrage game, I’m sure Shaun King would appreciate a follow so you can get great insights like this:
Or, if you’re appreciative of what a REAL citizen journalist can do in a corrupt, grift-rich town like Missoula, there’s still space on my little gofundme page to help me reach my modest goal of $5,000, which is $35,000 dollars less than what Shaun King spent on a fucking dog he didn’t even keep.
Thanks for reading!
