In memory of Charles Eimers, murdered by Key West police on Thanksgiving Day, 2013, because they thought he was homeless

Charles Eimers memorium

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Today’s post consists of one Facebook thread, started by Gary Ek, of Key West, aka the Reverend Gweko Phlocker and Soundman From Hell.

Gweko W. Phlocker shared The Kelly File‘s video.
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A Black Gang Member ripped off a convenience store clerk for a cigar blunt wrapper crossed the street, got busted and killed by a Mo. Cop~
But on the other hand -
No One wants me to speak on the Radio About a White Tourist retiree from Michigan that was murdered on the Southernmost Beach last Thanksgiving by the 13 officers of the K.W.P.D. Then Covered up by the Hospital Staff, County Coroner, Cheif of Police, and Mayor of Key West…

I CALL BULLSHIT on that.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1544384409132770/

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  • Richard J. Schecher I double your BULLSHIT with a WTF
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  • Gweko W. Phlocker TRUE Dat !
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  • Edward Johnston Go burn down a liquor store.
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  • Gweko W. Phlocker WHY?
    we need them…
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  • Kilmo Doome It’s the same shit. The militarized, steroid jacked police are out of control.
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  • Michael Lee Martin Cates was in on the cover up?
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  • Az Kenny Tsak OK lets burn down community businesses where people in the community work….great idea…..Race pimps like Sharpton incite melee…try and do a policeman’s job in a community of unlawful s….good luck….Fence it and give them gasoline….and no I am never politically correct! because you can’t justify destruction of a community just because you don’t like a verdict.
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  • Julie Giguere Just saying… Here’s a thought. Anyone mention that if you’ve decided to do a crime be prepared for the consequences.
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  • Az Kenny Tsak Poor black people have been voting for democrats for 60+ years….guess what?…they are still poor black folk……liberalism is the problem, generations of government induced slavery…it will never change just get worse unless we change our approach to helping communities out of poverty!
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  • Michael Lee Martin There will be poor always
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  • Phil Uncensored

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  • Jerry Resnick The protesting poor and the minorities who live in the region of Ferguson, Mo. are expressing their anger and frustration over a fascist dictatorship justice system that is corrupt, unjust, brutally repressive, bigoted, militarized, designed and fixed See More
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  • Az Kenny Tsak Nope …the blame game is not a race or white rich people issue its a government imposed welfare poverty society of poor folk….it has been generation after generation of people with no hope Created by liberal politicians…the family in poor communities of mother and father does not exist…..big brother or big government keeps these people in a NO HOPE society!……we have a president that disregards the rule of law….so what a great role model!
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  • Az Kenny Tsak The freaks come out at night!!
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  • Teri Hill Bell Aguiar With no Audio It looks like a ZOMBIE MOVIE
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  • Eddie Bricker And even when you clearly point out in the original post you wish to speak with people about Eimers’ incident, you get nothing but comments about Missouri.
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  • Eddie Bricker Verdict: people are mostly idiots wherever you go.
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  • Chris Rehm When I was in Miami my band, C.R. and the Rabble Rousers were all of the same political ideology. A couple were very active in their support of their political party. As things progressed they suggested that the band do some public support for candidates who were running. I said no. Why? Because 50% of the people who followed us were not of the same political opinion and if we supported the our political party, we’d lose them as fans. It’s the same with your radio station.1/2 your listeners and sponsors see the KWPD situation one way and 1/2 see it the other way. Want to alienate 1/2 your listeners and half your sponsors? Pound your shoe on the pulpit like Khrushchev did and look for an issue to complain about. It’s not Bullshit at all. The format your radio station is set up, is not one to take a side in political or social issues. It’s there to entertain the public through music.Besides, who in their right mind want to listen to a band’s political opinion, or some crackpot’s on the radio anyway? By taking a stand on issues that are not part of the station’s format, you’ll lose half your listeners and sponsors. That would mean you have to take a pay cut to the tune of 50%. Of course, if that were the case, they’d just fire you, or go out of business. Either way, you’re unemployed. My suggestion is don’t try to change the station’s programing format. If they want you to stand on your head, while you do your live broadcast at Viva Zapata, stand on your head and do the broadcast. They are the ones stroking your paycheck and it’s their station to do what they want to do with. Otherwise, start your own station and start beating pavement in search of sponsors. Personally, I say stick with what you have. It’s a great gig and your shows are fantastic.
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  • Eddie Bricker I gotta say, ^ this guy is pretty smart.
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  • HannaKompier CreativeHarmony well stated bro
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  • Clyde Sanadi We have a police brotherhood problem. A gang is a gang by any other name. Good cop or bad cop, play by the gang’s rules, or else. Power corrupts, term limits, rotate cops between communities.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky I simply cannot compare the Ferguson case to the Charles Eimers case.
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  • Gweko W. Phlocker Nothing is Black And White.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky The perps in Ferguson were up to no good, yes? I can’t say that of Charles Eimers.
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  • Robert James Mathison Well, er, he was running from the cops?
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  • Robert James Mathison Mr. Eimers I mean…….
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  • MJ Taylor Was he? How do we really know what happened before they got to South Beach ?
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  • MJ Taylor I mean, we only have the police report to go on… How reliable has that been so far?
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Robert James Mattison, Eimers had not just robbed, or looted, a convenience store. He did not leave the scene like he was fleeing - high speed, based on what all I’ve read. The cops never believed they were at risk to being killed by Eimers. I used to practice law. I think the two cases are apples and oranges.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky MJ Taylor, I, too, am not satisfied with the explanation of the traffic stop and Eimers leaving the scene. I very much want to see his driver’s licence, which Naja Girard told me was in the evidence locker at the police department. She said she had not seen it. I told David Paul Horan that a friend told me, who’d had it happen to him, My friend said, in his case, he lived in his van, and the cop who stopped him just because of his van, no other reason, said he was not going to return my friend’s driver’s license, as he stood there bending it back and forth, until it was creased. My friend told the cop it wasn’t going down like that. My friend was a Vietnam combat vet. Had fought Charlie in the jungles and the trenches. Finally, the cop returned the license. It was wrecked. My friend went to the driver’s license office next to the KW airport, and told the lady who served him what had happened. She told him that’s what KW cops do with driver’s licences of people they believe are homeless, to alert other cops who have dealings with that person, that he/she is homeless. Maybe the cop who made the traffic stop told Eimers he wasn’t going to get his driver’s license back, and Eimers folded and drove off thinking it was over? If I were Horan, I would have gotten a court order, if necessary, to let me see Eimer’s driver’s licence. And if it was not in the evidence locker, and was not otherwise available, I would have made a big stink Perhaps it’s a non-issue, but I heard nothing back from Horan about the driver’s licence, nor from Naja Girard, who learned from one of Eimer’s sons what I had told Horan. I also wondered if Eimers was intoxicated or high on something, given the way the cop described the stop and Eimer’s departure. But the autopsy came back negative on chemicals, yes? I also think maybe Eimers was high anyway, on God, like maybe in a rapture or epiphany, saying he had come here to God’s work. Maybe he was taken over by an angel, and was no longer in charge. Maybe his heart was going to give out at any moment, so the best way for him to do God’s work was what soon happened, followed by the blue paper sniffing it out, and then by the Horan law firm getting on board. David Paul Horan told me that he had known Gary Lee Lovett since he was a toddler, he and Gary Lee’s father were friends; he was close to Gary Lee, he didn’t want to take the case, but finally he felt he had no choice, the evidence was too awful already, so he took the case. To someone like me, that is crystal clear evidence of angels arranging the entire thing, to put the KWPD and the mayor and city commissioners and most of the people of Key West on trial in human courts, and in God’s court, over the city’s official one human family philosophy, with certain exceptions, such as being homeless, or thought to be homeless..I don’t yet see the Ferguson case is anything like that; either, but perhaps something will surface in Ferguson,which changes my perception of that case.
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  • Gweko W. Phlocker So, I guess you are coming ?
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  • Robert James Mathison He fled the original scene when they tried to pull him over ( for whatever reason ) up near Searstown. Same basic beginning as the Ferguson case. I’m not advocating the way it was handled, but if you run from cops anywhere they automatically treat you like your a threat. That makes the initial hands on response far more physical and rough. You may be a former lawyer, but I’ve been arrested often ( not bragging or proud ) and the more you piss them off the worse it gets.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Gweko, if you have been following my ramblings atwww.goodmorningkeywest.com, you know I will be at the candlelight service, which I have promoted several times in the daily musings at that website. I also have said in those promotions, and in a number of my reader comments to blue paper articles on the Charles Eimers case, that the turnout tomorrow night will indicate how many people in and near Key West truly are upset about how the cops treated Eimerson South Beach last Thanksgiving. I’m glad you are hosting it, Gweko. Are they letting you promote it on your radio show? I don’t see the Citizen made it newsworthy. I wonder how many people who are upset won’t be there because of other commitments, or, hmmm, they don’t want their faces seen there, with their names attached, because they are afraid of police retaliation? The now locally famous Gary Lee Lovette, of KWPD, in later recounting and boasting about what had happened on South Beach, referred to Eimers as a bum, which you know, Gweko, down here is synonymous with being homeless. Lovette seemingly gleefully recounted to a friend what all he and the other cops did to the bum, and not once, as far as I know, has Lovette, or any other cop involved demonstrated remorse. Nor Police Chief Donie Lee.Nor Mayor Cates and the city commissioners. Cates and his main opponent, Margaret Romero, in the recent mayor’s race, which Cates won without a runoff in August, steadfastly backed the KWPD re the Eimers case. Every person in Key West, who voted for Cates or Romero, approved how KWPD handled the Eimers case. I bet the conch farm that there are blue paper readers, who are outraged over the Eimers case, who voted for Cates or Romero. I bet I can name a few of them, who regularly comment their outrage under blue paper articles on the Eimers case. Robert James Madison, you are right, leaving the scene, which the fellows in Ferguson also did, provokes cops. In that case, the perps were fleeing, yes? However, Eimers, who was unarmed, died because the cops thought he was homeless. Gary Lee Lovette proved it. I have lived on the street in Key West. I know very well what many of the cops are like here. As does any street person in Key West. And that the cops are following orders from the top, not written down orders, but orders none the less, to do all possible to cause homeless people to leave this area. Charles Eimers unwittingly drove right into that woodchipper, and he did indeed do God’s work, although not has he had envisioned.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Apology, an article in today’s Key West Citizen on the Eimers case, “Locals to Remember Eimers”, speaks of the candlelight service and the case generally. Glad to see the Citizen did that. Glad to see the Citizen reporting the Eimers case pretty well.
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Locals to remember Eimers BY GWEN FILOSA Citizen Staff
    gfilosa@keysnews.com
    Alex Symington doesn’t mind carving out time from his Thanksgiving holiday to attend a candlelight vigil in honor of Charles Eimers, the Michigan man who died days after clashing with Key West police.
    After all, Symington said, for the Eimers family, the holidays will remain the time a loved one died far from home.
    “That’s forever,” Symington said. “Every Thanksgiving that poor family is going to have to think about their dad dying on South Beach.”
    The vigil is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, which is Thanksgiving, the one-year anniversary of the morning Eimers was taken to the ground by police officers on South Beach.
    Eimers had taken off during a traffic stop at about 8 a.m. Nov. 28 and led police on a slow-speed chase through Old Town until he ran out of road at the shore off Duval.
    While police reports accuse Eimers of kicking and pulling away during the arrest, videos taken by bystanders show the man surrendering and then losing consciousness.
    As of Tuesday, 73 people clicked the “going” button on the Facebook page that serves as a public invitation to the vigil. Some 1,200 were invited, the page says.
    Eimers, 61, died Dec. 4, six days after Thanksgiving 2013, when he stopped breathing while being held facedown on the sand by several officers.
    A grand jury has cleared the 13 officers the family has named in a federal wrongful death lawsuit and the coroner ruled the death an accident.
    But Eimers’ family and some locals question the tactics of the Key West police.
    Newly discovered video footage of the Thanksgiving beach takedown show that several reports filed by officers on the scene that morning — that Eimers sat up at one point and that he had no sand on his face — weren’t accurate.
    Eimers is also shown bleeding from his ear, some skin around it clearly torn.
    On Friday, Police Chief Donie Lee and three other officers were deposed by the family’s attorneys, who released a newly discovered video taken by a tourist.
    The video shows Eimers lying on the beach motionless while officers wait more than one minute to begin applying life-saving measures.
    The video wasn’t found by police, although the phone number lawyers used to track it down this month was included in the full files of the state’s investigation, which also cleared officers of any wrongdoing.
    But Thursday’s 6 p.m. vigil isn’t a protest march, said organizer and local radio personality Gweko Phlocker.
    “This is not about what the KWPD did on a Thanksgiving morning,” Phlocker posted online. “It’s about closure and healing of a man that lost his life here.”
    Phlocker asks attendees to bring an electric candle or glow stick to hold during the event and invites people to speak if so inclined.
    While plenty of allegations against police and angry comments in general appear on the invitation page, the organizer said the vigil is about wishing peace to the man and his family.
    “I don’t care who’s responsible, or what will be the legal ramifications are to whomever,” Phlocker wrote in one post on the vigil’s page. “I want his soul to be at rest.”
    Even some locals who don’t believe police officers were at fault that day said they support the vigil.
    “No matter how you look at this, it’s a tragedy,” said City Commissioner Tony Yaniz, who has backed police since the lawsuit was filed. “No matter who you’re pointing fingers at, this is a nice gesture.”
    Eimers’ relatives won’t Thursday’s vigil but were grateful the event has been planned, the dead man’s youngest son wrote to a local organizer.
    “Although my family and I won’t be there in person we’ll be there in spirit,” wrote Joshua Eimers, according to a post on a Facebook pagel. “As will Charles John.”
    Eimers wrote that his father was caring and selfless, and that his eyes were welling up as he typed the message.
    “It means a lot to us that our father’s death hasn’t been simply forgotten,” he wrote. “Our wounds are still fresh.”
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  • Sloan Bashinsky I do not, did not know Charles Eimers. I imagine his soul is doing okay, it is the people left behind who are not doing okay, who are upset about what happened to him, or who are not upset. I am unable to view this ceremony as not being a protest by people who truly are upset over how Charles Eimers died. But for how he died, would this ceremony be taking place tomorrow at 6 p.m. on South Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean end of Duval Street?
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Our next previous State Attorney, Dennis Ward, emailed me the other day about Rick Boettger’s Charles Emiers article in KONK Life
    Sloan:
    After reading Rick’s article it seems to me he’s a little disappointed in the “more qualified” State Attorney that he supported. Obviously, at that time he was in bed, and may still be in bed, with the corrupt officials the Office of the State Attorney prosecuted while I was in office.
    Dennis
    I replied:
    Hi, Dennis –
    In the same vein, I wonder if Rick voted for Craig Cates or Margaret Romero in the last city mayor’s race? And, if so, has he gotten around yet to prosecuting himself for doing that, since they steadfastly sided with their police chief and his police officers involved in the Eimers case, including the officers who did not make it to the scene of the murder, but then participated in the cover up, destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice? I wonder the same about anyone and everyone in Key West, who are upset about the Eimers case, and yet they voted for Cates or Romero. If they didn’t want to vote for me, which certainly would be understandable , they could have not voted in that race, for when they pulled the lever for either Cates or Romero, they approved what they were so upset about.
    Just my opinion, your state attorney successor, that would be Catherine Vogel, and her two assistant state prosecutors, that would be Val Winter and Mark Wilson, whom she assigned to beguile the grand jury and guide it to return a no bill, instead of all of them doing a real investigation and coming back with indictments, followed by aggressive prosecution, all three should be prosecuted and convicted and put in prison, along with Florida Department of Law Enforcement special investigator Kathy Smith, and KWPD chief Donie Lee and his criminal police officers, and a number of FDLE honchos above Kathy Smith, and, based on what John Donnelly commented at the blue paper yesterday, perhaps the same for some US Department of Justice people.
    But, my goodness, where would a person with authority to bring such a PROSECUTION be found, who had the legal authority and the balls to bring it? If DOJ is part of the cover up, perhaps that leaves, hmmm, old-fashioned methods: lynching, shooting, keel-hauling in shark-infested waters?
    I’ve been meaning to congratulate you on winning the city council seat up there in the Village, which I still call Islamorada. And I’ve also been meaning to offer my sincere condolences .
    Sloan
    Dennis wrote back:
    I agree Sloan. And thanks for the congrats.
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About Sloan

Darn, that would take a while. Try the autobiographical pages in the header. Ditto for header menu pages at www.goodmorningbirmingham.com. Hatched and raised there, eventually I ran away from home. Here's a short list: Born 1942; male; spoken for; accused of all sorts of imaginable and unimaginable things, perhaps some true. Live on Key West of Weird asteroid. Publish something most days at goodmorningkeywest.com, been at that since July 2007. That's heaps of catch-up reading, probably not recommended.
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