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On August 5, 2025, Greensboro police officer Lewis Wyatt responded to a claim of trespassing at 1601 Marion Street. The subject of the call was 48-year-old Said Ezzine, who moved to the US decades ago from Morocco and had lived at the house until the owner evicted him.

Newly released body-worn camera footage shows the final moments of Ezzine’s life. He appears agitated, apparently struggling to accept the eviction and resulting homelessness. Evidently he still viewed the property as his home.

Officer Wyatt attempts to arrest Ezzine, who told the officer not to follow him, and was seemingly preparing to depart on a bicycle.

In their original statement on the killing, GPD stated that Ezzine “retrieved a weapon.” We now know this was a pipe wrench. As soon as Ezzine picked up the wrench, Wyatt pulled his trigger, firing four shots. Ezzine died shortly after.

On May 4, 2026, the office of Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump notified the Greensboro Police Department of the DA’s determination that Officer Wyatt’s actions were justified.

In the 3 minutes and 19 seconds between the time Wyatt hails Ezzine and the time he opens fire, we can observe the officer’s priorities. As is his job, Wyatt endeavors to protect the property from Ezzine’s alleged trespassing. More important than either of their lives is the sanctity of property rights.

This is the inevitable result of an economic arrangement that gates the necessities of human life as commodities to be bought, sold, and controlled by the profit motive.

Source: Battleground

At a meeting filled with speakers criticizing the Greensboro City Manager’s unexplained choice of an external hire for Police Chief, one speaker pointed out the common interests of City Council.

Even new councillors such as Irving Allen and Cecile “CC” Crawford—who ran on progressive platforms, with backgrounds in community organizing against police brutality—refused to dissent from supporting the City Manager’s unpopular choice. Luis Medina noted they have apparently surmounted their differences to achieve a remarkable level of solidarity.

All nine councillors consolidated to support the new police chief, including Tammi Thurm and Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter.

A lifetime ago, in 2019, Thurm and Abuzuaiter voted to remove their now-colleague Irving Allen from the Police Community Review Board, “for reasons.” Back then, Allen was willing to criticize government abdication and opacity. (See Ian McDowell, I Ain’t Resisting, p.191.)

Medina claimed the recent activities of city council demonstrate a ruling-class solidarity, and called for a working-class solidarity to combat it.

Though speakers are generally granted a few seconds’ grace on their allotted time, Medina’s microphone was cut exactly at the 3-minute mark. The mayor proceeded to demand that he be escorted out, though he was already walking away. It seems the mayor realized her demand was excessive, as she immediately began justifying it to council members:

“He hit the podium,” Abuzuaiter claimed. “I’m not gonna put up with it.”

Whether “it” referred to threats to the safety of the podium, or something else, remained unspecified.

source: Battleground

Concern over data centers continues to dominate local government forums.

Data centers use increasing amounts of land, electricity, and water. Residents are seeing unprecedented electricity rate hikes and levels of drought in North Carolina, at the same time data centers are proliferating. Governor Josh Stein has said data centers are partially to blame for rising energy prices, stating they account for 80 percent of additional demand Duke Energy expects. Data centers also pollute environments with toxic waste, light, noise, and heat. Research shows data centers raise surrounding temperatures by 4 degrees, and use as much water as entire towns.

In North Carolina, half a dozen towns along with six counties have declared moratoria on data center construction. Greensboro has not, and the position of city councillors on data centers is unclear.

In response to speaker Del Stone at the last city council meeting, five councillors commented on the concerns raised. Read their responses here: https://battlegrounddrafts.substack.com/p/city-councillors-respond-to-request

With all the news on various states gerrymandering their house districts, I wanted to see how hard it was to NOT gerrymander and have fair districts. So, I attempted and made one for NC and its 14 house seats. I followed the following rules as I built out the map. Link to map: https://districtr.org/plan/382147

1. All 14 districts must contain approximately the same population. No one districts population can deviate more than 10% from the goal of 745k per district. (745K comes from the 2020 census population for NC divided by 14)
2. A county cannot be split into two separate districts, except for Wake and Mecklenburg County. The population of Meck and Wake County will be split equally into two separate districts.
3. The counties that make up a district must be contiguous

Let me know if you think it is fair … or not. What would you change? Will the US ever ban gerrymandering so bored people online stop making fake maps?