St Petersburg Mayor Challenged On Juvenile Confidential Informants Policy

When Harold Hempstead was 13 he was pressured by the St Petersburg Police Department in Florida to become a Confidential Informant and get involved in highly dangerous clandestine operations  - In an article on his own blog you will find his sworn affidavit detailing his illegal juvenile employment by various law-enforcement agencies - 

The following is a copy of an email Harold asked me to send to the Mayor of St Petersburg challenging him to open-up and take a stand on the controversial topic of using minors to do police-work -
Harold Hempstead is currently serving 165 years without parole in a prison in Mountain City - Tennessee - He has just published his first book on the killing of Darren Rainey by guards with super-heated steam in Dade Correctional Institution in Florida and is following this up with several more volumes which are due for imminent publication -  His refusal to be silent in the face of monstrous cruelty and injustice earned him the nick-name "The Caged Crusader" -

Darren Rainey

Message follows:

Attn:  Rick Kriseman – Mayor of St Petersburg – Florida                2:2:2019

 

Dear Mayor Kriseman   

I’m sending this email on behalf of Harold Hempstead.  Hempstead has stated that he was recruited by the St Petersburg Police Department to be a confidential informant when he was 13 years old.  As Mayor of St Petersburg – Florida – I’m asking that you please answer the following questions:

(1)  Will you please direct that the St Petersburg Police Department provide Hempstead’s Attorney John Trevena with all the documents and information they have concerning Hempstead’s past as a confidential informant going back to when he was 13 years old? 

(2)  How many children are the St Petersburg Police Department presently using as confidential informants?

(3)  Do you agree with the studies that show it is child-abuse to use children as confidential informants?

(4)  Will you request that a federal investigation be conducted into the St Petersburg Police Department using children as confidential informants?

(5)  Will you direct that the St Petersburg Police Department stop using children as confidential informants?

 

Please provide your response to this email to the parties listed in the CC section below.

Any attempts to communicate with Hempstead should be directed to his Attorney John Trevena at trevenalaw@aol.com. This email and any response or failure to respond could be published in future books and used in court proceedings.

CC  

John Trevena

Kathryn Varn

Sue Carlton

Adam Playford

Craig Patrick

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

(email sent by Jeremy Schanche on behalf of Harold Hempstead)

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Harold Hempstead

To help clarify the legal standing of Children-s Rights in Law I have included a link to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)  

For more detail on the world of young Confidential Informants please read the story of Rachel Hoffman - 

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT: PROTECTING FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO TAX & CREDIT-CARD FRAUD IN FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OR JUSTICE FOR THE MURDER OF DARREN RAINEY?

A new blog from Harold Hempstead "The Witness" challenging the US authorities to follow up the evidence on the murder of Darren Rainey that he is providing -  Whilst the Inspector General of the Florida Department of Corrections is seemingly focused on investigating credit-card and tax fraud there remains much work to be done reviewing the fresh evidence into the murder of Darren Rainey - a prisoner who was tortured to death in a cubicle of super-heated steam - Basically he was steamed to death and this crime will continue to get publicity until some kind of resolution is reached -

The sham-justice overseen by State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle in 2017 is a cynical and deliberate failure of the principles of justice and the rule of law in Florida - 

If you open the image in a new tab it will be easier to read -

For a truly encyclopaedic body of irrefutable evidence on the Rainey case please see Harold Hempstead Caged Crusader Wordpress - the blog I manage for Harold - 

Harold Hempstead Requests Statement From SPPD On Detective Mike Brown

On 11th January 2019 Harold Hempstead had an email sent to St Petersburg Police Department asking for a statement on investigations into the improper activities of a predatory former police officer whom Harold had reported –

“Re:  Request for official statement from St Petersburg Police Dept – Florida

Attn:  Media Relations – SPPD

Dear St Petersburg Police Department spokesperson:

Harold Hampstead has published a book entitled “Department of Corruption”  – Darren Rainey – The Untold Story –  His book can be located at crusaderbooks.com

Question 130 of Hempstead-s book states:

 “130 – Question:  When was the first time you spoke out against a state official who did wrong~”

“Answer:  The first time was with Roosevelt Copeland when I was a teenager –  He was a guard at the Pinellas County – Florida – Juvenile Detention Center –  As a result of me speaking out against his improper conduct he lost his job –  The second time I spoke out was against St Petersburg Police Officer Mike Brown –  He was committing sexual misconduct with kids at the Police Athletic League –  The police set me up with two frivolous felony charges for it –  The State Attorney knew I was set up – so they dismissed the charges -“

This above matter concerning Detective Mike Brown is more thoroughly explained in Hempstead-s book – “Used And Abused By The St Petersburg Police Department” which will be released in February 2019 –

Will you please provide the citizens of St Petersburg with any and all information in your agency-s possession concerning any investigations conducted into any misconduct by Detective Mike Brown~

Will you please provide the citizens of St Petersburg with any and all information in your agency-s possession concerning any juveniles that reported being sexually abused at the Police Athletic League ~

Will you please provide an official response to Hempstead-s statements in his books concerning Detective Mike Brown~

Please provide your official responses to these questions to the parties listed in the CC section below –

It should be noted that all attempts to communicate with Harold Hempstead concerning the matters herein should be directed to his Attorney – John Trevena at travenalaw@aol.com

This letter and any response or failure to respond could be published in future book(s) and used in court proceedings –

Sincerely –

Harold Hempstead – I-M # 577366

Northeast Correctional Complex

P-O Box 5000

Mountain City – TN 37683-5000

CC

Crusader Books

John Trevena

Paul Tash

John Romano

Sue Carlton

Craig Patrick

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

Eyal Press

Solly Granatstein

Jeff Brandes

Jeremy Schanche

Susan Chandler

Secretary – Florida Department of Children and Families

Commissioner – Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Adam Playford”

– Message Ends –

You can find Harold-s Sworn Affidavit concerning his history with the SPPD here

Witness Harold Hempstead has Audio Recording of Roland Clarke admitting to killing Darren Rainey and torturing mentally disabled inmates at Dade CI

Roland Clarke

The following email was sent on 10th January 2019:

Attn:  Dade County – Florida – State Attorney

         Dade County – Florida – Medical Examiner

Dear Dade County State Attorney and Dade County Medical Examiner

Harold Hempstead has published a book entitled “Department of Corruption – Darren Rainey – The Untold Story”  – His book can be located at Crusaderbooks dot com –  In his book he explains in extensive detail how he obtained covert recordings of Roland Clarke admitting to killing Darren Rainey and torturing mentally disabled inmates in the Dade CI Transitional Care Unit –  The March 17 – 2017 State Attorney-s memo doesn-t mention these recordings that Hempstead wrote about in his book –  Also it should be noted that Hempstead said he has access to the covert recordings that he obtained –  Will you please let me know why you didn-t mention these recordings in your memo~  Will you also let me know how the Medical Examiner could say what she said about Rainey-s body when Hempstead said Roland Clarke admitted that the shower was “extremely hot” on the records~

Will you please respond to these questions as soon as possible~

Sincerely –

Harold Hempstead

CC

Howard Simon

Steve Wetstein

Randal Berg

Casey Frank

Julie Brown

Adam Playford

Craig Patrick

Susan Chandler

Windy Hempstead

Roland Clarke leading Darren Rainey to his death in the torture-shower - Dade CI

Department Of Corruption - Darren Rainey - The Untold Story by Harold Hempstead - Out Now

Crusader Books is happy to present its first publication:  DEPARTMENT OF CORRUPTION - Darren Rainey - The Untold Story by Harold Hempstead 

The author gained his epithet of The Caged Crusader through his dangerous and lengthy struggle to seek justice for Darren Rainey - a Muslim man who-s murder at the hands of Florida prison guards he witnessed -   In the ultra-violent climate of the Florida Department of Corrections Harold literally risked his life to reveal what he knew about this horrific torture-murder -  Driven by his conscience - Harold felt compelled to pursue the course of justice and spent almost two years writing to various official departments before finally getting his story published in the Miami Herald newspaper - 
This initiated a belated police investigation and also a major overhaul of the FDC -  Sadly the killing of Darren Rainey was covered up by Florida-s corrupt officials such as State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and Dr Emma Lew -  No-one has been charged over the torture and killing of Rainey - nor the torture of various other convicts in a specially rigged torture-shower at Dade C I - Florida - 
Harold was illegally used as a police spy from the age of 13 and in his early twenties was incarcerated for 165 years under questionable circumstances -  In prison he underwent a profound religious conversion and this has guided his courageous activism under the most harrowing circumstances -  The story he has to tell is testimony to all the ills of America-s tragic policy of mass-incarceration - and of how an absolute belief in the power of good can animate a man to struggle so hard against such cruel and unjust captors and the injustices they perpetuate -
This is truly a story of the triumph of the human heart and its refusal to keep silent in the face of evil -

You can buy the book here and also see a list of upcoming publications from Harold Hempstead-s publishing house CRUSADER BOOKS
Harold Hempstead also has a blog with a large collection of articles he has written on the Rainey murder and various other human rights and constitutional violations in FDC -

Darren Rainey

Harold Hempstead

4th January 2019 - Jeremy Schanche - The Invertebrate Press - Kernow - UK

Twelve Years

The Cow is worse than the Car - Combined emissions from the meat and dairy industry outweigh the emissions from all transport - cars - lorries - ships - trains - planes - motorcycles etc etc -

I think most people are aware of the recent announcement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have a mere 12 year duration of time in which to redress the climate breakdown and keep global temperature rise to one point five degrees -
Failure to do this will have catastrophic results for the immediate future of the Earth and all species -  At the moment the World is on target to fail spectacularly at this golden opportunity -
Therefore pressure must be brought on the governments of the World to pursue policies which will protect - not further endanger - our common (and only) planet -
Nothing short of a cultural upheaval will achieve such fundamental change as is needed - as it is our present culture that has so degraded our planet -
We must all make changes in our lives -  Move away from the internal combustion engine -  Don-t waste food -  conserve electricity and fuel -  consume less -  go vegan -  there are many many ways in which we can make a contribution but perhaps the biggest contribution is getting the governments to do the right thing -  a difficult problem as naturally the capitalist governments are in the pockets of the biggest producers of capital - the petrochemical industry - the meat industry - the arms industry etc etc -
We basically change the culture of the world or the world rapidly degrades into an unlivable hell-planet -  Surely worth giving up the odd luxury to have such a beautiful world under our feet - - -

Derek Thomas MP Responds To Extinction Event Letter - Cornishman Publish Letter

In view of the critical situation the Earth now faces due to man-made climate breakdown and the associated extinction event unfolding daily around us I recently contacted my MP in an open letter to the local paper - The Cornishman - asking for his response to the crisis - 
Here-s the original letter:

Open letter to:  Rt Hon Derek Thomas MP -  

29-11-2018

CC:  The Cornishman newspaper

Dear Derek

I am sure you are aware of the recent announcement by the IPCC that the governments of the world have a mere twelve years in which to drastically reduce carbon emissions for there to be any chance of keeping global temperature-rise to one and a half degrees -

I am sure you have also heard of the predicted consequences of failure to do this -

Currently around 200 species are becoming extinct per day in what scientists have declared to be the greatest extinction-event since a meteorite wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago -  Since 1970 we have lost half of the wild animals on earth as well as vast amounts of forest and wilderness -

In view of this emergency in which we find ourselves I would be very grateful to know what steps you - as political representative of this south-western part of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles - are taking to address this situation and press for the reduction of carbon-emissions and other forms of pollution in this area -  

My view is that we should all do whatever we can to prevent this this Mass-Extinction-Event  from drastically degrading the world that our children will inherit from us -  

Obviously - sitting in the House of Commons - you are in a far stronger position to influence our climate and nature-protection strategy than the average citizen and I welcome hearing your response to this emergency -

With best wishes -

Jeremy Schanche

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A couple of weeks later I received a reply from Derek Thomas which follows below in full:

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Dear Jeremy

Thank you for this email. You are absolutely right to raise this. The IPCC report must sharpen our minds to this issue. There is no doubt in my mind that one of our first duties is to care for the natural environment and behave in a way that does not compound the current challenges.

Your email is timely, not least because in November I met with the Chair of the Campaign for Rural Cornwall to engage his organisation’s advice and expertise regarding how we can sensitively respond to the needs of our community such as providing housing, infrastructure and improvements to mobile and broadband connectivity. I also met with the RSPB in October to see some of the work they have been doing to protect and encourage natural habitats in West Cornwall. This was prior to a Parliamentary debate and second reading of the Agriculture Bill. I argued that we must support the few small farms that remain to support sustainable food production and environmentaly-friendly farming.

On Friday I met with a local environmental campaigner as we are working together to develop ideas with my Cornish colleagues towards a self-sufficient Cornwall as far as energy is concerned. This is something I’ve been keen to do for several years. I am also the Parliamentary representative in Cornwall for the wave and tidal renewable energy sector and we hope to meet with the Minister in the new year.

My view is that we must address our ‘leaky’ homes and reduce the use of carbon fuels in transport as an urgent priority in the UK. This is something I’ve persisted with here in Westminster. However, this is not enough to effect change around the world. I see the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as the most useful agreed priorities for the developed world both to address inequality around the world and address the problem of harmful emissions, unnecessary waste and harmful industrial practices. I’m sure you are aware of the SDGs but if not they are worth investigating. To support these goals I communicate the priorities with our schools and find opportunities for the Government to be held to account for their progress in meeting the goals they have signed up to on behalf of the UK.

I appreciated your constructive email Jeremy and apologise for the delay in responding. 

Regards 

Derek Thomas MP

For West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (St Ives)

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Derek Thomas with Teresa May - Prime Minister of Britain

On 19th December 2018 my letter was printed in The Cornishman newspaper -  I hope this goes some way towards raising people-s awareness of the extreme urgency with which we need to transform our entire way of life if we are to have a healthy planet to pass on to our children -