An illegal eviction in Lansing led to illegal imprisonment and a lobotomy in a Medicaid-funded psych ward in Detroit.

A car accident caused by a deer led to a false arrest and felony charges in the Northwoods.

A public defender attempted to intimidate and destroy the reputation of his client after she disclosed having disabilities.

City of Lansing police illegally entered an apartment to illegally arrest, batter and harass a law-abiding woman with disabilities.

These kinds of situations aren’t okay, but they also aren’t uncommon. Fortunately, there are laws that exist to hold people in power accountable. Knowing them is key.

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  • Before Lansing law enforcement and hospital administrators illegally forced me into a psychiatric hospital which led to 3 weeks of wrongful imprisonment and nonconsensual medical torture while all of my belongings and emotional support cats were stolen (five days before my landlord’s written notice said I had to be out)- there were about 6 hours of police harassment, battery and discrimination that occurred between the time I was illegally removed from my  apartment and when they put me in an empty Lansing City Hall jail cell where they refused to give me soap or toilet paper while I continued to experience autism meltdown and PTSD overload.

    Police Violations Continued Past Apartment and Jail Cell Into Hospital Exam Room

    After being completely violated in my apartment and in the jail cell, I was then transported, in handcuffs, to Sparrow (University of Michigan) Hospital where cops stood in my open hospital doorway, further insulting and harassing me while I sat handcuffed in the exam room.

    After what felt like several more hours, the cops finally removed me from handcuffs and left but hospital staff said I needed to remain in the hospital until a nurse admin determined “where I should go.”

    Blood Overdrawing and Theft, Along With Illegal Psych Ward Imprisonment

    Before the nurse admin could evaluate me, other Sparrow nurses forcibly drew and overdrew my blood without consent. After multiple stabs and draws, my arm was bleeding so much that one nurse had to change the bed sheet.

    After everyone had finally left me alone for a few minutes, it was past 9 pm. I turned off the lights and turned on some peaceful television music. I requested non-caffeinated tea, but the hospital didn’t have any, so I drank some warm water. I had tried requesting my noise-cancelling headphones at Sparrow, but they only offered disposable earplugs (it was better than nothing).

    With the lights off, warm water, and relaxing TV music, my body finally relaxed enough to draw some doodles and write poetry while I continued waiting for the nurse admin.

    At least another hour passed, and I started relaxing enough to possibly sleep.

    I didn’t get to speak to the nurse admin until after 11pm, after a full day of physical, emotional and mental trauma and abuse. When she did decide to see me, it was over a computer screen that other nurses wheeled into the room. By that time, I was so exhausted that all I could think about was needing rest.

    Naturally, I explained that I was exhausted and needed rest before I could be evaluated for anything. This seemed to shock her. Her immediate reply was, “Do you know who I am?!”

    I was honestly so alarmed by her aggressive response that I got out of bed to get the unit nurse to help explain I just needed to rest for the night before any observations or evaluations.

    When we got back into the room, the nurse admin had signed off. I was then taken to the Sparrow psych ward where a nurse said I could sleep for the night and find out more in the morning.

    The next morning, I was informed the admin made the decision to admit me to a Detroit psych ward at StoneCrest Center, and that’s where I was taken, against my will, strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance and assaulted multiple times a day for 3 weeks.

    Forced Into Detroit StoneCrest Psych Ward and Medically Tortured Further

    At StoneCrest, I was forcibly drugged with multiple pharmaceutical drugs, primarily Haldol, which has been used to experimentally treat Tourette syndrome and psychosis. This was after Dr. Bens Sandaire “diagnosed” me without seeing me once and after nurses labeled me “delusional” for praying out to non-Christian gods during a terrifying encounter.

    Haldol was an entirely different level of fuckery for my mind and body. I tried multiple times to explain my negative reactions to the medications, and with each protest, I was labelled more and more “unstable” and “unsafe” for my own sake and society.

    With Haldol, it was like my brain was constantly screaming, as soon as I woke up in the morning, and I had to constantly keep the Sparrow ear plugs in my ears. I couldn’t sleep easily at night, either.

    On the drug, my eyes felt like they were going to come out of my head, and it was hard to sit still or think. After a day or two of being on Haldol, my mouth started having uncontrollable random spasms. I reported the torture to doctors and nurses, and they insisted I was being delusional, “unaware” of my “illness,” and needed to be medicated more.

    By the second week, I was receiving court-ordered forced doses of Haldol (and other meds), 3 times a day. If I skipped a time to line up for meds, I was quickly tracked down by staff and given painful shots, including tranquilizers, and/or put into a publicly video-recorded isolation room.

    I also had a substantial amount of blood stolen from me at StoneCrest. It was overdrawn again to the point that it left even more bruising from the previous blood draw injuries at Sparrow.

    Surprisingly, StoneCrest allowed me to keep the earplugs Sparrow had given me, which was thoughtful considering they wouldn’t allow me to request dental floss (despite my disclosed long-term and pressing dental issues) and I never got to go outside once in the three weeks I was illegally imprisoned there.

    Staff also stole my only pair of underwear several nights into my stay. While a staff attendant was washing the only clothing outfit I was left with, she decided to pull my thong out of the dryer, come into my room at 2 o’clock in the morning, scold me for wearing a thong and then took it away.

    As someone who legitimately wears thongs for body-comfort health reasons and because the only pants I was left with were leggings, I tried to explain this to the staff member. She became hostile and then four other staff members surrounded me to join in on the scolding. They literally mocked me as I begged for it back so I could continue comfortably practicing yoga (and just being comfortable in general).

    I spent the rest of my confinement in extremely uncomfortable and disposable bulky underwear, without access to a menstrual cup which I require. Because of this, I was also forced to wear thick outdated pads that caused a yeast infection.

    Survival Through Almost-Forced Silence

    I finally gave into almost silently existing through the extremely long days of being in a “community room,” sitting around a broken television surrounded by over-medicated strangers, while I felt myself losing control of my body and brain. I took refuge in coloring printouts and broken crayons, and when I was feeling a little motivated, I tried to remember how to play solitaire with a deck of about 45 cards.

    I also had a roommate named Ash, an MSU-educated and opinionated woman who was being forcibly medicated against her will and violated further every time she protested. Although we didn’t see eye-to-eye on some things, her fiery spirit helped pull me through some of the worst times after staff and nurses violated me. She said she was illegally being held there, too.  

    She used the playing cards for tarot, and we found common ground on that. We also both studied public policy in university, so we talked a little about that, too.

    Yoga also helped. Immensely. From the very beginning of the entire experience, stretching my body was one of the most therapeutic survival tools that got me through.

    Imprisoned One Week Longer Than Medicaid Claimed It Would Allow

    The release process was a traumatic cat-and-mouse joke of a game, too. After a week and a half of no answers about getting out, I was told Medicaid could only keep me there for two weeks. After two weeks, however, they said I couldn’t be released because I had “nowhere to go.”

    The only reason I finally got release was because I own an old house in the state of Michigan (8 hours north of Lansing and Detroit) and my UP-neighbor acknowledged that he could meet me at a bus stop.

    Only Released Due to Land and Property Ownership

    If I didn’t own an old and dilapidated $14k house 8 hours away in the Northwoods, the court was going to leave me in the facility indefinitely because the state said StoneCrest couldn’t let me go because I didn’t have a residence in Lansing anymore (because I was illegally evicted).

    This was also after multiple failed attempts to petition getting myself out and after submitting multiple human rights violation complaints on the paper forms next to the desk where we had to line up for meds.

    Bringing up the little house I own up north was my last-ditch effort to survive. And legally, it was the only card that worked.

    After my “social worker” finally told me StoneCrest could get me a ride to the UP, the state car coordinator turned around and said they couldn’t go that far. However, the law requires the facility to release back to any Michigan location, so the only option to leave was to then take a 16-hour bus ride alone from Detroit to the rural western UP after 3 weeks of medical, physical, emotional and mental torture. And of course, with zero knowledge about the whereabouts of my cats or belongings in Lansing.

    Meanwhile in Lansing, my Fountain Place apartment landlord put all my belongings on the street and the county animal control stole my emotional support cats, one of which I never got back and had for the entire 10 years of his life.

    This was even despite my multiple phone calls to Ingham Animal Control and Fountain Place (while I was in confinement) about desperately needing my beloved emotional support cats and literally all of my material belongings.

    All Belongings and Emotional Support Cats Stolen

    By the time I escaped StoneCrest, I was told I had no way to get anything back. I was blessed to get one cat back with the help of a former neighbor, and I’m thankful for that, but I’ve lost so much. And it’s so much more than just my belongings and cat.

    I used to have so many books. My laptop, my old cat’s ashes and urn, all my clothes and furniture, all my photos, memories and souvenirs from travels I once took. Any gifts anyone had ever given me. All physical medical records, legal documents, religious jewelry, deceased family’s belongings, my passport, birth certificate, academic records, and everything in-between. Anything a person might need to survive or maintain critical thinking skills, happiness and independence- it was all stolen while I was forcibly drugged with Haldol and other medication that was causing me to literally lose my mental competence and physical autonomy.  

    Freedom From Medical Torture

    As a condition of leaving StoneCrest, hospital staff injected me with LITERALLY a 4-week supply of Haldol via an excruciatingly painful arm injection and made me promise to continue taking the life-threatening medication with months-worth of pills.

    Recovery from Haldol was terrifying but cannabis and shrooms saved my life, without a doubt.

    As soon as I got to the UP, I immediately stopped all pharmaceuticals forced into me at StoneCrest, and I went back to the proven-safe and effective cannabis that I have been successfully using to treat my autism and PTSD for almost 15 years now.

    Even with the help of cannabis and a few micro-doses of psilocybin mushrooms, however, it still took over a month for my legs to stop twitching from restlessness in short car rides or for me to fully sleep through the night. Without weed and shrooms, who knows how long I would’ve continued suffering on that level of extremities.

    Again, all of this was after MULTIPLE disclosures of my ADA-protected autism and PTSD which simply required my noise-cancelling headphones and a holistic health approach to care. Not a single Medicaid-funded medical provider, cop, or judge would acknowledge this, though.

    Instead, they literally labeled me “insane” and nearly killed me for it.

    Thank the gods for land and property ownership that my father literally fought against me purchasing.

    Otherwise, I’d be braindead today, with my teeth still unflossed, illegally imprisoned and fraudulently-misdiagnosed in a Michigan state-run facility, while my abusive family members convince the world I was institutionalized for “medical issues.”

    Ongoing Healing and Pending Lawsuits

    Again, the healing has been A LOT. And I’m still working through it with a licensed private therapist.

    As part of my healing and to begin taking legal action, I recently requested my StoneCrest medical records. There is a literal quote of me saying, “Leave me alone! Leave me alone!”

    They’ve refused to release the video records though.

    I specifically asked for the recording they have of me in the isolation room where they injected me against my will after my first medication refusal, on full video display (for staff and other patients) at the nurse’s front desk.

    That was the first time I realized the seriousness of what was happening to me there.

  • While constitutional rights are civil rights, not all civil rights are constitutional rights; likewise, not all civil rights are specifically labeled “civil rights” as in the case of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    Have local courts violated your constitutional or civil rights?

    In the United States, constitutional rights are those which are protected by the United States Constitution or one of 50 state constitutions; civil rights are those which are legally protected by any number of previously established laws.

    Constitutional and civil rights violations are not uncommon; court accountability is extremely uncommon

    Every day across the country, local courts violate citizens’ constitutional and civil rights in a disturbing variety of ways.

    Because the United States was founded, at least in part, on the idea of democracy, we have a government system that umbrellas a large system of other government systems, and each of these systems has established a way to appeal court decisions. Otherwise, our judges would simply be kings or dictators, no?

    Unfortunately, U.S. courts are still controlled, in large part, by wealth. If you are middle class, you simply do not have equal access to the courts; the mathematical logic of this equation should be enough to explain. If you are lower class- that is, in legal poverty, you at least have some access to the courts due to the existence of fee waiver motions– but of course, you probably lack the resources, quite possibly also including the education, to understand how to access the courts (and chances are, your public defender will defend the court, not you).

    For example, it costs around $300 to simply file an appeal form with a government court office (where the court will likely claim it is “not associated with the government because it is a court” …which is also a lie).

    Despite all the constitutional and civil rights violations nationwide, local courts generally get away with a disturbing number of human rights injustices. From cruel and unusual punishment to religious persecution to daily hate crimes and more, the courts have been enjoying what they have come to believe is free reign for a very long time.

    Different avenues exist to protect the Constitution and other civil rights in the United States

    Although successful appeals are uncommon, that does not mean they have to continue to be. Depending on your situation, there are several legal paths to take to hold abusive courts and other law officers accountable.

    If, for example, your constitutional rights have been violated, you may be able to file a federal lawsuit under Section 1983 of the U.S. Code. With civil rights violations like common Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination, you may be able to file a federal lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice. Of course, teaming up with others who have been similarly abused by the court systems can also be helpful when it comes to solutions like joining others’ existing lawsuits, but it can sometimes be much more effective to sue local judges and their offices for violating bonds and constitutional obligations.

  • On April 4, 2024, five days prior to when my landlord had provided written notice of when I had to be out of my apartment in an illegal eviction, City of Lansing police entered my studio apartment at Fountain Place Apartments without a warrant or court order.

    To my knowledge, the only person they had with them was someone I’d never seen before that day who said he was from the apartment management team. This was, of course, after the Princeton Management landlord previously failed to murder me and violated my lease countless times before.

    As I unlocked the door, at least three individuals pushed their way into my apartment and immediately placed me into handcuffs as they surrounded me in my small living room. Initially too overwhelmed to demand a warrant or court order, I started crying and panicking about my two emotional support cats as I was told they were being taken to the Ingham County Animal Control.

    Having previously experienced discrimination from law enforcement, I quickly recognized my rights being violated as I was forced to leave my home and all my belongings behind in handcuffs. At the police car outside, I told the officers they were violating my rights; I also told them I was autistic and needed my noise-cancelling headphones as I started to experience an autistic meltdown and PTSD overload.

    The only response I received from police officers was being ignored or being mocked, until law enforcement and hospital administrators illegally forced me into a psychiatric hospital which led to 3 weeks of wrongful imprisonment and nonconsensual medical torture while all of my belongings and emotional support cats were stolen.

    TO BE CONTINUED.

  • Why would they throw me into a “psychiatric hospital” in Detroit, two hours away from all of my resources in Lansing, medically torture me for three weeks, and only “allow” me to escape due to legal property ownership?

    Tax dollars used to pay my paycheck to analyze government data for five years, so here is some personal data to analyze when I think about these questions and reflect on how I was nearly murdered by multiple parties less than nine months ago:

    On April 4, 2024, city police entered my Lansing apartment without a warrant or court order in an illegal eviction after a Princeton Management landlord previously failed to murder me.

    I am a first-generation college graduate and former Pell Grant recipient.

    I have a degree in political science (public administration), social work and psychology, and I attribute my interest in these subjects to a messed-up childhood and the constant relocation of my life as a kid. (I attended 13 public schools by the time I somehow managed to graduate high school with a 3.7 GPA.)

    I’ve always had a burning curiosity for adventure, and the first foreign country I ever visited as an adult was Cuba. It was during the Obama administration when he’d opened up the people-to-people travel category.

    I fell in love with international travel.

    I later visited Amsterdam, Beijing and Barcelona.

    I married a Peruvian Spanish and philosophy professor from a United States university who I independently sponsored with my teaching salary.

    I was close friends with an electrician who supposedly died of a fentanyl overdose in South Lansing after police and Courts lied about his case.

    I am the cousin of an electrician who supposedly died by suicide at a West Lansing shooting range before the police, funeral home and medical examiner delayed the disclosure of his information to his wife.

    I am the daughter of a former United States army soldier and step-daughter of a former (and deceased) small town police officer.

    I am the granddaughter of a former United States Air Force supervisor.

    I am a former communications analyst for the State of Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management and Budget.

    I left my government job to become a freelance English teacher to youth around the globe. My paycheck is primarily paid by Chinese parents.

    In the United States, I know exact public health laws the state and federal governments are violating because I can provide real-life examples.

    I also know exact constitutional laws the state and federal governments are violating because I can provide real-life examples of those, too.

    I have a foundational understanding and hobby-level appreciation of web design and marketing.

    I am outspoken and have an unclipped vagina.

    I have a basic grasp on math.

    For me, recognizing the signs of domestic terrorism- terrorism committed by the governments that We the People vote into office- comes naturally.

    The Courts are ignoring state and federal constitutions; they’re also ignoring state and federal health laws.

    My rights have been stripped and all of my belongings stolen while my health, reputation and entire livelihood have been attacked.

    One plus one equals two.

    Two plus two equals four.

    One person, minus all evidence of their existence, equals nothing.


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