Malikah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, found dead at her home in New York

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From [HERE] Malikah Shabazz, a daughter of the slain religious leader and civil rights activist Malcolm X, was found dead Monday in her home in New York City, the New York Police Department said.

Shabazz’s daughter found her at home and called emergency services, but officers who arrived at the Brooklyn residence found her unresponsive. The cause of death is not known, but the NYPD said her death did not appear suspicious. She was 56.

News of Shabazz’s death comes just days after a judge dismissed the decades-old convictions of two of the three men found guilty of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. The move followed a declaration by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. that “it was clear these men did not receive a fair trial.”

Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s six children, was born after his death.

“I’m deeply saddened by the death of Malikah Shabazz,” Bernice King, a daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., wrote on Twitter.

“My heart goes out to her family, the descendants of Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X. Dr. Shabazz was pregnant with Malikah and her twin sister, Malaak, when Brother Malcolm was assassinated. Be at peace, Malikah.”

‘If you’re Making a Killing Off the Slow Motion Extermination of People w/Fake COVID Vaccines where’s the Incentive to Ending it? You’re not crazy, you’re just a LIAR- Living In American Realism'

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From {FreedomArticles] It’s NOT a vaccine. The mRNA COVID vaccine now being militarily deployed in many nations around the world, is NOT a vaccine. I repeat: it is not a vaccine. It is many things indeed, but a vaccine is not one of them. We have to awaken to the fact that the COVID scamdemic has rapidly accelerated the technocratic and transhumanistic aspects of the New World Order (NWO) to the point where people are blindly lining up to get injected with a “treatment” which is also a chemical device, an operating system, a synthetic pathogen and chemical pathogen production device. As covered in previous articles, this new COVID vax is a completely new kind of technology, potentially even more dangerous than your average toxic vaccine. In this article, we will explore in more depth what this mRNA vaccine is.

Doctors David Martin and Judy Mikovits Expose How So-Called COVID Vaccine is Not a Vaccine

Listen to this short excerptfeaturing doctors David Martin and Judy Mikovits (who have both been very outspoken thus far in exposing the COVID plandemic) who are speaking with Robert Kennedy Jr. and lawyer Rocco Galati, who is representing a Canadian freedom group suing the government for the entire COVID scam. David Martin makes some extremely important points about how we can’t accurately label the device Moderna and Pfizer are pushing as a vaccine, because both medically and legally, is not a vaccine:

“This is not a vaccine … using the term vaccine to sneak this thing under public health exemptions … This is a mRNA packaged in a fat envelope that is delivered to a cell. It is a medical device designed to stimulate the human cell into becoming a pathogen creator. It is not a vaccine! Vaccines actually are a legally defined term … under public health law … under CDC and FDA standards, a vaccine specifically has to stimulate both an immunity within the person receiving it, but it also has to disrupt transmission … They have been abundantly clear in saying that the mRNA strand that is going into the cell is not to stop transmission. It is a treatment. But if it was discussed as a treatment, it would not get the sympathetic ear of public health authorities, because then people would say “What other treatments are there?”

The use of the term vaccine is unconscionable … because it actually is the sucker punch to open and free discourse … Moderna was a started as a chemotherapy company for cancer, not a vaccine manufacturer for SARS … if we said we’re going to give people prophylactic chemo for the cancer they don’t have, you’d be laughed out of a room, because it’s a stupid idea. That’s exactly what this is! This is a mechanical device, in the form of a very small packet of technology, that is being inserted into the human system to activate the cell to become a pathogen manufacturing site.

The only reason why the term [vaccine] is being used is to abuse the 1905 Jacobsen case that has been misrepresented since it was written. If we were honest with this, we would actually call it what it is: it is a chemical pathogen device, that is actually meant to unleash a chemical pathogen production action within the cell. It is a medical device, not a drug, because it meets the CDRH [Center for Devices and Radiological Health] definition of a device.

It is made to make you sick … 80% of the people who are exposed to allegedly the virus [SARS-Cov-2] have no symptoms at all … 80% of people who get this injected into them have a clinical adverse event. You are getting injected with a chemical substance to induce illness, not to induce a[n] immuno-transmissive response. In other words, nothing about this is going to stop you transmitting anything. This is about getting you sick, and having your own cells be the thing that get you sick.”

Judy Mikovits also chips in with this:

“It’s a synthetic pathogen. They’ve literally injected this pathogenic part of the virus into every cell of the body … it can actually directly cause multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease … it can cause accelerated cancer … that’s what the expression of that piece of virus … has been known to do for decades.”

COVID Vaccine is an Operating System, Says Moderna

The COVID mRNA Vaccine is an operating system which can program your DNA, and therefore program you, at your core essential blueprint level. Is this an exaggeration? No it’s not. Moderna states on their website that their mRNA technology platform is a “software of life” and “functions very much like an operating system on a computer.” This is straight from their website:

“It is designed so that it can plug and play interchangeably with different programs. In our case, the “program” or “app” is our mRNA drug – the unique mRNA sequence that codes for a protein.”

The Game Plan: Making Every Human into a Digital Node on the Control Grid

We are fast moving into the world of transhumanism, where our natural biological bodies are hijacked and infiltrated with synthetic parts, starting at the nanoparticle level. The NWO controllers want to download some kind of Microsoft office system or software into your body and brain, and hook you up to the JEDI and/or Amazon-CIA cloud, so they can have direct access to your brain. Then, they can roll out “vaccines” which are not vaccines to continually update you, just like computer software gets regular updates. Viruses, real or not, and vaccines, real or not, are just means to achieve this goal.

Turning Humans into Commodities via Social Credit Currency

Alison McDowell sums up the current transhumanistic NWO path of highest probability below, which involves social credit, 5G, the Smart Grid and AI to induce planetary-wide compliance: [MORE]

While Puppeticians and Massa' Media Continue to Push Deadly and Unsafe Mandates the Federal Government's VAERS Data Shows 18,853 Deaths and 139,126 Serious Injuries Caused by the Vax

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From [HERE] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data today showing a total of 894,145 adverse events following COVID vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 12, 2021, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

The data included a total of 18,853 reports of deaths — an increase of 392 over the previous week — and 139,126 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 3,726 compared with the previous week.

Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, 654,413 adverse events, including 8,664 deaths and 54,962 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 12, 2021.

Foreign reports are reports received by U.S. manufacturers from their foreign subsidiaries. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, if a manufacturer is notified of a foreign case report that describes an event that is both serious and does not appear on the product’s labeling, the manufacturer is required to submit the report to VAERS.

Of the 8,664 U.S. deaths reported as of Nov. 12, 10% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 26% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

In the U.S., 436.9 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of Nov. 12. This includes: 254.5 million doses of Pfizer, 166.3 million doses of Moderna and 16.1 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

Every Friday, VAERS publishes vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed. Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.

This week’s U.S. data for 5- to 11-year-olds show:

  • 444 adverse events have been reported in the 5 to 11 age group since Nov. 1.

  • The rest of the reports in VAERS for children in the 5 to 11 age group occurred prior to the authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, and are due to ”product administered to patient of inappropriate age.”

This week’s U.S. data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:  

The most recent death includes a 16-year-old girl from Missouri (VAERS I.D. 1823671) who died after receiving her second dose of Pfizer.

Other reported deaths include a 17-year-old female from Washington (VAERS I.D. 1828901) who died Oct. 29 reportedly from a heart condition after receiving her second dose of Pfizer; a 12-year-old girl from South Carolina (VAERS I.D. 1784945) who hemorrhaged 22 days after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine; and a 13-year-old girl from Maryland (VAERS I.D. 1815096) who died from a heart condition 15 days after receiving her first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.

  • 59 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death — with 96% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

  • 559 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) with 549 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

  • 134 reports of blood clotting disorders, with all cases attributed to Pfizer.

This week’s U.S. VAERS data, from Dec. 14, 2020, to Nov. 12, 2021, for all age groups combined, show:

FDA, CDC sign off on Pfizer, Moderna COVID boosters for all adults

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today authorized Moderna and Pfizer COVID boosters for all adults. The agency made its decision without input from its advisory committee, whose members, on Sept. 17, voted 16 to 2 against recommending boosters, citing a lack of long-term data and stating the risks did not outweigh the benefits.

Hours after the FDA announced its decision, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) signed off with an unanimous endorsement.

The ACIP said 18- to 49-year-olds “may” get a booster, but people 50 and older should get one. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is expected to clear the doses, which will allow boosters to be administered broadly to the general public.

Speaking for the FDA, Dr. Peter Marks, head of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a statement:

“The FDA has determined that the currently available data support expanding the eligibility of a single booster dose of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to individuals 18 years of age and older.”

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and an FDA advisory panel member took issue with how the FDA arrived at its decision.

In an email to The Epoch Times, Offit said, “I think it would have been of value for the public to hear an open discussion about the need for boosters. I wish we had had the chance to discuss this.”

The FDA said it did not hold a meeting because “the agency previously convened the committee for extensive discussions regarding the use of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines and, after review of both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s [Emergency Use Authorization] requests, the FDA concluded that the requests do not raise questions that would benefit from additional discussion by committee members.”

Pfizer and BioNTech requested authorization last week after submitting the results of a phase 3 trial involving more than 10,000 participants.

Moderna resubmitted its application for its 50-microgram booster dose for all adults just two days ago. The company said the FDA based its decision on the “totality of scientific evidence shared by the company,” including data that showed neutralizing antibodies had waned at about six months.

14-year-old Kentucky girl mistakenly given J&J vaccine

A 14-year-old Kentucky girl was mistakenly given J&J’s COVID vaccine, which is not authorized for anyone under the age of 18, International Business Times reported.

The girl was given the jab Oct. 16 at a vaccine drive-in at a high school in Covington.

The girl’s mother, Rolina Mason, said her daughter was reluctant to get vaccinated and wanted the J&J vaccine because it was only one dose. Mason agreed that the nurse could administer J&J, but didn’t realize it wasn’t authorized for use in children.

Mason said she trusted the nurse who told them that it was okay for her daughter to get it.

The health department contacted Mason a week later and informed her that her daughter should have received Pfizer’s COVID vaccine instead. Mason’s daughter reportedly experienced skin rashes after receiving the shot.

States bypass CDC, gave out COVID boosters to all adults before authorization

State officials from California to Maine encouraged and allowed adult residents to get COVID vaccine boosters despite recommendations by the FDA and CDC to reserve the shots for elderly and high-risk groups, CNBC reported.

California also told medical providers not to turn away any adults who requested a booster.

Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, Vermont and West Virginia are also promoting widespread rollout of boosters for any fully vaccinated adult, with governors in Colorado and New Mexico signing executive orders a week before the FDA authorized the shots for the general population.

Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia called for all adults in-state to get their boosters, adding that fully vaccinated residents would be “very foolish” not to register for the third dose.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said during a briefing Monday he wanted to make sure everybody 18 and over was eligible and encouraged to get a booster. Danyelle McNeill, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Health, told CNBC in an email “the great majority of adults in Arkansas” were already considered high risk by the CDC before Hutchinson issued his recommendation.

Kentucky approved boosters for fully vaccinated adults on Wednesday, while Connecticut, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont expanded their booster programs this week before the FDA and CDC signed off, today.

Doctor Says the Vax is Killing People

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Covid Jab Is Far More Dangerous than Advertised. Dr. Peter McCullough. From [HERE] According to a September 2021 analysis, based on conservative, best-case scenarios, the COVID shots have killed five times more seniors (65+) than the infection

In younger people and children, the risk associated with the COVID shot, compared to the risk of COVID-19, is bound to be even more pronounced

Data show higher vaccination rates do not translate into lower COVID-19 case rates

The COVID shots are an epic failure. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports having more than 30,000 spontaneous reports of either hospitalizations and/or deaths among the fully vaccinated; data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show 300,000 vaccinated CMS recipients have been hospitalized with breakthrough infections; 60% of seniors over age 65 hospitalized for COVID-19 have been vaccinated

50% of reported deaths after COVID-19 “vaccination” occur within 24 hours; 80% occur within the first week. According to one report, 86% of deaths have no other explanation aside from a vaccine adverse event. A Scandinavian study concluded about 40% of post-jab deaths among seniors in assisted living homes are directly due to the injection

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October 26, 2021, Global Research published an interview with Dr. Peter McCullough, in which he reviews and explains the findings of a September 2021 study published in the journal Toxicology Reports, which states:1

“A novel best-case scenario cost-benefit analysis showed very conservatively that there are five times the number of deaths attributable to each inoculation vs those attributable to COVID-19 in the most vulnerable 65+ demographic.

The risk of death from COVID-19 decreases drastically as age decreases, and the longer-term effects of the inoculations on lower age groups will increase their risk-benefit ratio, perhaps substantially.”

McCullough has impeccable academic credentials. He’s an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist and a full professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Dallas. He also has a master’s degree in public health and is known for being one of the top five most-published medical researchers in the United States, in addition to being the editor of two medical journals.

Authors Defend Their Paper

Not surprisingly, the Toxicology Reports paper has received scathing critique from certain quarters. Still, corresponding author Ronald Kostoff told Retraction Watch that the criticism has actually been “an extremely small fraction” of the overall response, which by and large has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. Kostoff went on to say:2

“Given the blatant censorship of the mainstream media and social media, only one side of the COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ narrative is reaching the public. Any questioning of the narrative is met with the harshest response …

I went into this with my eyes wide open, determined to identify the truth, irrespective of where it fell. I could not stand idly by while the least vulnerable to serious COVID-19 consequences were injected with substances of unknown mid and long-term safety.

We published a best-case scenario. The real-world situation is far worse than our best-case scenario, and could be the subject of a future paper.

What these results show is that we 1) instituted mass inoculations of an inadequately-tested toxic substance with 2) non-negligible attendant crippling and lethal results to 3) potentially prevent a relatively small number of true COVID-19 deaths. In other words, we used a howitzer where an accurate rifle would have sufficed!”

COVID Jab Campaign Has Had No Discernible Impact

Certainly, data very clearly show the mass “vaccination” campaign has not had a discernible impact on global death rates. On the contrary, in some cases the death toll shot up after the COVID shots became widely available. You can browse through covid19.healthdata.org3 to see this for yourself. Several examples are also included at the very beginning of the video.

This trend has also been confirmed in a September 2021 study4 published in the European Journal of Epidemiology. It found COVID-19 case rates are completely unrelated to vaccination rates.

Using data available as of September 3, 2021, from Our World in Data for cross-country analysis, and the White House COVID-19 Team data for U.S. counties, the researchers investigated the relationship between new COVID-19 cases and the percentage of the population that had been fully vaccinated.

Sixty-eight countries were included. Inclusion criteria included second dose vaccine data, COVID-19 case data and population data as of September 3, 2021. They then computed the COVID-19 cases per 1 million people for each country, and calculated the percentage of population that was fully vaccinated.

According to the authors, there was “no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last seven days.” If anything, higher vaccination rates were associated with a slight increase in cases. According to the authors:5

“[T]he trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.”

The Kostoff Analysis

Getting back to the Toxicology Reports paper,6 which is being referring to as “the Kostoff analysis,” McCullough says the analysis is definitely making news in clinical medicine. The paper focuses on two factors: assumptions and determinism.

Determinism describes how likely something is. For example, if a person takes a COVID shot, it’s 100% certain they got the injection. It’s not 50% or 75%. It’s an absolute certainty. As a result, that person has a 100% chance of being exposed to whatever risk is associated with that shot.

On the other hand, if a person says no to the injection, it’s not 100% chance they’ll get COVID-19, let alone die from it. You have a less than 1% chance of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and getting sick. So, it’s 100% deterministic that taking the shot exposes you to the risks of the shot, and less than 1% deterministic that you’ll get COVID if you don’t take the shot.

The other part of the equation is the assumptions, which are based on calculations using available data, such as pre-COVID death statistics and death reports filed with the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reports System (VAERS).

Mortality Data

As noted by McCullough, two reports have detailed COVID jab death data, showing 50% of deaths occur within 24 hours and 80% occur within the first week. In one of these reports, 86% of deaths were found to have no other explanation aside from a vaccine adverse event. McCullough also cites a Scandinavian study that concluded about 40% of post-jab deaths among seniors in assisted living homes are directly due to the injection. He also cites other eye-opening figures:

COVID-19 Vaccines are Killing “Huge Numbers” of People: Government Scrubs Stats on Vaccine-Related Deaths

  • The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports having more than 30,000 spontaneous reports of either hospitalizations and/or deaths among the fully vaccinated

  • Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show 300,000 vaccinated CMS recipients have been hospitalized with breakthrough infections

  • 60% of seniors over age 65 hospitalized for COVID-19 have been vaccinated

COVID Shots Are ‘Failing Wholesale’

“When we put all these data together, we have clear-cut science that the vaccines are failing wholesale,” McCullough says. The shots are particularly useless in seniors.

Again, based on a best-case conservative scenario, seniors are five times more likely to die from the shot than they are from the natural infection. This scenario includes the assumption that the PCR test is accurate and reported COVID deaths were in fact due to COVID-19, which we know is not the case, and the assumption that the shots actually prevent death, which we have no proof of.

All things considered, you are FAR better off taking your chances with the natural infection, as McCullough says. The Kostoff analysis also does not take into account the fact that there are safe and effective treatments.

It bases its assumptions on the notion that there aren’t any. It also doesn’t factor in the fact that the COVID shots are utterly ineffective against the Delta and other variants. If you take into account vaccine failure against variants and alternative treatments, it skews the analysis even further toward natural infection being the safest alternative.

FDA and CDC Should Not Run Vaccine Programs

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the CDC claim not a single death following COVID inoculation was caused by the shot, they should not be the ones making that determination, as they are both sponsoring the vaccination campaign.

They have an inherent bias. When you conduct a trial, you would never allow the sponsor to tell you whether the product was the cause of death, because you know they’re biased.

We have actually fulfilled all of the Bradford Hill criteria. I’ll tell you right now that COVID-19 vaccine is, from an epidemiological perspective, causing these deaths or a large fraction. ~ Dr. Peter McCullough

What we need is an external group, a critical event committee, to analyze the deaths being reported, as well as a data safety monitoring board. These should have been in place from the start, but were not.

Had they been, the program would most likely have been halted in February, as by then the number of reported deaths, 186, already exceeded the tolerable threshold of about 150 (based on the number of injections given). Now, we’re well over 17,000.7 There’s no normal circumstance under which that would ever be allowed.

“The CDC and FDA are running the [vaccination] program. They are NOT the people who typically run vaccine programs,” McCullough says. “The drug companies run vaccine programs.

When Pfizer, Moderna, J&J ran their randomized trials, we didn’t have any problems. They had good safety oversight. They had data safety monitoring boards. The did OK. I mean I have to give the drug companies [credit].

But the drug companies are now just the suppliers of the vaccine. Our government agencies are now just running the program. There’s no external advisory committee. There’s no data safety monitoring board. There’s no human ethics committee. NO one is watching out for this!

And so, the CDC and FDA pretty clearly have their marching orders: ‘Execute this program; the vaccine is safe and effective.’ They’re giving no reports to Americans. No safety reports. We needed those once a month. They haven’t told doctors which is the best vaccine, which is the safest vaccine.

They haven’t told us what groups are to watch out for. How to mitigate risks. Maybe there are drug interactions. Maybe it’s people with prior blood clotting problems or diabetes. They’re not telling us anything!

They literally are blindsiding us, and with no transparency, and Americans now are scared to death. You can feel the tension in America. People are walking off the job. They don’t want to lose their jobs, but they don’t want to die of the vaccine! It’s very clear. They say, ‘Listen, I don’t want to die. That’s the reason I’m not taking the vaccine.’ It’s just that clear.”

Bradford Hill Criteria Are Met — COVID Jabs Cause Death

McCullough goes on to explain the Bradford Hill criterion for causation, which is one of the ways by which we can actually determine that, yes, the shots are indeed killing people. We’re not dealing with coincidence.

“The first question we’d ask is: ‘Does the vaccine have a mechanism of action, a biological mechanism of action, that can actually kill a human being?’ And the answer is yes! because the vaccines all use genetic mechanisms to trick the body into making the lethal spike protein of the virus.

It is very conceivable that some people take up too much messenger RNA; they produce a lethal spike protein in sensitive organs like the brain or the heart or elsewhere. The spike protein damages blood vessels, damages organs, causes blood clots. So, it’s well within the mechanism of action that the vaccine could be fatal.

Someone could have a fatal blood clot. They could have fatal myocarditis. The FDA has official warnings of myocarditis. They have warnings on blood clots. They have warnings on a fatal neurologic condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome. So, the FDA warnings, the mechanism of action, clearly say it’s possible.

The second criteria is: ‘Is it a large effect?’ And the answer is yes! This is not a subtle thing. It’s not 151 versus 149 deaths. This is 15,000 deaths. So, it’s a very large effect size, a large effect.

The third [criteria] is: ‘Is it internally consistent?’ Are you seeing other things that could potentially be fatal in VAERS? Yes! We’re seeing heart attacks. We’re seeing strokes. We’re seeing myocarditis. We’re seeing blood clots, and what have you. So, it’s internally consistent.

‘Is it externally consistent?’ That’s the next criteria. Well, if you look in the MHRA, the yellow card system in England, the exact same thing has been found. In the EudraVigilance system in [Europe] the exact same thing’s been found.

So, we have actually fulfilled all of the Bradford Hill criteria. I’ll tell you right now that COVID-19 vaccine is, from an epidemiological perspective, causing these deaths or a large fraction.”

Zero Tolerance for Elective Drugs Causing Death

There may be cases in which a high risk of death from a drug might be acceptable. If you have a terminal incurable disease, for example, you may be willing to experiment and take your chances. Under normal circumstances however, lethal drugs are not tolerated.

After five suspected deaths, a drug will receive a black box warning. At 50 deaths, it will be removed from the market. Considering COVID-19 has a less than 1% risk of death across age groups, the tolerance for a deadly remedy is infinitesimal. At over 17,000 reported deaths, which in real numbers may exceed 212,000,8 the COVID shots far surpass any reasonable risk to protect against symptomatic COVID-19. As noted by McCullough:

“There is zero tolerance for electively taking a drug or a new vaccine and then dying! There’s zero tolerance for that. People don’t weigh it out and say, ‘Oh well, I’ll take my chances and die.’ And I can tell you, the word got out about vaccines causing death in early April [2021], and by mid-April the vaccination rates in the United States plummeted …

We hadn’t gotten anywhere near our goals. Remember, President Biden set a goal [of 70% vaccination rate] by July 1. We never got there because Americans were frightened by their relatives, people in their churches and their schools dying after the vaccine.

They had heard about it, they saw it. There was an informal internet survey done several months ago, where 12% of Americans knew somebody who had died after the vaccine.

I’m a doctor. I’m an internist and cardiologist. I just came from the hospital … I had a woman die of the COVID-19 vaccine … She had shot No. 1. She had shot No. 2. After shot No. 2, she developed blood clots throughout her body. She required hospitalization. She required intravenous blood thinners. She was ravaged. She had neurologic damage.

After that hospitalization, she was in a walker. She came to my office. I checked for more blood clots. I found more blood clots. I put her back on blood thinners. I saw her about a month later. She seemed like she was a little better. Family was really concerned. The next month I got called by the Dallas Coroner office saying she’s found dead at home.

Most of us don’t have any problem with vaccines; 98% of Americans take all the vaccines … I think most people who are still susceptible would take a COVID vaccine if they knew they weren’t going to die of it or be injured. And because of these giant safety concerns, and the lack of transparency, we’re at an impasse.

We’ve got a very labor-constrained market. We’ve got people walking off the job. We’ve got planes that aren’t going to fly, and it’s all because our agencies are not being transparent and honest with America about vaccine safety.”

Early Treatment Is Crucial, Vaxxed or Not

As noted by McCullough, the vast majority of patients require hospitalization for COVID-19 is because they’ve not received any treatment and the infection has been allowed free reign for days on end.

“To this day, the patients who get hospitalized are largely those who receive no early care at home,” he says. “They’re either denied care or they don’t know about it, and they end up dying.

The vast majority of people who die, die in the hospital; they don’t die at home. And the reason why they end up in the hospital, it’s typically two weeks of lack of treatment. You can’t let a fatal illness brew for two weeks at home with no treatment, and then start treatment very late in the hospital. It’s not going to work.

There’s been a very good set of analyses, one in the Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases … that showed, day by day, one loses the opportunity of reducing the hospitalization when monoclonal antibodies are delayed … No doctor should be considered a renegade when they order FDA [emergency use authorized] monoclonal antibody. The monoclonal antibodies are just as approved as the vaccines.

I just had a patient over the weekend, fully vaccinated, took the booster. A month after the booster she went on a trip to Dubai. She just came back, and she got COVID-19! … I got her a monoclonal antibody infusion that day. [The following day] she started the sequence of multidrug therapy for COVID-19. I am telling you, she is going to get through this illness in a few days …

Podcaster Joe Rogan just went through this. Governor Abbott was also a vaccine failure. He went through it. Former President Trump went through it. Americans should see the use of monoclonal antibodies in high risk patients, followed by drugs in an oral sequenced approach. This is standard of care!

It is supported by the Association of Physicians and Surgeons, the Truth for Health Foundation, the American Front Line Doctors, and the Front Line Critical Care Consortium. This is not renegade medicine. This is what patients should have. This is the correct thing! …

If we can’t get the monoclonal antibodies, we certainly use hydroxychloroquine, supported by over 250 studies, ivermectin, supported by over 60 studies, combined with azithromycin or doxycycline, inhaled budesonide … full-dose aspirin … nutraceuticals including zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, quercetin, NAC … we do oral and nasal decontamination with povidone-iodine.

In acutely sick patients we do it every four hours, [and it] massively reduces the viral load … Fortunately, we have enough doctors now and enough patient awareness, patients who … understand that early treatment is viable, is necessary, and it should be executed.”

Why did more people die in 2021 despite the rollout of the Vax in December 2020? Did COVID raise the death toll despite mass vaccination or are people dying at increased rates b/c of the Vax?

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From [HERE] According to all-cause mortality statistics, the number of Americans who have died between January 2021 and August 2021 is 16% higher than 2018, the pre-COVID year with the highest all-cause mortality, and 18% higher than the average death rate between 2015 and 2019. Adjusted for population growth of about 0.6% annually, the mortality rate in 2021 is 16% above the average and 14% above the 2018 rate.

The obvious question is, why did more people die in 2021 (January through August) despite the rollout of COVID shots in December 2020? Did COVID-19 raise the death toll despite mass vaccination, or are people dying at increased rates because of the COVID jabs?

Vaccine-Induced Mortality

In a two-part series,2 Matthew Crawford of the Rounding the Earth Newsletter, examined mortality statistics before and after the rollout of the COVID shots. In Part 1,3 he revealed the shots killed an estimated 1,018 people per million doses administered (note, this is doses, not the number of individuals vaccinated) during the first 30 days of the European vaccination campaign. Between 800,000 and 2 million so-called ‘COVID-19 deaths’ may in fact be vaccine-induced deaths.

After adjusting for deaths categorized as COVID-19 deaths, he came up with an estimate of 200 to 500 deaths per million doses administered. With 4 billion doses having been administered around the world, that means 800,000 to 2 million so-called “COVID-19 deaths” may in fact be vaccine-induced deaths. As explained by Crawford:4

“This does not even include vaccine-induced deaths that have not been recorded as COVID cases, though I suspect that latter number is smaller since the only good way to hide the vaccine mortality signal is to smuggle deaths through the already-established COVID death toll.”

Corroborating Crawford’s calculations are data from Norway, where 23 deaths were reported following the COVID jab at a time when only 40,000 Norwegians had received the shot.

Not taking into account the possibility of underreporting in Norway, that gives us a mortality rate of 575 deaths per million doses administered. What’s more, after conducting autopsies on 13 of those deaths, all 13 were determined to be linked to the COVID jab. As reported by Norway Today back in January 2021:5

“‘The reports might indicate that common side effects from mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have led to deaths in some frail patients,’ chief physician Sigurd Hortemo in the Norwegian Medicines Agency noted.

The Norwegian Medicines Agency and the National Institute of Public Health (FHI) jointly assess all side effects reports. As a result, the FHI has updated the corona vaccination guide with new advice on the vaccination of frail elderly people.

‘If you are very frail, you should probably not be vaccinated,’ Steinar Madsen at the Norwegian Medicines Agency said at a webinar on corona vaccine for journalists …”

Is the COVID Jab Responsible for Excess Deaths?

Crawford goes on to look at data from countries that have substantial vaccine uptake while simultaneously having very low rates of COVID-19. This way, you can get a better idea as to whether the COVID jabs might be responsible for the excess deaths, as opposed to the infection itself.

He identified 23 countries that fit this criteria, accounting for 1.88 billion individuals, roughly one-quarter of the global population. Before the COVID jabs rolled out, these nations reported a total of 103.2 COVID-related deaths per million residents. Five nations had more than 200 COVID deaths per million while seven had fewer than 10 deaths per million.

As of August 1, 2021, 25.35% of inhabitants in these 23 nations had received a COVID jab and 10.36% were considered fully vaccinated. In all, 673 million doses had been administered. Based on these data, Crawford estimates the excess death rate per million vaccine doses is 411, well within the window of the 200 to 500 range he calculated in Part 1.

Equally intriguing is the finding that the number of new COVID cases (i.e., positive tests) after the start of the COVID jab campaign is 3.8 times higher than it was before the rollout of the shots, and the daily COVID death rate is 3.82 times higher.

Morocco and Saudi Arabia were the only two nations in which the case rate and COVID death rates went down after the vaccination campaign started. “If deaths were scaled by 3.82 due to the vaccines, then there were 276,465 excess deaths during this time span,” Crawford writes.

He goes through a number of adjustments to remove outliers that might skew the data sets, so for a more detailed review, see the original article. But in summary, after removing nations with more than 100 COVID deaths per million before their vaccination program (to evaluate the impact of the shots alone), he came up with 13 countries with a combined population of 354 million.

The number of doses administered in these 13 countries is similar to the original cohort. The adjusted number of excess deaths per million is now 318, which is still within the 200 to 500 per million range.

Remarkably, though, the number of COVID deaths in these 13 countries is 11.61 times higher post-vaccination, compared to before the jabs were rolled out. In five of the 13 countries, a whopping 90% of their COVID-19 fatalities have been logged after their vaccination campaigns began! This obliterates any fantasy that the COVID injections are actually helping.

“On face, these results reinforce the case that the experimental vaccines are killing people,” Crawford writes. “At the very least, this is one more dramatic [lack of] safety signal that should spur authorities who care about our health to come to the table for a discussion about how to refine the data they’re not analyzing to anyone’s knowledge …

More concerning is that numerous of these nations — largely located in Asia — seemed to have no susceptibility at all to the pandemic prior to vaccination. There are a lot of theories as to why this might be aside from just vaccines triggering deaths.

•Might PCR testing pick up signals from attenuated virus vaccines, resulting in case explosions (from almost none) to match the [new] deaths?

•Could some of these vaccines have faulty production … during polio vaccine rollout? This could result in cases and deaths?

•Paraguay has by far the greatest signal of vaccine-induced mortality. It stands out as one of the only nations on Earth to use both Chinese and also Western vaccines. Is there any reason such a combination could result in more volatile disease spread?

•Do we really believe that the braintrust at the FDA and CDC are entirely unaware of these observations?

Meanwhile, health authorities still seem to have no issue with the lack of risk report or risk-benefit analysis performed by any of the vaccine manufacturers or anyone else. This strikes me as one of the worst signs in my lifetime that corporations have taken over government on an essentially complete level.”

US Whistleblower Highlights Underreporting

In mid-July 2021, America’s Frontline Doctors, represented by Renz Law,6 filed a lawsuit7 against the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra. In that lawsuit, they cite whistleblower testimony by a computer programmer with expertise in health care data analytics and access to Medicare and Medicaid data maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

According to this whistleblower, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) under-reports deaths caused by the COVID shots by a conservative factor of five or more. She claims the number of Americans killed by the shots was at least 45,000 as of July 9, 2021.

At that time, VAERS reported 9,048 deaths following COVID injection. That number is now 16,310 (as of October 1, 20218). Using an under-reporting factor of five, that gives us an estimated death toll of 81,550.

COVID Shots May Have Killed More Than 200,000 in the US

Steve Kirsch, executive director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, has come up with even more drastic numbers. In the video “Vaccine Secrets: COVID Crisis,”9 he argues that VAERS can be used to determine causality, and shows how the VAERS data indicate more than 212,000 Americans have already been killed by the COVID shots.10

Anywhere from 2 million to 5 million have also been injured by them in some way. Kirsch is so confident in his analyses, he’s offered a $1 million academic grant to anyone who can show his analysis is flawed by a factor of four or more. He’s even offered $1 million to any official willing to simply have a public debate with him about the data, and none has accepted the challenge.

Woman’s Obituary Blames COVID Vaccine for Her Death

While it may be challenging to determine exactly how many people have died as a direct result of the COVID shots, we can be certain that deaths are occurring.

One Oregon woman’s obituary11 went viral after her family blamed side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine on her death. The family minced no words, calling out state and local governments for their “heavy-handed vaccine mandates.” Jessica Berg Wilson left behind a husband and two young daughters, aged 5 and 3.

Only Racist Authoritarians Claim that Having Less Freedom or Less Melanin is Superior. Never Mind About, 'What if Rittenhouse was Black?'- What if Ahmaud Arbery was Strapped? Would He Still be Alive?

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Quoting Snell Putney, FUNKTIONARY states, "If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away freedoms that are essential to that democracy." 

ON KEEPING THE PIECE. On behalf of their Authorities liberal doo-gooders are using the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery to advocate for freedumb. FUNKTIONARY defines freedumb as:

the state of unrecognized psychological captivity that sheeple remain in because they don't speak the language of reality nor edit truth from perfecting heart to perfecting power--and when truth is spoken around them, refrain from being open, or impervious to it thus being forever chained to its distortions and limitations. 2) the mindset that proposes "since we are liberated, we are also free." 3) the mindset that operates upon the notion that you can have individuality without accountability or responsibility. 4) the pretense that reality is truth and vice-versa. People cherish unwarranted assumptions and relish their freedumb because they have been socialized into self-censorship along with misidentification with the ego-mind--the absence of knowledge of Self. (See: Phfreedom, Truth, Unfreedom, Dumbelievers, Self, Belief Systems, True Self & Reality)

No matter the outcome of either trial white liberals will mindlessly demand less freedom in the form of more gun control and limits on the right of self defense. All weekend pundits and Black drones have been parroting their liberal masters on dependent media, talking about ‘what if Kyle Rittenhouse were Black?’ Fuck that; What if Ahmed Arbery had an AR-15? Would he still be alive?

Disarming law abiding Black people prevents them from being able to defend themselves against criminals and the government. As such, gun controls and gun bans disempower Black people and readily subject Black communities to government and criminal violence, rendering Blacks helpless, solely dependent and slave-like in their relations with government authorities who prey on them and control them under the pretense of protection.

FUNKTIONARY defines “slaves” as “disarmed men and women.” It further explains that a “gun ban” is the precursor to servitude. Enslavement is like old age; it creeps up on you. Banning guns to reduce crime is like banning sex to reduce rape.” [MORE] Contrary to indoctrination from freedumb advocates in the dependent media, the 2nd Amendment is not for primarily for hunting animals or for self-defense from thugs. Rather, it exists for when all other rights have failed. An armed population is necessary to check authority and tyranny. As stated by 9th circuit judge Alex Kozinski,

“tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people. Our own sorry history bears this out: Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South. In Florida, patrols searched blacks' homes for weapons, confiscated those found and punished their owners without judicial process. In the North, by contrast, blacks exercised their right to bear arms to defend against racial mob violence. As Chief Justice Taney well appreciated, the institution of slavery required a class of people who lacked the means to resist. A revolt by Nat Turner and a few dozen other armed blacks could be put down without much difficulty; one by four million armed blacks would have meant big trouble.

All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

. . . The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567, 569-570 (9th Cir. 2003) quoted in FUNKTIONARY

Police prey on Black people and function as our public masters. If a “public servant" is uncontrollable, unaccountable, can’t be hired or fired by you, has irresponsible power over you and provides a compulsory “service” then he is actually your master. Dr. Blynd makes it plain, "people who are awake see cops as mercenary guards that remind us daily through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State - colonized, surveilled and patrolled by the desensitized and lobotomized drones of the colonizers." Brazen cops so frequently abuse their uncontrollable powers that no Black driver, pedestrian, shopper, juvenile, adult or Black professional of any kind—could make a compelling argument that so-called 4th Amendment rights afford any meaningful protection from cops. Cops interfere with Black people’s freedom of movement and right to be left alone any time they desire. Black people are more than 55 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. [MORE] Moreover, Black men are conservatively estimated to be 3 times more likely to be killed by cops than white men. Alex Vitale explains “It is largely liberal fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys.” In reality, police exist to manage the behavior of Blacks & Latinos within a free-range prison disguised as a democracy. The goal of authority is to place you in greater confinement. Another goal is for Black people to relinquish individual responsibility for defending themselves and to depend upon their public masters to do so in their provision of “public service” that cannot be refused. Discussing authoritarian indoctrination, Larken Rose states,

One of the main problems that the peasants must be trained not to deal with themselves is violent conflict. It is imperative that they view you (and your enforcers) as the only protection against rob­bery, assault, and murder. In short, they must be indoctrinated in such a way that they do not even want to be able to defend them­selves. The reason is simple: if the peasants feel capable and enti­tled to "enforce justice" themselves, they might just decide to enforce a little justice against you. And that obviously won't do. 

They must be trained to give up their belief in their right to defend themselves, which is not an easy thing to do. You must attack "peasant justice" in any ways you can think of, such as: 1) '"Vigilante justice can never be as just or fair as our system"; 2) '"You can't possibly protect yourselves; let us do it"; 3) "If you have a gun. you 'II only hurt yourself: 4) "'If the peasants were allowed to use force, there would be chaos'"; 5) "Private protection agen­cies would just deteriorate into competing gangs of thugs"; and so on. Often privately-enforced justice is referred to as the people "taking the law into their own hands" which reinforces the idea that only enforcers of "the law" should ever use force, and of course the lowly peasants can't be allowed to do that." [MORE]

Anything else cops do, good or bad, is random or incidental to the aforementioned goals.

Here, no matter the outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse or Ahmed Arbery trials, under the pretense of making Black people safe, liberal authoritarians (and their believers) will mindlessly advocating for more gun control. However, it is obvious that a disarmed public is helpless and even more subject to governmental and thug violence. The idea that an otherwise criminal minded individual will stop himself from committing a violent crime with a gun because new gun laws are created is not rational. Dr. Blynd explains "Those who use guns to "break" (violate) the law [criminals] will have no problem breaking the law to get guns (to commit violent crimes against you). The same people who fear firearms in the hands of the people also fear information in the minds of people. Dr. Blynd asks “If guns supposedly cause (or encourage) crime, why are we arming police officers?" As explained by Larken Rose, “Crime statistics and common sense both demonstrate that passing a “law” against private weapon ownership will effect only the “law-abiding,” with the result being that the basically good people will end up less able to defend themselves against aggressors. And that is exactly what politicians want, because they have the biggest, most powerful gang of aggressors around (cops).”

It is also obvious that the neuropeons who hunted and murdered Mr. Arbery knew he was unarmed and felt free to step to him because of it. Importantly, if Arbery had a gun he might be alive today; obviously a gun would have given him a greater chance at survival.

At any rate, lawful gun possession was not a material legal issue in the Arbery or Rittenhouse case. Arbery’s killers lawfully possessed their weapons. Similarly and contrary to dependent media nonsense, Kyle Rittenhouse also lawfully possessed [he did not purchase it] that AR-15 in Kenosha when he defended himself against white men who assaulted him. As such, the application of gun laws to the Arbery and Rittenhouse trials is more proof that authorities (liberal or conservative) and their jesusized believers will use any contingency as a resource to expand their control over people.

Persons who tell you that having less freedom are selling you slavery. There is obvious inherent tension and hypocrisy between simultaneously being against police abuse and pro-gun control or disarming law abiding Black citizens. The ad-hoc, knee-deep political positions of white liberals and their believers are proof they’re not really concerned with the health, wealth, and mental well-being of black people and their politics are in no way geared to neutralize or destroy the system of racism white supremacy. Rather, liberal politics are solely designed to get out the Black vote and to maintain master-servant relations, the gravamen of the system of racism white supremacy.

The Rights of the Accused used to be a Liberal Cause but After the Rittenhouse Trial Freedumb Do-Gooders Want to Limit Self-Defense. Would Having Less Trial Rights Result in More Blacks Going to Jail?

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[MORE] It is important that those who advocate on behalf of black lives don’t accidentally advocate for an equality of degradation or less “rights” or more slavery for all. It is true that if Rittenhouse was black he would have been arrested on the spot and that he was presumed innocent and given the benefit of the doubt by white authorities solely because he is white. Clearly, black people should be treated the same way but are not due to the system of RWS. But, to demand that all persons be similarly subjected to a system of injustice or similarly degraded in the manner black people are is perverse or reverse advocacy for “freedumb.”

Furthermore, advocates for Black people should overstand that the application or inapplication of any law by racist lawmakers, jurors, judges, law enforcement officers, prosecutors and prison officials will create injustice for non-whites if they are practicing racism when doing so. Neely Fuller calls such laws "non-laws." Racism is the problem, not laws. It is deception or delusional to believe that the elimination of or creation of more laws will have an affect on the way in which racist white people relate to Black people.

From the beginning, in the spectacle the dependent media has parroted a racial narrative in this self-defense case involving white-on-white crime. This episode is not like the Freedom Summer murders of white civil right workers in Mississippi in 1964. Here, the white teen defended himself against white men participating in a riot. Undoubtedly rioting has political value - but unlike regular protest it is unlawful. Do persons rioting have a reasonable expectation that nobody can interfere with their conduct when they are rioting? Similarly, would a thief attempting to take a car stereo really have a gripe to pick if someone caught him and beat his ass? Were do-gooders really expecting the court to balance the “reasonable expectations” of rioters with the defendant’s right to self-defense?

Allegations and theories must be tested against reality - in the legal context, proven in court with evidence. Testing theories in the real world determines their actual worth. In the Rittenhouse case the theories that he was a “chaos tourist” looking for trouble or that he was a racist looking to harm Blacks on behalf of white property owners were not established at trial by the government. Such theories and allegations turned out to be nothing more than MSNBC, CNN and others talking points - talking points in accord with the appetite of the liberal viewer, not in accord with what actually occurred in reality. The prosecution failed miserably to prove Rittenhouse was a villain - watch the government’s cross examination of Rittenhouse for yourself and try to stay awake. Contrary to the liberal narrative, uncontradicted evidence demonstrated that the teenager worked as a lifeguard in Kenosha, where his father lived. However bad his judgment in showing up with a weapon he didn’t own at a riot, his intention was to stand guard in front of businesses and administer first aid. [MORE] The white prosecutor’s eye rolling and sarcasm are not evidence and did not impeach the teen’s testimony.

The facts and legal issues at trial did not concern racism white supremacy. Rittenhouse was not charged with killing or attempting to harm anyone black or randomly killing people he thought were black. Contrary to the media’s implied narrative, the government did not allege that Rittenhouse murdered or assaulted the 3 white men because they were protesting on behalf of black people or that he did so to defend the rights of aggrieved white property owners. In fact, he did not randomly attack anyone. From the videos, evidence and unimpeached testimony it appears obvious that he was under attack and defended himself. The following facts were undisputed by the Government;

in a matter of seconds, Rittenhouse killed 1) Rosenbaum (a white man) after he was chased by the white man across a parking lot. Rosenbaum lunged toward the rifle before Rittenhouse, who was trapped against parked cars, fired. According to Mr. Rittenhouse and another witness, Rosenbaum had threatened to kill the teenager earlier in the night. 2) Then while fleeing the scene with a group of people chasing him he fell down in the street. While on the ground another white man hit him in the head with a skateboard. While still on the ground Rittenhouse fatally shot the white man (once) as said white man attempted to also kick him in the face. Subsequently while trying to flee 3) a 3rd white man attempted to grab Rittenhouse’s gun, so Rittenhouse shot him once and fled.

Clinging to the racial narrative despite reality is called dogma.

What is Uncle Brother’s goal here? Is it to do away with self-defense, so people can no longer defend themselves? Liberal doo-gooders in the dependent media have been actually discussing curtailing the right to self-defense. Implying that only costumed authorities should have the right to use force [see do-gooder in this video at 11:23]. This is the low calorie logic of slaves. Having less freedoms will make us more free? Apparently, the media intends to further purposefully confuse the public by conflating the “the right of self-defense” with the police use of ‘deadly force’ and the concepts of political authority [the right of authorities to initiate force and the citizen’s legal duty to obey, even if unlawful] and sovereign immunity. Will having less rights on the street be a good thing for law abiding black people in their relations with police or criminals? How about for the thousands of Black defendants who will be subject to greater confinement in the racist criminal justice system. In fact, Wisconsin, the source of the do-gooders reactionary politics, leads the nation in locking up Black people [MORE]. Clearly, less rights or a diminished right to self defense at trial would only help authorities to lock up even more black folks. If these freedumb fighters want to do something about the defense of self-defense it might be to advocate for changing laws that prohibit citizens from using self-defense against an unlawful arrest by cops (the law in most states). Of course that would mean that liberal do-gooders would actually begin to challenge “authority,” instead of worshipping it, violently imposing it on others and believing it solves the problems that it causes.

The following information below is presented for greater understanding and refresher material in light of the misinformation presented about self-defense and the extraordinary number of Black people incarcerated in this already unjust system of injustice.

From [Sentencing Project] When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck in 2020, the world witnessed the most racist elements of the U.S. criminal legal system on broad display. The uprisings that followed Floyd’s death articulated a vision for transforming public safety practices and investments. Almost one year later, Chauvin was convicted for Floyd’s death, a rare outcome among law enforcement officers who kill unarmed citizens. The fight for racial justice within the criminal legal system continues, however. The data findings featured in this report epitomize the enormity of the task.

This report details our observations of staggering disparities among Black and Latinx people imprisoned in the United States given their overall representation in the general population. The latest available data regarding people sentenced to state prison reveal that Black Americans are imprisoned at a rate that is roughly five times the rate of white Americans. During the present era of criminal justice reform, not enough emphasis has been focused on ending racial and ethnic disparities systemwide.

Going to prison is a major life-altering event that creates obstacles to building stable lives in the community, such as gaining employment and finding stable and safe housing after release. Imprisonment also reduces lifetime earnings and negatively affects life outcomes among children of incarcerated parents.1) These are individual-level consequences of imprisonment but there are societal level consequences as well: high levels of imprisonment in communities cause high crime rates and neighborhood deterioration, thus fueling greater disparities.2) This cycle both individually and societally is felt disproportionately by people who are Black. It is clear that the outcome of mass incarceration today has not occurred by happenstance but has been designed through policies created by a dominant white culture that insists on suppression of others.

At the same time, states have begun to chip away at mass incarceration. Nine states have lowered their prison population by 30% or more in recent years: Alaska, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Alabama, Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, and California.3) This decline has been accomplished through a mix of reforms to policy and practice that reduce prison admissions as well as lengths of stay in prison. Still, America maintains its distinction as the world leader4) in its use of incarceration, including more than 1.2 million people held in state prisons around the country.5)

Truly meaningful reforms to the criminal justice system cannot be accomplished without acknowledgement of its racist underpinnings. Immediate and focused attention on the causes and consequences of racial disparities is required in order to eliminate them. True progress towards a racially just system requires an understanding of the variation in racial and ethnic inequities in imprisonment across states and the policies and day-to-day practices that drive these inequities.6)

This report documents the rates of incarceration for whites, African Americans, and Latinx individuals, providing racial and ethnic composition as well as rates of disparity for each state.7) The Sentencing Project has produced state-level estimates twice before8) and once again finds staggering disproportionalities.

Key findings

  1. Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly 5 times the rate of white Americans.

  2. Nationally, one in 81 Black adults in the U.S. is serving time in state prison. Wisconsin leads the nation in Black imprisonment rates; one of every 36 Black Wisconsinites is in prison.

  3. In 12 states, more than half the prison population is Black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

  4. Seven states maintain a Black/white disparity larger than 9 to 1: California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

  5. Latinx individuals are incarcerated in state prisons at a rate that is 1.3 times the incarceration rate of whites. Ethnic disparities are highest in Massachusetts, which reports an ethnic differential of 4.1:1.

Recommendations

  1. Eliminate mandatory sentences for all crimes.
    Mandatory minimum sentences, habitual offender laws, and mandatory transfer of juveniles to the adult criminal system give prosecutors too much authority while limiting the discretion of impartial judges. These policies contributed to a substantial increase in sentence length and time served in prison, disproportionately imposing unduly harsh sentences on Black and Latinx individuals.

  2. Require prospective and retroactive racial impact statements for all criminal statutes.
    The Sentencing Project urges states to adopt forecasting estimates that will calculate the impact of proposed crime legislation on different populations in order to minimize or eliminate the racially disparate impacts of certain laws and policies. Several states have passed “racial impact statement” laws. To undo the racial and ethnic disparity resulting from decades of tough-on-crime policies, however, states should also repeal existing racially biased laws and policies. The impact of racial impact laws will be modest at best if they remain only forward looking.

  3. Decriminalize low-level drug offenses.
    Discontinue arrest and prosecutions for low-level drug offenses which often lead to the accumulation of prior convictions which accumulate disproportionately in communities of color. These convictions generally drive further and deeper involvement in the criminal legal system.

Click here to read the full report.

The following information is from the DC Criminal Jury Instructions. The instruction is typical.

Instruction 9.501 SELF-DEFENSE--AMOUNT OF FORCE PERMISSIBLE

A.-- NONDEADLY FORCE

A person may use a reasonable amount of force in self-defense. A person may use an amount of force which, at the time of the incident, s/he actually and reasonably believes is necessary to protect himself/herself from imminent bodily harm.

B.-- DEADLY FORCE

A person may use a reasonable amount of force in self-defense, including, in some circumstances, deadly force. "Deadly force" is force that is likely to cause death or serious bodily harm. A person may use deadly force in self-defense if s/he actually and reasonably believes at the time of the incident that s/he is in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm from which s/he can save himself/herself only by using deadly force against his/her assailant.

C.-- EXCESSIVE FORCE (TO BE USED WITH EITHER DEADLY OR NONDEADLY FORCE)

Even if the other person is the aggressor and [name of defendant] is justified in using force in self-defense, s/he may not use any greater force than s/he actually and reasonably believes to be necessary under the circumstances [to prevent the harm s/he reasonably believes is intended] [to save his/her life or avoid serious bodily harm].

In deciding whether [name of defendant] used excessive force in defending himself/herself, you may consider all the circumstances under which s/he acted. A person acting in the heat of passion caused by an assault does not necessarily lose his/her claim of self-defense by using greater force than would seem necessary to a calm mind. In the heat of passion, a person may actually and reasonably believe something that seems unreasonable to a calm mind.

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Where evidence of excessive force is present, Part C of the instruction should be given, preceded by Part A or Part B, depending upon whether the defendant is charged with an offense involving the exercise of nondeadly force (A) or deadly force (B). See generally Sacrini v. U.S., 38 App. D.C. 371 (1912) (holding whether defendant's actions are reasonable depends upon whether the circumstances known to the accused would cause a reasonably prudent person, situated as the defendant, to believe s/he is being or about to be attacked); Kinard v. U.S., 96 F.2d 522, 68 App. D.C. 250 (1938) and McPhaul v. U.S., 452 A.2d 371 (D.C. 1982) (holding that defendant's belief must be both reasonable and bona fide to find self-defense); Perry v. U.S., 422 F.2d 697, 137 U.S. App. D.C. 260 (1968) and Inge v. U.S., 356 F.2d 345, 123 U.S. App. D.C. 6 (1966) (finding whether excessive force was used is determined by all the circumstances of the particular case); Brown v. U.S., 256 U.S. 335 (1921) (finding that claim of self-defense is not necessarily defeated because defendant, acting in heat of passion brought on by the assault, used more force than would have appeared reasonable to a calmer mind; if one reasonably believes s/he is in immediate danger of grievous bodily harm, deadly force may be used in defending her/himself); U.S. v. Peterson, 483 F.2d 1222, 157 U.S. App. D.C. 219 (1973) (defining deadly force as force capable of inflicting death or serious bodily harm).


Cross references: Nos. 9.500-9.505, Self-defense--related instructions.

Pennsylvania in a Rush to Lock Up Black People: In 2019 7X More Blacks Were Locked Up than in 1970. Although Blacks are 11% of population, they are the Majority of Persons w/life and 20 Yr sentences

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FAMM has released a new report, Time for Justice: The Urgent Need for Second Chances in Pennsylvania’s Sentencing System (link is external),” which looks at the harms and injustices of extreme sentences in Pennsylvania, with a focus on minimum sentences of 20 years or longer. The report also provides recommendations for reform (press release available here(link is external)).

Key findings include:

• In 2019, Pennsylvania imprisoned more than seven times the number of people that it did in 1970.  That growth was driven by punitive policy choices, not increases in crime, and it did not make Pennsylvanians safer.

• Pennsylvania is a national leader in imposing extreme sentences.  This ranking is largely driven by two laws: the mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment required for first- and second-degree murder, and the denial of parole eligibility to anyone serving a life sentence. In Pennsylvania prisons, 13.4% of people are serving life without parole (LWOP), compared to only 3.6% nationally.

• The population serving extreme sentences in Pennsylvania has surged over the last few decades. There were more than nine times as many people serving extreme sentences in 2019 than there were in 1980.

• Pennsylvania’s extreme sentencing practices have overwhelmingly impacted people of color, especially Black people, who make up less than 11% of Pennsylvania’s population but 65% of people serving life sentences and 58% of those serving non-life sentences of 20 years or longer.

• Pennsylvania’s extreme sentencing practices have created a large (and growing) elderly prison population, which increased thirtyfold from 1979 to 2019.

Pennsylvania’s extreme sentences are a high-cost, low-value proposition for taxpayers.

• Researchers have found no evidence that severe sentencing policies discourage people from choosing to engage in crime.

• Extreme sentences are not necessary for preventing recidivism, because the vast majority of people who commit crimes — even very serious crimes — naturally grow out of criminal behavior as they age and mature.  For example, of the 174 Philadelphia juvenile lifers — all originally convicted of homicide — who were resentenced and released following landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, only two (1.1%) had been reconvicted of any offense as of 2020.

• Based on average incarceration costs, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) is spending $220 million per year to incarcerate 3,892 people who have already served at least 20 years.  The true cost is undoubtedly higher, because incarceration costs increase dramatically as people age and need more medical care.

• The average cost for incarcerated individuals in skilled or personal care units is $500 per day (or $182,625 per year), more than three times the cost for the general population.

LA Cty Cop Gets Off After Murdering Latino Man: No Gun or Threat to the Cop Existed as He Drove Away But Juries Believe Whatever Cops Say. Is Self-Defense or Belief in Authority the Problem?

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IN CONTEMPT OF REALITY. Presenting Facts in Accord with the Appetite of the Obedient, Believer in Authority, Not in Accord with Reality. 'A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to that belief.'

From [HERE] and [HERE] A County sheriff's deputy Luke Liu was found not guilty of manslaughter by a jury on Friday, after a two-week trial. It is the first time since 2020 that a law enforcement officer has been prosecuted for an on-duty shooting.

Closing arguments wrapped up Thursday afternoon in the manslaughter trial of L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Luke Liu, who faced up to 11 years in prison for fatally shooting Francisco Garcia in a Norwalk gas station in February 2016. 

Liu pulled his cruiser into a 7-Eleven parking lot near Alondra Boulevard and Studebaker Road because he believed Garcia, 26, was driving a stolen Acura. After a brief interaction, Garcia tried to speed off but Liu chased him on foot and opened fire, shooting the man in the back four times. Liu tried to perform lifesaving measures at the scene, but Garcia died a short time later.

The deputy claimed that he was struck by Garcia’s car and was in fear for his life because he believed the driver was reaching for a weapon. But several witnesses have said the car did not make contact with the deputy, and an emergency room doctor testified earlier this month that Liu suffered no significant injuries during the altercation. Detectives did not find a gun in Garcia’s possession or inside the car. 

During the two-week trial, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Christopher Baker has repeatedly asserted that Liu unnecessarily escalated a minor vehicle stop into a fatal clash, costing Garcia his life while endangering others.

“The defendant made one tragically bad decision after another, contrary to common sense, contrary to his own training and contrary to his own departmental policy. He lost his head,” Baker said, adding that “if that situation was dangerous to anyone, that danger was caused by the defendant himself and his own terrible decisions.”

Defense attorney Michael Schwartz has countered that Garcia’s movements gave Liu reason to believe the 26-year-old had a weapon, meaning his decision to fire in self-defense was reasonable.

Photos from the scene show a pipe and metal steering wheel lock in the vehicle. While there’s no evidence indicating Garcia was trying to use either against the deputy, Schwartz said Liu started firing when he was standing at the driver’s side window and saw Garcia’s hands move in that direction. Witnesses have testified that Garcia was reaching for the car’s gear shift, but Schwartz argued all that matters was Liu’s perception in the moment that Garcia might have been reaching for a deadly weapon. 

“You’re supposed to interpret things not with 20/20 hindsight, but with the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene,” Schwartz said to the jury.

Schwartz has also repeatedly cited the fact that there was a murder in the gas station the night before the shooting as reason for Liu to have been in fear for his safety, though he has acknowledged there is no evidence connecting Garcia to the prior killing. The car Garcia was driving was stolen, but neither side presented evidence that Garcia stole it. 

Several witnesses testified that Garcia did not strike Liu with his car and was attempting to flee from the deputy rather than harm him. Retired Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Greg Meyer, a use-of-force expert who normally testifies on behalf of police officers in court, took the stand earlier this week and heavily criticized Liu’s tactics on the day of the shooting.

Meyer said Liu’s actions violated L.A. County Sheriff’s Department policy and generally accepted police practices that advise against shooting at moving vehicles when a suspect is unarmed. He also said Garcia did not pose an imminent risk to anyone in the gas station, including the deputy.

“Deputy Liu stated that he was injured when Garcia’s car hit him, however the single photograph provided by Liu himself appears to document [minimal] injury, if anything,” Meyer said. “It is clear that Garcia was trying to escape, however, there appears to have been no serious risk to the deputy or the public if Garcia got away.”

Meyer also cast doubt on Liu’s rationale that he feared for his life because he believed Garcia was reaching for a weapon, asking why the deputy did not take a defensive posture or react in any way before running after the car and opening fire.

Liu did not take the stand in his own defense. The lone witness Schwartz called was the former second-in-command of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Robert Fonzi, who now serves as a use-of-force expert. 

Fonzi testified that Garcia’s decision to flee and his suspicious movements would have been enough to justify Liu’s fear that his life was in danger, noting that California law does not require police to wait to see a weapon before using lethal force.

“If they wait until they see a gun or a weapon, the officer likely won’t go home,” Fonzi said. “He is reacting to the actions of Mr. Garcia and the vehicle, and based on those actions he responds in a manner that he believes is reasonable.”

Former Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey filed charges against Liu in 2018, marking the only time she moved to prosecute a police officer in an on-duty shooting during her eight years in office. Despite years of calls for Los Angeles-area law enforcement to be held accountable in shootings, and recent large-scale protests calling for criminal justice reform in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer last year, Liu’s trial has been a relatively muted affair. 

When Liu was first charged, deputies lined a courtroom in support of him. But for most of the past two weeks, the gallery has been nearly empty. A few people have filled the seats reserved for law enforcement, presumably in support of Liu, but they refused to speak with a Times reporter or identify themselves when approached earlier this week. 

Maria Luz Ruiz Partida, Garcia’s mother, has been in court every day, coming downtown directly after working a 6 a.m. shift at her accounting job. The Norwalk woman has followed each piece of testimony and evidence intently, sometimes with tears in her eyes as prosecutors replayed the grainy video of her son’s death or flashed an image of Liu crouched over Garcia’s bloody body laid out on concrete.

Ruiz Partida says she’s been frustrated that her son’s death seemingly went ignored by the protesters who criticize police for fatal shootings, but also acknowledged she hadn’t spoken out about his killing until this week for fear it might impact the criminal case or spark demonstrations that “would turn into something ugly.” 

Ruiz Partida said that while her son had been arrested in the past and had some problematic friends in Norwalk, he “would never hurt anybody” and posed no danger to the deputy. Ruiz acknowledged that her son had a criminal past, and court records show he had multiple convictions for burglary, drug possession and driving without a license between 2010 and 2012. But he’d never been convicted of a violent crime, records show. 

Ruiz said her son was a family-driven man who enjoyed weekend barbecues and dinners with his family, gave long, handwritten birthday cards to his mother and had completed a GED program shortly before his death so he could try to build a better life for his daughter, who was 8 years old at the time of the shooting. 

“He was very loving, he was loved by a lot of people, his friends and family, all of his family. ... Now he’s very missed,” she said.

While she was surprised and relieved when Lacey filed charges against Liu, Ruiz said, she’s hesitant about allowing to allow herself to believe the deputy will actually be convicted. 

“I still don’t know if I should like expect for something to be done,” she said. “I’m still not wanting to make myself hopeful.”

Los Angeles to Settle Case where LAPD Cops Assaulted a Blind Black Man and then While He was Strapped to Hospital Bed Cops held a Towel Over his Mouth and Nose Until he Passed Out

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From [HERE] and [MORE] A legally blind Black man who alleges police officers tackled and beat him outside his South Los Angeles home and then further abused him after taking him to a hospital for medical care has tentatively settled civil rights claims against the city, according to court papers obtained Saturday.

Michael Moore, 63, alleges that while he lay strapped to a gurney unable to move and surrounded by hospital guards and Los Angeles Police Department personnel, an LAPD officer held a towel over his mouth and nose until he passed out, according to the suit filed last year in Los Angeles federal court. The video also appears to show a white cop with his hand over the black man’s mouth while he was strapped to a hospital gurney.

According to the lawsuit, the officer held his hand over 63-year-old Michael Moore’s mouth until he lost consciousness at a hospital in downtown L.A. The suit also alleges LAPD falsely claimed Moore resisted arrest and threatened firefighters and an officer.

Details of the settlement were not disclosed. A notification filed with the court said the lawsuit was tentatively settled in its entirety on Nov. 11, following mediation sessions. Because the settlement is contingent on approval by the city’s claims board, budget and finance committee, city council, and mayor, it may take several months to be finalized, lawyers for both sides said.

The complaint sought unspecified punitive damages under claims including unreasonable search, unlawful seizure, excessive force, failure to intervene, battery and negligence. It names as defendants the city of Los Angeles and various LAPD officers.

The lawsuit alleges Moore — who has a history of mental illness — was arrested in February 2019 after officers misread actions caused by his disabilities as criminal activity when they came to his apartment following a medical aid call.

Moore was charged with multiple counts of assaulting a peace officer or firefighter with a deadly weapon and resisting an officer. A jury acquitted him of all charges but not before he spent 139 days in jail awaiting trial — he was unable to afford bail, court filings state.

On Feb. 28, 2019, officers arrived at Moore’s home after he got into an altercation with a woman who had been using his kitchen, court filings state. They argued about her cleaning the kitchen before she allegedly struck Moore in the face and shoved him, causing him to fall down a flight of stairs.

The lawsuit alleges she also told Moore her friends could kill him.

Before officers arrived, firefighters responded and Moore told them he could drive himself to the hospital, court filings state. But after they left, they allegedly told LAPD officers waiting outside that Moore has mental illness and is blind.

Police descended upon Moore’s apartment moments later.

“Mr. Moore did not realize that he was already surrounded by police officers, who
had crept up the stairs without identifying themselves as police or even announcing their presence,” court filings state.

As they prepared to arrest Moore, one of the officers allegedly said, he is “like blind so, he doesn’t even know we are out here,” according to the lawsuit.

Moore felt someone grab and twist his wrist, and officers “twisted his neck, slammed his head to the floor, beat him, and jammed their knees into his back,” the lawsuit states. They allegedly did not respond when he asked why he was being arrested and carried him down the stairs in handcuffs.

He was taken to Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center in downtown L.A., where an officer’s body camera footage shows him strapped to a gurney.

A group of medical workers, hospital security guards and officers were standing around him when one of the officers cupped his hand over Moore’s face, which is covered with a white towel, the video shows. He screams “I can’t breathe” multiple times, and later in the video, he falls quiet and his body lies still.

The lawsuit alleges the officer was “pressing his hands on Mr. Moore’s face for another minute, at one point repositioning his hands to press even more firmly on Mr. Moore’s mouth and nose.” This allegedly blocked Moore’s airway, causing him to lose consciousness and make his body go limp, according to the lawsuit.

The officer is seen later in the video taking his hand off of Moore’s face. A medical worker eventually removed the towel, court filings state.

Moore’s attorney said his client can be heard on tape crying out “I can’t breathe!” at least three times.

Moore remains “deeply traumatized” due to the alleged assault and is unable to sleep, is afraid to go outside and “lives in constant fear of the police,” according to his attorneys.

Aurora to Pay $15M for White Cops Brutal Murder of Elijah McLain. 3 Cops Unlawfully Stopped and Attacked 140lbs Black Man Walking Home, Piled on, Choked and Sedated Him as he Begged and Vomited

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From [HERE] The city of Aurora, Colo., will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died after law enforcement officers put him in a chokehold while he was on his way home in 2019. He was less than 100 feet away from his front door when white police officers unlawfully stopped and seized him.

Aurora officials said the settlement was the largest ever paid by the municipal government, and a lawyer for McClain’s father told the Associated Press that it was the biggest for a civil rights case in Colorado’s history. The agreement to drop the civil suit filed against the city last year was approved after a mediation hearing at a federal court.

The $15 million figure is more than double the $6.5 million that Aurora paid to settle officer-involved lawsuits between 2010 and 2017.

The findings of Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) were damning. Aurora police engaged in repeated abuses against non-white people, especially Black people, treated people of color differently from their White counterparts, repeatedly used excessive force and failed to properly document interactions with the public, according to the investigation.

Aurora’s police department cooperated with the state investigation, Weiser told reporters at the time. A separate city probe, released in February, found that Aurora officers had no legally justified reason to stop, frisk or use multiple chokeholds on McClain.

McClain died at a hospital after a violent arrest on the evening of August 24, 2019. McClain was walking home after he had gone to a corner store to purchase a soda or ice-tea.

McClain, who routinely wore masks when outside because he had anemia and became cold easily, according to family, refused to stop for officers when they first contacted him. However, the police apparently had no legal justification to stop him in the first place. “I have a right to go where I am going,” he said. The white Aurora officers involved were Randy Roedema, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard.

According to the federal indictment:

WOODYARD arrived first and ordered Mr. McClain to stop. WOODYARD did not see Mr. McClain with any weapons, but he noted a grocery bag and that, in his opinion, Mr. McClain was “suspicious.” Immediately after WOODYARD contacted Mr. McClain, ROSENBLATT joined WOODYARD, and the stop quickly turned physical. The officers grabbed Mr. McClain's arms then forcibly moved Mr. McClain over to a grassy area near where the officers first contacted Mr. McClain and pushed him up against the exterior wall of a nearby apartment building. ROEDEMA grabbed the grocery bag out of Mr. McClain’s hands and threw it to the ground. He did not examine the bag’s contents. The bag contained cans of iced tea. Mr. McClain was struggling as the officers attempted to restrain him. While Mr. McClain was pushed up against the wall and struggling, ROEDEMA told the other officers that Mr. McClain had reached for ‘your gun” Neither ROSENBLATT nor WOODYARD knew whether “your gun” meant ROSENBLATTs or WOODYARD's gun. ROEDEMA later said that Mr. McClain reached for ROSENBLATT's gun. ROSENBLATT stated that he did not feel any contact with his service weapon.

Officers are instructed that to perform a carotid control hold an officer uses his or her bicep and forearm to apply pressure to the carotid arteries on the sides of a 1 subject's neck, thereby cutting off blood flow to the subject's brain and causing temporary unconsciousness for the purpose gaining compliance or control ROSENBLATT stated that he applied an unsuccessful carotid control hold to Mr. McClain, and WOODYARD then applied a carotid control hold that resulted in Mr. McClain going unconscious and snoring. Mr. McClain suffered bodily injury. He was was rendered unconscious, suffered hypoxia, and his physical and mental condition were impaired. The risk of hypoxia and cerebral hypoxia was exacerbated by applying two carotid control holds. ROEDEMA also placed Mr. McClain in a bar hammer lock. Abar hammer lock is a physical defensive tactic whereby a subject's arm is held back behind their back to gain controlof the subject. ROEDEMA stated that he “cranked pretty hard” on Mr. McClain's shoulder and heard it pop three times. ROEDEMA, WOODYARD, and ROSENBLATT had all been trained that the carotid hold posed dangers and should never be administered more than once.

l hold, and ROSENBLATT radioed for Aurora Fire Rescue to respond to the scene. At the same time, Mr. McClain regained consciousness, the struggle resumed, and WOODYARD reported that Mr. McClain started to twist and pull away while on the ground. ROEDEMA, ROSENBLATT, and WOODYARD wrestled Mr. McClain to the ground. ROEDEMA tried to maintain control of Mr. McClain by putting his entire body on top of Mr. McClain in an attempt to sprawl him out.

The officers reported that Mr. McClain exhibited extraordinary strength. (a frail, 140-pound man, the three officers assumed that he was on drugs or a stimulant, performing for the camera, a white cop stated “Whatever he is on, he has crazy strength,” )The autopsy found only ketamine and marijuana in his system. )The officers placed Mr. McClain in handcuffs, and the officers continued to restrain Mr. McClain. ROEDEMA, ROSENBLATT, and WOODYARD remained on top of him and continued to hold him on the ground despite pleas that he could not breathe. 'WOODYARD rolled Mr. McClain onto his side into the “recovery position.” Officers were trained that if they administered a carotid control hold they had to place the individual in the “recovery position,” meaning placement on one’s side rather than in the prone position. Mr. McClain vomited multiple times while being restrained. Mr. McClain vomited into his mask during the struggle, and it ultimately came off after the handcuffs were secured. There was evidenceof vomit found inside the mask. Mr. McClain's handcuffs behind his back restricted his movement and prevented him from removing the mask.

Around this time, additional officers arrived on scene. ROEDEMA and ROSENBLATT continued to hold Mr. McClain on the ground, while WOODYARD walked away and was replaced by another officer. None of the officers checked Mr. MeClain’s pulse or monitored his airway, breathing, or circulation. ROSENBLATT straddled Mr. MeClain's legs, while ROEDEMA was positioned at McClain's back; Mr. McClain's hands were handcuffed behind his back. During this time, Mr. MeClain said his name, stated that he could not breathe and that what the officers were doing “really hurt,” Mr. McClain reported that he did not have a gun, did not do that sort of thing, he asked for help, and asked to find his phone. ROEDEMA applied, and directed other officers who responded to apply, pain compliance techniques to the handcuffed Mr. McClain. While restraining Mr. McClain, ROEDEMA increased pressure causing Mr. McClain tocry out, “Ah, ow, okay, okay.” KOEDEMA responded, “Well, chill out! You've already been told several times to stop.” Mr. McClain spoke again and ROEDEMA picked up Mr. McClain's torso and forcibly pushed it to the ground, causing Mr. McClain to cry out, “Ow!”

ROEDEMA was the senior patrol officer on scene and directed other officers. Mr. McClain repeatedly stated that he could not breathe. ROEDEMA ignored Mr. McClain's repeated statements that he could not breathe. Initially during the restraint, ROEDEMA, ROSENBLATT, and WOODYARD were all on top of Mr. McClain, and they were lying on his back. Throughout the restraint, two or three officers were physically restraining Mr. McClain, with ROEDEMA on his back and controlling him there, and with ROSENBLATT on Mr. McClain's legs. Other officers on the scene told ROEDEMA to make sure Mr. McClain could breathe, and ROEDEMA dismissed those reminders, asserting that Mr. McClain could breathe.

Additionally, prior to the restraint period, Mr. McClain vomited into his mask, which he was unable to remove during the struggle and once restrained. In addition to the vomit inside Mr. McClain'’s mask, Mr. McClain vomited repeatedly while being restrained on his side. Gurgling sounds by Mr. McClain were audible in body-worn camera video footage. Medical evidence indicated that this was evidence of potential aspiration while he was restrained. Mr. McClain's breathing further indicated he had hypoxia? following the police restraint and use of the carotid control hold. Medical evidence also conveyed that Mr. McClain was in a hypoxemic state with decreased cerebral oxygenation. Finally, Mr. McClain suffered from metabolic acidosis from the physical struggle with police. Hypoxia, hypoxemia? and metabolic acidosis, all constitute serious bodily injury. Individually and collectively, they pose a substantial risk of death or a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of the function of any part or organ of the body. [MORE]

On the same day when McClain died, Adams County District Attorney Dave Young [racist suspect servant of white authority in photo] found no criminal actions by Aurora police during his investigation into the death of Elijah McClain. Dave Young, in a letter dated Friday to Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz, said: “From the officers’ perception, it went from an investigatory stop to a potential life-threatening incident, and it certainly raised the officers’ use of force.

According to a letter released by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Friday evening. “Applying the facts of this incident, to the applicable Colorado law, the evidence does not support the filing of any state criminal charges against the involved officers for the unfortunate and tragic death of Mr. McClain.” [MORE]

Two years after McClain’s death, the three police officers and two paramedics were indicted by a grand jury on 32 counts, including manslaughter.

DA Concedes Pervis Payne Cannot Be Executed. Intellectually Disabled Black Man has an IQ of 68.4 and Murdering Him Would Violate the 8th Amendment Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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EJI reports, The district attorney in Memphis, Tennessee, announced yesterday that the state will no longer fight to have Pervis Payne executed. Instead, in light of expert findings about Mr. Payne’s intellectual disability, the state will ask the court to replace his death sentence with two life sentences.

In 2002, the Supreme Court in Atkins v. Virginia held that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits imposing the death penalty on people with intellectual disability.

Mr. Payne’s attorneys have argued that he cannot legally be executed because he is intellectually disabled, citing evidence that he has a functional IQ of 68.4 and well documented adaptive deficits.

Dozens of witnesses, including family members, teachers, and coworkers, described his inability to read, do simple math, retain information, or do tasks like prepare a meal, do laundry, or shop for himself even as a teenager.

Tennessee courts refused to consider Mr. Payne’s intellectual disability claim, citing procedural rules.

Earlier this year, the Tennessee Legislature passed a new law that allows people like Mr. Payne to petition the trial court for a determination of whether they are intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty.

Pursuant to the new law, a hearing to determine Mr. Payne’s intellectual disability was scheduled for December 13.

District Attorney Amy Weirich said in a statement that a state expert who examined Mr. Payne and available records in advance of the hearing “could not say Payne’s intellectual functioning is outside the range for intellectual disability.”

“After review of the evidence, law and expert opinions, the State stipulates the Petitioner would be found intellectually disabled,” prosecutor Steve Jones wrote in a court filing, according to the Independent.

As a result, the state withdrew its request for a hearing and conceded that Mr. Payne cannot be executed because of his intellectual disability.

Mr. Payne, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death in the killings of a white woman and her two-year-old daughter in 1987, when he was 20.

Throughout the past 33 years he has been on Tennessee’s death row, he has maintained his innocence, explaining that he was near the crime scene because his girlfriend lived across the hall, heard a noise and went to help, was overwhelmed by what he saw, and he panicked and ran in fear.

His attorneys said DNA testing on previously untested evidence found male DNA from an unknown third party on key evidence, including the murder weapon—findings they said are consistent with his innocence claim.

After the prosecutor’s announcement yesterday, Mr. Payne’s counsel said they will continue to fight for his full exoneration.

“Our proof that Pervis is intellectually disabled is unassailable, and his death sentence is unconstitutional,” Mr. Payne’s attorney, Kelley Henry, said. “The state did the right thing today by not continuing on with needless litigation. This matter will now come to a close in a very short period of time. We however will not stop until we have uncovered the proof which will exonerate Pervis and release him from prison.”

Mr. Payne was scheduled to be executed last December before a delay was announced.

Pasadena Settles Anthony McLain Suit for $7.5M. White Cop Murdered Black Man by Shooting Him in the Back as He Fled After Unlawful Seizure. Video Contradicted Cops who Claimed to See Gun

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The city of Pasadena will pay $7.5 million to the three young children of a Black man fatally shot by a police officer as ran away during a traffic stop last year.

The settlement covers one of three lawsuits filed by the relatives of Anthony McClain.

“Sadly, the money being paid on behalf of the city will not bring my son’s father back to life,” Kimberley Jenkins, the mother of one of McClain’s children, said in a statement from her attorney, John Burton. “We are still waiting for the officer who shot and killed him to be held accountable.”

Anthony McClain, a 32-year-old father of three, was shot by a white officer during a traffic stop on Aug. 15, the Pasadena Police Department said.

Around 7:52 p.m., officers stopped a four-door, dark-colored Infiniti without a front license plate. McClain was the passenger. 

When police asked the driver for his license, the driver said his license was suspended. The driver cooperated with police after being asked to get out of the car, the department said.

McClain, who was also asked to get out of the car, is seen on video getting out, then running away from the officers. There appears to be no lawful basis for the cops to detain or seize the Black man because he was the passenger in the vehicle. While a passenger may be ordered out of a vehicle for officer safety the Supreme Court has explained that unless the officer has a reasonable articulable suspicion, he may not further detain a passenger. Maryland v. Wilson, 519 U.S. 408 (1997). Cops apparently did no articulate any reason they wanted to detain McLain. The driver may have been under arrest for something but that did not provide the police any justification for detaining or arresting McClain. Flight alone is not a basis for an arrest.

Police say he reached for an item in his waistband, which they believed to be a firearm.

“The natural swinging movement of the individual’s arms while running revealed what both officers immediately recognized as a firearm in his left hand,” according to the department.

With two officers chasing him, McClain can be seen turning and looking at the officers over his right shoulder. Police say they feared he was turning back to shoot at them, so the officer closest to McClain shot at him twice.

It wasn’t immediately clear that he had been shot, as he continued to run “for a considerable distance,” police said. He eventually fell.

McClain sustained at least one gunshot wound, and was given immediate medical attention, according to the department. Paramedics arrived and transported him to a hospital, where he died.

Caree Harper, the McClain family’s attorney, said what police saw in the video was a large metal belt buckle, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Neither McClain nor the second officer fired a weapon. No weapon was found on McClain, but a gun was recovered across the street.

“The death of Anthony McClain in 2020 was a tragic end to the life of a father of three minor children,” the city said in a statement. “This settlement, with no admission of guilt or wrongdoing, will prevent further prolonged and expensive proceedings. The Los Angeles [County] District Attorney’s Office continues its review of the 2020 incident and the Pasadena Police Department’s administrative review is pending.”

Gardena (CA) Settles Suit for $1.3M for Executing Kenneth Ross. Fleeing Black Man Posed No Threat when White Cop Shot Him w/AR-15 from Distance. Afterwards, Police Delayed Aid and Turned Off Cameras

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From [HERE] The child of a Black man who was fatally shot by Southern California police in 2018 — and whose death spurred lawmakers to enact a state law that decertifies officers who act criminally or with bias — has settled a federal lawsuit with the city of Gardena for $1.3 million, according to an attorney for the man’s son.

Kenneth Ross Jr., 25, was killed by police in 2018 after officers responded to reports of a man firing his weapon in a park in Gardena, a city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. His death also prompted calls for police reform.

Attorneys Carl Douglas and Jamon Hicks, who represented Ross’s 8-year-old son, announced the settlement Wednesday in a news release. Ross’s mother and father also settled separately with the city for lesser amounts. “Obviously, the money won’t bring him back,” Hicks said.

IN photo sgt Michael Robbins, now retired, fatally shot Kenneth Ross with his AR-15 as he fled. Previously he had worked at the Orange Police Department where he had been involved in at least one shooting there. Black strawboss DA Jackie Lacey concluded the shooting was legally justified

According to the complaint:

On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Defendants, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, received reports of shots fired at or near 12812 Van Ness Ave. in the City of Gardena.

There were no reports that any individual had been shot or injured in connection with the reported shooting.

At least one witness reported that the shots fired sounded like they were coming from two different guns.

According to officers, radio updates indicated that the alleged suspect was running south on Van Ness Ave. and was described as “a male with long dreadlocks wearing shorts.”

Several officers, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, responded to the reports of shots fired.

The first officer to respond reportedly observed DECEDENT running in Rowley Park, approximately a quarter of a mile from the intersection of the reported shots. She pointed her service weapon at DECEDENT from her vehicle, followed him into the parking lot of Rowley Park, and broadcast his description and direction of travel over police radio.

A second officer arrived on the scene, pulled out his Taser, and ordered DECEDENT to stop.

Around the same time, Defendant SERGEANT ROBBINS arrived on the scene, armed himself with his department-issued AR-15 rifle, pointed it at DECEDENT, and threatened to shoot him.

DECEDENT continued running south adjacent to the parking lot of Rowley Park with his side and back to officers. His hands were empty.

DECEDENT did not make any aggressive movements, furtive gestures, or physical movements, which would suggest to a reasonable officer that DECEDENT was a threat to any officers or the public in general.

Without attempting to diffuse the situation or use other means to stop DECEDENT, and despite DECEDENT’s mental health problems being well- known to CITY OF GARDENA law enforcement and officials, Defendant SERGEANT ROBBINS fired his AR-15 rifle at DECEDENT, striking him in the back and shoulder.

No other officer at the scene discharged a firearm.

Defendant Officers, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, immediately began ordering potential witnesses to leave the scene.

Defendant Officers, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, waited approximately five minutes before moving to render aid to DECEDENT.

Defendant Officers then flipped DECEDENT’s lifeless body over. One officer attempted to do chest compressions, but it was clearly too late.

Defendant SERGEANT ROBBINS then directed all officers to turn off their cameras.

Defendant Officers, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, did not find a gun on or near DECEDENT’S body, despite Defendant SERGEANT ROBBINS’ claim that DECEDENT pointed a gun at him.

At no time during the course of these events did DECEDENT pose any reasonable threat of violence to the officers or the public in general. Nor did DECEDENT do anything to justify the use of deadly, excessive, unreasonable, unlawful, and unnecessary force against him.

Defendant SERGEANT ROBBINS negligently and recklessly assessed the situation and met the DECEDENT with deadly force, without having probable cause to believe that DECEDENT had committed a forcible and atrocious felony or would commit a forcible and atrocious felony in the future.

At the time he was shot, DECEDENT was an unarmed, mentally ill, black male running away from officers that had threatened to shoot him.

By either failing to realize that DECEDENT was mentally ill or deliberately disregarding his mental illness, and by engaging DECEDENT without using less lethal tools at his disposal, Defendants, including SERGEANT ROBBINS, demonstrated a deliberate indifference to DECEDENT’s and Plaintiffs’ constitutional and statutory rights.

In the Presence of a Black Teen Delivering Newspapers a White Dewitt Cop Became Psychopathic, Delusional:"He's Trying to Ram Me!, Shots Fired!," then Detained Him, Pointed Gun and Threatened His Life

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The Psychopathic Racial Personality. Dr. Bobby Wright explains that by and large, white people treat each other humanely. But in their relations with non-white people, racists function as psychopaths. 'Psychopaths simply ignore the concept of right and wrong. The racist has no morality where race is the variable.' [MORE] When white cops brutalize other whites, white prosecutors, white judges, white jurors and the white media usually ensure that the cop is held accountable.  Similarly, Dr. Welsing explained, "always, in the presence of color, whites will feel genetically inferior." [MORE]

When racist white cops are in the presence of color, especially Black men, they can no longer see things as they really are. "A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to the belief. When you see things always remember this." If he is an unaware person, in the presence of non-whites his mind is blown, full of smoke, shit and in attachment to his weakness. Anything the cop does in this sleeping state will be stupid and dangerous b/c he is unconscious has a belt full of weapons, the power of the state and he is authorized to kill.

From [FTP] Video has surfaced this week of a white DeWitt police officer Chad Vorce stalking an innocent black teenager — for the sole fact that he was black in his neighborhood.

The incident unfolded in January of this year but video was only recently released. Vorce’s ridiculous use of force and racial profiling unfolded after he saw 19-year-old Alexander Hamilton driving in his neighborhood.

The idea of a black teen in his neighborhood set Vorce on a string of events that would leave Vorce without a job and the teen nearly killed. Hamilton was in the neighborhood that morning because he was working. He was a newspaper delivery man and he had many customers in Vorce’s neighborhood.

Despite Hamilton being entirely innocent, Vorce, who was off-duty and out of his jurisdiction at the time, decided the follow the teen. Clearly confident that the young Black man was out of his place, Vorce called 911 and continued following the innocent newspaper delivery man.

Seeing that someone was following him, Hamilton stopped to ask what was going on. He attempted to back up so he could pull alongside Vorce, but every time he did, Vorce would back up further. Eventually, Vorce’s suspicious behavior caused Hamilton to simply drive away — but Vorce kept following.

He’s “a Black male in the area, and he needs to be checked,” Vorce said on the 911 recording.

“He’s trying to ram me!” Vorce said of the teen backing up and trying to talk to him. “I’m going to go shots fired if he does it again!”

When Hamilton pulled into a nearby gas station, that’s when Vorce completely lost it.

Vorce jumps out of his truck and is pointing his gun at Hamilton. At this point, Hamilton would have been entirely justified pulling his own gun and killing Vorce as he had no idea Vorce was a cop, and a gun pointed in your face is most assuredly a deadly threat.

As another officer arrives on the scene, Vorce once again, incites Hamilton’s race as a reason for the stop, “He fits the same description, black hoodie… frickin’ Black guy.”

But there was no description to fit. Police weren’t looking for anyone that night and Vorce was the only threat on the streets.

“He told the kid right to his face,” another officer said about the incident. “He’s like, when I see a Black guy in my neighborhood, I think you’re doing stuff like this.”

It would take nearly five months for his department to fire Vorce and despite losing his job, Vorce faced no other discipline. He assaulted an innocent teen with a deadly weapon, stalked him, unlawfully detained him, and broke a slew of other police department regulations, yet he walked free.

“At the conclusion of an investigation by the Michigan State Police on March 24, 2021, the incident did not result in the Clinton County prosecutor pursing criminal charges,” the city government told AP. “The city of DeWitt then conducted an internal investigation of the incident involving the off-duty police officer. We have the utmost confidence that the city of DeWitt has taken appropriate action in this matter.”

3 White Ewing Cops (NJ) Indicted by US Attorney for Repeatedly Stepping on the Back of a Black Teenager's Head while He was Handcuffed and Lying Face Down in the Snow

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From [HERE] Three white Ewing cops were indicted on federal charges Friday after they were caught on tape stomping on the head of a handcuffed Black teenager while he was prone on his stomach during an arrest in 2018. He does not appear to be resisting in the video.

The indictment, unsealed Friday, charges Officers Matthew Przemieniecki, Justin Ubry and retired Lt. Michael Delahanty each with civil-rights deprivation under color of law for their roles in the Jan. 5, 2018 beating of a 16-year-old Black teenager from Burlington, according to the indictment obtained by The Trentonian.

Delahanty, 51, of Robbinsville, and Przemieniecki, 43, of Hamilton, both face felonies carrying up to 10 years in jail if they’re convicted. Ubry, 33, of Burlington, is charged with a misdemeanor count carrying a maximum of a year in prison. All face fines ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 if convicted.

The indictment states as follows:

On the morning of January 5, 2018, in Ewing Township, New Jersey, the ground was covered in snow and ice and the temperature was well below freezing.

On January 5, 2018, ETPD officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Ewing Township. Officers located the vehicle, which had been involved in a motor vehicle accident in Ewing Township. Law enforcement observed Victim 1, the driver of the vehicle, running away from the scene of the accident.

Thereafter, ETPD officers found Victim 1 inside a detached shed located at the rear of a residential property in Ewing Township. Officers 1 and 2 physically removed Victim 1 from the shed and brought Victim 1 to the ground, which was covered in snow.

While Victim 1 was lying face down on the ground, Officers 1, 2, and 3 began to handcuff Victim 1. Multiple other ETPD officers, including defendants DELAHANTY, PRZEMIENIECKI, and UBRY, stood nearby and observed the arrest in progress.

Victim 1 did not physically resist ETPD officers at any time.

While Officers 1, 2, and 3 handcuffed Victim 1 and while Victim 1 remained lying face down, defendant DELAHANTY, unprompted, stepped on the back of Victim 1's head, pressing it into the snow.

Immediately thereafter, defendant PRZEMIENIECKI stepped closer to Victim 1 and kicked snow three times directly into Victim l's face.

Immediately thereafter, defendant UBRY stepped closer to Victim 1 and kicked snow directly into Victim 1's face.

After Officers 1, 2, and 3 handcuffed Victim 1, defendant PRZEMIENIECKI again approached Victim 1 and stepped on the back of Victim 1's head, again pressing it into the snow.

Officers 1, 2, and 3 did not request or require additional assistance from other ETPD officers in handcuffing Victim 1. Under the circumstances, the force that defendants DELAHANTY, PRZEMIENIECKI, and UBRY applied to Victim 1 as described in paragraphs 5 through 8, above, was unreasonable and excessive.

Phoenix Approves $5M Settlement in Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Case. Cops Murdered Black Man in Public; Snapped his Handcuffed Arms Over his Head, Sat on his Head and Held Him Down, Suffocating Him

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COPS SEIZED UPON THE HOMELESS BLACK MAN B/C HE WAS TRYING TO USE THE BATHROOM AT A COMMUNITY CENTER AND HE HAD HIS SMALL DOG W/HIM. AFTER GRANTING HIM PERMISSION TO USE THE TOILET THEY ARRESTED HIM FOR HAVING AN OUTSTANDING MISDEMEANOR WARRANT FOR MARIJUANA PIPE POSSESSION (THEY DISCOVERED THE WARRANT WHILE WAITING FOR HIM TO URINATE). SAID ARREST MAY SEEM PETTY AND THEREFORE AVOIDABLE BUT IT IS A MOST NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE OF HAVING A LEGAL SYSTEM BASED ON PHYSICAL COERCION (YES MEANING VIOLENCE) AND OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY. EVERY LAW OR ORDER FROM AUTHORITIES IS A COMMAND BACKED BY THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY. [MORE]

From [HERE] Phoenix, Arizona officials agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the January 2017 death of a Black man during an arrest attempt in which he cried out that he couldn’t breathe as officers held him down.

The 7-2 vote by the City Council ends the lawsuit by the sister of Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin, who was homeless and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia.

“Although they (city officials) didn’t acknowledge any specific kind of wrongdoing, the settlement makes a strong statement — and for that reason, I am happy we could move forward,” said Muhaymin’s sister, Mussallina Muhaymin.

On January 4th, 2017, Muhammad Muhaymin Jr. was stopped by police for attempting to use a public restroom accompanied by his service dog, a chihuahua named Chiquita. Muhammad was non-violent and non-confrontational, yet at least four officers from the Phoenix Police Department ripped his dog from his arms, got on top of him, seriously injured him, and finally choked him to death as he cried out “I can’t breathe!”.

Video evidence of the incident shows the officers torturing Muhammad. They snapped his handcuffed arms over his head—tearing ligaments and causing extraordinary pain. They suffocated him, sitting on his head and holding him down while he begged them to stop until his body grew limp and he died pressed into the concrete. [MORE]

The Phoenix Police Department officers’ own body cam footage clearly shows their use of excessive and deadly force on Mohammad. Two medical examiners, including a Maricopa County Medical Examiner, ruled Muhammad’s death a homicide.

Court records say Muhammad Muhaymin died after multiple police officers allegedly twice put their weight on his body, including after Muhaymin was restrained. [MORE]

Judge Finds White KC Cop Guilty of Murdering Cameron Lamb. Black Man had One Hand on His Phone and the Other on the Steering Wheel When a Liar Cop Executed Him in His Driveway. Faces Only 6 Yrs Jail

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From [HERE] DeValkenaere is the first Kansas City law enforcement officer to be convicted for the fatal shooting of a Black man. Following the conviction, the department suspended DeValkenaere without pay.

A Jackson County judge found Kansas City police detective Eric DeValkenaere guilty of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb, a Black man.

"What we sought in this case was a just outcome and that's where we stand today," Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker told reporters shortly after the verdict was rendered by Presiding Judge J. Dale Youngs. 

Police tracking a car involved in a traffic incident in December 2019 followed Cameron Lamb as he was pulling his red pickup truck into the garage of his backyard in Kansas City, Mo. Without a warrant or permission allowing them on the property, two plainclothes detectives “stormed around the side of the house” and demanded to know where he was.

Then, while Lamb, a Black man, allegedly had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on his cellphone, Detective Eric DeValkenaere, who is White, offered no warning before shooting him four times while the man was still in his truck in the driveway, hitting him twice and killing the 26-year-old, attorneys say.

The department said that DeValkenaere had been suspended pending termination as a result of his conviction.

DeValkenaere is believed to be the first Kansas City law enforcement officer since 1941 to have stood trial for the fatal shooting of a Black man. The police officer in the earlier case was acquitted. 

Jackson County prosecutors argued that DeValkenaere recklessly shot Cameron Lamb on Dec. 3, 2019, as Lamb was sitting in a pickup truck and backing into his garage at 41st Street and College Avenue. 

The shooting occurred not long after a police helicopter spotted a red truck chasing a purple Mustang at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour through a residential neighborhood.

Prosecutors argued that DeValkenaere acted recklessly by entering Lamb’s property without a warrant, knocking over a makeshift fence and firing his weapon within seconds of coming upon the pickup truck.

DeValkenaere waived his right to a jury trial and the case was tried before Youngs. The four-day trial ended last week and Youngs took the case under advisement. 

In finding DeValkenaere guilty on both counts with which he was charged, Youngs ruled that Lamb had an expectation of privacy on his property and that DeValkenaere and his partner, Sgt. Troy Schwalm, had no justification to enter onto the property, as both did that day. Schwalm was not charged in the case.

Delivering his verdict from the bench in a courtroom packed with supporters and family of both DeValkenaere and Lamb, Youngs said that the two plainclothes policemen had no arrest warrant, no search warrant and no probable cause to obtain either. 

Neither were there exigent circumstances nor a hot pursuit that might have justified their entrance onto the property, Youngs said, noting that the car chase had ended some time earlier. 

"Based on the court's review of the law and the facts, the court concludes that the backyard and particularly the carport were within the curtilage," Youngs said, referring to the area immediately surrounding a dwelling. "And the occupants demonstrated a reasonable expectation of privacy." 

Youngs took about 13 minutes to read his findings of fact and conclusions of law. As he pronounced DeValkenaere guilty, DeValkenaere slumped slightly in his seat and lowered his head. 

Shouts of jubilation could be heard in the courthouse hallway as the courtroom emptied, and members of Lamb's family and supporters tearfully embraced. 

DeValkenaere faces a minimum statutory punishment of three years on the involuntary manslaughter conviction and a minimum statutory punishment of three years on the armed criminal action conviction. 

He remains free on bond pending sentencing, which Youngs said he would set at a later date. 

Altogether, the trial and convictions marked a stunning development in the strained relations between the Jackson County Prosecutor's office and the Kansas City Police Department. 

Baker, the prosecutor, has accused the department of not providing a probable cause statement in the case, forcing her to take the case to a grand jury. 

In an extraordinary letter addressed to Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith in April 2020, Baker said that police "hold a special place in our community" and, for that reason, they have strong protections under Missouri law. 

"But officers are not entitled to a special process when they are the subject of a criminal investigation. Investigations must be neutral," she wrote. "Our system depends on this. Neutrality is especially important when you are investigating someone who works within your own ranks."

After the verdict, S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing the Lamb family, called it "momentous" and "historic."

"These instances of justice in our system are far too rare, but there was something that happened here that was different," he said outside the courthouse.

Merritt represents the parents of three of Lamb's minor children, who have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against DeValkenaere and the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners. 

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said he did not view the guilty verdicts as an "indictment broadly" of the Kansas City Police Department.