So-Called New COVID “Variant" was Simulated in Israel Weeks before it was “Discovered" [“in reality there are no variants of COVID. They are all computer simulations of specific gene sequences"]

the editor of Health Impact News states, “The flames of “COVID fear” are being stoked again, as the Big Pharma Globalists unleash their new plan to increase profits and exert more tyrannical control over populations by using their corporate media and puppet politicians in an attempt to extend the false “COVID pandemic.”

Within just a couple of days after announcing that a “new variant” has been discovered in Africa, Big Pharma has now promised the world that they are rushing to rescue everyone with new drugs and new vaccines to fight this “deadly new variant.”

What kind of people are still watching this Hollywood-like scripted show and actually believing it is true?? [MORE]

From [HERE] Two weeks before this current new variant suddenly appeared in Africa and started making the news cycle, Israel, which has been Pfizer’s human laboratory to test their COVID shots, ran a “war games” simulation to prepare for a “deadly new variant” which at the time had not yet been named. They called this future variant “Omega,” and the simulation was carried out on November 11, 2021.

The Jerusalem Post reported:

Dozens of top officials took part in what Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called a COVID-19 war exercise on Thursday to gauge the country’s preparedness for the next wave of the pandemic.

“We are starting an unprecedented event here,” the prime minister said at the start of the exercise – “not only on an Israeli scale but on a global level. We are conducting a war exercise to prepare for a new variant that does not even exist yet.”

The “Omega Exercise,” as Bennett called it, was held in the format of a “war game,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. Bennett has regularly referred to the “Omega strain,” the next harmful COVID-19 variant that has not yet been discovered. A war game is a game of the mind; no physical exercises took place.

Bennett said that Israel has surfaced from the Delta wave without locking down, proving that “with proper management, the pandemic can be defeated.” (Full article – and thanks to the Robin Monotti, Dr Mike Yeadon & Cory Morningstar Telegram Channel for pointing this out.)

Africa is Chosen to be the Source of the New Variant Scam

Up until now, Africa has been an enigma to the Globalists’ narrative on the COVID-19 plandemic, as the continent has the lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination, while also having the fewest amounts of “COVID-19 deaths.”

Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute reported:

Since the very beginning of the covid panic, the narrative has been this: implement severe lockdowns or your population will experience a bloodbath. Morgues will be overwhelmed, the death total toll will be astounding. On the other hand, we were assured those jurisdictions that do lock down would see only a fraction of the death toll.

Then, once vaccines became available, the narrative was modified to “Get shots in arms and then covid will stop spreading. Those countries without vaccines, on the other hand, will continue to face mass casualties.”

The lockdown narrative, of course, has already been thoroughly overturned. Jurisdictions that did not lock down or adopted only weak and short lockdowns ended up with covid death tolls that were either similar to—or even better than—death tolls in countries that adopted draconian lockdowns. Lockdown advocates said locked-down countries would be overwhelmingly better off. These people were clearly wrong.

Undaunted by the increasing implausibility of the lockdown narrative, the global health bureaucrats are nonetheless doubling down on forced vaccines—as we now see in Austria—and we continue to be assured that only countries with high vaccination rates can hope to avoid disastrous covid outcomes.

Yet, the experience in sub-Saharan Africa calls both these narratives into question: Africa’s numbers have been far, far lower than the experts warned would be the case.

For example, the AP reported this week that in spite of low vaccination rates, Africa has fared better than most of the world:

[T]here is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said….

Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.

Yet disaster for Africa has long been predicted for several reasons even beyond the availability of vaccines. For instance, it is known that lockdowns are especially impractical in the poorest parts of the world.

This is because populations in places with undeveloped economies can’t simply sit at home and live off savings or debt. Rather, these people must go out into the world and earn a living on a day-to-day basis. Starvation is the alternative.

Moreover, much of this work is done in the informal economy, so enforcing lockdowns becomes especially difficult.

It was also assumed covid would be especially deadly in Africa due to the fact many large households live in small housing units.

But that “conventional wisdom” flies in the face of the reality of covid in Africa, which is that there have been fewer deaths. (Full article here.)

But this new fake variant has been reportedly found in South Africa, with the supposed first detections coming from Botswana. The variant now has a name, Omicron, and while the corporate media is hyping it up and creating fear over it, the people in Africa themselves are not concerned.

Paul Joseph Watson of Summit News reports:

The new ‘Omicron’ variant of COVID-19 was first detected in four people who were fully vaccinated, according to a public statement by the Botswana government.

The new variant, which some claim is three times more contagious, was initially discovered in Botswana before it spread across South Africa.

The news was met with global alarm, prompting financial markets to plummet and new travel bans to be put in place.

According to a public statement by the Botswana government, the new mutation was first discovered in four people who had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Covid Still Has No Clearly Defined Symptoms b/c It is Determined by PCR Tests. Study Concludes common cold and gastrointestinal symptoms are wrongly associated with Covid

From [HERE] A diagnosis is a compilation of clinical symptoms and testing adds further information to help doctors decide on the likelihood of a particular diagnosis. Because a covid case has been defined not by symptoms but by a positive test result this logic has been reversed. The consequence of this was an ever growing list of symptoms associated with the disease and even the concept of an ‘asymptomatic case’.

After 20 months of covid it is quite incredible that the symptoms associated with the disease have not been clearly defined. It is possible to figure out which symptoms are associated with a positive test and that has incidentally been reported in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine studying vaccine efficacy among healthcare workers in the first five months of 2021. Using data from this paper symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain can be shown to have no bearing on whether someone will test positive for covid.

The study measured healthcare workers who were tested to see if they had covid, and were asked about vaccination status but also which symptoms they had before testing. The paper then reported the proportion testing positive or negative. For example, they report that 9% of people with abdominal pain tested positive compared to 6% testing negative. Therefore, it might be assumed that abdominal pain is a relevant symptom for covid. However, the authors had included asymptomatic people among the negative control group and not the positives. This meant that the denominator for the percentage was too high in the negative group. Excluding the asymptomatic people from both groups gives a true percentage for comparison.

Figure 2 Sensitivity of each symptom as a test (percentage of people with the disease who have that symptom) and specificity of each symptom as a test (percentage of people without the disease who do not have that symptom)

To really understand the implications of each symptom we can treat each one as if whether or not you have it is, itself, a test for covid. In this way, we can calculate the percentage of people with the disease who have that symptom, the sensitivity of the symptom as a test. Likewise we can calculate the chance of someone testing negative if they do not have that symptom, the specificity of the symptom as a test. The latter gives an indication of the types of symptoms that people use to make the decision to seek a test.

Having broken down the problem this way it is possible to calculate a practical indicator of the meaning of each symptom. The first stage is to calculate the likelihood ratios. This is an intermediate step that leads us to the probability of someone with each symptom testing positive. [MORE]

Judge OKs Settlement: Oakland Cops Must Clear Backlog of Records Requests w/in 6 months and Release All Records Related to Police Shootings and Misconduct w/in 15 Months

From [HERE] A state judge gave the initial green light to a settlement requiring the Oakland Police Department to comply with the California Public Records Act (PRA) and release documents to a class of journalists and activists whose public records requests languished for years in a colossal backlog.

“We think the settlement we achieved in this case goes beyond what is required by the text of the PRA, so we think this is a real victory for transparency,” said Sam Ferguson, an attorney representing a class of journalists led by Scott Morris, Sarah Belle Lin, Brian Krans, the watchdog group Oakland Privacy and its research director Michael Katz, all of whom regularly investigate the department and had to resort to litigation to force the police to abide by state law. “Before we filed [the lawsuit,] there was very little the OPD did to respond to Public Records Act.”

Morris said the agreement should make the police department more transparent, provided it complies with the terms.

“They’ve had a responsibility to comply with the PRA for as along as there has been a PRA,” he said. “I have my doubts as to whether the city will fulfill its obligation. But as written, this creates important reforms.”

The settlement requires it to clear its backlog of California Public Records Act requests within six months and release all records related to police shootings and misconduct within 15 months, with disclosures on a rolling basis every two weeks. The misconduct records fall under Senate Bill 1421, a law that mandates the disclosure of public records on police shootings, use of excessive force and confirmed cases of lying and sexual assault by on-duty officers under the California Public Records Act.

The department must also release all crime reports, not counting homicide reports, within 15 days after a request is made under the PRA, and release tow reports with 10 days. If it cannot comply with these deadlines, the department will have to provide a specific reason for why it needs an extension.

The Oakland police chief and city attorney must also update the Oakland City Council at an open meeting on its progress within four months. They are answerable to Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch, who will continue to oversee the case to ensure that the department holds up its end of the deal.

“For the police chief to have to take direct responsibility for this problem is one way to ensure that somebody is held accountable,” Morris said. “That aspect of it hopefully helps motivate them to comply with the terms.”

Judge Roesch preliminarily approved the agreement on Thursday and will hold a final approval hearing in March 2022.

Roesch also ruled in favor of two investigative reporters fighting the police for SB 1421 records. In April, he ordered the department to turn over thousands of documents that the pair requested years ago. He set a six-month deadline for the disclosures.

Ferguson, who also represented the journalists in that case, said the police department hasn’t fully complied with Roesch’s order, despite the city’s claimthat it has produced 95% of disclosable documents and audio-video files, spending 5,000 hours and nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars to do so.

“We think there are a number of outstanding documents they haven’t produced and we are in negotiations with the city for them to complete the production,” Ferguson said.

The class action is broader, he noted, and encompasses records beyond those disclosable under SB 1421, including routine police reports and tow reports. Ferguson said it’s been a steep learning curve, but the department has already addressed a significant portion of its public records request backlog. As of Thursday, the police department had fewer than 950 open requests pending on NextRequest, Oakland’s online records portal.

“The city essentially did nothing until we sued them, so there was a bit of a getting-up-to-speed period for the city while they were figuring out where the documents were and compiling them. They now have more staff working on these cases and are beginning to take this seriously,” Ferguson said. “I think we achieved a really comprehensive settlement and now we need to make sure that Oakland complies. So the work continues.”

North Carolina Supreme Court delays 2022 primary elections over redistricting lawsuits

From [HERE] The North Carolina Supreme Court Wednesday ordered the delay of the state’s March 2022 primary elections so that it can settle two redistricting lawsuits.

The North Carolina General Assembly passed three new redistricting maps in November. The new maps largely favor Republicans and are reportedly likely to create a ten to four split for Republicans in North Carolina’s congressional delegation. 

A group of voters challenged the new maps within 24 hours of their approval. They argued that the boundaries were drawn for political gain and that this violates provisions of the North Carolina Constitution. Another lawsuit filed on November 16 alleged racial and partisan gerrymandering. The second lawsuit sought to overturn all of the new maps.

Because of these challenges, the North Carolina Supreme Court granted a preliminary injunction and temporarily stayed the candidate-filing period for the state’s primary elections. The court determined that this was the best action “[i]n light of the great public interest in the subject matter of these cases, the importance of the issues to the constitutional jurisprudence of this State, and the need for urgency in reaching a final resolution on the merits at the earliest possible opportunity.”

The primary elections will now be held on May 17, 2022.

North Carolina is one of many states that passed new redistricting maps within the past year. Many states, including Texas, Ohio, and Alabama, have also faced lawsuits over their respective districting maps.

The Various Ongoing Racial Trials, such as the Liar La Mesa Cop's trial, Prove that Rights are Rented to You in a Free Range Prison and You Can be Put Into Greater Confinement or Executed At Any Time

NO RIGHT TO BE LEFT THE FUCK ALONE IN RACIST SYSTEM. From [HERE] Defense testimony resumed Wednesday in the trial of Matt Dages, a former La Mesa police officer who is accused of lying about the basis of his May 27, 2020, arrest of Amaurie Johnson, a young Black man who was waiting for friends outside an apartment complex near the Grossmont Transit Center.  

Johnson's arrest was captured on video and circulated over social media, sparking particular condemnation in the wake of the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which occurred two days earlier.

Dages, who is white, is charged with a felony count of filing a false police report and could face up to three years behind bars if convicted. The former officer took the stand in his defense Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Closing arguments wrapped Wednesday afternoon and the case went to the jury. Deliberations will begin Thursday.

The case focused on statements Dages made in his report after the incident at the transit center.

As previously reported by the Union-Tribune, Dages wrote in his report that Johnson had been illegally smoking, had not paid a trolley fare as required and clenched his fists during the encounter. But, according to city records, an outside investigation found that Johnson had not been smoking and that he was standing outside an area where trolley fare is required. Dages also had claimed Johnson slapped his hand away during the encounter, which was why Johnson was arrested on suspicion of assault on a police officer and delaying or obstructing an officer. The videos prove that Johnson did not slap police.

Deputy District Attorney Fiona Dunleavy alleged that due to "what was going on in the world, in our country" at the time, the police department was under a microscope, prompting Dages to falsify his report in order to justify the arrest.

He was released on a misdemeanor citation, but the police department later announced it would not be seeking charges against Johnson, who has filed a federal lawsuit against Dages and the city of La Mesa. [MORE]

Whether the Min Police were Defunded/Funded or Replaced Had Nothing to Do w/Why a Cop Attacked an Old Black Man in a Store [Authority is the Right to Forcibly Control and Rule Over Others. It is Evil]

Authority and freedom cannot co-exist. A White Minneapolis police officer attacked a a 64 year old Black Man in an Aldi’s store. The incident was captured on camera and shared on Instagram by @farahleft. The cop is Officer Christopher Lange. [MORE]

If a “public servant," such as a police officer, 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. Lysander Spooner, stated “It is of no importance that I appointed him, and put all power in his hands. If I made him uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me, he is no longer my servant, agent, attorney, or representative. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over my property, I gave him the property. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over myself, I made him my master, and gave myself to him as a slave. And it is of no importance whether I called him master or servant, agent or owner. The only question is, what power did I put into his hands? Was it an absolute and irresponsible one? or a limited and responsible one?”

How did politicians and public servants acquire such powers?

Allegedly governmental power comes from the people. That is, we delegate our individual power to the government for it to act on our behalf. However, it goes without saying that people cannot delegate powers or rights that they do not possess. So if people have delegated their powers to lawmakers and lawmakers have empowered police officers to act on our behalf, how did police acquire the moral right to commit acts of unprovoked violence on people? Asked differently, if you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence against other people then how can you delegate or authorize police officers or anyone else acting on your behalf to do so? How did government representatives and police acquire such super-human powers? Spooner explained,

“it is impossible that a government should have any rights, except such as the individuals composing it had previously had, as individuals. They could not delegate to a government any rights which they did not themselves possess. They could not contribute to the government any rights, except such as they themselves possessed as individuals.”

Similarly, undeceiver Larken Rose observes,

“Despite all of the complex rituals and convoluted rationalizations, all modern belief in “government” rests on the notion that mere mortals can, through certain political procedures, bestow upon some people various rights which none of the people possessed to begin with. The inherent lunacy of such a notion should be obvious. There is no ritual or document through which any group of people can delegate to someone else a right which no one in the group possesses.‘

Government “authority” can be summed up as the right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral obligation to obey.’ [MORE] FUNKTIONARY defines authority as ‘a cartoon, an alleged image of the Law or the notion of an implied right and application of that "right" of individuals or groups of same to control or exercise external power over others, which has no meaning in reality.’ FUNKTIONARY further states, authority is rule through coercion. The real threat to "authority" is the masses overcoming info-gaps and verigaps through self-knowledge and the proliferation of symbols of opposition, not crime or destruction of property.”

Authority is a “cartoon” or an “image of law” because “people cannot delegate rights they do not have, which makes it impossible for anyone to acquire the right to rule (”authority”). People cannot alter morality, which makes the “laws” of “government” devoid of any inherent “authority.” Ergo, “authority”-the right to rule-cannot logically exist. The concept itself is self-contradictory, like the concept of a “militant pacifist.” A human being cannot have superhuman rights, and therefore no one can have the inherent right to rule.’ [MORE]

Is it Possible for Racist Cops to Provide a Quality "Public Service" to Black Citizens who are Unable to Decline or Disobey Such Services? Torrance Cops' Racist Texts Jeopardize Hundreds of Cases

From [HERE] The caption read “hanging with the homies.” 

The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched. 

Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break “a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.” 

Someone else sent a picture of a candy cane, a Christmas tree ornament, a star for the top of the tree and an “enslaved person.”

“Which one doesn’t belong?” the caption asked.

“You don’t hang the star,” someone wrote back.

The comments represent a sliver of a trove of racist text messages exchanged by more than a dozen current and former Torrance police officers and recruits. 

Through interviews with sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, public records requests and a review of district attorney’s office records, The Times examined some of the contents of the until-now secret texts and identified a dozen Torrance police officers under investigation for exchanging them.

The broad scope of the racist text conversations, which prosecutors said went on for years, has created a crisis for the Torrance Police Department and could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases in which the officers either testified or made arrests. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Wednesday his office will investigate the department in the wake of the scandal.

Following allegations of excessive force, racist text messages and other misconduct, the Torrance Police Department in California faces an independent review from the state's department of justice, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday. 

More than 1,800 cases spanning over a decade in Los Angeles County are now under review, due to more than a dozen Torrance Police Department officers who worked the cases having been placed under investigation for racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic messages, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. [MORE]

The officers’ comments joked about “gassing” Jewish people, assaulting members of the LGBTQ community, using violence against suspects and lying during an investigation into a police shooting, according to district attorney’s office records reviewed by The Times. 

Frequently, hateful comments were targeted at Black people. Officers called Black men “savages,”and several variations of the N-word, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The officers also shared instructions on how to tie a noose and a picture of a stuffed animal being lynched inside Torrance’s police headquarters, according to the documents. 

While no officers currently face criminal charges in direct relation to the text messages, the racist exchanges have led to the dismissal of at least 85 criminal cases involving the officers implicated in the scandal. County prosecutors had tossed 35 felony cases as of mid-November, and the Torrance city attorney’s office has dismissed an additional 50, officials said. 

In total, the officers were listed as potential witnesses in nearly 1,400 cases in the last decade, according to district attorney’s records The Times obtained through a public records request. The officers did not necessarily testify in each case, so it’s unclear how many of those cases could be affected. 

Still, in the span of one week in November, the Los Angeles County public defender’s office received about 300 letters from prosecutors disclosing potential misconduct by officers implicated in the scandal, said Judith Green, an office spokeswoman.

Prosecutors are reviewing dozens of additional cases linked to the officers, said Diana Teran, a special advisor to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón. The review will prioritize active cases in which a defendant is still in custody and one of the officers implicated in the scandal was a “material witness.”

“So that could be, for example, a single police officer is in a patrol car and sees an individual on the sidewalk and then says he had a bulge in his pocket and then pats him down and then recovers a gun,” Teran said. “Without that officer, you couldn’t prove that case.”

Since 2013, the group of officers identified by The Times has been involved in at least seven serious use-of-force incidents in Torrance and Long Beach, including three that ended in the deaths of Black and Latino men, according to police use-of-force records and court filings. Although the officers’ actions were found to be justified in each case, experts say those cases should be reexamined in the context of the hateful messages.

“What those text messages revealed was an extraordinarily hostile attitude toward people of color, people who are nonbinary, people who have different sexual orientations,” said Walter Katz, a former independent police auditor in California who now serves as a vice president of criminal justice for research firm Arnold Ventures. “I don’t know that we can take anything they’ve said at face value.”

SF Approves $2.5M in the Keita O'Neil Case. ‘Cop Took Careful Aim Through the Sight of his Gun, Waited for Black Man's Head to Come into View and then Opened Fire w/Deliberation and Premeditation’

From [HERE] and [MORE] The city of San Francisco will pay $2.5 million to the mother of an unarmed Black man killed by a rookie San Francisco Police Department officer in 2017 after San Francisco supervisors approved the settlement on Tuesday.

Keita O'Neil, 42, died after former officer Chris Samayoa shot him during a police chase in the city's Bayview District on Dec. 1, 2017.

Samayoa is currently facing manslaughter charges, among others, for the fatal officer-involved shooting -- making Samayoa one of the first police officers charged with such a crime in the city's history.

After the shooting, in 2017, Keita O'Neil's mother Judy O'Neil filed a civil lawsuit against the city over her son's death, alleging excessive force.

Supervisors unanimously approved the settlement during Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting.

In the lawsuit, the city argued that Samayoa was justified in the shooting because he had reasonable fear that O'Neil, who was unarmed, was reaching for a gun as he ran toward Samayoa. However, said claim was completely nonsensical based on the bodycamera video which shows the black man was in flight and had ran past the police.

Mr. O’Neil was suspected of having stolen a California State Lottery minivan. Mr. Samayoa and Officer Talusan chased him for a few blocks in the Bayview District when the van reached a dead-end street, at which point Mr. O’Neil jumped out and began to run.

Other patrol cars closed in and blocked Mr. O’Neil’s path, at which point he ran past the police car where Mr. Samayoa was seated in the passenger seat. The rookie officer shot Mr. O’Neil as he was running by, killing him. Officer Samayoa pointed his gun and shot Mr. O’Neil in the head through the passenger side window of the patrol car, killing Mr. O’Neil.

Mr. O’Neil had no weapon on him.  His cause of death was determined to be a homicide. [MORE]

Samayoa did not turn his body camera on until after the shooting, but the incident was still captured on video because the cameras automatically record 30 seconds prior to activation.

Body camera footage released after the showed O’Neil exit the vehicle and Samayoa open fire from inside the moving patrol car as it came to a stop next to the van. The bullet shattered the patrol car window.

“Officer Samayoa took careful aim through the sight of his handgun and waited for Mr. O’Neil’s head to come into view,” Burris said. “As soon as Mr. O’Neil was lined up with the sight of Officer Samayoa’s gun, the rookie opened fire with deliberation and premeditation.” [MORE]

Three months after the shooting, Police Chief William “Bill” Scott fired Samayoa. [MORE]

The Presence of Blackness Caused Cop to Confuse a Taser w/a Gun (26 yrs exp). That is, She Forgot Tasers are Yellow, Always On the Left Side of the Belt and Have a Switch. How Will a White Jury React?

According to the criminal complaint the white cop-actress’ Black 9mm was in plain view on her body cam for at 4 seconds before she shot an unarmed Black man to death after an air freshener stop.

The complaint explains that a Special Agent McGinnis collected and reviewed the layout of Defendant’s duty belt. SSA McGinnis observed that Defendant’s handgun was holstered on the right side of the belt, set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her right hand to draw the handgun. Defendant’s Taser was holstered on the left side of the belt, also set in a straight-draw position, requiring Defendant to use her left hand to draw her Taser. The Taser is yellow with a black grip, while the handgun is entirely black. Additionally, the texture of Defendant’s handgun has a distinct grip from that on her Taser. Defendant’s Taser is also equipped with a manual safety switch which the operator must physically disengage before the Taser can be discharged and with a laser-sighting feature, which causes a laser indicator to appear on target when the Taser is being aimed after the safety is disengaged. Defendant’s Glock handgun is not equipped with such features.

During her 26 years as a police officer, Defendant received a substantial amount of training, including training related to use of force and, specifically, to the use of Tasers and firearms. Defendant completed annual recertification training courses on each of these weapons. These courses included training on how to draw, aim, and use each weapon correctly. The training material for these courses also included notices alerting Defendant to the possibility and risks of drawing a handgun instead of a Taser.

In the six months before this incident, Defendant completed two Taser-specific training courses. For example, on March 2, 2021, Defendant attended a four-hour training course pertaining to the Taser. This course involved a classroom component, which provided detailed and substantive information concerning the function, proper use, and safety concerns associated with using Tasers; a practical component; and a written test. After this training, Defendant was certified for use of the Taser X7. On Defendant’s certificate of completion, Defendant provided her signature, acknowledging that she had read and understood the information and warnings provided by the manufacturer regarding safe use of the Taser. One of those warnings states: “Confusing a handgun with a CEW [Taser] could result in death or serious injury. Learn the differences in the physical feel and holstering characteristics between your CEW and your handgun to help avoid confusion” and instructs officers to “always follow your agency’s guidance and training.” In other prior Taser trainings completed by Defendant, including another on November 5, 2020, Defendant likewise signed paperwork acknowledging that she received, read, and understood identical warnings. [MORE]

If you are expecting Justice from an Overwhelmingly White Jury then you have lost your Mind [the fear of confronting white supremacy]

Fourteen people – 12 jurors and two alternates – are hearing evidence in the case. The jury, which will remain anonymous until the conclusion of the trial, includes six men and six women whose ages range from 20s to 60s. Nine are white, two are Asian and one is Black, according to how the jurors self-identified to the court. The alternates are a white woman in her 70s and a white man in his 30s.

About 68% of Hennepin County residents are non-Hispanic white, nearly 14% are Black, 7.5% are Asian, and 7% are Hispanic or Latino, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The jury, with nine white panelists, is 75% white.

Fourteen people – 12 jurors and two alternates – are hearing evidence in the case. The jury, which will remain anonymous until the conclusion of the trial, includes six men and six women whose ages range from 20s to 60s. Nine are white, two are Asian and one is Black, according to how the jurors self-identified to the court. The alternates are a white woman in her 70s and a white man in his 30s.

About 68% of Hennepin County residents are non-Hispanic white, nearly 14% are Black, 7.5% are Asian, and 7% are Hispanic or Latino, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The jury, with nine white panelists, is 75% white.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Kimberly Potter had to fire what she thought was her stun gun to save the life of her partner, her lawyer said in an opening statement Wednesday at the trial of the former police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb in April.

Ms. Potter, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter, accidentally fired her 9mm handgun instead of her stun gun, said defense lawyer Paul Engh.

“Taser, Taser, Taser,” Mr. Engh said, quoting from video of Ms. Potter warning Mr. Wright and other officers that she was about to fire her stun gun. “All he has to do is stop, and he’d be with us.”

Mr. Engh said Ms. Potter couldn’t simply let Mr. Wright go because her partner was half-inside the car attempting to prevent Mr. Wright from driving away and would have been seriously injured or killed unless she intervened.

In the prosecution’s opening statement, Erin Eldridge, an assistant attorney general for the state of Minnesota, said that the state would present evidence that using even a stun gun wasn’t justified in the case and that Ms. Potter had failed in basic expectations of police officers.

“We trust them to know wrong from right and left from right,” she said. “This case is about Kimberly Potter betraying her badge and betraying her oath.” 

She later added, “There is no do-over when you walk the streets with a loaded firearm, when you’re entrusted with a deadly weapon as part of your job.” [MORE]

The 26 year experienced, white veteran Brooklyn Center officer is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in Wright's death during a traffic stop-turned-arrest in April. The incident happened just miles from the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, later convicted of murdering George Floyd, and spurred multiple days of protests and looting in the area.

Most white jurors heard testimony and watched police body and dash camera video from the second witness for the prosecution, Brooklyn Center police officer in training Anthony Luckey, who attempted to arrest Wright before the shooting.Potter was his training officer that day.

Luckey, 31, appeared in court in full uniform. He told jurors he initiated the traffic stop after noticing the car Wright was driving had a right-turn signal on in the left laneand had expired tabs and an air freshener hanging from the review mirror.

Using an aerial photo of the intersection where the shooting took place, Luckey walked jurors through what happened during the stop. He said he smelled marijuana and observed marijuana leaves scattered around the car. Wright did not have a license or insurance, Luckey said.

Luckey agreed with prosecutors that Wright was respectful and did not give him any reason to believe he was armed. He also agreed the woman in the car did not appear to be in distress.

Luckey said he, Potter and a third officer, a sergeant, attempted to arrest Wright after learning he had a warrant for failing to appear on agross misdemeanor weapons charge and a protection order that barred him from having contact with a woman.

Luckey saidWright initially got out of the car and placed his hands behind his back. Luckey said Wright pulled away as he attempted to handcuff him and got back into the driver's seat of the car. Luckey said he and Potter attempted to pull Wright out of the car while the thirdofficer tried to restrain him from the passenger side.

On cross-examination, Luckey agreed with an attorney for the defense that, if Wright had been able to drive away, he and the other officer could have been injured or killed. Luckey also told the jury that he would've used a Taser if he could have.

Luckey said he heard Potter repeatedly inform Wright she would tase him, so he pulled back. Luckeysaid that's when he saw a flash and heard the "bang" of a gunshot.

Luckey said he got hit in the face by a projectile and was temporarily unable to hear due to the gun going off at close range. Video from the scene shows Potter shouted several expletives and said she "grabbed the wrong" gun.

Luckey said Wright's car drove forward, "airborned over the median," and crashed into another vehicle and a fence.As video of the incident played, the loud subsequent bangs of the crash rang out in the courtroom, and Katie Bryant cried.

Luckey said Potter "became hysterical" after the shooting. His bodycam video shows her sobbing on the ground as officers try to comfort her. In the courtroom, Potter wiped away tears, and her attorney offered her a box of tissues.

"She said I'm going to prison," Luckey recalled.

The trial marks the second time in Minnesota state history that proceedings in a criminal trial are being livestreamed. The first time was earlier this year for the Chauvin trial.

Activists called for Potter to face murder charges after the shooting. The first-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and/or a $30,000 fine. The second-degree charge has a maximum sentence of 10 years and/or a $20,000 fine.

By and large, white people treat each other humanely. But in their relations w/Black People, Racists Function as Psychopaths: In Video White Boy Denies Assaulting a Lot Attendant Right After Doing So

VAMPIRE EYES ALWAYS WATCHING, COMPARING. FUCK RACISM/WHITE SUPREMACY. From [HERE] A Black man has been charged with assault after a video of him and his mother having an altercation with a worker in a car park went viral on social media.

The incident took place on 27 November at the River House apartment complex, where Johnny Martinez, an employee with a booting company who was checking cars for permits, was allegedly attacked by Edward Brennan, reported The Daily Beast. [MORE]

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]

Analysis Suggests the English Government May be Manipulating Mortality Data to Fabricate the Effectiveness of Deadly COVID Injections

Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic miscategorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination

By Martin Neil, Norman Fenton Joel Smalley, Clare Craig, Joshua Guetzkow, Scott McLachlan, Jonathan Engler and Jessica Rose

3 December 2021

From [HERE] and [HERE] The risk/benefit of Covid vaccines is arguably most accurately measured by an all-cause mortality rate comparison of vaccinated against unvaccinated, since it not only avoids most confounders relating to case definition but also fulfils the WHO/CDC definition of "vaccine effectiveness" for mortality. We examine the latest UK ONS vaccine mortality surveillance report which provides the necessary information to monitor this crucial comparison over time. At first glance the ONS data suggest that, in each of the older age groups, all-cause mortality is lower in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. Despite this apparent evidence to support vaccine effectiveness-at least for the older age groups-on closer inspection of this data, this conclusion is cast into doubt because of a range of fundamental inconsistencies and anomalies in the data. Whatever the explanations for the observed data, it is clear that it is both unreliable and misleading. While socio-demographical and behavioural differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated have been proposed as possible explanations, there is no evidence to support any of these. By Occam's razor we believe the most likely explanations are systemic miscategorisation of deaths between the different categories of unvaccinated and vaccinated; delayed or non-reporting of vaccinations; systemic underestimation of the proportion of unvaccinated; and/or incorrect population selection for Covid deaths.

Our recent articles [1, 2] have argued that the simplest and most objective way to assess the overall risk/benefit of Covid-19 vaccines is to compare all-cause mortality rates of the unvaccinated against the vaccinated in each separate age-group. For such an assessment we need accurate periodic data on both age-categorized deaths and the number of vaccinated/unvaccinated people in each age group for that period.

Any systemic errors or biases can lead to conclusions that are inversions of the real situation. For example, simply reporting deaths one week late when a vaccine programme is rolled out will (with statistical certainty) lead to any vaccine, even a placebo, seemingly reducing mortality. The same statistical illusion will happen if any death of a person occurring in the same week as the person is vaccinated is treated as an unvaccinated, rather than vaccinated, death [16].

The UK Government (through its various relevant agencies) has been better than most countries in providing detailed data on Covid cases and deaths indexed by vaccine status. However, in [1] we highlighted the absence of relevant age-categorized mortality data for England, and major inconsistencies in the data provided by different agencies. Of most concern are the very different estimates provided by UKHSA (United Kingdom Health Security Agency) and the ONS (Office for National Statistics) of the number of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The reports from UKHSA use estimates from the NIMS (National Immunisation Management Service) database [10], while the estimates from the ONS are based on 2011 census respondents and patients registered with a GP in 2019. Hence the ONS England ‘population’ (which therefore includes only people aged at least 10) is only approximately 39 million, compared to the approximately 49 million listed in NIMS. While our focus is on mortality by vaccination status, accurate periodic estimates for the proportion of people vaccinated are also crucial for determining vaccine effectiveness, since this is simply a comparison between the ‘cases’, hospitalisations and deaths per 100K vaccinated and unvaccinated.

An indication of just how critical this is illustrated by the latest UKHSA report [3] which showed that, in each age group above 29, the Covid case rate was higher among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.

The FDA Now Wants the Public to Wait Until 2096 to Disclose All Information it Relied On to Approve Pfizer’s COVID Injection. The Govt Doubles Down in its 2nd Request to Court to Delay FOIA Response

From [AARONSIRI,ESQ] A prior post explained that the FDA has asked a federal judge to make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all of the data and information it relied upon to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.   Literally, a 55-year delay.  My firm, on behalf of PHMPT, asked that this information be disclosed in 108 days – the same amount of time it took for the FDA to review and license Pfizer’s vaccine.

The Court ordered the parties to submit briefs in support of their respective positions by December 6, 2021.  The FDA’s brief, incredibly, doubles down.  It now effectively asks to have until at least 2096 to produce the Pfizer documents.  Not a typo.  A total of at least 75 years.

Other than producing an initial ~12,000 pages in around two months, the FDA thereafter only wants to commit to producing 500 pages per month.  The FDA also disclosed that it actually has approximately at least 451,000 pages to produce.* 

Each side gets to file response briefs on December 13, 2021, and then there is oral argument on December 14, 2021 before the Judge.  If you want to read the response to the FDA’s position, a copy of the introduction in the brief my firm filed is below.  And below that, a downloadable copy of each side’s full briefing is available. 

Enjoy. And if you find what you are reading difficult to believe – that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.  The lesson yet again is that civil and individual rights should never be contingent upon a medical procedure. 

EXCERPT FROM BRIEF DEMANDING TIMELY PRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

A minimum of 20,010 days (54 years and 10 months).  That is how long the FDA proposes to take, at a rate of 500 pages per month, to produce only a portion of the documents in its file for the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine that PHMPT requested pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (the “FOIA Request”) and 21 C.F.R. § 601.51(e).  But when it came to reviewing those same documents to license this product so that Pfizer could freely sell it to the public, the FDA took just 108 days.  It took the FDA’s parent department even less time to grant Pfizer complete immunity to liability for injuries from this product, and it took a stroke of the President’s pen to mandate this product for federal employees, the private sector and military personnel. 

The federal government mandating that millions of people be injected with a liability-free vaccine requires complete government transparency – not the government’s suppression of information.  PHMPT is comprised of independent scientists working at some of our nation’s premier institutions, and all they are seeking is the data the FDA has already reviewed concerning the Pfizer vaccine in order to provide the necessary peer review.  The FDA knows that they, and other independent scientists, cannot properly analyze that data until it is all released.  Yet, the FDA wants to wait until most of those scientists are long since dead to fully release the data.  News outlets, politicians, and scientists have called the FDA’s position “outrageous.”  They are correct.

The entire purpose of FOIA is government transparency.  In multiple recent cases, in upholding the FOIA’s requirement to “make the records promptly available,” courts have required agencies, including the FDA, to produce 10,000 or more pages per month, and those cases did not involve a request nearly this important – i.e., the data underlying licensure of a liability-free product that the federal government requires nearly all Americans to receive.  As the present pandemic rages on, independent review of these documents by outside scientists is urgently needed to assist with addressing the shortcomings and issues with the response to the pandemic to date.  [MORE]

COVID Injections Have Created 9 Billionaires So Far. Would Profiteers Still be Making Billions If They Could Be Held Liable for the Injuries and Death Caused by their Vax Injections?

WOULD YOU EAT HERE? HOW MANY HAVE DIED OR BEEN INJURED OR WILL DIE OR BECOME DISEASED DUE TO COVID INJECTIONS? THE SCIENCE FREE MEDICINE PARROTED BY THE DEPENDENT MEDIA IS KILLING PEOPLE.

From [HERE] The federal government has given complete immunity to Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J for any injury caused by their Covid-19 vaccines.  That’s right: you cannot sue them if you are injured by their Covid-19 vaccine.  (See Note 1 to read the law yourself.)  So, while their product may not give you immunity, they are guaranteed immunity.   

And it gets even worse.  These companies are even immune for – hold your breath – willful misconduct.  That may sound crazy, but it is shockingly true.  You can only sue them for willful misconduct if the federal government first sues them for such conduct.  (See Note 2 to read the law yourself.)  And what are the odds the federal government will do so after wildly promoting the vaccine?  About as likely as the FDA ever admitting they promoted a vaccine that caused widespread harm. 

So, despite Pfizer’s history of willful misconduct, and that this is Moderna’s first product, and that they going to rake in over $100 billion selling a product millions of Americans are mandated to take, you cannot sue them for injuries.  That seems fair.  After all, we should take pity on these companies since this revenue may not be sufficient to pay for the injuries. 

What is most incredible is that we are talking about a product that does not prevent infection and transmission.  It, at best, provides personal protection.  So, you cannot say “no” to the product without losing your job, cannot sue if you are injured, cannot see the data underlying its licensure, all while it can only potentially protect … you!  What?!  

From [HERE] At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making. Vaccine billionaires are being created as stocks in pharmaceutical firms rise rapidly in expectation of huge profits from the COVID-19 vaccines over which these firms have monopoly control.

The 9 new vaccine billionaires, in order of their net worth are: 

1. Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO (worth $4.3 billion)

2. Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech (worth $4 billion)

3. Timothy Springer, an immunologist and founding investor of Moderna (worth $2.2bn)

4. Noubar Afeyan, Moderna’s Chairman (worth $1.9 billion)

5. Juan Lopez-Belmonte, Chairman of ROVI, a company with a deal to manufacture and package the Moderna vaccine (worth $1.8 billion)

6. Robert Langer, a scientist and founding investor in Moderna (worth $1.6 billion)

7. Zhu Tao, co-founder and chief scientific officer at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.3 billion)

8. Qiu Dongxu, co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.2)

9. Mao Huihua, also co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1 billion)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data last Monday showing a total of 913,268 adverse events following COVID vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 19, 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 19,249 reports of deaths — an increase of 396 over the previous week — and 143,395 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 4,269 compared with the previous week.

Dr. David Martin Exposes The COVID Profiteers

8 Top Pfizer, Moderna Shareholders $10 Billion Richer After Dependent Media Hypes Omicron Fears

From [CHD} In the week after news of the Omicron variant hit the headlines, the CEOs and major shareholders of Moderna and Pfizer made a combined $10.31 billion, according to data compiled by the UK-based Global Justice Now.

Shares of Moderna jumped 13.61% — $273.39 to $310.61 — between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, while Pfizer shares increased 7.41% — $50.91 to $54.68, Common Dreams reported.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel saw his shares increase from $6.1 billion to $6.9 billion, for a gain of $824 million. Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, saw gains of $339,291.

Combined with the CEOs, Moderna’s and Pfizer’s four top shareholders made about $5.16, The Daily Mail reported.

The top Pfizer shareholders include Vanguard Group ($1.72 billion), Blackrock ($1.46 billion), State Street Corp. ($1.1 billion) and Capital World Investors ($909 million).

Moderna’s top shareholders are Baillie Gifford & Co. ($1.59 billion), Vanguard Group ($1 billion), Blackrock ($999.1 million) and Flagship Pioneering ($653.7 million).

As The Defender reported Nov. 30, early news reports on Omicron sent vaccine makers’ stocks soaring, after Moderna and Pfizer said they were rushing to develop vaccines for the new variant.

Moderna’s stock rose 20% on the Friday following Thanksgiving — a short trading day — while Pfizer and its vaccine partner BioNTech saw respective gains of 6% and 14%.

No evidence we need a vaccine for Omicron, but Pfizer makes the case, anyway

Global Justice Now accused Big Pharma of being responsible for the emergence of Omicron by gobbling up profits selling vaccines to wealthy countries, while refusing to share patents and making sure low-income countries get access to COVID vaccines.

Tim Bierley, the organization’s pharma campaigner, said:

“Pharmaceutical companies knew that grotesque levels of vaccine inequality would create prime conditions for new variants to emerge. They let COVID-19 spread unabated in low and middle-income countries. And now the same pharma execs and shareholders are making a killing from a crisis they helped to create. It’s utterly obscene.”

But not everyone agrees that failure to vaccinate causes new variants to emerge, or that Omicron is dangerous.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who is credited with discovering the Omicron variant, said she believes the variant may help lead to herd immunity.

Coetzee, who chairs the South African Medical Association and who has been a general practitioner for the last 33 years, said Omicron symptoms so far appear mild.

Coetzee wrote for The Daily Mail:

“No one here in South Africa is known to have been hospitalized with the Omicron variant, nor is anyone here believed to have fallen seriously ill with it … The simple truth is: We don’t know yet anywhere near enough about Omicron to make such judgments or to impose such policies … If, as some evidence suggests, Omicron turns out to be a fast-spreading virus with mostly mild symptoms for the majority of the people who catch it, that would be a useful step on the road to herd immunity.”

Early data support Coetzee’s observation that while Omicron may be highly infectious, it’s not highly dangerous.

According to CNBC, the South African Medical Research Council, in a report released Saturday, said most patients admitted to a hospital in Pretoria who had COVID didn’t need supplemental oxygen.

The report also noted that many patients were admitted for other medical reasons and were then found to have COVID.Pfizer CEO Bourla responded to that news by telling the Wall Street Journal:

“I don’t think it’s good news to have something that spreads fast. Spreads fast means it will be in billions of people and another mutation may come. You don’t want that.”

Though it’s not clear whether there’s a need for a new shot, Pfizer can develop a vaccine that targets omicron by March 2022, Bourla said.

It will take a few weeks to determine whether the current vaccines provide enough protection against the variant, Bourla said.

3 Teens Dead, 120 Hospitalized in Vietnam Following Pfizer Vax Rollout. No One Can be Held Liable. Dependent Media Ignores Story to Avoid a Conflict of Interest w/Vested Interests who Pay Their Bills

From [CHD] The Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa suspended a batch of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID vaccineafter more than 120 teens were hospitalized after being vaccinated.

According to the province’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), the teens were hospitalized for symptoms ranging from nausea and high fevers to breathing difficulties — with 17 children exhibiting severe reactions.

Thanh Hoa authorities have yet to confirm Pfizer’s COVID vaccine caused the teens’ symptoms, VN Express International reported.

Vu Van Chinh, director of the Ha Trung District General Hospital, said side-effects following vaccination are normal but are more likely to happen in children than adults.

Luong Ngoc Truong, director of the CDC, said although the province stopped using the current vaccine batch, “We still have other batches, also Pfizer vaccines, so we will continue vaccinating the children.”

The suspended batch was put into storage and could be used later for other groups like adults, Truong added.

Last week, four workers in Thanh Hoa’s Kim Viet Shoe factory died — also due to “overreaction” — after receiving the Vero Cell COVID vaccine, authorized in May by the World Health Organization for emergency use.

Three Vietnamese children die after Pfizer vaccine

Vietnam on Nov. 30 rolled out its COVID vaccination program for children 15 to 17 years old with Pfizer’s vaccine. Since then, three children have died after receiving their first dose. The cause of death was “overreaction to the vaccine.”

One of the three deaths reported in Vietnam includes a 12-year-old boy in the southern province of Binh Phuoc who died one day after his first Pfizer shot.

The boy received his vaccine Monday afternoon and was sent home to rest. After dinner, he experienced dizziness, abdominal pain and diarrhea. He was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to two others, but died Tuesday morning.

The Binh Phuoc Department of Health set up an expert panel to determine the cause of the 12-year-old’s death.

A 16-year-old boy in the northern Bac Giang Province, and a ninth-grade girl in Hanoi, both died Sunday after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

The Health Ministry said both deaths were caused by “overreaction to the vaccine,” not by a problem with the quality of the vaccine or the vaccination process.

Drugmakers Pfizer and Merck on Nov. 24 agreed to give licenses to firms in Vietnam to produce COVID treatment pills — paxlovid (Pfizer) and molnupiravir (Merck).

Vietnam is one of 95 low- and middle-income countries allowed to produce the pills through a voluntary licensing agreement with Medicines Patent Pool, an international public health group backed by the United Nations.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, there have been 18,558 reported adverse events following Pfizer’s COVID vaccine among 12 to 17-year-olds.

Markeith Loyd Trial: White OPD Cop Testified He was in Great Fear of the Surrendering Black Man who was Crawling on His Stomach w/His Hands Out, So He Kicked Him In the Face as Hard as He Could

Larken Rose explains, “It is horribly dangerous for anyone to imagine himself to have an exemption from the basic rules of right and wrong, yet that is exactly what every agent of “government” imagines.”

From [HERE] Markeith Loyd had tossed two guns out of the abandoned house where he was hiding and crawled toward law enforcement with his hands out, but Orlando police Lt. Jonathan Cute told jurors Monday he was scared of the Black man because Loyd’s arms were tense and he wouldn’t follow commands to look at the ground.

Cute said he also thought Loyd “was not prepared to give up” because he wore a bulletproof vest and could have been hiding another weapon in his waistband. The lieutenant testified that he kicked Loyd’s face and saw another officer step on his forehead before they arrested him.

“I believed in my heart that Mr. Loyd was either going to kill myself or one of the other officers there,” he said.

Four OPD officers punched, kicked and hit Loyd with their rifle muzzles in a beating that caused him to lose an eye — and were eventually cleared of criminal wrongdoing and exonerated of using excessive force.

“You kicked Mr. Loyd hard enough to conceivably kill him?” asked Allison Miller, Loyd’s defense attorney.

“I don’t know that — I’m not a doctor — but I definitely hit him as hard as I could,” Cute responded.

The testimony about Loyd’s beating by police came as the jury in his murder trial decides whether he should get life in prison or be sentenced to die for killing OPD Lt. Debra Clayton.

Attorneys on both sides will make closing arguments in the trial Tuesday morning.

Jurors must unanimously decide if Loyd, 46, should face execution before a judge can give him a sentence of capital punishment.

The same jury convicted Loyd of first-degree murder last month for fatally shooting Clayton when she tried to arrest him at the Walmart on Princeton Street Jan. 9, 2017, for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, the month before.

Circuit Judge Leticia Marques had previously banned defense attorneys from presenting such evidence before Loyd was found guilty of Clayton’s killing but she later allowed jurors to consider it as mitigation against capital punishment.

Before prosecutors rested their rebuttal case Monday, jurors heard from Stacey Salmons, chief assistant state attorney to Seminole-Brevard State Attorney Phil Archer. Archer’s office was appointed by former Gov. Rick Scott to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against the officers involved in Loyd’s beating.

“Did you make the decision not to file charges against officers in this case?” asked Assistant State Attorney Ryan Williams.

“I did,” Salmons said.

AS MARKEITH LOYD MOANED FROM INSIDE AN ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT INTERVIEW ROOM IN 2017, OFFICERS AND ORANGE COUNTY DEPUTIES CRACKED JOKES, CONGRATULATED EACH OTHER ON NABBING THE ACCUSED COP KILLER EARLIER THAT NIGHT AND SNAPPED PHOTOS OF HIM WITH THEIR CELL PHONES. LOYD REPEATEDLY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE INJURIES TO HIS FACE — HE’D EVENTUALLY LOSE AN EYE, A RESULT OF A BEATING DELIVERED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT DURING HIS APPREHENSION EARLIER THAT NIGHT — AND ASKED FOR ONE OF HIS HANDCUFFS TO BE LOOSENED, EXPLAINING IT WAS CUTTING OFF HIS CIRCULATION.

LOYD’S DEFENSE LAWYER, TERENCE LENAMON, HAS ASKED A JUDGE TO ALLOW THE VIDEO TO BE SHOWN AT HIS UPCOMING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL. IT REVEALS THE “ANIMUS AND PREJUDICE” AGAINST LOYD HELD BY THEN-ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MINA AND HIS OFFICERS, LENAMON ARGUES. [MORE] HIS SECOND MURDER TRIAL WAS SCHEDULED FOR MAY BUT WAS POSTPONED. A NEW TRIAL DATE HAS NOT YET BEEN SCHEDULED. [MORE]

Neuroradiologist Geoffrey Negin, a state expert, told jurors he reviewed Loyd’s brain scans and found it to be “pretty much normal” despite some scarring that could be due to age. A defense expert previously testified the scarring was likely from physical trauma.

Before Loyd’s attorneys rested earlier on Monday, jurors heard the defense’s final witness, Kianna Loyd.

Loyd’s daughter told jurors her father made an effort to be present in her life despite being in federal prison for the majority of her life. The jury saw videos of Loyd interacting with Kianna Loyd’s young daughter.

“They have a great relationship — they talk all the time,” Kianna Loyd said. “... For a long time, he was the closest thing to a father [she] had and just their bond is really important and healthy for her.”

After her father was released from prison in 2014, Kianna Loyd told jurors about an incident where he called and told her someone was going to kill him.

“He said ‘When they kill me, do not come to pick up my body. Where I drop, just let me lie there,’” she said between tears.

This is the second time Loyd faces the possibility of capital punishment.

He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2019 for killing Dixon but avoided the death penalty after jurors recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Landon Nobles Wrongful Death Trial Underway: APD Cops Shot Black Man in the Back Several Times after a Crowd Dispersed and Left Him to Die. Suit says he Posed No Danger to Cops or Anyone Else

From [HERE] A wrongful death trial for the family of a man shot by Austin police officers in 2017 begins Monday.

Landon Nobles, 24 at the time, was shot and killed by Austin Police Department officers Sgt. Richard Egal and Cor. Maxwell Johnson on May 7, 2017, after a crowd dispersed from in front of bars on East Sixth Street in downtown Austin.

Brian Manley, then-APD police chief, said officers fired at Nobles, because he fired at the officers. Witnesses in the crowd claim Nobles was not displaying a gun and posed no danger when he was shot in the back, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit said Nobles was shot “in the back multiple times.”

According to the complaint:

On or about May 7th, 2017, Landon Nobles, a twenty-four-year-old African-American Austinite, went to 6th Street in Austin to celebrate a birthday with his cousins Royie Nobles and Frankie Nobles. At approximately 2:30 am, Landon Nobles, Royie Nobles, and Frankie Nobles noticed a crowd of people gathered near the Jackalope and Moose Knuckle Pub in the 400 block of East Sixth Street and decided to observe the crowd. There was much jockeying and posturing as two people interacted as if “fixing to fight.” A small crowd gathered around the fighters.

The crowd dispersed after a loud popping noise emanated from the crowd. Landon Nobles walked away to the nearby intersection and then after a few minutes started walking briskly away from the corner of Sixth Street and Trinity Street toward 7th and Trinity Street, when suddenly an unidentified Austin Police Officer threw a bike in front of Landon Nobles, which caused him to fall.

At no time did any officer of the Austin Police Department announce their presence or instruct Landon Nobles to stop.

As Landon Nobles attempted to regain his balance, he was subsequently shot in the back multiple times by Sergeant Richard Egal and Corporal Maxwell Johnson. According to several non-police witnesses, Landon Nobles was not displaying a gun and posed no danger to Sergeant Richard Egal, Corporal Maxwell Johnson, or anyone for that matter at the time of the shooting, or at any time at all. There is no evidence that Defendants Sergeant Richard Egal and Corporal Maxwell Johnson or any third party feared for their lives or the lives of anyone else at the time lethal force was used against Landon Nobles.

Landon was killed right there on the street and he was left to die in the gutter as he bled out from the gunshot wounds inflicted by Officers Egal and Maxwell Johnson who shot Landon in the back. Twenty minutes later, Landon Nobles was later rushed to Brackenridge Hospital by Austin-Travis EMS where he was pronounced dead at approximately 3:08 am on May 7th, 2017. 16. As a result of Sergeant Richard Egal and Corporal Maxwell Johnson’s unreasonable and senseless use of deadly force, Landon Nobles died after suffered agonizing pain.

Based on media reports, Austin Police officers use deadly force against African- American suspects at a higher rate than white suspects, even though African- Americans comprise only 8% of Austin’s population. Additionally, the Austin Police Department utilizes deadly force against unarmed individuals disproportionately when the victims are African-American.

The two officers, Egal and Johnson, are listed as the defendants in the lawsuit that seeks $15 million in damages. The City of Austin was originally listed as another defendant, but it was removed on July 15, 2021, according to court records.

Attorney Edmund “Skip” Davis is representing the Nobles family. Ida Renae Nobles, Landon’s mother, along with his two children, are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Davis called three witnesses to the stand Monday: a sound technician who was working downtown the night of May 7, 2017, as well as a cousin and friend of Landon who were with him the night he was shot. All three of them said Landon did not have a gun.

Nicholas Henderson, the second witness to take the stand, said he got into an altercation with a group of people from Houston who started making offensive comments. Henderson said it was around that time he noticed Landon was nearby. Henderson said the fight between himself and the men from Houston stopped when a gunshot rang out in the crowd, according to his testimony Monday.

During opening statements, attorneys for the officers said Halo video and other evidence shows Landon fired that shot into the air. Henderson said Nobles did not have a firearm.

Henderson, along with Roy Nobles, Landon’s cousin who was downtown with the group on May 7, and Chris Futrell, a sound technician who was working downtown that night, all said they did not see Landon turn toward officers before he was shot.

Testimony will resume Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. The plaintiffs still have more witnesses to call before the defense calls its witnesses to the stand. The trial is expected to wrap up Thursday or Friday.

Nurse Charged in John Neville's Murder Seeks to Delay Civil Trial. 5 Cops Piled On a Handcuffed Black Man Lying Face Down on Cell Floor and Smothered Him for Over 11 Minutes as He Begged for Air

From [HERE] Wellpath Inc., Forsyth County's former medical provider, and a nurse charged in the death of John Neville are asking a federal judge to delay proceedings in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against them, according to court documents filed Monday. They said the media had "conflated" Neville's death with the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd, who was killed by a white police officer.

"Moreover, local and national news articles about Mr. Neville's death conflate his death with the George Floyd, 'I can't breathe,' scenario in Minneapolis," Rebecca Thornton, the attorney for Wellpath and the nurse, Michelle Heughins, said in the motion.

A federal lawsuit filed Sept. 28 alleges that detention officers at Forsyth County’s jail not only pinned John Neville in a prone position that ultimately led to his death but also that he was denied use of an inhaler for his asthma and that officials ignored repeated signs that he was in medical distress.

According to the lawsuit, despite Neville having displayed clear signs of a medical emergency, detention and medical officials at the jail failed to take Neville to the hospital for more than an hour. The lawsuit says that a sheriff’s deputy gave a written note to EMS after Neville arrived at the hospital, asking to be informed in the event of Neville’s death and whether an autopsy would be performed.

John Elliott Neville, 56, of Greensboro, died on Dec. 4, 2019 at what is now known as Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Five former detention officers — Lavette Maria Williams, Edward Joseph Roussel, Sarah Elizabeth Poole, Christopher Bryan Stamper and Antonio Maurice Woodley — and nurse Michelle Heughins [racist suspect in photo] have all been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. did not publicly acknowledge Neville's death for six months. On June 26, he and his agency provided limited information about Neville's death. About two weeks later, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill announced the involuntary manslaughter charges. Local protests sparked by the Minneapolis death of George Floyd a month earlier soon turned toward demanding accountability for Neville’s death in Winston-Salem.

Media organizations petitioned for the release of body camera and jail surveillance footage of the events that led to Neville’s death. A Forsyth County judge ordered the release of the videos, which showed Neville said the words “I can’t breathe” dozens of times as he was restrained, face down, in the jail.

The videos show John Neville begging for his life as multiple deputies piled on top of him as he had a medical emergency.

The incident began when Neville was found semi-conscious on the floor of his jail cell. The deputies continue telling Neville to “calm down” but Neville eventually panics and tries to stand up.

“You had a seizure,” the nurse said. “They’re just taking care of you. They’re doing this so you don’t hurt yourself.”

“You’re going to be alright, buddy,” a deputy says. “You’re going to be alright. You’re having a bit of a medical episode here.”

“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Help!” Neville said as deputies retorted, “If you can talk, you can breathe.”

But Neville was telling the truth. He could not breathe.

Neville was being held face down on his stomach, begging to be rolled over so he could catch his breath but the deputies refused. He asked them over 30 times, every one of the requests were denied.

One deputy tells others he knows they’re enjoying holding down Neville before offering them a break if they need it. After a straight 11 minutes with cops on top of him, Neville fell unconscious and stopped breathing.

“You guys killed him,” someone shouts. “You killed him.”

He was transported to the hospital but would not make it.

John Elliott Neville, 56, of Greensboro, died at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist on Dec. 4, 2019, mere days after he was taken into custody and brought to the Forsyth County Jail on a misdemeanor assault charge out of Guilford County. His death prompted local protests and a 49-day occupation of Bailey Park led by Triad Abolition Project.

Kimbrough, Forsyth County, Heughins, Wellpath and the five former detention officers have all been named as defendants in the federal lawsuit. All but Heughins and Williams have filed written answers to the lawsuit. Heughins was scheduled to file an answer on Thursday. 

Thornton also said that portions of videotapes were released publicly in July 2020. The Journal joined other news organizations in petitioning a judge to release the footage. 

"Defendants Wellpath and Heughins contend that unless the civil proceedings before this Court are stayed pending the resolution of the parallel involuntary manslaughter proceedings against the above listed individual Defendants, Defendants' Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination are likely to be violated during the course (of) civil litigation proceedings," Thornton said.

Thornton said Wellpath and Heughins would be confronted with with the troublesome and unsatisfactory prospect" of having to decide whether to provide incriminating statements, answer certain questions and testify under oath.

Heughins tried to file an amicus brief supporting an appeal of a decision by Forsyth Superior Court Judge David Hall to allow release of certain investigative records held by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. The Forsyth County District Attorney's Office is appealing that decision in the N.C. Court of Appeals.