Pfizer Documents Reveal Govt Authorities and Pfizer knew COVID Vaccine caused Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease

From [HERE] Confidential Pfizer documents that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been forced to publish by Court Order, confirm that both Pfizer and the FDA knew Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease was a possible consequence of the mRNA Covid-19 injections.

They also reveal that they received evidence of it occurring, including several deaths, but swept it under the carpet and claimed “no new safety issues have been raised”.

The consequences of this cover-up are now being realised in official Government data that strongly suggests the fully vaccinated population have been suffering Antibody-Dependent Enhancement since the beginning of 2022. 

With figures showing the fully jabbed are up to 2 times more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19, and 2 to 3 times more likely to die of Covid-19.

Before we dive into the Pfizer documents, let’s take a look at the real-world consequences of Medicine Regulators and Pfizer ignoring the fact the Covid-19 injections have the ability to cause Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease. 

Intensive research conducted by health experts throughout the years has brought to light increasing concerns about “Antibody-Dependent Enhancement” (ADE), a phenomenon where vaccines make the disease far worse by priming the immune system for a potentially deadly overreaction.

ADE can arise in several different ways but the best-known is dubbed the ‘Trojan Horse Pathway’. This occurs when non-neutralizing antibodies generated by past infection or vaccination fail to shut down the pathogen upon re-exposure.

Instead, they act as a gateway by allowing the virus to gain entry and replicate in cells that are usually off limits (typically immune cells, like macrophages). That, in turn, can lead to wider dissemination of illness, and over-reactive immune responses that cause more severe illness.

Here’s a short video of the Chief Medical Advisor to the U.S. President, Dr Anthony Fauci, explaining the undesirable consequence. In it he confirms it could be a possible danger of the Covid-19 injections and that this would not be the first time it has happened. 

Unfortunately, it looks like ADE may now be occurring because of the Covid-19 injections; and it looks as if the UK Health Security Agency have been doing their best to hide it. 

The Consequences

At the turn of the year the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) decided to stop publishing the case, hospitalisation and death rates for the double vaccinated, instead choosing to only publish the rates for the triple vaccinated in their weekly Covid-19 Vaccine Surveillance report. 

The rates are calculated by dividing the total population size of each vaccination status group by 100,000; and then dividing the total number of cases, hospitalisations or deaths among each vaccinated group by the calculated figure.

e.g. – 3 million Double Vaccinated / 100k = 30
500,000 cases among double vaccinated / 30 = 16,666.66 cases per 100,000 population.

However, the UKHSA produces a separate report containing the overall population size by age group and vaccination status, meaning we can take these figures and actually calculate the hospitalisation and death rates per 100,000 among the double vaccinated ourselves.

Here’s the table taken from the Week 12 Influenza and Covid-19 Surveillance Report –

And here’s a chart showing the double vaccinated population size by age and week in England. We’ve taken the figures from the chart above, and the Week 8 and Week 4 reports – 

Now that we know the population size all we have to do is divide each population by 100,000; and then divide the number of hospitalisations and deaths by the answer to that equation, to calculate the hospitalisation and death rates.

Here’s a chart showing the number of Covid-19 hospitalisations among both the unvaccinated and double vaccinated in the Week 5, Week 9 and Week 13 UKHSA Covid-19 Vaccine Surveillance reports

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CDC report Acknowledges 74.2 Million people have not had a single dose of a COVID Injection and 157 Million have refused a 2nd or 3rd dose

From [DI] The American people have seen right through President Biden’s propaganda and lies on the effectiveness of the Covid-19 injections because according to CDC data, 70% of the entire population of the USA have not had either a first, second or third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

President Joe Biden has lied to the American people and is still lying to the American people. In July 2021, Biden falsely stated that “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” and “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die.”

Then in December 2021, Biden falsely claimed “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated. That’s the problem. Everybody talks about freedom and not to have a shot or have a test. Well guess what? How about patriotism? How about making sure that you’re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anyone else.”

There is plenty of evidence out there that proves the above statements made by President Biden are outright lies (see here), but the most hilarious evidence of all must be the recent outbreak that occurred due to journalists and Government leaders attending the ‘Gridiron Dinner at the beginning of April 2022. An annual event in Washington DC.

All guests at the event were required to show proof of vaccination. A week later at least 72 of the 630 fully vaccinated/boosted guests tested positive for Covid-19.

But it would appear the majority of the American people can already see through President Biden’s lies without us needing to put the record straight. Because according to data published by the US Centers for Disease Control, 74.2 million Americans are still completely unvaccinated, and a further 157 million Americans have refused a second or third dose of the Covid-19 injection.

Meaning 50% of the entire country has potentially become wise to the propaganda and lies spouted by the American Government, Dr Anthony Fauci, and the mainstream media over the past two years.

Vax is Safe, Not Harming People? As stated, Fact Checkers are Coin Operated Liars Whoring for CrimethInc: A Study of 23 Million People Shows Risk of Myocarditis After COVID Vaccines

From [CHD] A new study involving 23 million people proves a COVID-19 vaccine side effect — once labeled “misinformation” — is real.

So claimed comedian, writer and political commentator Jimmy Dore on the Monday episode of “The Jimmy Dore Show.”

Dore examined an April 21 article in the U.K.’s Express, “Vaccine Study of 23 Million Shows Risk of ‘Heart Problems’ from Moderna or Pfizer Jab.”

The article reported on an investigation published online in JAMA Cardiology on April 20: “SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents.”

The JAMA study vindicates commentators who discussed connections between heart problems and the COVID-19 vaccines months or even years ago — and who were dismissed or vilified, said Dore.

Podcaster Joe Rogan, for instance, was harshly criticized and accused of spreading “misinformation” when he first discussed the vaccine-myocarditis connection.

But according to the study, “both first and second doses of mRNA vaccines were associated with increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. For individuals receiving 2 doses of the same vaccine, risk of myocarditis was highest among young males (aged 16-24 years) after the second dose.”

Specifically, among young men receiving two doses of the same vaccine, between four and seven excess myocarditis and pericarditis events occurred in 28 days per 100,000 vaccinees after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and between nine and 28 excess myocarditis and pericarditis events occurred per 100,000 vaccinees after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine.

The study concluded, “The risk of myocarditis in this large cohort study was highest in young men after the second SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dose” and recommended, “this risk should be balanced against the benefits of protecting against severe COVID-19 disease.”

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death. Pericarditis is inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart that can cause sharp chest pain and other symptoms. The Defender has featured stories of people developing myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccinations.

Dore pointed out that Denmark in October 2021 suspended administration of the Moderna vaccine to people younger than 18, while Sweden did the same for people under 30.

Dore also recalled the days when Kamala Harris and Joe Biden expressed hesitancy about vaccination when then-president Donald Trump endorsed it.

When people form an opinion about the vaccines based on the political climate, not on data, it shows they are either wedded to their fear or disingenuous, he said.

Utility Companies [elite whites] Have Disconnected the Electricity of More than 3.5 Million Homes Since the Plandemic, while shareholder returns and executive compensation have skyrocketed

From [HERE] Electric utilities have disconnected U.S. households more than 3.5 million times since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, while shareholder returns and executive compensation have skyrocketed, according to Powerless in the Pandemic 2.0, a new report from the Center for Biological Diversity and BailoutWatch.

The massive wave of power shutoffs preceded Russia’s war on Ukraine, which has led to high volatility in fossil gas prices that may put more families at risk of disconnection.

Changes in gas prices generally pass through to utility customers rather than utilities, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

“It’s appalling that millions of families in the United States have lost electricity while utility oligarchs reap huge windfall payouts,” said Jean Su, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s energy justice program. “Russia’s war on Ukraine has only heightened household energy fragility and put more folks at risk. This moment is a clarion call to the federal government to reform the broken utility power sector, which relentlessly puts profits over people and the planet.”

“Utility companies are deliberately prolonging their dependence on fossil fuels and passing volatile fuel prices on to consumers,” said Chris Kuveke, data analyst at BailoutWatch and principal of Tiger Moth LLC. “Our research shows that millions of Americans are disconnected when they can’t pay their monthly electric bills, while these utilities pass windfall profits to shareholders and executives through dividends and bonuses.”

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The report’s key findings:

  • Households had their power shut off more than 3.6 million times between January 2020 and December 2021, with an increase of 79% between 2020 and 2021.

  • A 12-member Hall of Shame — including utility holding companies NextEra Energy (parent of Florida Power & Light), Duke Energy, Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power), Exelon (parent of Pepco), and DTE — perpetrated 87% of all documented disconnections. These companies shut off customers more than 3 million times in 2020 and 2021 while increasing shareholder payouts by $1.9 billion, or 13%. Those shareholder payout increases could have forgiven the unpaid bills five times over.

  • Eight Hall of Shame companies laid off employees while increasing executive compensation by an average of 24%.

  • Five states accounted for 69% of all disconnections: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

  • Only 33 states and Washington, D.C., require utilities to disclose disconnections. There is no federal oversight to address this lack of transparency. Though this report presents the most exhaustive data set available, it covers a fraction of the people affected.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently demanded that top utility companies answer for their high customer shutoff rates during COVID-19.

In September 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity and BailoutWatch published “Powerless In the Pandemic: After Bailouts, Electric Utilities Chose Profits Over People,” which found that electric utilities had shut off the electricity of poor U.S. households nearly 1 million times during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the likelihood people would become sick and die.

A recent analysis by InfluenceMap showed that top private utilities have actively fought to obstruct climate policy that would rein in carbon pollution. Utility companies Southern Company and First Energy top the list for both high disconnection rates and actions taken against climate policy progress.

16 Calls between the DA and a Defendant Tend to Demonstrate a Conspiracy to Murder Ahmaud Arbery [racism is not bigotry. It's 1 Group [2 or more whites] Using Their Power to Subjugate Blacks]

From [HERE] One of the men convicted of murder in the street chase and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery spoke with his former boss, the local district attorney, several times by phone in the days and weeks following the 2020 killing, according to a court document filed Thursday.

Investigators found that the day after the shooting, then-Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson placed a phone call to Greg McMichael, a retired investigator for her office who initiated the pursuit that ended in Arbery’s death. The call lasted more than nine minutes, prosecutors in a misconduct case against Johnson said in the legal filing.

The document listed 16 calls between phone numbers for Johnson and McMichael starting Feb. 23, 2020, when McMichael left Johnson a voicemail about an hour after the shooting, and ending May 5, 2020, the day graphic cellphone video of Arbery’s killing leaked online. The video sparked a national outcry over the young Black man’s death at the hands of three white pursuers.

More than half the calls lasted just a few seconds to a minute, suggesting some went unanswered and others involved voicemails. Seven calls lasted between just shy of three minutes to 21 minutes, according to the court record.

A grand jury indicted Johnson last year on a felony charge of violating her oath of office as well as a misdemeanor count of hindering a police investigation. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office is prosecuting the case, which alleges Johnson used her position to protect McMichael and his son.

Attorneys: Ex-prosecutor never hindered investigators in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing

“The evidence shows that Johnson showed favor and affection for McMichael throughout the pendency of the case — including when she was making decisions as the DA over his case,” the prosecutors’ legal filing said.

Johnson has insisted she recused herself immediately from the investigation and turned the case over to outside prosecutors. Her attorneys have asked a judge to dismiss the charges, saying “there is not a scintilla of evidence” that she interfered with the police investigation.

McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase 25-year-old Arbery after spotting him running in their neighborhood just outside the port city of Brunswick. A neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded the cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery at close range with a shotgun.

The men told police that Travis McMichael opened fire in self-defense as Arbery threw punches and tried to grab the shotgun. The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery of being a thief. Arbery was unarmed when he was killed, and police found no evidence he had stolen anything.

All three men were convicted of murder by a state court jury last November and were sentenced to life in prison. They stood trial again in federal court, with a jury convicting them in February of committing hate crimes. Sentencing in that case is scheduled for August.

Johnson lost her reelection race for district attorney in November 2020 and blamed public outrage over the delay in arrests over Arbery’s death, though she denied wrongdoing.

Hours after the shooting, Johnson enlisted District Attorney George Barnhill of the neighboring Waycross Judicial Circuit to meet with local police the next day and advise them on the case. Prosecutors in the misconduct case said Barnhill decided after one meeting not to seek charges.

Johnson waited until after that meeting to ask the Georgia attorney general’s office to appoint an outside prosecutor to oversee the case. The legal filing says Johnson called the attorney general’s office three days after Arbery’s death and told a paralegal Barnhill had already accepted the case.

“Johnson failed to disclose, however, that Barnhill had already reviewed the case and declared the case to be self-defense,” the legal filing said. “Thus, Johnson effectively chose the outcome of the case despite having a conflict.”

Barnhill ended up recusing himself. On April 3, 2020, when Johnson learned that Barnhill was stepping aside, there was a call from her phone to Greg McMichael, the court filing said.

The final listed call between them was made on May 5, 2020, when the video of the killing got posted online. The murder trial revealed the video was leaked to a local radio station by an attorney Greg McMichael had consulted.

The call consisted of Greg McMichael leaving a voicemail thanking Johnson for a referral, the legal filing said. He told her: “He’s gonna run interference for me right now, and that’s damn good advice, and I appreciate that very much.”

Greg Michael and his son were arrested on murder charges two days later. Bryan’s arrest followed after two weeks.

Black Judge Finds White PG County Cop Guilty and Not Credible after He Claimed He Slammed a Handcuffed Black Man Headfirst into the Concrete By Mistake (causing paralysis) During an Expired Tags Stop

YES THAT’S A PERSON.

From [HERE] and [HERE] Two and a half years after Demonte Ward-Blake was paralyzed during a traffic stop in Prince George’s County, a judge ruled Wednesday that the police officer who arrested him was guilty of second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment in connection with the man’s injuries.

Cpl. Bryant Strong, flanked by 20 officers in the courtroom behind him, showed no reaction as Circuit Court Judge Daneeka V. Cotton read her guilty verdict in the bench trial that started Monday of this high-profile encounter. Cotton deliberated for three hours after hearing testimony from other officers at the scene, use-of-force experts, Ward-Blake’s former fiancee and Strong himself.

As Cotton read each guilty verdict, those there to support the late Ward-Blake in the packed courtroom exhaled in relief.

“Thank Jesus,” said one woman, whose son was killed by Prince George’s police in the 1990s.

“Amen. Amen. Amen,” the family’s civil attorney said.

Ward-Blake’s mother, Rena Ward, slowly smiled as she was hugged by a line of friends, family and State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy.

Ward-Blake died late last year at the age of 26 from injuries he suffered in an unrelated shooting. Before his death, he had used a wheelchair because of his paralysis, which left him mostly immobile from the neck down.

Strong, who is now 32, waived his right to a jury trial and instead elected to have his case heard before the judge alone. He will be sentenced in July and faces up to 10 years in prison.

A grand jury indicted Strong in the fall of 2020, nearly a year after his encounter with Ward-Blake on Oct. 17, 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., on the three misdemeanor charges.

During her ruling, Cotton said her job in reviewing the testimony and evidence was to decide which of the two conflicting versions of the traffic stop was the truth. Though Ward-Blake’s encounter with Prince George’s County police was recorded on cruiser dash-cam footage and cellphone video, the assault itself was not.

Ward-Blake had been pulled over for expired tags; that he became verbally outraged when a different officer pulled a gun because his girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter was in the back seat; and that throughout parts of the encounter captured on film he had been compliant with all officer commands, including when he was detained, placed in handcuffs and sat on the curb.

Strong then decided to arrest Ward-Blake for disorderly conduct and walk him to the side of his cruiser, where he conducted a body search.

The judge found that Strong had become fed up with Ward-Blake’s cursing and yelling and snapped, lifting the man’s feet from the ground and slamming him headfirst into the concrete in a maneuver called a “takedown.”

A witness officer who had also responded to the traffic stop testified that soon after her arrival on the scene, she heard a “commotion” near Strong’s police cruiser and turned her head to see Ward-Blake’s feet in the air at a diagonal and Strong’s feet on the ground.

Prosecutors said her testimony, coupled with similar testimony from Ward-Blake’s girlfriend, Chinayne Pollard, and medical records showing the severity of the man’s injuries, proved Strong had used excessive force to slam the 24-year-old into the ground.

That use of force was reckless, they said, because Ward-Blake was compliant, handcuffed and had no way of breaking his own fall.

Strong’s attorneys, however, unsuccessfully argued that Ward-Blake’s paralysis was not the result of a criminal act but an “accident.”

Strong testified that once he took Ward-Blake to the side of his police cruiser, he started searching the man’s upper body and had crouched down by his ankles. At that point, Strong said, Ward-Blake elbowed him in the head — knocking him off balance. The officer testified that, at the same time, Ward-Blake had turned away in an alleged attempt to flee. Strong said he reached for the man’s arm to catch his balance, and the two fell together to the ground.

The judge did not find the officer to be credible. When she delivered her verdict, though, Cotton discounted that theory. The use of force was intentional and not accidental, she said, adding that she was “unpersuaded” that Strong’s testimony was “credible.” The judge called his actions “excessive” and “unjustified.”

Strong, she said, “did not act as a reasonable officer would.”

Strong remains on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the department’s internal affairs investigation, which will proceed now that the criminal trial has concluded. [thats how the process goes when cops harm blacks 1) first prove it beyond a reasonable doubt 2) then we’ll think about maybe terminating the cop and relieving him of his glorious duty of providing compulsory public service in a free range prison. contrast with how the process works when ‘white lives’ are harmed]

[equality/In Reality all are subject to authority, the right to rule] Lawsuit Claims an El Paso Cop Battered a Handcuffed White Woman by Punching Her in the Face at Least 10 Times During DUI Stop

From [HERE] A mother of five says in a lawsuit she needs facial reconstruction surgery after an El Paso, Texas policeman repeatedly punched her and broke her nose while she was handcuffed.

Anna Barnes, 34, sued the city of El Paso, its Police Chief Gregory Allen and Officers Jarred Frank and Oliver Meise on Thursday in federal court in El Paso.

Barnes, an insurance broker, and her kids had just left a birthday party when around 10 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2021, a cigarette ember blew onto her arm and burned it while she was driving her SUV 5 to 10 mph, according to the complaint.

She brushed the ember off and accidentally drove over a curb and struck a small tree.

No one was injured. But Barnes says she and her children got out of the car and she called an acquaintance to come pick them up.

Minutes later, Frank and Meise pulled up in their police cruiser.

Though the officers did not perform any field sobriety tests on Barnes or ask her to blow in a breathalyzer to measure her blood-alcohol level, Meise told her she was going to be arrested for DWI with children in the car under age 15, a felony. The officers reportedly said they smelled alcohol on her.

Barnes says she started crying and Frank came over and kicked her legs out from under her, rolled her on her stomach, handcuffed her on sat her on the curb.

Barnes’ tears seemed to irritate Frank, she claims, and he hit her twice in the face.

“When the handcuffed Anna criticized the excessive force just inflicted upon her, Officer Frank started repeatedly striking Anna in the face-over ten more times as Anna tried to say more but the strength of the blows increased as she started to scream. During this time Meise was holding onto Anna’s shoulder to assist Frank land the blows,” the complaint states.

With her face swelling up and eyes blackened from the blows, paramedics placed Barnes on a stretcher as her terrified children looked on. She was taken to a hospital where a CT scan revealed Frank had broken her nose.

According to Barnes, an emergency room doctor stated she was “clinically sober” and determined the assault had caused her injuries.

As further proof of her sobriety, Barnes says after the officers booked her into El Paso County Jail she agreed to a blood test, and it was analyzed by the Texas Department of Public Safety. The agency declared in December she had “passed” the test so her driver’s license would not be suspended.

Nonetheless, El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales has refused to drop Barnes’ charges.

 In response to queries about Barnes’ case from a local TV station, the DA’s office said besides proving a driver had a blood-alcohol concentration of more than .08, prosecutors can secure a DWI conviction by proving any amount of alcohol ingested had caused the driver to lose the normal use of their faculties and crash their vehicle.

Barnes says despite Frank admitting in a sworn affidavit he had struck her face several times, DA Rosales has declined to prosecute him, and he got off with a light punishment from the El Paso Police Department.

“True to form and despite an El Paso internal affairs investigation Meise went wholly unpunished and Frank was given only an 8-hour suspension by Chief Allen in a discipline system shrouded in secrecy,” the lawsuit states.  

Barnes’ attorney, Randall Kallinen of Houston, said in a statement El Paso, population 679,000, is the only major city in Texas whose police officers do not wear body cameras, though its City Council recently approved spending $6.6 million for 700 of them.

Still, its police are not expected to start wearing them until summer 2023, according to the El Paso Herald-Post.

“El Paso needs body cameras yesterday and also needs city and county officials who are serious about stopping violent police officers and not protecting them,” Kallinen said.

Barnes seeks at least $100,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.

She accuses the officers of federal civil rights violations of excessive force and failure to intervene. She also sued them for assault under state law.

As for the city and Chief Allen, Barnes aims to hold them liable for municipal liability, a federal civil rights allegation with a high bar that requires her to prove a policy of the El Paso Police Department was the moving force of the constitutional violations that caused her injuries.

Barnes alleges the city, through Chief Allen, has a policy of not disciplining or investigating officers accused of using excessive force.

Neither the city attorney’s office nor DA Rosales responded Thursday night to requests for comment on Barnes’ allegations.

Trial Delayed for White Cop who Fatally Shot Atatiana Jefferson after Warrantless Entry ["A Welfare Check"] Into Her Yard [Gun Possession by Blacks, lawful or unlawful, is Prohibited in Racist System]

From [HERE] Ashley Carr closed her eyes as a judge read.

The 10 minutes seemed to drag as state District Judge David Hagerman explained the factors he considered in deciding Wednesday whether to delay the murder trial for her sister’s killer a third timein six months.

It’s already been nearly three years since former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, 37, fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in her home in October 2019 while her 8-year-old nephew was nearby. A jury will decide whether Dean, who is white, committed murder by shooting the 28-year-old Black woman.

Jefferson was fatally shot after a neighbor called a nonemergency line to request a welfare check on the home because the front door was open and lights were on about 2:30 a.m. Oct. 12, 2019.

Body-camera footage shows that Dean walked around Jefferson’s house and entered the fenced yard without announcing his presence and identifying himself as law enforcement. Dean turned to face a window, yelled at Jefferson — who was inside — to put up her hands and fired a single shot in a matter of seconds.

A murder warrant explained that the boy, who was in the room with Jefferson when she was shot, told a forensic interviewer that he and his aunt were playing video games together about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when she heard noises outside their home in the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue.

Jefferson, 28, took her handgun from her purse and pointed it “toward the window” before she was shot, the nephew said, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit.

The 8-year-old saw his aunt fall to the ground. She was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m.

Jefferson’s nephew told officials that his aunt had grabbed a handgun and pointed it toward the window because she heard noises outside.

Former Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and former police Chief Ed Kraus said that was irrelevant because Jefferson was entitled to defend herself. Kraus said at a news conference that it “makes sense that she would have a gun if she felt that she was being threatened or there was someone in the backyard.”

That sentiment was echoed by an attorney for the victim’s family. Lee Merritt said Jefferson had every right to defend herself because the officers did not announce themselves as law enforcement.

“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” Merritt said, noting that she had a license to carry the legally owned firearm. "When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2 in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.” [MORE]

After a three-day hearing this week, Hagerman granted Dean’s request to delay the trial again — this time because his lead attorney is seriously ill and because prosecutors turned over voluminous records in late April.

Earlier in the day, Hagerman denied Dean’s request to move the trial out of Tarrant County. Defense lawyers Miles Brissette and Bob Gill had sought to prove Dean could not possibly get a fair and impartial jury in Tarrant County by showing more than 100 local TV news reports about the case.

Carr and relatives rejoiced then. Two women hugged and cried, and a bailiff brought them a box of tissues. [all white!]

They were expressionless when Hagerman announced he would reschedule the trial to June. They left the courtroom quietly; the judge’s gag order prohibits anyone involved in the case from speaking to media.

Prosecutor Dale Smith, visibly frustrated, said loudly, “I’ve got no more business with this court today,” before walking out of the courtroom.

Jury selection, which was scheduled to begin Monday, will now start June 20. Testimony will begin June 23 with or without lead defense lawyer Jim Lane.

“This court, this case, will not be held hostage indefinitely,” Hagerman said.

Lane, who did not participate in the hearing this week, has been sick since mid-March and has not been able to work on the case, the defense team said. They did not reveal Lane’s illness, but notes from his doctor that were sealed from public view describe his condition as “severe, debilitating and possibly even dire,” Hagerman said.

Brissette and Gill are highly experienced, Hagerman noted, and can try the case without a third attorney or can hire another lawyer to replace Lane, he said. Brissette and Gill, along with Lane, represented former Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver, who was convicted of murder in 2018 and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Oliver is white and Edwards was Black.

Hagerman also scolded prosecutors for not turning over raw information from psychological testing sooner, although Smith argued that the final findings were provided to defense lawyers earlier. But Hagerman said that isn’t good enough for the defense team to have it evaluated by their own experts.

“The state is substantially blamed. … They cannot, now, in good faith shrug their shoulders,” Hagerman said.

Coverage not inflammatory

In determining that the trial would stay in Fort Worth, Hagerman found that local news coverage about the case was pervasive and prejudicial — but not inflammatory. Texas law requires all three factors be met to move a trial outside of the county where the crime occurred.

Dean’s lawyers failed to show how many potential jurors were exposed to the reports, Hagerman said. They could have provided ratings and other analysis to give an idea of how many people in the region consumed the media but did not, Hagerman said.

Neither of Jefferson’s parents are alive to see the trial. Her father, Marquis Jefferson, and mother, Yolanda Carr, died within three months of her killing.

Dean’s trial had previously been delayed twice since November, frustrating Jefferson’s family and community members. After defense lawyers said some of their key witnesses were unavailable in January, the judge said he would not grant another delay.

In a Consensus Reality [White Supremacy] Cops Imagine that Black People Possess Guns to Justify Shooting Them. A Lansing Cop Shot a Black Man in the Back as He Fled Carrying Only a Bag of Groceries

FILE UNDER HUNTING BLACKS. VIDEO ABOVE REMIXED BY WHITE AUTHORITARIANS FOR WHITE OWNED AND RUN MEDIA TO RE-MANUFACTURE RELATIONS. THE BLACK MAN WAS NOT CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A GUN AND NO GUN WAS FOUND IN HIS POSSESSION. THE WHITE MEDIA AND COPS HAVE NOT RELEASED THE NAME OR PHOTO OF THE WHITE COP. NO CHARGES AGAINST THE COP FOR THE ABOVE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A BUSY PARKING LOT. WHEN THE MEDIA IS OK WITH AUTHORITIES SHOOTING SHOPPERS IN THE BACK YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT LIVING A FREE SOCIETY. SAID CONSENSUS REALITY ALONG WITH RACISM AND AUTHORITY DEPEND UPON OUR STUPIDITY.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

consensus reality – a movie comprising belief, expectation and the magic of agreeing. 2) an aggrieved upon hallucination. Consensus Reality is the most malefic trickster of all. Whether you think you can or you can’t, or whether you think it is or it isn’t, you’re right! (See: Maya, Granfalloons, Motivated Illusions, Cognitive Illusions, OWLs & Dreamland)

From [HERE] East Lansing police on Thursday, May 5, released video of an April 25 police shooting that depicts 20-year-old DeAnthony VanAtten of Lansing being shot in a busy Meijer parking lot by white police officers.

An officer shouts at VanAtten to get on the ground, while chasing him through rows of vehicles. “You’re going to get Tased,” an unidentified officer yells at one point.

VanAtten is seen running from the store wearing a face covering and carrying a bag of groceries he’d just purchased inside the store. One officer takes cover behind a vehicle and calls out, “He’s reaching, he’s reaching, he’s got a gun,” before approximately eight gunshots are heard, apparently fired from multiple guns. On the video [actual reality] - there is no reaching going on.

“I can’t believe you shot me, bro,” VanAtten says after being handcuffed on the ground in the parking lot. “You shot me two times, bro.”

About the attempted murder (shooting someone in the back) the white media parroted the white police who minimize the event by stating, “the shots were not fatal and VanAtten was treated at an area hospital before being transferred to the Ingham County Jail earlier this week. He’s since been released.” [you are in a free range prison disguised as a democracy, a hoax within a hoax]

A woman, who is believed to have been in the silver SUV VanAtten arrived in, is heard screaming in the background. She’s later seen holding a baby carrier and talking on her cell phone to someone.

“He didn’t have no gun,” the woman tells police. “You shot him for no reason.”

Officers are heard discussing what led to the shooting while searching for a weapon and tending to VanAtten as one of the law enforcers is heard saying, “He had it out.”

Minutes later, police are seen pulling a silver handgun out from beneath a sedan about two parking spots over from where it’s believed VanAtten parked.

“That’s part of the investigation that Michigan state police are investigating,” East Lansing Police Chief Kim Johnson said when asked if VanAtten was armed at the time he was shot. Johnson said he did not know if VanAtten fired any shots when asked at a press conference Thursday.

Folks, if that Black man possessed that gun he would still be in custody and charged for unlawful possession of a firearm. His prints and DNA would be on it. Cops are not here to help you they are preying on you.

The police response originated from a 911 call in which a witness reported seeing a man in a face mask entering the store at 1350 W. Lake Lansing with a gun. The shooting occurred about 6:46 p.m. The video includes graphic language and images.

East Lansing released a total of seven videos, including four of footage from officer body cameras and three from the Meijer surveillance system. The department released the video by a deadline set by the East Lansing Independent Police Oversight Commission and mounting public

Sean Holland, a representative with Black Lives Matter Lansing who’s spoken with VanAtten’s relatives, called the shooting a result of racial profiling. He said VanAtten arrived at the store with his girlfriend and an 8-month-old child to purchase multiple items.

“East Lansing police should have never responded to the call,” Holland said during a protest calling for transparency on Wednesday, April 4. “We want to remind this community that Michigan is an open-carry state, and shopping while Black is not a crime.”

The two white officers involved have not been identified and are on paid administrative leave, per department policy.

Like Mistaking Bacon and Eggs, Racist Cops Often Confuse Cell Phones w/Guns when They're Possessed by Black People. San Antonio says its White Cop Murdered Antronie Scott by Mistake, Will Pay $450k

From [HERE] San Antonio’s City Council approved a settlement with the family of Antronie Scott—who was shot and killed by an SAPD officer who mistakenly thought Scott was carrying a gun.

SAPD Chief William McManus later said that Scott, who was under surveillance for felony warrants, was carrying a cell phone in his hand. At the time, Officer John Lee, who shot and killed 36-year-old Scott, believed he was carrying a gun.

In 2016, Scott’s wife filed a lawsuit against the city and the police department claiming Scott complied with officers during the traffic stop that turned fatal. Scott’s wife was in the car.

From [HERE] The city council approved the item as part of the city’s consent agenda, so it was not pulled for discussion.

According to the background documents, Lee was parked behind Scott’s vehicle when he served the warrants. Lee believed Scott looked “surprised and angry” when Lee saw Scott look at him through the back window.

The parties have agreed to settle the claims by offering $150,000 to Elena Scott, Antronie’s wife, $150,000 to Antronie Scott, Jr., and $150,000 to Scott’s mother Diane Peppar.

Thanks wfs!

India Top Ct Rules the Right to Bodily Integrity Includes the Right to Refuse COVID Shots. Finds No Basis for Discriminatory Treatment of Unvaxed b/c They Don’t Pose Any Greater Risk to Spread COVID

From [HERE] The Supreme Court of India Monday held that the right to bodily integrity of a person includes the right to refuse vaccination under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

The present writ petition was filed by Dr. Jacob Puliyel, a former member of the National Technical Advisory Group of Immunization. The petition challenged the constitutional validity of the vaccine mandates imposed by states like Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The petitioner also raised issues of non-disclosure of vaccine trial data, improper collection and reporting of Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFIs) and vaccination of children.

The petitioner’s [low budget] case was limited however as it appeared to rest on scientific and newspaper articles as opposed to actual in court expert testimony directly from the doctors and researches themselves.

The Government also contended the ambit of judicial review on the present matter, and the court clarified that it can decide an issue if:

  • It violates articles of the Constitution;

  • It dehors the provisions of the Act and the regulations;

  • The delegatee has acted beyond its power of delegation; or

  • If the executive policy is contrary to the statutory or a larger policy.

The government has the authority to impose limits on individual rights in the name of public health, but those restrictions must fulfill the court’s three-part legality, genuine necessity and proportionality test established in the Puttaswamy decision.

The court found that mandatory vaccination imposed by various state governments and other authorities in the consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic is “not proportionate” because no sufficient evidence has been presented on the record to establish that the risk of COVID-19 virus transmission from unvaccinated people is higher than from vaccinated people. The court found it undisputed that

“an unvaccinated person does not pose a greater risk than a vaccinated person in terms of transmission of the infection.”

It also stated,

“neither the Union of India nor the State Governments have produced any material before this Court to justify the discriminatory treatment of unvaccinated individuals in public places by imposition of vaccine mandates.”

The court further ordered the Government to publish reports on AEFIs from the general public and physicians on a publicly accessible basis without jeopardising the privacy of those who report adverse events. Lastly, on the issue of vaccination of children, the court held that it won’t second guess the opinion provided by the experts and vaccination shall continue as per global standards and practices.

Supreme Ct Won't Review Black Man's Death Penalty Case: In Trial for Murder of a White Woman, a White TX Judge Sat a Juror Who Believed Whites were Superior to ‘Non-White Races, who are More Violent'

From [DPIC] Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas death sentence when an expert witness had testified that a Black defendant posed an increased risk of committing future acts of violence because of his race, the Court has refused to review another Texas capital case in which the trial court permitted a juror to serve who expressed the very same view. 

On April 18, 2022, the Court denied a petition for certiorari filed on behalf of Kristopher Love challenging the trial court’s refusal to remove juror Zachary Niesman from his case. During jury selection in Love’s 2018 death penalty trial, Niesman said he believed members of “non-white” races “tend to be more violent than others.” Love is African American. While claiming he did not harbor any personal animus against people of color and that he could be a fair and impartial juror, Niesman asserted, “Statistics show more violent crimes are committed by certain races. I believe in statistics.” 

Texas law requires a capital jury to find that a defendant presents “a continuing threat to society” as a precondition to imposing a death sentence. In February 2017, in Buck v. Davis, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that expert testimony that an individual who is Black has an “’[i]ncreased probability’ of future violence” because of his race injected a deadly “toxin” in the guise of “hard statistical evidence … to guide [the jury’s] otherwise speculative inquiry” into future dangerousness.

“And it was potent evidence,” Roberts wrote, that “appealed to a powerful racial stereotype—that of black men as ‘violence prone.’” The testimony, the Chief Justice continued, “coincided precisely with a particularly noxious strain of racial prejudice, which itself coincided precisely with the central question at sentencing. The effect of this unusual confluence of factors was to provide support for making a decision on life or death on the basis of race.” 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, dissented from the Court’s refusal to hear Love’s case. “Over time, we have endeavored to cleanse our jury system of racial bias,” she wrote. “One of the most important mechanisms for doing so, questioning during voir dire, was properly employed here to identify a potential claim of bias. Safeguards like this, however, are futile if courts do not even consider claims of racial bias that litigants bring forward.”

Love’s trial counsel tried to have Niesman removed for cause based on “his stated beliefs that … non-whites commit more violent crimes than whites.” Counsel argued to the court that “leaving this man on the jury would be an invitation to leaving someone on there that might make a decision … that would ultimately lead to a sentence of death on his preconceived notions and beliefs that have to do with the race of the defendant.” The trial judge denied the request without explanation. Although the defense had already used all of its allotted discretionary strikes, as well as two additional strikes granted by the court, the judge refused to grant an additional discretionary strike and seated Niesman on the jury.

Love appealed his death sentence to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which failed to address the merits of his claim. Instead, the state court said that seating Niesman as a juror was harmless, even if it were inappropriate, because the trial court had given Love two extra jury strikes. 

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority refused to hear Love’s petition for review, eliciting a sharp dissent. Quoting Buck, Justice Sotomayor wrote: “Racial bias is ‘odious in all aspects,’ but ‘especially pernicious in the administration of justice.’ When racial bias infects a jury in a capital case, it deprives a defendant of his right to an impartial tribunal in a life-or-death context, and it ‘poisons public confidence in the judicial process.’ The seating of a racially biased juror, therefore, can never be harmless.”

Sotomayor criticized the Texas court’s decision as “plainly erroneous.” “An already-expended peremptory strike,” she wrote, “is no cure for the seating of an allegedly biased juror. The state court thus deprived Love of any meaningful review of his federal constitutional claim.”

Love’s lawyer, John Tatum, told Law & Crime, “Obviously, I agree with the dissent that our legal system needs to cleanse itself of racial bias in jury selection and stop improperly using harmless error rules to block the application of laws we already have to protect the accused citizen from any racial bias in the application of criminal Justice in this country. There are too many Texas criminal cases where the opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court are either ignored or procedurally nullified.”

In an April 18, 2022 commentary in Slate, senior writer Mark Joseph Stern wrote that the Court’s ruling “illustrates how the conservative majority can change the law by doing nothing.” By “refus[ing] to enforce precedents protecting capital defendants from racial bias,” Stern said, the Court “savi[ed] itself the trouble of formally overruling them.”

Since Buck was decided, two of the justices who made up the 6-2 majority in that case — Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — are no longer on the Court and have been replaced by justices appointed by Donald Trump. During the federal execution spree in the final six months of the Trump administration, Stern wrote, “the conservative majority ignored or flouted federal law, often breaking the court’s own rules in the process. They are certain that death row lawyers are using guerrilla tactics to delay executions and are increasingly willing to rewrite law on the fly in a bid to thwart them,” he said.

“What is the easiest way to rewrite the law?,” Stern asked. “Simply stop enforcing it. That’s what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did in swatting down Love’s claim, and it’s what SCOTUS did … by blessing the lower court’s defiance of precedent.”

Tennessee Governor Halts Executions [Murders by Government Authorities Scheduled for 2022] to Conduct Review of Execution Protocol ‘Oversight’

From [DPIC] Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (pictured) has paused all executions scheduled for 2022 and called for an “independent review” of the state’s execution protocol to address a “technical oversight” that led him to halt Oscar Franklin Smith’s execution less than a half-hour before it was to scheduled to be carried out on April 21, 2022.

In a news release issued at 5:43 a.m. on Monday, May 2, 2022, Lee announced that the state would retain former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to conduct a third-party review of Tennessee’s execution process after corrections officials failed to test execution drugs for bacterial endotoxins before Smith’s execution. Lee said that Tennessee would not go forward this year with the five executions that had been scheduled in the state between June and December 2022.

“I review each death penalty case and believe it is an appropriate punishment for heinous crimes,” Lee said in the release. “However, the death penalty is an extremely serious matter, and I expect the Tennessee Department of Correction to leave no question that procedures are correctly followed.” 

“Governor Lee’s decision to pause executions pending an independent review of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol shows great leadership,” said Kelley Henry, Chief of the Capital Habeas Unit at the Nashville Federal Public Defender’s Office. “The use of compounded drugs in the context of lethal injection is fraught with risk. The failure to test for endotoxins is a violation of the protocol. Governor Lee did the right thing by stopping executions because of this breach.”

'You Should Raised Have Those Arguments Before but You Didn't, So Now We're Going to Murder You.' Missouri Authorities Execute White Man After Death Sentences Reversed Three Times

From [HERE] A white man whose death sentence for killing a Missouri couple during a robbery more than a quarter of a century ago was put to death Tuesday, becoming the fifth person executed in the United States this year (article available here(link is external)).

Carman Deck, 56, died by injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.

He was sentenced to death in 1998, but the Missouri Supreme Court tossed the sentence due to errors by Deck’s trial lawyer.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out his second sentence in 2005, citing the prejudice caused by Deck being shackled in front of the sentencing jury.

He was sentenced to death for a third time in 2008. Nine years later, a federal district court determined that “substantial” evidence arguing against the death penalty in Deck’s first two penalty phases was unavailable for the third because witnesses had died, couldn’t be found or declined to cooperate.

In October 2020, a three-judge panel of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored the death penalty, ruling that Deck should have raised his concern first in state court, not federal court. Appeals of that ruling were unsuccessful.

The clemency petition on behalf of Deck cited abuse he suffered as a child, including beatings that left welts and sexual abuse. It said he and his siblings often were left alone without food.

The number of executions in the U.S. has declined significantly since peaking at 98 in 1998. The drop has coincided with declining support, falling from a high of 80% in 1994 to 54% in 2021 according to Gallup polls. Since the mid-1990s, opposition has risen from under 20% to around 45%.

Four other people have been executed in the U.S. in 2022 — Donald Anthony Grant and Gilbert Ray Postelle in Oklahoma, Matthew Reeves in Alabama and Carl Wayne Buntion last month in Texas. Eleven people were executed in the U.S. last year, the fewest since 1988.

FBI reports 3.4M warrantless US data searches in 2021

From [HERE] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Annual Statistical Transparency Report released Friday reported the FBI, the domestic intelligence and security service of the US, made nearly 3.4 million warrantless US data searches in 2021.

This is the ninth FBI transparency report released pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) but “goes beyond” FISA requirements. It presents statistics on “how often the government uses certain national security authorities.”

As per the Report, over 200,000 non-US persons were targeted in FBI data searches under Section 702 in 2021. Section 702 authorizes the targeting of (i) non-US persons (ii) reasonably believed to be located outside the US (iii) to acquire foreign intelligence information. To ensure that all three requirements are appropriately met for each target, Section 702 requires targeting procedures to be applied to each individual targeting decision. Bulk collection of data is not permitted.

The data search capability of the FBI means that a single query “might include hundreds or thousands of query terms.” Another key statistic in the Report was that nearly 1.9 million query terms related to potential victims, including US persons. These accounted for the vast majority of the increase in US person queries conducted by the FBI over the prior year.

Sergeant Charged with Beating Three Men in Alabama Prison

From [EJI] The Justice Department announced on April 22 that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging former Alabama Department of Corrections Sergeant Lorenzo Mills with assaulting three men incarcerated at Draper Correctional Facility near Elmore, Alabama. Mr. Mills was also charged with obstruction of justice for submitting a false statement about the incident.

On October 25, 2020, the indictment alleges that Correctional Officer Xavier Carroll brought three incarcerated men to an area outside the Draper shift office where Sgt. Mills violently assaulted the men by beating them with a baton. At least one of the victims suffered broken bones. Federal prosecutors say the men were not given medical attention until two days later because prison staff failed to report the assault when it happened.

The three victims had recently entered the Department of Corrections and were being held at Draper pursuant to a 14-day Covid-19 quarantine protocol. Two had less than one year to serve.

When the assault was finally reported on October 27, the indictment alleges, Sgt. Mills submitted a false written statement in which he wrote that he had not used any force against the three victims. 

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alabama in 2020 alleging that excessive force against incarcerated people by correctional officers, including beating with batons, is widespread in the Alabama prison system and often results in serious injuries and  deaths. Federal prosecutors alleged that prison staff frequently minimize or omit descriptions of injuries in incident reports, which contributes to incarcerated people’s unreasonable risk of serious harm.

Mr. Mills is one of 11 correctional officers, including a lieutenant and three sergeants, who have been criminally charged with abusing incarcerated people at the Elmore/Staton/Draper correctional complex since 2017, when officer Jeremy Singleton beat Billy Smith to death outside the shift office at Elmore Correctional Facility. He was later charged with manslaughter. 

The Greatest Wealth Transfer Program in the US for Whites [white supremacy is the ultimate affirmative action]

From [HERE] From 1862 to 1986, the United States government ran a homestead program that gave 2,992,058 white settlers and European immigrants (both documented and undocumented) a minimum of 160 acres of land from the Mississippi River to the West coast of America, including the Alaskan territory. Authorized by the Homestead Act of 1862, this land giveaway program ended for all participating states in 1976 and ended for land awards in Alaska in 1986.

White recipients in the land giveaway program were recruited through a widespread, government-sponsored advertising campaign in newspapers in America and Europe. The land was awarded to applicants who promised to live on it and develop the land for five years. Title to the property vested at the end of this five-year period.

Claimants paid total filing fees of $18 and $1.25 per acre after six-months of residency. These below-market land acquisition rates essentially made the land a free gift to the recipients.

Congress passed additional laws in 1873 that allowed the government to award larger tracts of land to these white settlers and immigrants.

A lot of the land grants included property that had timber rights, mineral rights, and oil and gas reserves, all of which the government eventually released to the land owners through various legislative enactments.

In all, more than 270 million acres of valuable land -- about ten percent of the land area of the United States -- was given to white settlers and immigrants.

The Homestead Act of 1862 was a 124-year-long, government-sponsored, wealth transfer program for a particular class of people -- white settlers and immigrants. It was the longest running, race-based, affirmative action program in United States history. Ironically, some of the descendants of the beneficiaries of this affirmative action program for whites were the first ones to claim their status as the "victims" of "reverse discrimination" in the 1970s and 80s.

An estimated $10 trillion dollars (when measured in today's present value) was transferred to white homesteaders, essentially for free. This land giveaway program made thousands of millionaires in the agriculture, timber, mining of natural resources, and oil and gas industries.

In addition to the gift of free public land to these white program recipients, the government-built land grant colleges to teach these settlers how to farm. It provided them with county agents to further their expertise in farming and the commercialization of natural resources running with the land. It also gave them low-interest loans so that they could mechanize their farms. Then, it provided them billions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm certain crops.

From the outset, blacks were not allowed to participate in the 1862 Homestead Act land giveaway program. The United States Supreme Court had already decided, on a 7-2 vote, in the 1857 Dred Scott case that blacks -- freed or slaves -- had no rights that white men were bound to respect. This holding included the right to own property.

The Unfulfilled Promise of 40 Acres for Freed Slaves

Union Army General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15, issued on January 16, 1865, set aside land for freed black slaves. With this Order, 400,000 acres of land described as "a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's Sea Islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast" was to be reallocated to emancipated slaves in the South. Each slave family was entitled to 40 acres of land in this strip.

Abraham Lincoln's successor, President Andrew Johnson, a Southern and sympathizer with the Confederate states, vetoed Order No. 15 in the Fall of 1865. With his veto, the land was returned to the very planters who declared war on the United States of America.

As a result, black slaves were never awarded the public lands that were promised to them by the United States Government. Instead, former slaves, for the most part, became sharecroppers on the lands they used to work as slaves. [MORE]