Family of Black Cop Killed by fellow White Cop Settles with Pr. George’s for $400K

From [HERE] The family of Jacai Colson, a 28-year-old undercover detective who was killed in 2016 by a fellow police officer, announced Wednesday that they have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against Prince George’s County for $400,000.

The lawsuit alleged that the officer who shot Colson showed “reckless disregard for human life” during a gun battle in front of Prince George’s County police headquarters, where both men responded after reports of an ambush. Police and prosecutors said that the officer, Taylor Krauss, mistook Colson as a suspect during the shooting that March 16 and fired.

“Six years, six long years we have been waiting,” said Colson’s mother, Sheila Colson, at a news conference. “No amount of money — no amount of money — is worth the life of my son.”

Colson’s family and attorneys have long been critical of how county and police leaders handled the investigation into their son’s death, including what they say is prosecutors’ failure to convince a grand jury to indict Krauss on criminal charges.

They’ve also contended that race was a factor. Colson and the three suspects in the shootout were Black. Krauss is White. At the sentencing for the man who opened fire at the police station, Colson’s mother said her son was killed because he was Black.

“There is no way to separate race from this case,” Malcolm Ruff, a civil rights attorney representing the Colson family, said during the news conference. Though their suit did not imply there was malice on Krauss’s part, it did allege that inadequate training for Prince George’s officers and a culture of permitting excessive force could have contributed to the alleged recklessness.

“There is a police problem in Prince George’s County,” Ruff said. “It is a pattern and practice that has been occurring for decades.”

The settlement in the Colsons’ civil suit was capped at $400,000, the maximum amount a claimant in Maryland can receive in damages from a government in state court.

The announcement came one week after a Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge found a different county officer, Cpl. Bryant Strong, guilty of misdemeanor assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office over a traffic stop that left a man paralyzed. The man’s family has filed a federal civil lawsuit in that case.

The county has shelled out millions of dollars in recent years for civil litigation related to the police department. In 2020, the county paid $20 million to the family of William Green, who was handcuffed behind his back and sitting in a police cruiser when he was shot six times and killedby Prince George’s officer Michael A. Owen Jr. Last year, after a years-long legal battle in federal court, the county paid a group of Black and Latino officers $2.3 million after they alleged that they experienced workplace discrimination and retaliation. That settlement, however, came after the county had spent more than $24 million on the legal fight.

County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) was the state’s attorney during the investigation into Colson’s death. Her communications director, Gina Ford, said in a statement Wednesday that the county has worked to improve the police department over the last two years through “meaningful reforms,” including appointing a reform-oriented police chief. Ford called the 2016 shootout “painful to the Colson family and members of the Prince George’s County Police Department.”

“While the County has disputed many of the allegations in this lawsuit,” Ford continued, “our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the family members and friends of Corporal Jacai Colson.”

In a separate statement, the police department called March 13, 2016, a “tragic day for our agency, our community, [Detective Colson’s] family and for everyone whose life he touched.”

“We will always remember his act of heroism and his ultimate sacrifice,” the department said.

Jacai Colson was killed March 13, 2016, when he was shot by a fellow officer during a gun battle. (AP)

The day of the shootout, Colson and other police officers swarmed the police station on Barlowe Road in Palmer Park, Md., after a man described over 911 calls as heavyset with dreadlocks opened fire on the police station, passing cars and officers. His two brothers recorded video on their cellphones of the shooting.

Colson, who was dressed in street clothes, got out of a car and fired 11 times at the suspect — later identified as Michael Deandre Ford — before he fell to the ground in the middle of Barlowe Road. Other officers disarmed and detained Ford while Colson ran to safety at a community center on the same street.

Krauss, who was in the police station parking lot, fired at Colson twice through a wooden fence and missed before firing a third time, fatally striking his fellow officer in the chest.

The civil lawsuit alleges that Colson had his badge in his hand and was shouting “Police! Police!” before he was killed.

Krauss, who couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Wednesday, later testified in Ford’s criminal trial that he did not hear Colson announce himself as an officer and did not realize he had shot his colleague until it was too late. He said he had worked with Colson in the narcotics division for seven months, that their desks were side by side and that they had socialized.

Krauss’s testimony in the 2018 trial was emotional, both for him and other officers in the courtroom, and he left the department two years later. He was cleared by a grand jury in the shooting.

Ford was convicted of second-degree murder in Colson’s death, even though he did not shoot him. Prosecutors argued that Ford’s attack on the police department started a chain of events that ultimately caused Colson’s killing.

Ford was sentenced to 195 years in prison.

Colson’s family announced the settlement in their civil case right outside the community center on Barlowe Road, where the young officer had run seeking safety.

That day, Sheila Colson said, will be “embedded in my heart for the rest of my life.”

“I will never, never get over it,” she said.

She and her husband expressed frustration with Alsobrooks and former police chief Hank Stawinski, whom they accused of not being “forthright” with evidence about the shootout. And while they take some solace in the settlement, which means they won’t be forced to relive that day during a civil trial, the Colsons said they still hope for further accountability.

“By no means is the Colson family finished,” James Colson said. “You best believe we aren’t going nowhere.”

Senate Confirms Black Man (Philip Jefferson) as Federal Reserve Board Governor

From [HERE] The Senate voted to confirm Philip Jefferson, an economist and administrator at Davidson College of North Carolina, to the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.

Mr. Jefferson, who was approved on a bipartisan 91-7 vote, is the third nominee of President Biden to win a seat on the central bank’s seven-person board of governors. The Senate confirmed economist Lisa Cook on Tuesday and Fed governor Lael Brainard as the central bank’s vice chairwoman last month.

With the confirmation of Mr. Jefferson, three of the six sitting Fed governors are now appointees of Mr. Biden, giving the president his stamp on the central bank and fulfilling promises made to improve the diversity of its top leadership. Mr. Jefferson and Ms. Cook are Black.

Next up will be a confirmation vote for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell set for Thursday. Senate Democrats scheduled votes on Mr. Biden’s three other Fed picks ahead of Mr. Powell, whose four-year term leading the central bank expired in February and who was reappointed by Mr. Biden last fall. [MORE]

Lisa Cook, a Black Economist, Becomes 1st Black Woman to Sit on Federal Reserve Board

From [HERE] The Senate voted to confirm Lisa Cook to the Federal Reserve, making her the first Black woman to sit on the central bank’s board.

Ms. Cook was approved Tuesday on a party-line vote, 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a tie. Ms. Cook is the second Fed nominee of President Biden to win Senate confirmation, following Fed governor Lael Brainard, who was approved as the central bank’s vice chairwoman last month. 

Ms. Cook’s confirmation Tuesday evening paves the way for lawmakers to confirm two additional picks this week, including Jerome Powell, whose four-year term as chairman expired in February. He has been serving in an acting capacity since then and is poised to win bipartisan support for a second term as chairman. Philip Jefferson, an economist at Davidson College, is a Fed board nominee who won unanimous support from the Senate Banking Committee in March. [MORE]

In Historic Ruling, Tech Firm, Clearview is Banned From Sharing Facial Recognition Data

From {HERE] A historic settlement filed in court on Monday highlighted the power of Illinois’ strong privacy law and will result in new nationwide restrictions on a controversial technology company infamous for selling access to the largest known database of facial images.

The deal permanently banning Clearview AI from providing most private entities with free or paid access to its database stems from a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and partners filed in 2020, arguing that the company violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

“This settlement is a big win for the most vulnerable people in Illinois,” declared Linda Xóchitl Tortolero, president and CEO of the Chicago-based nonprofit Mujeres Latinas en Acción, one of the plaintiffs in the case.”

“Much of our work centers on protecting privacy and ensuring the safety of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault,” she added. “Before this agreement, Clearview ignored the fact that biometric information can be misused to create dangerous situations and threats to their lives. Today that’s no longer the case.”

In addition to permanently banning Clearview from granting private companies and individuals access to the database, the settlement has some state-specific limits.

For the next five years, Clearview can’t allow private companies with exceptions under BIPA or state or local government entities in Illinois, including law enforcement, access to the database.

Under the settlement, Clearview will also maintain an opt-out request on its website for Illinoisans, end its free trials for individual police officers, and continue its efforts to remove photographs that were taken in or uploaded from the state.

As The New York Times reported:

“In a key exception, Clearview will still be able to provide its database to U.S. banks and financial institutions under a carve-out in the Illinois law. Hoan Ton-That, chief executive of Clearview AI, said the company did “not have plans” to provide the database “to entities besides government agencies at this time.

“The settlement does not mean that Clearview cannot sell any product to corporations. It will still be able to sell its facial recognition algorithm, without the database of 20 billion images, to companies. Its algorithm helps match people’s faces to any database that a customer provides.

“There are a number of other consent-based uses for Clearview’s technology that the company has the ability to market more broadly,” Mr. Ton-That said.”

Floyd Abrams, an attorney for Clearview, said the company was “pleased to put this litigation behind it.”

Meanwhile, lawyers representing the plaintiffs and other experts celebrated the settlement as a victory.

J. Eli Wade-Scott of Edelson PC — which recently obtained a $650 million settlement in a BIPA case with Facebook — noted that the case was part of a broader fight.

“There is a battle being fought in courtrooms and statehouses across the country about who is going to control biometrics — Big Tech or the people being tracked by them — and this represents one of the biggest victories for consumers to date,” he said.

Nathan Freed Wessler, a deputy director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said that “by requiring Clearview to comply with Illinois’ pathbreaking biometric privacy law not just in the state, but across the country, this settlement demonstrates that strong privacy laws can provide real protections against abuse.”

“Clearview can no longer treat people’s unique biometric identifiers as an unrestricted source of profit,” he said. “Other companies would be wise to take note, and other states should follow Illinois’ lead in enacting strong biometric privacy laws.”

Rebecca Glenberg, staff attorney for the ACLU of Illinois, echoed that advice for other states.

“Fourteen years ago, the ACLU of Illinois led the effort to enact BIPA — a groundbreaking statute to deal with the growing use of sensitive biometric information without any notice and without meaningful consent,” she said.

“BIPA was intended to curb exactly the kind of broad-based surveillance that Clearview’s app enables. Today’s agreement begins to ensure that Clearview complies with the law. This should be a strong signal to other state legislatures to adopt similar statutes.”

Dr. Peterson Pierre: COVID Injections are 'a Real Risk to Pregnancy and Pfizer and the FDA Knew It'

CDC Authorities Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Obeyed Useless COVID Shelter in Place Orders which Destroyed People's Livelihoods During Government's COVID Vax Dependency Promotion

From [HERE] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform an analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.

The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes.

Location data is information on a device’s location sourced from the phone, which can then show where a person lives, works and where they went. The sort of data the CDC bought was aggregated — meaning it was designed to follow trends that emerge from the movements of groups of people — but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns about how location data can be deanonymized and used to track specific people.

The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.

Court Denies NH Cop's Request for Qualified Immunity [law of the jungle status] after He Trolled, Searched and Seized a Truck Driver Washing His Truck at a Car Wash and Made Violent Unlawful Arrest

From [HERE] An Ossipee, New Hampshire police officer failed in his bid to have an excessive force and unlawful arrest complaint against him dismissed based on his contention he is entitled to qualified immunity protection.

A federal judge found police officer Tyler Eldridge did not establish that he is entitled to qualified immunity and denied Eldridge’s motion to dismiss. Rather, the judge found that the officer’s detention, search, handcuffing, arrest, use of force and incarceration of plaintiff Brian Pearson were unreasonable and unlawful.

According to U.S. District Judge Paul J. Barbadoro, Eldridge apparently failed to appreciate that the immunity analysis at the early pleadings stage before trial is based on the plaintiff’s recounting of events as described in the complaint —and those facts describing his arrest of truck driver Brian Pearson at a local car wash were not in his favor.

Pearson alleged that Eldridge detained him without sufficient justification and used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Facts Per Plaintiff

Late one summer night, Pearson drove his truck to a 24-hour car self-wash facility that offered self-serve vacuums and trash receptacles in a well-lit parking lot behind the car wash. Pearson parked next to one of the vacuums, took out some of his belongings and placed them on the ground nearby, and began cleaning the interior of his truck.

While Pearson was cleaning his truck, officer Eldridge sped into the parking lot, parked his police cruiser close to Pearson, and approached him. Eldridge immediately asked Pearson what he was “up to” and pointed to a baseball bat laying on the ground with Pearson’s other things. Pearson responded that he was cleaning his truck.

Eldridge then asked Pearson for some identification but before Pearson could get his driver’s license, Eldridge took out his handcuffs and told Pearson that he would conduct a pat-down search. When Pearson asked why, Eldridge told him to “relax.” After he handcuffed Pearson, Eldridge informed him that he was being detained because he was parked at the car wash late at night, had a lot of stuff around, was “animated,” and was not familiar to Eldridge. Pearson disputes that he was animated.

Eldridge then instructed Pearson to go to the police cruiser, lean against it, and spread his feet. After Pearson complied, Eldridge asked him for his name. Pearson did not respond at first, but he gave his full name when asked a second time. Eldridge then quickly gave Pearson the Miranda warnings. Immediately after, without provocation, Eldridge violently threw Pearson against the hood of the police cruiser. He held Pearson face-down on the hood, with his body weight on Pearson’s back and his hand on Pearson’s neck, until two other officers arrived on the scene a few minutes later. The encounter ended with Eldridge taking Pearson to a local jail under the pretext of taking him into protective custody.

Pearson eventually filed an action in state court, which Eldridge removed to federal court.

In his ruling, the judge explored the various stages of Pearson’s encounter with Eldridge.

Unreasonable Seizure

In what is known as a Terry stop, a police officer may stop and briefly detain an individual based on reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed, or is about to commit, a crime. The police may frisk a temporarily detained suspect if they have reason to believe the suspect may be armed and dangerous. Reasonable suspicion requires “specific and articulable facts” that would lead a reasonable police officer in the circumstances to suspect that criminal activity is afoot.

While a Terry stop requires only reasonable suspicion, taking someone into protective custody requires probable cause.

The judge concluded that the facts in the complaint establish that Eldridge conducted an unlawful Terry stop and frisk. Contrary to Eldridge’s suggestion, a reasonable officer in his position would not have suspected that Pearson was loitering at the time of the stop. There was no indication that Pearson had engaged or intended to engage in an activity that threatened public safety. Pearson was patronizing a business during its regular hours for the legitimate purpose of cleaning his vehicle.

The judge determined that the presence of a baseball bat, which Pearson had taken out of his truck with his other things and placed on the ground nearby before Eldridge arrived, was not enough to raise alarm. Under the circumstances, the only reasonable inference was that Pearson had taken his belongings out of his truck so that he could more easily clean the interior. Without more, a reasonable officer would not have believed that he needed to handcuff and frisk Pearson, the judge found.

Eldridge described Pearson as “animated” and told him to “relax.” But Pearson denied he was animated; instead, the complaint alleges that Eldridge’s assertion was a mere pretext for his actions.

Eldridge argued that he needed to ask Pearson twice for his name as evidence that Pearson had disobeyed a police officer. Pearson’s brief refusal to identify himself, however, came only after he was handcuffed. It, therefore, cannot provide justification for the Terry stop, the judge noted.

Accordingly, the judge concluded that qualified immunity cannot bar the claim that the Terry stop was illegal.

Protective Custody

Pearson also alleged that Eldridge violated his right to be free from unreasonable seizures when he took Pearson into protective custody. Eldridge argued that he had probable cause to believe that Pearson was intoxicated. Pearson alleges that Eldridge took him into protective custody under pretext and the judge found there were no facts from which a reasonable officer in Eldridge’s position could have believed that placing Pearson into protected custody was warranted.

A Fourth Amendment excessive force claim requires proof that “the defendant officer employed force that was unreasonable under the circumstances.” Courts must assess the reasonableness of a use of force “from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene” and must account “for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments — in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving — about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.”

Pearson was handcuffed and compliant when Eldridge suddenly and without provocation violently slammed him against the police cruiser and held him pinned in that position for several minutes. According to the decision. Pearson had committed no crime and showed no attempt to resist or flee when Eldridge used significant force to subdue him. “In those circumstances, a reasonable officer in Eldridge’s position ‘would have taken a more measured approach,” the judge wrote, concluding that Eldridge used excessive force against Pearson.

Crediting Pearson’s allegations and drawing all reasonable inferences in his favor, “the level of force chosen by the officer cannot in any way, shape, or form be justified,” which precluded the qualified immunity defense at this stage, the judge wrote.

The case is Brian Pearson v. Tyler Eldridge, Case No. 21-cv-567-PB Opinion No. 2022 DNH 039.

2 Oklahoma Cops are Charged with Manslaughter but Video Shows them Murder an Unarmed Black Man by Shooting Him 12X while His Hands were Up and After he Fell to the Ground [face minimum of 4 years]

First degree manslaughter in OK is a felony offense. The penalties include a minimum prison sentence of four years.

From [Pinac] Even after a cop shot Quadry Sanders four times as he was raising his arms in surrender, two officers continued to shoot him after he was on the ground still trying to raise his hands to comply with their orders.

“Hands! Hands! Hands!” Lawton police officer Robert Hinkle yelled, according to the body camera footage released Friday.

But when a wounded Sanders tried to raise his hands, Hinkle shot him an additional seven times, accusing him of “reaching.”

His partner, Lawton police officer Nathan Ronan, fired four times. The video captured him admitting to never seeing a gun in Sanders’ hands before a sergeant tells him to shush.

“Quit reaching! Quit reaching!” Hinkle yelled after firing seven shots.

“I’m down,” Sanders cried out in pain.

Seconds later, they were dragging him on the ground away from the doorway where he had walked out of before he had been shot, leaving a trail of blood. The 29-year-old man was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

On Friday, the Comanche District Attorney’s office announced that both cops were charged with first-degree manslaughter while releasing the body camera footage.

The incident took place on December 5, 2021 after police received a 911 call accusing Sanders of violating a protective order while waving a gun around.

However, no weapon was ever found at the scene and the only thing Sanders was holding was a baseball cap, according to the statement by district attorney’s office published by KSWO.

According to the Comanche County District Attorney’s office:

Officer Hinkle begins telling Mr. Sanders “hands, hands” as well as “down, down, down, down.” Mr. Sanders hands are clearly seen and the only item visible in his hands is a ball cap, which he transfers from his right hand to his left hand. As he is receiving these orders, Mr. Sanders quickly turns back towards the front door of the home.

Officers Hinkle and Ronan then walk closer to Mr. Sanders. As Hinkle approaches, Mr. Sanders can be seen raising both of his hands in the air, above his head. At that time, Officer Hinkle shoots his firearm four times at Mr. Sanders. Mr. Sanders falls to the ground and appears to have been shot, at which time Officer Hinkle once again orders “hands, hands, hands,” and to “quit reaching.” 

Mr. Sanders sits up from his back with his hands above his head at which time Officer Hinkle fires his firearm seven additional times. Simultaneously with these shots, Officer Ronan also fires his weapon at Mr. Sanders four times. Mr. Sanders is then secured by Officer Hinkle. On the way to Comanche County Memorial Hospital by ambulance, Quadry Sanders is pronounced dead. No weapon was located on Mr. Sanders’ body or in the area where he was shot.

An autopsy determined that Sanders was shot 12 times in the abdomen, groin, legs, arms and hand.

“It was just murder,” said attorney Lee Merritt who is representing the family of Sanders. “There was no justification.”

In January 2021, Hinkle shot and killed another man but was cleared by the district attorney’s office who said the man he killed, Zonterious Johnson, was wielding a gun, according to KSKO.

The two cops were fired in January after an internal affairs investigation. They remain free on a $250,000 bond, according to the Lawton Constitution. Their next court date is August 1.

Michigan Dems (Mayor, City Commissioners, Gov, AG, Senators, Reps) Have Done Nothing Except Maintain Master/Servant Relations Since a Black Man was Murdered by a Cop During a Traffic Stop a Month Ago

From [FINAL CALL] Family, friends, members of the local Black community, and others participating in the funeral of Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese refugee shot and killed by a Grand Rapids Police officer on the city’s Southeast side, want to know “what’s next” as mourning gives way to more questions.

After Patrick’s car was stopped over an alleged license tag problem, what should have been an exchange of documentation and the issuance of a ticket became what witnesses called an execution-style killing. Patrick was shot in the back of the head, by the police officer, as he laid face-down on the ground. The name of the officer was finally released days after protests and demands for transparency.

The officer involved in the April 4 shooting is Christopher Schurr said Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom in a statement released April 25.

“This killing and the news of it has brought to light the problem that has been existing within this city and this community for a long time,” said Student Minister Sultan Z. Muhammad, the Grand Rapids representative of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan. “Police have been mishandling, and in many cases abusing, their authority in their dealings with the Black community. But modern technology has allowed what was done in the dark to now be brought into the light,” he said.

Representing the family through an agonizingly difficult process of seeking justice for their eldest son and sibling, civil rights attorney Ben Crump has acknowledged  the city manager and the local police chief for allowing an investigation to move forward. But, he added, it is unclear as to what form justice will take and whether Patrick’s killing will lead to real change.

“Transparency is the first step to getting to the truth, and truth is the foundation for us to get to justice, justice for Patrick. When you think about what you witness in that video, you see a confused person in Patrick who never takes a violent act against the police officer,” Atty. Crump said prior to Patrick’s funeral, which was held April 22.

Local activists, such as lifelong Grand Rapids resident Jewellynne Richardson, known affectionately in the local community as “Mama Jewel,” said the city has a long history of police abuse against Black people. While protests and marches are good for directing attention to issues of injustice, they do not necessarily solve the deep and chronic problems of prejudice and racism embedded within the GRPD, she said.

(L) Rev. Al Sharpton delivers eulogy for Patrick Lyoya. Photo: William C. Muhammad (R) (President of the Bafuliru TribeR-L) Kent County Commissioner Robert S. Womack, Clifford Jones, Atty. Crump’s investigator, Atty. Ben Crump and unknown individual confer before funeral. Photo: William C. Muhammad

“I don’t know if I (would) give them credit for transparency, I would give them credit for blocking and stifling and putting in stumbling blocks,” Ms. Richardson told The Final Call. “For me, I’m very disappointed in the actions that they’re taking and what I see from here is that they’re just trying to let things settle down and go away. It’s a stall tactic,” she insisted.

Regarding the Lyoya family’s immediate needs, family spokesman and interpreter Israel Siku told The Final Call that Patrick helped to support his parents and siblings, frequently driving between Grand Rapids and Lansing, Mich. His loss as a beloved son and brother has been both tragic and devastating.

Reiterating the parents’ need to grieve while demanding justice for their son, Mr. Siku said it’s vitally important to keep bringing attention to Patrick’s killing but avoiding violence only plays into the hands of detractors and those seeking to delay or deny justice for Patrick and his family.

“The strongest thing that they have been asking (for) is to support them, but (to) keep pushing for justice without violence. That is the message the father has been conveying around from the beginning, and he wants Black Americans and African Americans to come together like one and to fight for this,” he explained.

A spokesman and leader of the West Michigan Congolese community, Pastor Ngandu Amisi, said in 64 years of his life, he never knew a five year period where the Congo didn’t experience fighting, causing many of his countrymen to seek refuge in other lands. He didn’t expect for a young man of their community to be shot down over an automobile license tag in Grand Rapids, Mich.

(L) Patrick Lyoya (R) Two of Patrick Lyoya’s siblings mourn their older brother. Photos: William C. Muhammad

During the funeral service he shared his appreciation for those supporting both the Lyoya family and the Congolese immigrant community by allowing the world to see their humanity and for supporting their calls for justice.

“To the Lyoya family, know that you are not alone as we seek justice for Patrick,” Pastor Amisi said before a capacity crowd of 1,000 people. “Justice for Patrick!” he cried out.

Democrats appear to be dominating politics in grand rapids. The Mayor Rosalynn Bliss and all the city commissioners are democrats. at the state level The GOVERNOR, LT GOVERNOR (a black rolebot) and the attorney general are democrats. ADDITIONALLY, Both representatives in the Michigan State House of Representatives are Democrats, and the city's State Senate seat was taken by a Democrat in 2018. ALSO ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL, ALTHOUGH The city is the center of the 3rd Congressional District, represented by Republican Peter Meijer, BOTH US SENATORS ARE DEMS AND In the eight most recent presidential elections, Democratic candidates Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden won a majority or plurality of votes in the city of Grand Rapids. THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS TO BLAME HERE, SO WHATS REALLY WRONG? IN WHAT WAYS are these democrats PROTECTING AND SERVING BLACK LIVES IF BLACK PEOPLE DON’T EVEN HAVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AND GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY BUSINESS WITHOUT COPS INTERFERING WITH THEIR RIGHTS OR TAKING THEIR LIFE WHENEVER THEY DESIRE? DO THE ABOVE PUPPETICIANS EVEN ELEVATE THE QUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP IN the FREE RANGE PRISON? WIll CHOOSING BETTER PUBLIC MASTERS, DEM OR REPUBLICAN, HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE SYSTEMS OF AUTHORITY OR RWS, or YOUR servant STATUS?

Policy, hypocrisy, and promises

Invited by the family to deliver a eulogy of advocacy and remembrance, Reverend Al Sharpton said the significance of Patrick’s April 4 killing, 54 years to the date of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, cannot be overlooked and that America’s call for Russian accountability, because of their brutality in Ukraine, makes it difficult to support elected officials who fail to demand likewise from police forces at home.

The civil rights leader spoke of the pain of Patrick’s killing and the anger over the police department’s initial refusal to identify the officer involved. Rev. Sharpton spoke before the name of the officer—whose name and photo was circulated on social media—was identified and released by the police department.

“I come to be with (Patrick’s father) and the mother and Patrick’s two children to tell you that this cannot end today,” Rev. Sharpton proclaimed to loud applause while explaining how he learned about Patrick’s killing during his national radio show. “To add insult to the injury, they’re telling this family that they will not release the name of the one responsible for this death (and) will not release the name until he is charged.”

“Every time a young Black man or woman is arrested in this town you put their name all over the news, every time we are suspected of something, you put our name out there,” Rev. Sharpton said. “How dare you hold (back) the name of a man that killed this man!”

Kent County Commissioner Robert S. Womack, the first to stand for the Lyoya family’s cry for justice and to organize for a high profile response, acknowledged those in the community following his lead and talked about how implicit bias in law enforcement can be fatal.

“As Rev. Sharpton said, and as Ben Crump said, this is bigger than Grand Rapids, this is how over-policing in African American communities in the United States of America has led to death from sea to shining sea!” Commissioner Womack exclaimed. “In Grand Rapids we have to play our part now. We just can’t have our leadership come out because Al Sharpton is in the house, we can’t just come out because Ben Crump is in the house, we need them on the frontline like the protesters have been on the frontline every day!” he said.

In a statement released by the Michigan State Police to WOOD TV 8, the agency said its Sixth District Special Investigation Section is continuing to investigate Patrick’s death and seeks to complete the probe in an efficient yet timely manner.  “Once detectives finalize their report, it will be forwarded to the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office for review. There is no timeline on when this will occur,” the statement said.  

The seriousness of what is clearly a continuing national crisis was described on the day of Patrick Lyoya’s funeral by Pan-African Community Action.

“Just days after Lyoya was murdered by Michigan police, Stockton, California police released body cam footage of them shooting 30 times into the vehicle of 54 year old Black grandmother, Tracy Gaeta, killing her instantly. This ongoing pattern of police murder is a blatant disregard for the lives of African people; state-sanctioned violence,” the statement said in part.

AZ Authorities Expedite Scheduled Murder of Clarence Dixon, a Blind, Disabled, Native American Man Found Legally Insane, but he Murdered a White Woman so Govt Ritual Sacrifice for Revenge Must Occur

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY

brutalitarianism – unofficial Corporate State police policy or political doctrine. (See: Statism & Death Penalty)

death penalty – legalized murder—the agents of Corporate State way of purifying the blood on its hands via ritual sacrifice to the New God Economy and the Greater System. The death penalty is looking for moral integrity in all the wrong places with all the wrong faces. (See: Capital Punishment, Corporate State, Eugenics, STRIP, Prison Industrial Complex, Prisons, Greater System, Commerce, Violence, Slavery, Mind Control, Death Row, CAPLAW & Texas)

From [EJI] and [DPIC] Arizona plans to execute Clarence Dixon, 66, on Wednesday, even though he is blind, physically frail, and has a documented history of severe mental illness. He is also a member of the Navajo Nation, which opposes the death penalty on cultural and religious grounds. Dixon had a documented history of severe mental illness before the 1978 murder of Deana Bowdoin, for which he was sentenced to death.

Mr. Dixon was sentenced to death in 2008 for a killing that happened 30 years earlier, while civil commitment proceedings were pending.

In 1977, Mr. Dixon was charged with assault for hitting a stranger with a metal pipe. He was diagnosed with severe depression and schizophrenia, adjudicated incompetent to stand trial, and sent to a state hospital for treatment, Slate reports. One of his doctors wrote, “I have a strong feeling that without presence of the mental disturbance, the act of violence would not have taken place.”

In January 1978, Mr. Dixon was found not guilty by reason of insanity by then-Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sandra Day O’Connor, who ordered prosecutors to keep him in custody until civil commitment proceedings could begin within 10 days, DPIC reports. Instead, he was released without any supervision or treatment.

Two days later, a college student was raped and murdered. In 2001, DNA testing linked Mr. Dixon to the crime and he was charged with capital murder. Mr. Dixon was allowed to fire his court-appointed lawyers and represent himself at his trial in 2008. His defense was based on his delusional belief that a government conspiracy was behind the charges. He was convicted and sentenced to death, and DPIC reports, he has continued to file numerous lawsuits and motions arguing this conspiracy theory.

Mr. Dixon’s jury never learned that he was legally insane at the time of the crime or about his lifelong history of severe mental illness, which started with severe depression and suicidal ideations as a young child, his legal team said.

Jurors likewise did not know that Clarence Dixon “grew up on a reservation in a home rife with trauma, dominated by his painkiller-addicted father’s vicious physical and emotional abuse of Dixon, his six siblings, and their mother,” advocates reported. “As a child, he also suffered from chronic neglect in a setting where he ate dog food as nourishment, and, at age 12, was left to walk several miles alone to a local hospital in order to be flown to Phoenix for critical heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect with which he still suffers.”

On April 8, Mr. Dixon’s lawyers filed a motion to stay his execution, arguing that he does not rationally understand the reason for his execution and therefore is incompetent to be executed under the Constitution. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich urged the court not to hold a competency hearing because it could delay Mr. Dixon’s scheduled execution.

The trial court held a hearing on May 3, where Mr. Dixon’s lawyers presented evidence of his schizophrenia and his documented history of delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations, and paranoid ideation. As DPIC reports, an experienced psychiatrist who had interviewed Mr. Dixon in person multiple times over the last 11 years testified that Mr. Dixon has schizophrenia, is delusional and irrational, and believes he is being executed because of a government conspiracy.

Prosecutors presented testimony from a former clinical psychologist who had never evaluated a person’s competency to be executed, never diagnosed or treated someone with schizophrenia, and never met Mr. Dixon in person. After speaking with Mr. Dixon by video for 70 minutes, he testified that he had deluded beliefs but was not delusional or incompetent to be executed, DPIC reports.

The court issued its opinion the same day, finding that Mr. Dixon “has a mental disorder or mental illness of schizophrenia” but that his mental state was not “so distorted by this mental illness that he lacks a rational understanding of the State’s rationale for his execution.”

Mr. Dixon’s attorneys appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, which denied review on Monday.

Arizona’s last execution was nearly eight years ago, when it killed Joseph Wood using a secret experimental drug protocol that took more than two hours. Witnesses reported that Mr. Wood gasped and snorted more than 600 times after being injected with 15 doses of midazolam and hydromorphone.

A 2017 settlement over Arizona’s lethal injection protocol bars prison staff from using expired chemicals in an execution, the AP explained. On Saturday, a federal judge declined to stay Mr. Dixon’s execution after prosecutors said the compounded sodium pentobarbital they plan to use would not expire until August.

Mr. Dixon’s attorneys argued that the drug actually expired in April. The judge scheduled a hearing on Monday to consider those arguments, according to Fox10 Phoenix.

“The state has had nearly a year to demonstrate that it will not be carrying out executions with expired drugs but has failed to do so,” Mr. Dixon’s attorney, Jennifer Moreno, said. “Under these circumstances, the execution of Mr. Dixon—a severely mentally ill, visually disabled, and physically frail member of the Navajo Nation—is unconscionable.”

Court Rules Cops who Arrested Man Over Parody Facebook Page have Qualified Immunity, Authorities Can't be Sued for Violating so-called "Free Speech" because They are Super Human (Over Humans)

From [HERE] Free speech and what’s known as “qualified immunity,” as well as “overcriminalization” – expansion of the criminal code in the US to address even minor problems in society – is at the heart of a case that started in 2016 with a short-lived parody page Anthony Novak had set up on Facebook.

Novak was subsequently arrested and spent several days in jail – much longer than the lifespan of his page critical of the police in Parma, Ohio – a page that was up only 12 hours.

In addition, the police confiscated his phone and computer. His “crime” was the humor he was using to express his opinions about the local law enforcement: posts like one “advertising” free abortions performed in a police van, and an “event” under the motto, “Pedophile Reform.”

Some Facebook users complained – about ten of them according to court records – but that was enough for the police to go to the trouble of getting three warrants: to arrest Novak, search his apartment, and deal with Facebook. The charge was “using a computer to hinder police duties,” an accusation based on little-known (and in this case, a court eventually found, invoked incorrectly) state law.

Novak eventually had a jury trial that resulted in his acquittal. But he then went on to sue the officers who arrested him for violating his constitutional rights. However, the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit did not support his claims.

Judge Amul Thapar found that while what Novak posted on Facebook was protected speech, the way he went about setting up his parody page did not qualify as that – because he used the same profile picture as the local police department and removed a comment saying this was not an official page. And “when the Department tried to clarify that Novak’s page was imitating its own, he copied the official page’s clarification post word for word,” said Thapar.

Nevertheless, the judge found that the officers did qualify for something called “qualified immunity” – a status stemming from lack of legal precedent that protects government officials who are accused of violating constitutional rights.

This last part of the ruling means that Novak was unable to have another jury trial and argue his case regarding the violation of free speech rights allegation.

We obtained a copy of the decision for you here.

COVID Shots are Killing People w/o Anyone Noticing. CDC Data Shows Record Numbers (1 Million) of Non-COVID, Excess Deaths Since the Plandemic Began (heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia, etc)

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, more than 1 million excess deaths — that is, deaths in excess of the historical average — have been recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago, and this cannot be explained by COVID-19. Deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia and many other illnesses rose during that time

• Across the world, death rates have also risen in tandem with COVID shot administration, with the most-jabbed areas surpassing the least-jabbed in terms of excess mortality and COVID-related deaths

• According to Walgreens data, during the week of April 19 through 25, 2022, 13% of unvaccinated persons tested positive for COVID. Of those who received two doses five months or more ago, 23.1% tested positive, and of those who received a third dose five months or more ago, the positive rate was 26.3%. So, after the first booster shot (the third dose), people are at greatest risk of testing positive for COVID

• U.K. government data show the all-cause mortality rate is between 100% and 300% greater among people who got their first COVID shot 21 days or more ago. The risk for all-cause death is also significantly elevated among those who got their second dose at least six months ago, and mildly elevated among those who got their third dose less than 21 days ago. As of January 2022, all who got one or more doses at least 21 days ago were dying at significantly elevated rates

• Other data also show that COVID mortality rates are far higher in areas with high vaccination rates, and risk-benefit analyses reveal the jabs do more harm than good in most age groups

FROM [MERCOLA -PDF] According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data(1), more than 1 million excess deaths — that is, deaths in excess of the historical average — have been recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago, and this cannot be explained by COVID-19.

Deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure, dementia and many other illnesses rose during that time.2 "We've never seen anything like it," Robert Anderson, CDC's head of mortality statistics, told The Washington Post in mid-February 2022.3

According to University of Warwick researchers, "the scale of excess non-COVID deaths is large enough for it to be seen as its own pandemic."4 A number of explanations have been offered, including the fact that lockdowns and other COVID restrictions discouraged or prevented people from seeking care. But another, less discussed factor may also be at play.

Across the world, death rates have risen in tandem with COVID shot administration, with the most-jabbed areas surpassing the least-jabbed in terms of excess mortality and COVID-related deaths. This flies in the face of official claims that the shots prevent severe COVID infection and lower your risk of death, be it from COVID or all causes.5

Boosted? You're Now at Highest Risk of COVID

Ever since the announcement that the COVID "vaccines" would be using novel mRNA gene transfer technology, I and many others have warned that this appears to be a very bad idea.

Numerous potential mechanisms for harm have been identified and detailed in previous articles, and we're now seeing some of our worst fears come to bear. "Fully vaccinated" individuals are both more likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 and more likely to die, whether from COVID or some other cause.

As reported by investigative journalist Jeffrey Jaxen in the April 22, 2022, Highwire video above, data from Walgreens' COVID-19 tracker6 reveal that COVID-jabbed individuals are testing positive for COVID at higher rates than the unjabbed. What's more, people who got their last shot five months or more ago have the highest risk.

As you can see in the screenshot below, during the week of April 19 through 25, 2022, 13% of unvaccinated tested positive for COVID (with Omicron being the predominant variant). (The data reviewed by Jaxen are from the week of April 10 through 16.)

Of those who received two doses five months or more ago, 23.1% tested positive, and of those who received a third dose five months or more ago, the positive rate was 26.3%. So, after the first booster shot (the third dose), people are at greatest risk of testing positive for COVID.

A deeper dive into the data7 reveals that two doses appear to have been protective for a short while, but after five months, it becomes net harmful. The group faring worst of all is the 12 to 17 cohort, where no one with one dose tested positive, but after the second dose, cases suddenly appear, and get higher still after five months. After the third dose, positive cases drop a bit, but then shoot up higher than ever after five months.8

Deaths by Vaccination Status in the UK

Data sets from the U.K. government reveal an equally disturbing trend. The raw data from the Office for National Statistics9 is difficult to interpret, so Jaxen had data analysts create a bar graph to better illustrate what the data actually tell us. A screenshot from Jaxen's report is below.

Bars going upward are a good thing, as it indicates the risk for all-cause mortality based on vaccination status is either normal or reduced. Bars that dip below zero percent are indicative of increased all-cause mortality, based on vaccination status.

As you can see, the all-cause mortality rate is between 100% and 300% greater among people who got their first dose 21 days or more ago. The risk for all-cause death is also significantly elevated among those who got their second dose at least six months ago, and mildly elevated among those who got their third dose less than 21 days ago. As of January 2022, all who got one or more doses at least 21 days ago were dying at significantly elevated rates.

More Jabs, More COVID Deaths

Everywhere we look, we find trends showing the COVID shots are resulting in higher death rates. Above is an animated illustration10 from Our World In Data, first showing the vaccination rates of South America, North America, Europe and Africa, from mid-December 2020 through the third week of April 2022, followed by the cumulative confirmed COVID deaths per million in those countries during that same timeframe.

Africa has had a consistently low vaccination rate throughout, while North America, Europe and South America all have had rapidly rising vaccination rates. Africa has also had a consistently low COVID mortality rate, although a slight rise began around September 2021. Still, it's nowhere near the COVID death rates of North America, South America and Europe, all of which saw dramatic increases.

Here's another one,11 also sourced from Our World In Data, first showing the excess death rate in the U.S. (the cumulative number of deaths from all causes compared to projections based on previous years), between January 26, 2020, and January 30, 2022, followed by an illustration of the tandem rise of vaccine doses administered and the excess mortality rate. It clearly shows that as vaccination rates rose, so did the excess mortality rate.

Risk-Benefit Analysis Condemns the COVID Jabs

At this point, we also have the benefit of more than one risk-benefit analysis, and all show that, with very few exceptions, the COVID jabs do more harm than good. For example, a risk-benefit analysis12by Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and independent researcher Kathy Dopp, published in mid-February 2022, concluded that the COVID jab is deadlier than COVID-19 itself for anyone under the age of 80.

They looked at publicly available official data from the U.S. and U.K. for all age groups, and compared all-cause mortality to the risk of dying from COVID-19. "All age groups under 50 years old are at greater risk of fatality after receiving a COVID-19 inoculation than an unvaccinated person is at risk of a COVID-19 death," Seneff and Dopp concluded. And for younger adults and children, there's no benefit, only risk.

"This analysis is conservative," the authors note, "because it ignores the fact that inoculation-induced adverse events such as thrombosis, myocarditis, Bell's palsy, and other vaccine-induced injuries can lead to shortened life span.

When one takes into consideration the fact that there is approximately a 90% decrease in risk of COVID-19 death if early treatment is provided to all symptomatic high-risk persons, one can only conclude that mandates of COVID-19 inoculations are ill-advised.

Considering the emergence of antibody-resistant variants like Delta and Omicron, for most age groups COVID-19 vaccine inoculations result in higher death rates than COVID-19 does for the unvaccinated."

The analysis is also conservative in the sense that it only considers COVID jab fatalities that occur within one month of injection. As demonstrated by the U.K. data above, the risk of all-cause death is nearly 300% greater for those who got a second dose at least six months ago.

Teens Are at Dramatic Risk of Death From the Jabs

Similarly, an analysis13 of data in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) by researchers Spiro Pantazatos and Herve Seligmann suggests that in those under age 18, the shots only increase the risk of death from COVID, and there's no point at which the shot can prevent a single COVID death, no matter how many are vaccinated.

If you're under 18, you're 51 times more likely to die from the COVID jab than you are to die from COVID if not vaccinated.

If you're under 18, you're a whopping 51 times more likely to die from the jab than you are to die from COVID if not vaccinated. In the 18 to 29 age range, the shot will kill 16 for every person it saves from dying from COVID, and in the 30 to 39 age range, the expected number of vaccine fatalities to prevent a single COVID death is 15.

Only when you get into the 60 and older categories do the risks between the jab and COVID infection even out. In the 60 to 69 age group, the shot will kill one person for every person it saves from dying of COVID, so it's a tossup as to whether it might be worth it for any given person.

How Many Are We Willing to Sacrifice?

We also have a risk-benefit analysis by researchers in Germany and The Netherlands. The analysis was initially published June 24, 2021, in the journal Vaccines.14 The paper caused an uproar among the editorial board, with some of them resigning in protest.15 In the end, the journal simply retracted it — a strategy that appears to have become norm.

After a thorough re-review, the paper was republished in the August 2021 issue of Science, Public Health Policy and the Law.16 The analysis found that, "very likely for three deaths prevented by vaccination we will have to accept that about two people die as a consequence of these vaccinations," the authors wrote in a Letter to the Editor17 of Clinical and Translational Discovery. Defending their work, they went on to note that:18

"The database we based our analysis on was a large naturalistic study of the BioNTech vaccine in Israel. This was the only study at the time that allowed for a direct estimation of an absolute risk reduction (ARR) in mortality.

Admittedly, the ARR estimate was only available for a short observation period of 4 weeks after the first vaccine dose, a point raised by critics. One might have wanted a longer observation period to bring out the benefit of vaccinations more clearly, and our estimate of a number needed to vaccinate (NNV) of 16 000 to prevent one death might have been overly conservative.

The recently published 6-month interim report of the BioNTech-regulatory clinical trial now covers a period long enough to let us look at this risk benefit ratio once again. In Table S4 of this publication, 14 deaths are reported in the placebo group (n = 21 921) and 15 in the vaccination group (n = 21 926).

Among them, two deaths in the placebo-group were attributed to COVID-19, and one in the vaccination group was attributed to COVID-19 pneumonia. This leads to an ARR = 4.56 × 10–5, and conversely to an NNV = 1/ARR = 21 916 to prevent one death by COVID-19. This shows that our original estimate was not so far off the mark.

The most recent safety report of the German Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) that covers all reported side effects since the vaccination campaign began (27 December 2020 until 30 November 202119 ... reports 0.02 deaths per 1000 BioNTech vaccinations or 2 per 100 000 vaccinations.

We had gleaned four mortality cases per 100 000 vaccinations (all vaccines) from the Dutch pharmacovigilance database LAREB. Using the data of Thomas et al., a liberal NNV = 20 000, we can calculate that by 100 000 vaccinations we save five lives.

Using the PEI pharmacovigilance report for the same product, we see that these 100 000 vaccinations are associated with two deaths, while using the LAREB database back in June 2021, they were associated with four deaths across all vaccines and are associated with two deaths in the most recent reports concerning the BioNTech vaccine ... In other words, as we vaccinate 100 000 persons, we might save five lives but risk two to four deaths."

The risk-benefit ratio may be even worse than that, though, as these calculations do not take into account the fact that passive pharmacovigilance data "are notorious for underestimating casualties and side effects," the authors note, or the fact that severe side effects such as myocarditis are affecting young males at a staggering rate, which can reduce lifespan in the longer term.

We Do Not Have a Functioning Pharmacovigilance System

In an August 2021 editorial, editor-in-chief of Science, Public Health Policy and the Law, James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., wrote:20

"There are two messages from those who hold appointed offices or other influential positions in Public Health on long-term vaccine safety.

The first message is that long-term randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trials are not necessary for the long-term study of vaccine safety because we have 'pharmacovigilance'; i.e. long- term post-market safety surveillance that is supported by widely accessible, passive vaccine adverse events tracking systems.

The second message is that any use of those very same vaccine adverse events tracking systems that leads to the inference or conclusion that vaccines might cause serious adverse events or death is unsupported by such systems ...

When those seeking support for public health initiatives, such as a new vaccination program, offer evidence that long-term vaccine safety studies are well in hand due to the possibility of detecting adverse events that happened following vaccination, they are either:

(a) unaware that the vaccine adverse events tracking systems upon which they are basing their confidence about society's ability to detect and track vaccine adverse events are alleged to be unable to be used to infer causal links between health outcomes and vaccination exposure, or:

(b) participating in a disinformation campaign to end scrutiny over the absence of properly controlled long-term randomized clinical trials to assess long- term vaccine safety. Neither of these is sufficient empirical basis for the knowledge claim of long- term safety ...

There must be room for disagreement in science; otherwise, science does not exist. It is sad to bear witness to the fact that science has degenerated into a war against unwanted and inconvenient results, conclusions and interpretations via the process of post-publication retraction for issues other than fraud, grave error in execution, and plagiarism.

The weaponization of the process of retraction of scientific studies is well underway, and it induces a bias that could be called "retraction bias", or, in the case in which a few persons haunt journals in search of studies that cast doubt on their commercial products, a 'ghouling bias,' which leads to biased systematic reviews and warped meta-analyses."

In his editorial, Lyons-Weiler specifically criticized the Vaccine journal for its retraction of the risk-benefit analysis cited above, and mocked the editorial board members who quit in protest, noting that "Rage-quitting is not science."

"The resigning editorial board members' knowledge claim is that no deaths have occurred due to the vaccination program. As helpful as that claim might be to a prescribed narrative, it is not based on empirical evidence, and it is, therefore, unwarranted," Lyons-Weiler wrote.21

"From a Popperian view of science, one can see the fatal flaw in the editorial board members' knowledge claim: if, as they insist, passive vaccine adverse events tracking systems cannot test the hypothesis of causality, then how can editorial board members, resigning or otherwise, know that the events were NOT caused by the vaccine? ...

It is logical to conclude that since passive vaccine adverse event tracking systems do not lend themselves well to testing hypotheses of causality, they do not provide the opportunity to design and conduct sufficiently critical tests of causality, and therefore a replacement system is needed ... one that is suitable to detect risk."

While we may indeed need better pharmacovigilance, there's really no doubt at this point that the COVID jabs are ill-advised for most people. I believe that in the years to come, people will look back at this time and vow to never repeat it. In the meantime, all we can do is look at and assess the data we do have, and make decisions accordingly.

- Sources and References

• 1 U.S. CDC, Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19

• 2 MarketWatch February 16, 2022

• 3 The Washington Post February 15, 2022

• 4 Studies in Microeconomics October 19, 2021

• 5 CDC MMWR October 29, 2021; 70(43): 1520-1524

• 6 Walgreens COVID-19 Index

• 7, 8 Bad Cattitude Substack April 15, 2022

• 9 ONS.gov.uk Deaths by Vaccination Status

• 10 Twitter TexasLindsay April 23, 2022

• 11 Twitter TexasLindsay April 25, 2022

• 12 COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality Data Analysis by Kathy Dopp and Stephanie Seneff (PDF)

• 13 COVID Vaccination and Age-Stratified All-Cause Mortality Risk (PDF)

• 14 Vaccines 2021; 9(7): 693

• 15 Science, Public Health Policy and the Law August 2021; 3: 81-86, page 82

• 16 Science, Public Health Policy and the Law August 2021; 3: 87-89

• 17, 18 Clinical and Translational Discovery February 25, 2022; 2(1): e35

• 19 Paul-Ehrich Institute December 23, 2021

• 20, 21 Science, Public Health Policy and the Law August 2021; 3: 81-86

Pandemic of the Vaccinated: Data from Walgreens shows that Double and Triple Vaxed People are at Higher Risk of Testing Positive for COVID

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.

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“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.