In Return for Not Paying Billions in Taxes, Nonprofit Hospitals are Required to Provide Community Benefits, Like Free/Discounted Care for Poor People. WSJ Analysis Found a Serious Lack of Generosity

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From [HERE] Nonprofit hospitals get billions of dollars in tax breaks in exchange for providing support to their communities. A Wall Street Journal analysis shows they are often not particularly generous.

These charitable organizations, which comprise the majority of hospitals in the U.S., wrote off in aggregate 2.3% of their patient revenue on financial aid for patients’ medical bills. Their for-profit competitors, a category including publicly traded giants such as HCA Healthcare Inc., wrote off 3.4%, the Journal found in an analysis of the most-recent annual reports hospitals file with the federal government.

Among nonprofits with the smallest shares of patient revenue going toward charity care—well under 1%—were high-profile institutions including the biggest hospitals of California’s Stanford Medicine and Louisiana’s Ochsner Health systems. At Avera Health, a major hospital system in South Dakota, charity care was roughly half of 1% of patient revenue across all its 18 hospitals.

“The financial assistance programs, the charity care that’s provided, are as important as the actual medical services,” said Ngozi Ezike, president and CEO of Sinai Chicago, which has two general hospitals that serve patients in west and south Chicago. The hospitals rank in the top 10% nationally for what they spend on financial aid as a share of their revenue. “We don’t want limited financial resources to mean limited lifespan,” Dr. Ezike said.

‘Charity care’

In return for not paying taxes, nonprofit hospitals are supposed to provide community benefits. The clearest form is free or discounted care for poor patients who otherwise couldn’t afford it, say many health-policy experts. Hospitals have traditionally described the cost of erasing, or writing off, bills as spending on “charity care.”

Federal law requires nonprofit hospitals to have policies to assist such patients. But federal guidelines allow them broad freedom to write and implement those policies and don’t require hospitals to meet any specific targets for financial-assistance totals.

The value of nonprofit hospitals’ subsidy from avoiding taxes is more than $60 billion a year, according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University professor Gerard Anderson.

Nonprofit hospitals say the national charity-care figures don’t provide a full picture, because some states expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, reducing the uninsured population and resulting in less need for free care. [MORE]

Dr Malone: Monkeypox or Moneypox? Monkey-Minded WHO Puppetician Overrules Panel, Unilaterally Declares Public Health Emergency [the Vested Interests Pulling His Strings are Law Unto Themselves]

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From [DR MALONE] In a move that is sure to trigger widespread discussion concerning the independence, objectivity and wisdom of granting authority to the World Health Organization (WHO) to manage global infectious diseases responses, the monkeypox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by WHO.

The declaration was made unilaterally, in direct contradiction to independent review panel advice, by WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Tedros made the declaration despite a lack of consensus among members of the WHO’s emergency committee on the monkeypox outbreak, and in so doing overruled his own review panel, who had voted 9 against and 6 for declaring the PHEIC.

Tedros asserted that this committee of experts, who met last week, was unable to reach a consensus, so it fell on him to decide whether to trigger the highest alert possible. Any objective outside observer would conclude that the committee failed to endorse moving to a PHEIC.

When a similar meeting was previously held on June 23, the committee resolved by consensus to advise the WHO director-general that at this stage the outbreak should be determined to not constitute a PHEIC.

An official United Nations article summarizing this can be found here. When the group met in June, the breakdown was 11 against and 3 for.

It is not clear what has changed in the intervening four weeks to justify the change in Tedros’ position, although comments from internet pundits (see below) raise concerns that the unilateral action was taken in response to pressure from special interest advocacy groups.

There has also been a sudden burst of coordinated social media posts raising concerns regarding monkeypox risks to children, which raises the question “if monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?”

Last week, the U.S. confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox in children, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said.

The CDC has said children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those at “especially increased risk” for severe monkeypox disease.

At a virtual event with the Washington Post on Friday focused on new coronavirus variants, Walensky stated:

“Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men’s community.”

Clearly, the WHO committee did not reach the desired decision to declare a PHEIC, and so for some extraordinary reason, Tedros stepped in.

Though the committee does not formally vote, a survey of the members revealed that nine thought a PHEIC should not be declared and six supported a declaration.

Tedros said in a news conference called to announce the decision:

“Nine and six is very, very close. Since the role of the committee is to advise, I then had to act as a tie-breaker.”

Tedros made the declaration despite a lack of consensus among members of the WHO’s emergency committee on the monkeypox outbreak. It’s the first time a leader of a United Nations health agency has made such a decision unilaterally.

In the event of a deadly disease outbreak, a group of WHO experts can declare a PHEIC to trigger global action.

Since the procedures to declare a PHEIC was implemented in 2005, the WHO has only done so six times. The last time the WHO declared an international emergency was in early 2020 for COVID-19.

The designation of a PHEIC is the WHO’s highest alert level. It is based on international health regulations established in 2005, to define countries’ rights and obligations in handling cross-border public health occurrences.

The WHO defines a PHEIC as “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response.”

The WHO further explains how this definition implies a situation that is serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected; carries implications for public health beyond an affected country’s border and may require immediate international action.

Tedros’ statements clearly demonstrate that he unilaterally substituted his own opinions for those of the convened panel, raising questions about his objectivity, commitment to process and protocol, and whether he has been unduly influenced by external agents.

Tedros stated:

“I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.

“WHO’s assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region where we assess the risk as high.

“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations.

“I know this has not been an easy or straightforward process and that there are divergent views among the members” of the committee.

“Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners. That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.”

As the outbreak continues to grow, epidemiologists are split as to whether the WHO’s decision was correct. The meeting was the second time the emergency committee convened, after a meeting on June 23 when it decided the outbreak had not met that threshold.

Dr. Jimmy Whitworth, a professor of international public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, stated:

“It is a tricky decision for the committee, in some senses, it meets the definition — it is an unprecedented outbreak widespread in many countries and would benefit from increased international coordination.

“On the other hand, it seems to be an infection for which we have the necessary tools for control; most cases are mild and the mortality rate is extremely low.”

The PHEIC designation comes from the International Health Regulations (IHR) created in 2005, and it represents an international “agreement” to help prevent and respond to public health risks that have the potential to spread around the globe.

The CDC describes the IHR regulations as:

“A legally binding agreement of 196 countries to build the capability to detect and report potential public health emergencies worldwide. IHR requires that all countries have the ability to detect, assess, report, and respond to public health events.”

These are the same IHR the Biden administration sought to further strengthen, but the attempt to implement proposed modifications was placed on hold after an international, multi-country outcry concerning the loss of national autonomy. The unilateral actions of Tedros in this current situation clearly demonstrate that these concerns were warranted.

Despite the statement by the CDC, the WHO IHR is not a treaty that has been endorsed by the U.S. Senate, and the assertion that these are legally binding has been challenged.

In an article supportive of the declaration, Vox provided a summary of the potential financial beneficiaries of this declaration; that being vaccine manufacturers and the holding companies who have invested in them.

Vox wrote:

The emergency ought to get countries to share vaccines. But it’s not guaranteed.

Vaccination plays a key role in controlling monkeypox transmission during an outbreak, and crucially, these vaccines already exist.

The COVID-19 pandemic taught the world some painful lessons about the importance of global coordination to ensure fast and equitable vaccine distribution. The PHEIC alarm bell hopefully will spur action so the same mistakes are not repeated.

A major reason global health experts have been anxious over the timeliness of a WHO emergency declaration for monkeypox is the declaration’s potential to get vaccines to the most vulnerable groups quickly.

Vaccines do exist to prevent monkeypox, and while many countries have a quantity of these vaccines on hand as part of their national stockpiles, U.S. demand has greatly outpaced supply, and the global supply of vaccines is relatively small.

Countries have been scrambling to order more vaccines, and while the producer of the most popular monkeypox vaccine has not disclosed which countries have put down orders, the nations that have announced vaccine purchases have generally been higher-income ones, like Germany, Britain and Canada.

That portends a pattern of vaccine inequity that unfolded to tragic effect during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, with poorer countries struggling to acquire vaccines and cut off from vaccine production efforts.

In his announcement of the WHO’s Emergency Committee’s plan to convene in June, WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge said following a more equitable blueprint for monkeypox vaccine distribution would be a key step in controlling the outbreak.

“A ‘me first’ approach could lead to damaging consequences down the road if we do not employ a genuinely collaborative and far-thinking approach,” Kluge said. “I beseech governments to tackle monkeypox without repeating the mistakes of the pandemic — and keeping equity at the heart of all we do.”

When the WHO declares an emergency, it also makes recommendations to affected countries, which often relate to vaccination strategies. This spurs countries to coordinate vaccine strategies to increase vaccine supply in less wealthy countries.

It can also spur donors to fund vaccination efforts that prioritize equitable access to vaccines. However, the WHO’s recommendations in the face of an emergency are ultimately just recommendations.

“There’s no way to enforce that globally,” Heymann said.

The ACT Accelerator, a collaboration to raise funds to distribute COVID-19 tests, therapies and vaccines to low-resource countries, was an attempt at an equitable solution in the pandemic.

However, in the eyes of many, it did not succeed. Public health experts are hopeful earlier action on monkeypox could avoid some of the ACT Accelerator’s pitfalls.

In its announcement today, WHO representatives said it was encouraging countries with large vaccine stockpiles to share and donate vaccines to other countries that do not currently have access to vaccines.

‘Monkeypox’ Appears to be Only Circulating in Countries where the Pfizer Injection has been distributed & is being used to advance a Technocratic Great Reset

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From [DAVIDICKE] Since around the middle of May 2022, you will have most likely heard or seen the word Monkeypox mentioned numerous times in the mainstream media. 

If you haven’t then you’re about to. 

This is because on Saturday 23rd July 2022, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros, overruled the World Health Organization to single-handedly declare the alleged monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. (Source)

Allegedly, for the first time since its discovery among humans in Africa over 50 years ago, the monkeypox virus is circulating throughout several countries including the USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia and most of Europe all at the same time.

But it just so happens that every single country where monkeypox is allegedly circulating is also a country that has distributed the Pfizer Covid-19 injection to its population; excluding some countries in Africa where the disease has been endemic for the past 50 or so years.

The World Health Organization has not received a single report of monkeypox from any country in the world where the Pfizer vaccine was not administered.

Why is this?

Well, it’s most definitely not because we’re witnessing what we will soon be told is a second pandemic to hit the world within the past two years.

It’s because we’re seeing the consequences of injecting millions of people with an experimental mRNA injection that causes untold damage to the immune system, and public health authorities are now scrambling to cover up Covid-19 vaccine-induced shingles and using it as an opportunity to advance their technocratic agenda of implementing ‘The Great Reset’.

Click on the below image and take a good long look to compare which countries have reported cases of monkeypox to the W.H.O. since May 2022, and which countries have distributed the Pfizer Covid-19 injection.

Video Shows Watsonville Police Punching a Latino Man on the Ground While Making an Arrest

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From [INDY BAY] A video posted to social media (see below) shows police in Watsonville suddenly pushing 39 year-old Antonio Zepeda to the ground and then punching him in the area of his head and neck while arresting him on July 19. Community members are calling for transparency and for police to release their bodycam footage of the incident.

On July 20, Watsonville Police issued the following statement on social media:

We are aware of a video circulating on social media depicting three Watsonville Police Officers using force on an individual during an arrest Tuesday night.

All cases involving any of our officers using force are thoroughly reviewed. This video has caused some concerns within our community and we would like to take a moment to provide additional context surrounding this case.

Here is what we are able to provide at this time:

▪️At about 6:28 p.m., officers were dispatched to a residence on the 400 block of Chappell Rd. for reports of a man who caused a disturbance, punched his brother in the head, and pushed his mother. The suspect left the scene before officers arrived.
▪️Less than an hour later, the suspect’s family once again called 9-1-1 to report the suspect was armed with a knife and attempting to get inside their home.
▪️Officers located the suspect and eventually arrested him.

Please note that the video circulating on social media gives a small glimpse of the officers’ interaction with the suspect. Any time there are serious concerns over our officers’ actions, we investigate and share as much information with you as possible.

Merriam-Webster Changes Dictionary Definition of ‘female’ to include ‘gender identity’

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From [HERE] The Merriam-Webster Dictionary now includes “gender identity” in the definition of female. The change, which apparently took place in 2020, became more widely known after conservative commentator Matt Walsh brought attention to it with a tweet he published on Tuesday.  

“It was bound to happen. Merriam-Webster has changed its dictionary definition of ‘female’ to appease the trans activists,” Walsh wrote. 

The venerable American dictionary, first published by Noah Webster in 1828 and purchased by Merriam Co. in 1843, now lists among the definitions of female “having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.” A similar change took place within the dictionary’s definition of “male,” with the entry now including “having a gender identity that is the opposite of female.” 

Merriam-Webster has a history of modifying definitions to fit leftist narratives. In October 2020, the dictionary changed the definition of “sexual preference,” to please homosexuals, stating that the term was “outdated” and “offensive.” The change followed a rant by Hawaii Democrat U.S. Senator Maisie Hirono against pro-lifers during Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings. The Supreme Court Justice had used the expression.  

Merriam-Webster also changed the definition of a “trans” woman that year, stating that a “trans” woman, or a gender confused man, is “an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.” The alteration came shortly after the dictionary changed the definition of racism; a young black woman had asked the company to make the dictionary definition reflect “a systematic oppression upon a group of people.” 

According to FUNKTIONARY:

gender – anatomical and chromosomic differentiation. Gender is a set of learned sexual behaviors or orientations that do not necessarily have to comport to one’s anatomical sex. Gender transcends or extends past sexuality when there are hormonal deficiencies or genetic crossfires. There is nothing immoral about sexual disorientation. The masculine\feminine relationship is of great import so that the individual can see in the complement sex what they have denied in themselves. Women are dressed but very few are clothed; with men it’s just the opposite: men are clothed but very rarely dressed. Our true Essence is pure Consciousness, which has no age or genital differences—and at the pinnacle of consciousness all duality disappears. However, be that at is may—or dismay others—we are living within the relative manifestation of 3-D matter reality, therefore we must play out our part (with our parts) in the “real” world of flesh, feelings, emotions and fluids. Now, it has been said that sex is universal and that gender is just spare parts, but I’ve never seen or heard of a vagina producing stinky farts. Until a rectum secretes juices like a vagina—I’ll stay steady and stick with (and to) factory-ready.

Though Blacks are Only 6% of San Francisco, the McNegro Mayor and Probot DA Seek to Place Them in Greater Confinement. Rehab/Housing/Policing/Black Lives Not Priorities to Their White Liberal Masters

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

McNegro – over one million sold-out. How can any neo-Negro sell out of anything that he does not own—other than merchandise? You have to own something to sell-out. (See: Negropolitan, BOHICAN, Eyeservant, $nigger & Sambo)

Negro – a nonexistent person. The word “Negro” is an adjective—and has only within the last century become used as a Noun. Since becoming used as a noun, it is a word to describe a man or woman of Afrikan descent living in pathological mental state of cultural abstinence and historical amnesia—one who wants to impress his or her oppressor while ignoring the effects and plight that his or her accommodationist posture inures. 2) a Hanky-head. 3) an indigenous-to-the-land (American) Afrikan who does everything in his or her power to suppress or pretend that he or she is other than someone of recent Afrikan descent. 4) ethnicitydenying, assimilated and confused formerly enslaved natives (largely indigenous to America) as well as the smaller percentage Afrikan captives kidnapped and brought to America in ships and chains. 5) one who truly believes he or she is white American— masquerading in black face. In the preface to “The Nigger Bible,” written by Robert H. decoy, the late social activist Dick Gregory, defines Negro as, “A state of a Nigger’s mind which describes how Caucasian and Christian he hopes to be.” ~The Nigger Bible. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s a Negro after all? (See: Nigger, Rentellectual, McNegro, $nigger, Coin-Operated, Double Consciousness, Sambo & Negropolitan)

From [HERE] Just two weeks after replacing San Francisco’s progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin, DA Brooke Jenkins is taking heat for a mass firing which many attorneys say is throwing the office into chaos. 

Civil rights attorney Arcelia Hurtado, among about 15 people fired from the interim DA’s office this past Friday, called Jenkins’ management a “disaster.” She said in a phone interview she was abruptly removed from managing the post-conviction unit — in the middle of the Napoleon Brown murder caseinvolving Mayor London Breed’s brother — without explanation or transition plans. 

She called this “the biggest red flag” because Jenkins was appointed by the mayor and seems to be following instructions. 

“I’ve been locked out of my computer, locked out of everything,” Hurtado said. “This is clearly a political move and she clearly lined up all of the senior management people Boudin hired and fired us all without cause.”

This week, Jenkins asked the state Attorney General’s office to take over Hurtado’s case to avoid any conflict of interest with the mayor. It’s just one piece of what city attorneys and the Public Defender’s Office say is the fallout of returning to failed war-on-drugs policies after a heavily funded recall — which blamed homelessness and the opioid crisis on the DA — that could harm many people. It is also being called a political backslide for San Francisco, recently poised as a progressive city for criminal justice reform while Breed positions herself as a centrist ally of frustrated voters.

Jenkins’ team fired critical Boudin staffers like data research director Mikaela Rabinowitz; the Independent Investigations Bureau attorney prosecuting cops, Lateef Gray; and assistant district attorney Dana Drusinsky, who helped resentence rehabilitated people. The DA installed new transition managers, including people Boudin fired like former assistant DA Ana Gonzalez, according to San Francisco Chronicle. 

Breed appears to have considerable influence over Jenkins’ office. Documents obtained by Mission Local show that the mayor’s office is intercepting press inquiries for Jenkins and providing media announcements for the DA to release, based on communications between DA spokesperson Robyn Burke and Breed’s deputy chief of staff Andrea Bruss. 

When contacted for comment, Breed’s office said the mayor has only been involved in the public events she attended with the DA, including the announcement of her appointment and her swearing in. The office said staff did not field press requests or send out announcements for Jenkins, and that they forwarded requests to members of the DA’s team.

“There has been no involvement on policy-making or decisions around cases,” Breed’s office said in an emailed statement.

Jenkins’ office did not respond to multiple requests for an interview to discuss changes in policy.

San Francisco Police Officers Association president Tracy McCray supports Jenkins’ actions. “After more than two years of having a criminal defense attorney occupy the district attorney’s office, we are hopeful that having an actual prosecutor in charge will result in criminals being held accountable and crime victims once again having a voice in our criminal justice system,” McCray said in a statement.

Tal Klement, who oversaw the felony and misdemeanor units, said by phone he was surprised to be fired after Jenkins promised there would not be mass firings of Boudin hires. He said he is concerned about Jenkins’ replacements, including law enforcement officials and traditional prosecutors who may prefer stricter penalties for people accused of crimes.

“I worry about a return to the policies of mass incarceration and tough on crime type approaches to addressing social problems,” he said. “I’m particularly concerned about the reinstituion of gang enhancements that have historically targeted young Black and brown people and led to racial profiling and lack of trust between the police and those communities.” [MORE]

Police Unions in "Very Liberal" Boston File Suit to Roll Back Limits on the Use Tear Gas, Pepper Spray and Crowd Control Methods and Seek to Invalidate an Independent Board Created to Probe Misconduct

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According to Best Places, “The Political Climate in Boston, MA is Very liberal.

Suffolk County, MA is Very liberal. In Suffolk County, MA 80.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 17.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, Suffolk county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 80.6% to 17.5%. 
Suffolk county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.”

From [HERE] Two police unions in Boston want to roll back limits on when they can use tear gas, pepper spray and other less-than-lethal crowd control methods, which the City Council implemented last year.

The two unions are asking a judge to rule on whether the City Council ordinance is valid and enforceable, and also on the validity of an independent board to probe allegations of police misconduct created in January. The Boston Police Superior Officers Federation and the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society filed the suit Monday in Suffolk County Superior Court.

The ordinance came about after Boston police were criticized for some of their crowd control measures during a June 2020 protest, amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

The unions say the use-of-force rules are based on politics and put public safety at risk.

“By eliminating our officers’ ability to use less than lethal force, City Council themselves are forcing escalation of incidents with their irresponsible and poorly researched policies,” the unions said in a statement.

The ordinance puts limits on — but does not eliminate — the use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and beanbag rounds by law enforcement agents operating in Boston.

Instead, under the ordinance, an on-scene police supervisor of the rank of deputy superintendent or higher must personally witness ongoing violence or property destruction and determine there are no reasonable methods of de-escalation that could succeed. The same supervisor must give two separate warnings at least two minutes apart announcing the group must disperse, saying which weapon will be used and ensuring the group has a way to exit.

Mayor Michelle Wu, City Council President Ed Flynn and Boston Police Department Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long are named as defendants. A spokesperson for the mayor said the city had no comment.

Wu last week named a new police commissioner, but he’s not taking over until next month.

The police unions’ suit also asks the court to rule on the validity of the city’s Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, which was created in December 2020 and allows citizens with complaints against police officers to appeal to an oversight panel, even if the police department’s own internal affairs unit determines the complaint is unfounded.

The lawsuit contends that under state law, city law enforcement policy decisions rest with the commissioner, and there are legal precedents for courts declaring city council-imposed rules to be invalid.

"He Appeared to Turn Toward Me" is Cop Mantra (pretense for murder of Blacks/Latinos): No Accountability from Liberal Authorities After a White Chicago Cop Fatally Shot Anthony Alvarez in the Back

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From [HERE] The white Chicago cop who shot and killed Anthony Alvarez during a foot chase last year was suspended Thursday for 20 days after Supt. David Brown successfully beat back a recommendation from the city’s police oversight agency that sought his dismissal. Brown is a Black Strawboss.

Officer Evan Solano fired five shots as he pursued Alvarez through the Portage Park neighborhood early on March 31, 2021, striking the 22-year-old in the back and thigh after he ignored orders to drop a handgun. The cop claimed that he appeared to turn his body. Alvarez’s death came just two days after 13-year-old Adam Toledo was fatally shot by Officer Eric Stillman during another foot chase in Little Village.

The shootings prompted outrage and pushed department leaders to urgently develop its first foot-pursuit policy. Despite the scrutiny, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced in March that her office found no evidence to support criminal charges against the officers involved in either shooting. Foxx is also a Black Strawboss working on behalf of the system of racism white supremacy.

Solano’s case is the first to be heard by the Chicago Police Board, which decides serious disciplinary matters. 

Board member Steven Block wrote in a 31-page ruling that Solano’s use of force was “objectively reasonable, necessary, and proportional in order to ensure his own safety and the safety of his partner.” He announced his findings during Thursday’s board meeting.

Block was tapped to decide whether to uphold Brown’s recommendation to suspend Solano for 20 days or to set in motion disciplinary proceedings that could lead to his dismissal, as was recommended by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. COPA held that Solano broke six departmental rules, including for disregarding his training for starting and continuing foot pursuits and violating a general order dealing with officers’ use of force.

But Block said the evidence supporting those allegations was “legally insufficient” and noted that Solano’s actions were “objectively reasonable based on the totality of the circumstances.” The only allegations against Solano that were sustained stemmed from his failure to activate his body-worn camera in a timely manner, properly load his gun and notify dispatchers of the pursuit.

Solano’s partner, Sammy Encarnacion, was also handed down a 20-day suspension for violating those same rules. His other charges, for improperly starting and continuing the chase, weren’t sustained.

Alvarez’s family said they were “appalled” by Block’s ruling, which they claimed “marks a continuation of the City of Chicago’s complicity in a loss of human life due to CPD’s decadeslong failure to enact a meaningful foot-pursuit policy.”

“Today’s decision is not only a gut-punch to the Alvarez family, but it perpetuates the message that encounters with the Chicago Police Department remain potentially lethal,” the family said. “As is too often the case, it is our Communities of Color that are most vulnerable to victimization during these encounters.”

During Thursday’s meeting, Andrea Kersten, COPA’s chief administrator, said her agency stands by its “thorough investigation, its analysis and findings.” She called for a full evidentiary hearing for every incident that “results in the death of someone at the hands of law enforcement.”

“This is not about winning or losing, but facts, evidence and testimony being presented to the full police board before a final decision is determined,” she said. “We respect the process but strongly disagree with the final decision put forth by the one-member review.”

During the pursuit, Solano claimed he saw Alvarez holding a gun in the 5200 block of West Eddy Street and ordered him to drop it. Then Solano opened fire.

Solano told COPA investigators he opened fire after Alvarez looked over his shoulder, fearing Alvarez was turning around to shoot him and his partner. Video surveillance footage showed Alvarez was holding a gun in front of him when the shots rang out, Block said. [whether he posed a threat is not even part of the analysis here by these white “journalists” drunk off racism white supremacy (mind blocked by a mind-virus). They simply seek to justify murder and uphold authority regardless of the circumstances - observe whenever they write and talk about incidents involving non-white people harmed by cops. White prosecutors and the white media (and their Black servant rolebots) are especially ager and programmed to believe anything foul cops say about Latinos and Blacks.  Why would a cop make anything up? Because they will believe it. They want to be deceived and will rationalize away to justify their projections]

“The Alvarez family will continue to seek justice for Anthony and other young Black and Brown men who have been killed by police officers due to CPD’s failure to implement a meaningful foot-pursuit policy,” the family said, “and to allow undisciplined and unqualified police officers to remain on the force.”

They said Block’s decision is “particularly galling” given that Solano was later caught on video brandishing a gun during a road rage incident in Logan Square in May 2021, as Block Club Chicago first reported. [MORE]

White Cop Went Too Far with Imposing Rulership During Arrest, So a Disobedient Black Man Beat the 18-Wheeler Brakes Off Him, Terrance Crawford Style

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

disobedience – thinking for oneself—deciding for oneself what to do and not to do. 2) the refusal of services of those in power—to deny their alleged authority over you. The Beast allows you to be disobedient or ignorant but not both. Disobedience is the only crime—all others are offshoots. (See: Prometheus, Rights, Thinking, Thought & Rebel)

disobedient – master over one’s thoughts and acting on same relative to the dominating recidivism of authoritarian culture.

Force – the source or sources of all possible actions of the particles or materials of the universe(s). 2) the manipulation of a man or woman in disregard of its own volition or nature. 3) the use of an outside physical coercion of any kind by one or more humanoids against another or others in order to make him/her or them obedient and compliant to his/her or their will. 4) the basis of all social evils and can only be used in the sense of attack not defense. 5) You must! In the way I say! 6) the social disease. “Force (coercion) and fraud are the foundation of all social systems and the source of the aroma which they exhale.” ~Max Nomad. “Force” operates to remove personal volition from opportunity to act or not act. Someone “makes” you behave in a certain way by threatening to injure or enslave you, someone you love, or something you prize, if you do not behave in that way. Force operates to obtain an intended behavior when the forced party would otherwise have exhibited a different behavior. Punishment, pain, suffering, and discomfort characterize force. Unfortunately, governments only function by misuse of force—mistreatment, duress and coercion. Once established, they put laws into effect by threatening persecution, imprisonment, fine, or death against all who don’t comply with those laws—including the use of the force continuum. “That which is imposed by force is sooner or later deposed by force.” ~ Mikhail Naimy. In reality, force is neutral, it is how it is applied that colors its action. The greatest and highest force in the universe is love unfolding in each moment. (See: Government, Autonomy, Justice, Fiction, Fraud, Corporate State, Freedom, Forgery, Racism White Supremacy, Religion, Authority, Violence, Coercion, Deception, Language, Force Continuum, Capital Punishment & Gerp)

Can You Accidentally Lift and Slam a Person Head First Into the Concrete? Despite Finding a White PG County Cop Not Credible, a Black Judge Gave Him Only 1 Yr for Paralyzing a Black Man During Arrest

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From [HERE] and [MORE] Prince George’s County police officer Bryant Strong was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail followed by three years of probation for his actions during a traffic stop in 2019 that left Demonte Ward-Blake paralyzed from the neck down. He faced 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.

Strong, 29, was found guilty in May of second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment during a bench trial before Circuit Court Judge DaNeeka V. Cotton, a “black” judge.

At Strong’s sentencing hearing Thursday, the courtroom was packed with about 50 people, many of them police employees there to support him and his right to harm and kill citizens at will. Three Prince George’s officers who had worked alongside Strong and developed friendships with him over the years spoke on his behalf, saying he is collegial, has a strong work ethic and is dedicated to his family and young son when he is not committing crimes against citizens.

Thursday, Judge Circuit Court Judge DaNeeka V. Cotton sentenced Strong to a total of 20 years, with all but one of them suspended, as long as he doesn’t violate his probation.  His attorney’s request to delay the start of incarceration pending appeal was denied, as was the request for home detention.

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.”

Civil rights attorney Malcolm Ruff spoke on behalf of Ward-Blake’s family, whom he is representing in a federal civil lawsuit against the county and Strong. Ruff told the judge that Ward-Blake was a loved and gregarious 24-year-old before the traffic stop, but his paralysis forced him into a wheelchair and caused agonizing pain. Ward-Blake died in a 2020 District Heights shooting. But, his family alleges his prior injuries contributed to his death. 

The Ward-Blake family is still pursuing a $75 million civil suit against Bryant Strong and Prince George’s county. The suit addresses a systemic pattern of police brutality in Prince George’s County.

Ward-Blake’s mother, Rena Ward, bowed her head as she listened in the courtroom beside community organizers and other women impacted by police violence. Ward said she was disappointed Strong hadn’t been given more jail time but that she had to “give it up to God.”

Judge Cotton did not, however, take into account Strong’s history of using force with others. Prosecutors presented evidence during the hearing about a previously undisclosed incident from November 2018 — one year before Ward-Blake was paralyzed — when Strong wrongfully detained someone who matched a robbery suspect description. The man, prosecutors said, protested the arrest. Strong took him to the ground, cuffed him and hit him several times, an action the police department’s internal investigation later found excessive.

Prosecutors argued this showed a pattern of behavior that the judge should consider before sentencing Strong. But Cotton disagreed, saying the matter was administrative, not criminal, and therefore irrelevant. [sounds incompetent. MLK warned: an effective way racists practice racism is by handling matters of great importance to Black people with frivolity; this can be carried out through the placement of unskilled, mediocre Black people in positions of great responsibility such as judges and officials in other areas of people activity.]

Strong’s police powers remain suspended until the police department’s internal affairs office completes its own investigation into the traffic stop.

Mother Accuses Argentinian Government of Murdering Her 3-Year-Old Girl: 'Son of a Bitches Forced Us To Get Vaccinated.' Healthy Child Died 1 Day After Injection

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From [HERE] A three-year-old healthy little girl, Ambar Maite Catán, died after being forced by the Argentinian government to be “vaccinated.” Ambar’s distraught mother, Miryam, recounted the heartbreaking story of her daughter’s senseless death in a television interview. The mother not only holds the government responsible for “killing” her child but vowed to fight the government to protect other children from receiving the dangerous and deadly experimental Covid injections. 

The little girl passed away on Thursday, December 16, 2021, but her story, like many who died following the covid injections, went unreported by the U.S. left-wing news. The day after Ambar passed away, the mother told reporters that her 3-year-old girl died from the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine required for her to enter kindergarten. Argentina approved the vaccine for children between three and eleven in October 2021. 

On Wednesday, the perfectly healthy child received her first controversial Covid vaccine injection at the Hippodrome [Covid vaccination hub], and then the next day, she dropped dead. 

Yesterday between 10 and 11 am, I took my daughter to the Hipodromo [vaccination hub] to get her vaccinated. Because, well, they were vaccinating children aged three and up. 

I had pre-enrolled her in the school. So she would start kindergarten this coming year, where you need to be vaccinated. She was healthy; she was fine. She was not ill at all; she had no Covid, she had nothing. 

She had Covid last year, and she was hospitalized. She was hospitalized at the San Lucas Hospital for five days. She had already had Covid; I am not getting why 

Today my daughter got up, and she was really fine. She hung out with her friends. And in the afternoon, she collapsed and she fainted. I can’t believe it. 

Miryam blames the government for requiring Covid vaccines: 

They tell us to get vaccinated repeatedly. They tell us to get our children vaccinated repeatedly. I know it is the vaccine that made my 3-year-old daughter die. It did because my daughter was a healthy child. 

That son of a bitch government forces us to get vaccinated. They made my 3-year-old baby die. She was really healthy. She had no pathology; she was not a sick child. She was a healthy child.

In addition, Miryam explained how the events happened the morning her child died: 

This morning she got up as usual, like every day. She had breakfast and played with me. She told me: “Mom, I am going to play with my friends.” I told her: “Play right here in the garden, in front of the door.”She was playing with the other girls. 

Then I went out for a moment, 10 or 15 minutes. I found my daughter dead. I can’t believe it.

The mother repeatedly emphasized that Ámbar was healthy:

She did not have a fever. I asked her whether she did, because yesterday I got him [Ambar’s brother] vaccinated too, he is 14 years old. 

I asked her: “Ambar, does your arm hurt?” “No, mom!” 

Whereas his arm did hurt, and mine did too because I got vaccinated too. I got the second jab. 

She said: “No, mom, I am fine.”It was her first jab. 

Although, according to an autopsy carried out by the government, the girl had “heart disease and a long-standing lung infection.” However, the mom said her daughter was healthy and not sick. 

Ambar’s mom does not want another family to suffer the tremendous pain and loss she is experiencing. She vows to fight not to allow the government to ‘kill” another child: 

I will fight to the end. I don’t want other Ambars to die. But, because I don’t want this to happen to other children, as it happened to my daughter, the government here in Tucuman demands that everyone be vaccinated to be allowed to do anything. So they kill our children.

Argentina Wants All Children ‘Vaccinated’

Argentina moved aggressively last year to vaccinate every child over three by the end of 2021. “Argentina will finish 2021 with the full coverage and protection of people over three years,” vowed health minister Carla Vizzotti last October.

According to Life Site News, Children and teenagers face virtually no risk of death or serious illness from COVID-19. According to the American Pediatric Association, 0-0.03 percent of COVID cases in the United States under age 18 have resulted in death. In addition, the survival rate for coronavirus has been estimated at no lower than 99.7 percent for all age groups under 60 years old.

"We are Being Lied to." A Group of New Zealand Doctors Calls for Criminal Investigations into COVID Injection Deaths. 'The Shots are Not Vaccines because They Don't Prevent Disease or Spread'

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From [HERE] The group New Zealand Doctors Speaking out With Science (NZDSOS) has published an open letter calling for a comprehensive investigation into the wave of deaths occurring in New Zealand among the “fully vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).

A redacted version is available for the public to read, while an unredacted version is still being carefully prepared for law enforcement to ensure it contains all of the necessary information for a proper investigation to be conducted.

According to the group, there is a “shockingly large burden of deaths and injuries following the Covid-19 vaccine, of itself and compared to any other treatment or vaccine in modern times.”

“We report many cases that DEMAND proper investigation, as befits any medication lacking safety studies,” the letter’s executive summary further states.

NZDSOS says the country’s surveillance systems, which would otherwise catch these injuries and deaths, have been disabled “in order to hide the extent of harm.”

“Adverse event reporting is NOT COMPULSORY, and this alone undermines any attempt to portray the injections as safe,” the group further explains.

“CARM (New Zealand’s version of the U.S.-based Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) was never designed to early warn about experimental drugs rolled out to massive numbers.”

Post-covid injection deaths are the elephant in the room that nobody wants to address

Perhaps most concerning are the large numbers of young children who after getting shot are suffering cardiac injuries that used to only occur among the elderly – though many elderly people have mysteriously died post-jab as well.

Seeing as how children have a zero percent risk of dying from covid, let alone getting sick from it in the first place, jabbing them is arguably the worst crime against humanity that has occurred in modern times.

“We believe we are being lied to,” says NZDSOS. “We appeal AGAIN to the Police, headed by Andrew Coster, and our MPs (members of parliament), to intervene to protect the People.

Halfway through the letter, a long list of cases is presented showing that post-injection injuries and deaths are anything but “rare.” They are disturbingly and obviously common when looking at the data, though few are brave enough to actually look.

A summary of some 500 post-injection deaths is included in the letter, as recorded in the Citizen’s Database. A community group of volunteers with backgrounds in healthcare, information technology and science help to maintain it with the support of epidemiology and database professionals.

“It has been built mainly from notifications by relatives, friends and health workers of people who have died following the covid-19 shots,” the letter explains.

“Scientific accuracy forbids the use of the word ‘vaccine,’ since it does not prevent the disease nor its transmission. Some information has been gleaned from social media posts, newspaper reports and obituaries. Has anyone noticed how many there are? ‘Taken too soon,’ ‘sudden and unexpected’ adorn the pages.”

Because the so-called “authorities” refuse to even look into the situation at all is a huge red flag all on its own. If the jabs really are “safe and effective” as claimed, then there should be no problem looking through each case in order to debunk it as unrelated to the injections, right?

This is the elephant in the room that almost nobody in any position of power is willing to address, and NZDSOS is demanding once again that someone step up to the plate and take the matter seriously on behalf of public health.

“Whatever the actual truth, NZDSOS and many others are certain that the true number of dead and injured people is very elevated, and not made clear to the public, who thus continue to sleepwalk into a treatment that is much more dangerous than the disease it purports to prevent, especially for the young,” the group says.