Pfizer found to have covered up injuries and deaths of study participants in their clinical COVID Injection trials

From [HERE] During the rushed clinical trials for Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, study participants were injured and killed. Instead of halting the experiment at once, Pfizer tried to cover up the adverse events by unblinding the study and removing the patients who were injured and killed. A German publication, Die Welt, has uncovered the stories of patients who were seriously injured and killed by Pfizer’s fraudulent clinical trials. Remember, Pfizer and the FDA wanted to cover up these stories for 75 years, but were forced to release clinical trial data via court order.

Pfizer forced study participants to sign liability waiver, pardoning Pfizer for fraud

When subjects lined up for the clinical trials, they were forced to sign a liability waiver holding Pfizer harmless for negligence and for “fraud or bad faith on the part of Pfizer itself.” These sadistic Pfizer contracts could be null and void because provable fraud vitiates all contracts and violates public policy by encouraging FRAUD. However, individuals injured during the clinical trials were removed from the scientific literature and intimidated into silence. Their injuries were considered “not from the vaccine.”

On August 31, 2020, the test management company for Pfizer unblinded 53 subjects from the clinical trial at their Buenos Aires test center. These subjects were told of their vaccination status and allowed to get jabbed, destroying the control group and covering up the disparity of symptoms observed in the vaccinated subjects. These acts of malicious fraud paved the way for Pfizer to blatantly cover up the deaths of study participants.

Serial homicide cannot be swept under the rug forever

Pfizer Subject C4591001 1162 11621327 was a 60-year-old man who died of arteriosclerosis three days after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer covid vaccine. Even though autopsy results were not available and relevant tests were unknown, the medical examiner claimed that the death was from “progression of atherosclerotic disease.” Pfizer concurred with the medical examiner and no investigation was initiated to find out why the recently vaccinated man died, and died so suddenly at that.

Pfizer subject 11621327 suffered from a stroke just three days after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer covid vaccine. He was found dead in his apartment.

Pfizer subject 11521497 suffered from cardiac arrest just twenty days after vaccination. Pfizer conducted an internal investigation and ruled that the deaths had nothing to do with their vaccine.

Not everyone agreed with Pfizer in these cases. “According to the current state of science, these two cases would be assigned to the vaccination,” said Berlin pharmaceutical specialist Susanne Wagner, “especially since the US health authority CDC is currently investigating strokes in vaccinated people and it is known.”

A 36-year-old lawyer from Argentina, Augusto Roux, signed up for the clinical trials. He came down with burning chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, and fever immediately after returning home from his second dose of the Pfizer covid jab. During the initial 40-minute observation period, Roux was fine, but on his way home, the symptoms took him off guard. At the hospital, doctors had to remove fluid that had formed around his heart. He suffered from a pericardial effusion, and his urine turned black. In the discharge report, doctors described the situation as a high probability of an “adverse reaction to the coronavirus vaccine.” Roux spent the next few months dealing with irregular heart beat, liver problems, and sudden weight loss.

Pfizer ultimately lied about Roux’s life-threatening vaccine injury, and did not include an honest report about his injury in the clinical trial reports. Pfizer described the situation as an “adverse event of toxicity level 1” that had nothing to do with the vaccine, because a covid infection could not be ruled out. Granted, Roux tested negative multiple times for covid while he was suffering through the vaccine injuries.

Due to Pfizer’s blatant acts of fraud, deception, and their repeated attempts to unblind their trial and obscure the data, the pharmaceutical company could have all their contracts revoked — their self-imposed liability protections shredded. Everyone involved in these acts of medical malfeasance must be held accountable.

Pfizer’s Clinical Trial Had More Deaths After Vaccination than Placebo

From [HERE] Clinical trials are supposed to be statistical comparisons. They are designed to compare the outcomes in the group receiving a novel product with the outcomes in the group receiving a placebo. The resulting statistics are then used to decide if the product is safe and effective.

This statistical approach also makes sense for new products. This is because, with a novel product, we don’t know how it affects the human body. So, to avoid bias or speculation, a cold, hard statistical comparison is deployed.

This is why, if more people died in the vaccinated group than in the placebo group in Pfizer’s clinical trial, the FDA should have pulled the plug on this product.

Yet, when more people died in the trial after vaccination than after placebo, did the FDA pull the trial? Nope. Instead, it let Pfizer explain away the deaths.

More Deaths in Vaccinated Group Compared to Placebo Group

In July of 2021, a study published by Pfizer explained that “during the blinded, placebo-controlled period, 15 participants in the [Pfizer vaccine] BNT162b2 group and 14 in the placebo group died.” Using FDA-style math, that is a 7% increased chance of death.

But it gets worse. After the placebo group was unblinded, an additional 5 participants who received the vaccine died. As Pfizer explains, “3 participants in the [Pfizer vaccine] BNT162b2 group and 2 in the original placebo group who received [Pfizer vaccine] BNT162b2 after unblinding died.”

Adding this up, in the clinical trial from July 2020 to March 2021, 20 deaths occurred among those who received the vaccine as compared to 14 who received the placebo. Here is a nice chart summarizing this from the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCAA):

Oddly, in a separate FDA report, it said there were 38 total deaths—21 in the vaccinated group and 17 in the placebo, reflecting a 24% increased risk of mortality—and there has been, despite demand (discussed below), no accounting by the FDA for the discrepancy between its data and Pfizer’s data.

Either way, this data should have ended the analysis for the FDA. The statistical comparison of this novel product showed more deaths among those getting it; hence, it should have been “game over.”

Instead, FDA let Pfizer explain away these deaths and guess what Pfizer concluded: “None of these deaths were considered related to [Pfizer vaccine] BNT162b2 by [Pfizer’s] investigators.” And the FDA simply parroted Pfizer’s conclusion in its report: “None of the deaths were considered related to vaccination.”

Double the Cardiovascular Deaths in Vaccinated Group Compared to Placebo Group

A closer look at the reason Pfizer gave for each of these deaths should have raised alarm bells. This is because there was double the number of deaths from cardiovascular issues in the group that got the vaccine. 

This is another great table from the CCCA of just the initial 15 deaths in the vaccinated and 14 deaths in the placebo group showing the cause of death as disclosed by Pfizer: [MORE]

[Revealing truth when a lie is no longer necessary and Genthanasia is Underway] Top Medical Journal 'The Lancet' Finally Acknowledges Natural Immunity is Superior to Experimental mRNA COVID Injections

From [HERE] Immunity acquired from past COVID-19 infection provides strong, lasting protection against severe outcomes from the illness at a level “as high if not higher” than that provided by mRNA vaccines, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet.

Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 65 studies worldwide, providing overwhelming evidence to support what many scientists, doctors and studies have said since early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Lancet is finally acknowledging what doctors and scientists have been gaslit for saying for years — that natural immunity provides superior protection to experimental vaccines,” said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense.

“Only the tsunami of propaganda and censorship from the pharma/government biosecurity cartel and the controlled media persuaded the public that Pfizer and Moderna were better at protecting the human immune system than God and evolution,” he added.

The study found that immunity acquired from infection was often far more robust and consistently waned more slowly than the immunity from two doses of an mRNA vaccine.

The researchers found that natural immunity was at least 88.9% effective against severe disease, hospitalization and death for all COVID-19 variants 10 months after infection.

It also provided 78.6% protection against reinfection for all variants except omicron BA.1, for which protection was 45.3%.

At an October 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting, the CDC presented data showing that vaccine-acquired immunity after two or three injections dropped to zero six months after injection, and then became negative.

The Lancet study stated that “although protection from reinfection from all variants wanes over time, our analysis of the available data suggests that the level of protection afforded by previous infection is at least as high, if not higher than that provided by two-dose vaccination using high-quality mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech).”

The study was funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Authors included Dr. Christopher Murray, director of The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Gates-funded institute that was “largely responsible for the notoriously exaggerated mortality calculations that overestimated COVID deaths by 20-fold at the COVID pandemic’s outset,” according to Kennedy.

The authors argued, based on their findings, that natural immunity should be recognized along with vaccines when authorities are considering restricting travel, access to venues and work based on immunization status.

Commenting on these conclusions, Dr. Meryl Nass, internist and epidemiologist, said:

“While framing this as an acknowledgment that natural immunity confers protection, what it is also doing is providing tacit agreement that government-imposed policies restricting travel are acceptable. It furthermore provides tacit approval of vaccine passports.”

The ‘cartel’s’ war on natural immunity

In October 2020, The Lancet published an article — “Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now” — by authors including CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, which was widely covered in the mainstream press. They stated that “there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection” and that “the consequence of waning immunity would present a risk to vulnerable populations for the indefinite future.”

But in November 2021, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request forced the CDC to admit that it didn’t even collect data on natural immunity.

Then, in January 2022, the CDC was compelled to revise its position on natural immunity, acknowledging in a report that natural immunity against COVID-19 was at least three times as effective as vaccination at preventing people from becoming infected with the Delta variant.

The pharmaceutical companies were also aware of the benefits of naturally acquired immunity, although they suppressed that information, documents revealed.

In October 2021, Project Veritas exposed three Pfizer officials saying that antibodies lead to equal if not better protection against the virus compared to the vaccine, The Defender reported.

Later, in April 2022, Pfizer documents held by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and released under court order confirmed Pfizer knew natural immunity was as effective as the company’s COVID-19 vaccine at preventing severe illness, journalist Kim Iversen reported.

Most recently, the Twitter files revealed that a Pfizer board member who used to head the FDA lobbied Twitter to take action against a post accurately pointing out that natural immunity is superior to COVID-19 vaccination, The Epoch Times reported.

FOIA requests also revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, colluded to suppress the Great Barrington Declaration, which argues that natural immunity plays an important role in mitigating public harm from COVID-19, The Defender reported.

The vaccines are failing, which means we need more vaccines

Media that reported on the study, including NBC, ABC and U.S. News & World Report, continue to advocate for vaccination as the more important way to protect against severe disease and death from COVID-19.

This is despite the fact that even vaccine advocates Bill Gates and Fauci admitted that COVID-19 vaccines perform poorly.

In a paper published last month in Cell Host and Microbe, Fauci and his co-authors confirmed that the predominantly mucosal respiratory viruses, including influenza, coronaviruses, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and common colds “have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines.”

They concluded, “Durably protective vaccines against non-systemic mucosal respiratory viruses with high mortality rates have thus far eluded vaccine development efforts.”

Nass said that while it is quite significant for The Lancet to publish these findings about natural immunity, the authors’ framing, like the admissions by Gates and Fauci, “is intended to quietly, without apology, veer away from current COVID vaccines, while implying that more money is needed to develop new types of vaccines. No one made any mistakes. No one accepts any blame. Chris Murray never erred with his outlandish estimates. No, just send money and let us do the science.”

Why Do the Government and Media Continue to Classify People who Get the COVID Shot as “Unvaccinated” for 14 days After Their Injection?

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Destroying the Narrative: 40 Reasons Why the COVID Plandemic Only Existed in People’s Minds

The HardTruth asks, What if the pretext for declaring a pandemic and locking down billions of people was all just a ruse? What if all that’s happened over the past 18 months had nothing to do with a global health crisis? What if many of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 could have stemmed from other causes? What if the reason for declaring a pandemic was destroy the current world system and institute a “new normal” New World Order?

There is an abundance of evidence suggesting that the coronavirus “pandemic” is nothing but a global social engineering project meant to get people used to obeying mandates and dictates from local, state, federal, and even international powers. [MORE]

40 Reasons Why a COVID-19 Pandemic Never Existed.

#1 – COVID-19 symptoms are largely indistinguishable from symptoms of other common illnesses.

The CDC’s official list of COVID-19 symptoms do nothing to differentiate COVID-19 from illnesses such as influenza, the common cold, allergies, and pneumonia. Potentially, millions of people diagnosed with COVID-19 likely had one of these other illnesses.

#2 – Early test kits developed by the CDC were severely flawed.

A March 2020 article in Business Insider revealed CDC test kits could not distinguish between the coronavirus and water. The CDC had to recall over 32,000 test kits that had been shipped to state public health labs. In April 2020, CDC officials confirmed that COVID-19 test kits sent out to states in February were tainted with the coronavirus. It was determined that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination and uninterpretable results. Though it’s said that the tests did not spread coronavirus to people, how do we know this for sure given the multitude of other lies that were told? If you think this was just an issue in the U.S., please see also here, here, and here.

#3 – The RT-PCR test used to diagnose COVID-19 is fraudulent.

The late Nobel Prize winning inventor Kary Mullis said that PCRs should never be used for medical diagnosis. The PCR test was never intended to diagnose illness from viruses and current versions cannot distinguish between different coronaviruses or other virus types. The test can only detect the presence of genetic material having a variety of origins. Positivity levels for COVID-19 depend largely on what cycle threshold tests are set for. Anything above 30-35 cycles is likely to produce false positive results. Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted this in an interview from July 2020. According to the New York Times, most U.S. labs set the cycle threshold at 40, meaning test results are highly likely to indicate false positive results.

The CDC is abandoning the current PCR test as of Dec. 31, 2021 citing that a new test will “facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.” This admission implies that the current PCR test cannot make these distinctions! The CDC even admitted that a positive PCR test result does not necessarily indicate that COVID-19 is the definitive cause of disease and may be other bacterial infections or co-infection with other viruses. See also here, here, and here.

https://www.thehardtruth.co.uk/pcr-test

#4 – Results from widespread PCR testing led to an increase in false positive “cases” giving the illusion of a pandemic.

death rates were proven to be minimal, the fearmongering campaign focused on the rise of positive “cases”resulting from fraudulent PCR tests. Thousands and potentially millions of people tested positive for COVID-19 though they had no symptoms. Officials and the media were complicit in creating a “casedemic” where healthy people were told they were sick because of a positive test! See also here, here, here, here, here, and here.

#5 – The Delta and all other COVID-19 variants are a sham.

The current PCR test can’t differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 and the “Delta” variant (or any variant for that matter). According to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, “Detecting the Delta variant, or other variants, requires a special type of testing called genomic sequencing. Due to the volume of COVID-19 cases, sequencing is not performed on all viral samples. However, because the Delta variant now accounts for the majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, there is a strong likelihood that a positive test result indicates infection with the Delta variant.” (Emphasis added).

According to Business Insider, you aren’t legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the U.S., even if it’s Delta. Armed with these facts, how can there be an epidemic of “Delta” variant infections when the PCR test can’t detect it and the required genomic sequencing tests aren’t being performed and haven’t yet been federally approved

Finally, the supposed Delta variant is no deadlier than the original “SARS-Cov-2” strain. According to a Public Health England report (page 8) from June 18, 2021, the case fatality rate for the Delta variant was 0.1%, about the same rate as the flu.

#6 – Asymptomatic transmission is a myth.

Before the current state of scientific lunacy, you had to actually have symptoms to be diagnosed as being sick from a disease or virus. The COVID-19 “pandemic” turned things around 180 degrees where you could test positive for the virus, but never show any symptoms. A December 2020 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed:

• Symptomatic people infect someone else in the house 18% of the time.

• Asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people only infected someone else 0.7% of the time.

The study concluded that “these findings are consistent with other household studies reporting asymptomatic index cases as having limited role in household transmission.” If it’s virtually impossible to contract COVID-19 from someone without symptoms you live with, how is it possible to contract it from interacting with asymptomatic people in public places?

A study by Chinese researchers published by the NIHs National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) revealed that none of the 455 individuals exposed to asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers for 4-5 days later tested positive for the disease. The study’s conclusion states:

“In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak.”

In June 2020, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis unit publicly stated that asymptomatic carriers very rarely transmit the coronavirus. As this admission began to make major news, Dr. Van Kerkhove and the WHO quickly backtracked, “reassuring” everyone that asymptomatic people can spread the virus. So, which is true? Perhaps the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci (in one of the rare times he’s told the truth) will help clear the confusion, see here. Case closed! https://www.thehardtruth.co.uk/asymptomatic-transmission

#7 – Over 80% of people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and placed on ventilators died.

Last year Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell sparked controversy with a viral video stating that patients being put on ventilators were dying at an alarming rate. Data from China and NYC indicated that over 80% of people placed on ventilators died. USA Today ran a story stating that most COVID-19 patients put on ventilators die. A Journal of the American Medical Association study from April, 2020 revealed that 88% of New Yorkers placed on a ventilator did not survive. These examples prove that it was medical malpractice that killed thousands of people, not COVID-19.\#8 – Nursing homes and long-term care facilities comprised a large portion of COVID-19 deaths worldwide.

Many of the deaths that created the initial “pandemic” panic were elderly patients in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. In June 2020, USA Today documented 40,600 deaths among nursing home residents and believed this number to be an undercount. The Atlantic corroborated this total and also pointed out that “state and federal officials seem to be doing little to protect the elderly from further devastation.” Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should have been held personally responsible for many of these deaths after issuing an executive order allowing COVID-19 positive and infectious patients to be moved to nursing homes for treatment. A May 2020 Guardian article revealed that “90% of the 3,700 people who have died from coronavirus in Sweden were over 70, and half were living in care homes.” In Belgium, more than half of coronavirus deaths were those in care homes. Spain and Italy also had similar numbers.

How many elderly patients truly died from COVID and not some other underlying cause like cancer? Even worse, how many may have been deliberately killed? A damning NHS document revealed that many nursing and care facility patients were potentially given a fatal dose of Midazolam, a drug used for sedation therapy in critically ill patients. See also here.

Were the elderly sacrificed to spark fear and create the illusion that death was imminent if one contracted COVID-19?

#9 – Some COVID-19 patients were denied life-saving medical treatments.

NYC hospitals (at one time the epicenter of the “pandemic” in the U.S.) issued “Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)” orders for dying coronavirus patients. Just as insidious, these DNR orders were also being recommended for those with disabilities. Being denied life-saving treatment goes against the Hippocratic Oath! See also here, here, here, and here.

#10 – Doctors and hospitals were paid more to diagnose patients with COVID-19.

The corruption in our health care system cannot be overstated. According to S. Senator Dr. Scott Jensen, hospitals were given $13,000 for every COVID-19 diagnosis (up from $5,000 for a typical lump sum payment) and $39,000 for every COVID-19 patient using a ventilator by the NIH. Even a USA Today fact check article verified that this was true. This is easily verifiable because the CARES Act authorized increased Medicare payments to hospitals treating COVID-19 victims. Dr. Jensen, who would not go along with the scam was threatened with having his medical license revoked for exposing this truth. In August 2020, former CDC Director Robert Redfield also admitted that hospitals have a monetary incentive to overcount coronavirus deaths.

#11 – The CDC dishonestly mixed in mortality data from pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) to tally death rates.

This overt data manipulation does not present an accurate picture of the death rate for COVID-19 alone. Further evidence can be found in the fact that the flu virtually disappeared. How is this possible? According to a Healthlinereport, “the flu has resulted in 3 million to 49 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. Each year, on average, five to 20 percent of the United States population gets the flu.” Creating the PIC category allowed the CDC to hide the flu and relabel it as COVID-19! See also here and here.

#12 – COVID-19 death numbers were inflated.

A CDC memo dated March 24, 2020 from Steven Schwartz, PhD and Director – Division of Vital Statistics advised coroners and medical examiners to report COVID-19 fatalities for those who did not receive a positive test result as long as it was assumed it caused or contributed to the death.

Montana physician Dr. Annie Bukacek, said “The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same. They call it death by COVID-19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission.”

Dr. Deborah Birx stated that if someone died after testing positive for COVID-19, the death will be counted as COVID-19 even if they died from other causes.

A report showed up to 88% of Italy’s alleged COVID-19 deaths could have been misattributed.

In April 2020, CDC began counting coronavirus cases and deaths not confirmed by lab testing, allowing numbers to be falsely inflated. A U.S. News & World Report article stated that as a result in the change in guidance from the CDC, “There was already a big rise in New York City, where officials this week started counting people who had never tested positive for the coronavirus. That caused the city’s death count to jump by more than 3,700 on Tuesday.”

COVID-19 deaths have been greatly exaggerated from the outset. The CDC has admitted that people who have died from “COVID-19” have had an average of 4 comorbidities, including conditions such as heart failure, diabetes, and cancer. Doesn’t it make sense that one or a combination of these other health conditions led to their death? [MORE]

Alonzo Bagley was Running For His Freedom and For His Life When a Shreveport Race Soldier Shot Him to Death. White Cop Charged w/Negligent Homicide After his Intentional Murder of Unarmed Black Man

From [HERE] A Shreveport, Louisiana, officer was arrested and charged with negligent homicide following the death of a Black man who was shot by police responding to a domestic disturbance call.

Officer Alexander Tyler was taken into custody Thursday morning by state police after detectives with its investigations bureau reviewed evidence and body camera footage of the Feb. 3 incident, a Louisiana State Police news release states.

The agency worked in coordination with the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office to make the arrest. Tyler, 23, is being held at the Caddo Correctional Center.

Alonzo Bagley talks with police the night he was shot in Shreveport, La.LA State Police

State police previously said Tyler and another unnamed Shreveport officer were called to the Villa Norte Apartments just before 11 p.m. Feb. 3 to investigate an incident involving Alonzo Bagley.

Bagley's wife told a 911 operator that he was "loaded on something" and threatened her and her daughter, according to an audio of the call released Thursday in a state police video briefing.

After police made contact with Bagley, he jumped from a rear balcony and fled on foot, state police Black strawboss Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis said at a news conference earlier this month. There was a short foot pursuit and Tyler fired one shot, hitting Bagley in the chest.

Tyler and the second officer performed CPR and Bagley for the camera, 43, was taken to the hospital where he later died.

Police body camera video, also included in the police video briefing, shows the officers asking Bagley to come out of the apartment but he refuses. Bagley's wife tells the officers to come inside.

Bagley walks to a back bedroom and shuts the door, the video shows. As the officers enter the bedroom, Bagley leaves through a back door and jumps over the balcony to the ground.

Both officers rush out of the apartment through the front door and chase Bagley. A shot is heard on the video and Bagley collapses to the ground, saying "Oh, God. You shot me."

Davis has said the department was looking into details about what happened, including why Tyler chose to fire his weapon. The superintendent told reporters that Bagley did not have any weapons on him when he was shot.

The Shreveport Police Department said Tyler was placed on administrative leave. He was hired by the department in May 2021. The agency did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.

6 White Raleigh Cops Not Arrested but ‘On Leave’ After Murdering Darryl Tyree Williams. Cops Repeatedly Tased Black Man as He Told Them He Had Heart Problems. Used Deadly Force after Marijuana Stop

From [HERE] The Raleigh, N.C., police department placed six officers on administrative leave in connection with the January arrest of a Black man who died in police custody after officers used a Taser on him, according to a memo and body-camera footage released by the department.

Darryl Tyree Williams, 32 years old, was approached by police while in a parked car with a passenger late at night, according to a memo with a preliminary report of the incident written by Raleigh Police Chief Estella D. Patterson to Raleigh City Manager Marchell Adams-David that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Body-camera footage shows that while detained and scuffling with police, he told them he had heart problems. After officers used a Taser on him at least three times, he became unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a hospital later that night, according to the memo.

The Raleigh Police Department is conducting two investigations into the incident, one into the actions of officers involved in the arrest and another into Mr. Williams’s actions, according to the memo. Separately, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is conducting an independent criminal investigation and will present its findings to the Wake County district attorney, the memo said.

The incident and subsequent placement of officers on leave comes in the wake of the January death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, during an encounter with Memphis police after a traffic stop—a case that drew national attention. Five officers involved in that case were fired and charged with second-degree murder following an internal investigation.

In the incident involving Mr. Williams, Officers C.D. Robinson and J.T. Thomas were conducting “proactive patrols” of businesses a little before 2 a.m. on Jan. 17, according to the department memo. Officer Robinson approached a parked vehicle in which Mr. Williams occupied the driver’s seat, joined by a passenger beside him.

Officer Robinson said he observed marijuana and a container of alcohol in the car and asked the occupants to get out, as other officers approached to assist, according to the memo. With Mr. Williams standing outside the car, Officer Robinson searched him.

“We’re not doing nothing,” Mr. Williams said in the body-camera footage reviewed by the Journal.

“Keep both of your hands on the car,” Officer Robinson said in the body-camera footage. “If you can’t listen to my instructions, I’m going to put you in handcuffs. I’m not trying to put you in handcuffs.”

Shortly after, Officer Robinson pulled a folded dollar bill out of Mr. Williams’s pocket that contained a white powdery substance, visible on the body-camera video. Based on that finding, the officer decided to arrest him for possession of a controlled substance, the memo said.

“What’s going on?” Mr. Williams said in the footage. “Why?”

The scene then turned tense, as Officer Robinson told Mr. Williams to put his hands behind his back and other officers joined and sought to subdue him, the footage shows. They ordered him to get on the ground while they scuffled with him.

Officer Robinson then used a Taser on Mr. Williams, causing him to fall to the ground, the footage shows. Other officers ordered him to put his hands behind his back. Mr. Williams broke free and ran across a parking lot before falling to the ground again. Officers caught up to him and struggled with him as they sought to handcuff him.

Over the course of 50 seconds, officers used a Taser on Mr. Williams twice more in “drive stun mode,” meaning that the Taser was in direct contact with his body, according to the memo. One Taser made contact with Mr. Williams’s side, and the other with his back, the memo said. After the first one, Mr. Williams can be heard on the video saying, “I have heart problems.”

After officers handcuffed him, they called for emergency medical personnel, according to the memo. While they waited for responders to arrive, police observed that Mr. Williams was unresponsive, not breathing and without a pulse, the memo said. They performed CPR on him until first responders arrived and took over resuscitation efforts.

Mr. Williams was later taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:01 a.m. The cause of death, including toxicology results, are part of continuing investigations, according to the memo.

A search of Mr. Williams’s car turned up two firearms, one of which had previously been reported stolen, as well as marijuana and suspected controlled substances, the memo said. Under department policy, Officers Robinson and Thomas as well as four others involved in the incident—D.L. Aquino, J.R. Scott, D.L. Grande and B.L. Ramge—were placed on administrative leave, according to the memo.

Emancipate NC, a nonprofit that advocates on criminal-justice issues and is advising Mr. Williams’s family, said the family was demanding justice, according to a statement by Dawn Blagrove, executive director of the group. The organization said the family and other activists were calling for the officers involved to be fired and for proactive patrols to end, among other measures.

“Now is the time for the city of Raleigh and all of America to reckon with the trauma and harm that policing causes to Black, Brown and marginalized communities,” the statement read.

[because Cops Who Murder People are Probably Also Liars who Lack Credibility] All Cases Involving the Black Borgs Who Murdered Tyre Nichols are Put On Hold by Memphis Prosectors

From [HERE] The arrest of five Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyre Nichols could lead to a cascade of criminal cases being dismissed and convictions appealed, as defense attorneys in the city weigh challenging reports and testimony brought by the now-defunct police unit of which the officers were a part.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office said on Thursday that it would review any cases and convictions involving the five officers, though the office did not offer specifics because of the continuing investigation. The five officers were also added to an internal list of police officials across the county accused of being dishonest or facing criminal charges, a classification that could lead prosecutors to drop any cases involving their testimony.

But some defense attorneys are also working to compile a roster of the aggressive Scorpion unit that the five officers belonged to, which could imperil hundreds of cases across the city. From its inception in late 2021 to January 2022, when Mayor Jim Strickland hailed the unit’s work in his annual State of the City speech, the unit made 566 arrests.

That unit was disbanded after the death of Mr. Nichols last month, as city and police officials grappled with the behavior of the five officers who violently kicked and beat the 29-year-old FedEx worker and photographer and with the unit’s overall record of aggression, intimidation and brutality. The Scorpion unit had roughly 40 members, who handled an estimated thousands of cases.

The Memphis Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. [MORE]

Black Memphis Cops who Brutally Murdered Tyre Nichols Arraigned on 2nd Degree Murder Charges

From [HERE] Five former Memphis, Tenn., police officers pleaded not guilty in the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died last month after being kicked and punched by police during a traffic stop.  

Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith were arrested and charged with second-degree murder last month for Mr. Nichols’s death. 

They are also charged with aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. The men, who are also Black, were fired by the Memphis Police Department last month following an internal investigation.

Lawyers for each man entered not guilty pleas on all counts Friday in Shelby County Criminal Court.

Mr. Nichols died in a Memphis hospital Jan. 10, three days after officers pulled over his car, according to local police and Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for his family. His family said Mr. Nichols was fatally beaten beyond recognition. The Shelby County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released autopsy results.

Police body-camera footage showed several Memphis police officers repeatedly kicking and striking Mr. Nichols, including at times when he appeared defenseless and subdued. The footage, captured from a pole camera and body cameras, showed two officers striking Mr. Nichols as he lay on the street. As he tried to get up, a third officer kicked him in the head. Tennessee law-enforcement officials described the footage as appalling.

“This is the beginning of the process,” Mr. Nichols’s mother, RowVaughn Wells, said at a press briefing after Friday’s hearing. Ms. Wells said she is feeling numb, and plans to be at every court date. “I want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face, but they haven’t done that yet. They couldn’t even do that today,” she said. 

The next hearing is scheduled for May 1. 

Judge James Jones Jr. said in court Friday the case may take some time. 

“We understand that there may be some high emotions in this case, but we ask that you continue to be patient with us,” he said. “The state of Tennessee as well as each one of these defendants have an absolute right to a fair trial, and I will not allow any behavior that could jeopardize that right.”

Mr. Bean’s lawyer, John Keith Perry, said his client was doing his job, “no more, no less,” and asked people not to jump to conclusions.  

Blake Ballin, a lawyer for Mr. Mills, said the public should be patient and not judge his client. “Justice for Mr. Nichols will not be achieved at the expense of justice for Mr. Mills,” he said. 

Lawyers for Messrs. Haley, Martin and Smith didn’t respond to requests for comment. 

Investigations into Mr. Nichols’s death continue. The Memphis Police Department fired a sixth officer earlier this month, and other officers are under investigation, according to Jennifer Sink, chief legal officer for the city of Memphis. The police department also said it was disbanding its specialized Scorpion street-crime unit. Former officers charged in Mr. Nichols’s death were members of the unit.

Earlier this week, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said it suspended two sheriff’s deputies who were on the scene. Two former Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians had their licenses revoked for failure of duty. 

Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, are conducting a civil-rights investigation.

Court Asked to Apply the Law of The Jungle Standard ("qualified immunity") in Patrick Lyoya Case. White Cop Too Weak to Subdue Fleeing Black Man Shot Him in the Back of the Head Rather than Let Him Go

From [HERE] Attorneys for the former Grand Rapids police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya last year have filed a request in federal court, seeking to get the wrongful death lawsuit against him thrown out, WOOD TV-8 reports.

In a motion to dismiss filed Monday, Feb. 6, Schurr’s attorneys argued he's protected by qualified immunity, which, generally speaking, prevents officers from being sued for actions they took in the line of duty.

Lyoya’s family sued Schurr and Grand Rapids in December, alleging excessive force and a violation of Lyoya’s Fourth Amendment rights when he was shot April 4, 2022, after Schurr pulled him over. The lawsuit argued it was “objectively unreasonable” for Schurr to have shot Lyoya.

Schurr’s attorneys say his actions were reasonable. They argue he didn’t violate Lyoya’s Fourth Amendment protections and that, because it hasn't been demonstrated to the court that Schurr’s actions were unconstitutional, the lawsuit should be tossed.

“Schurr is entitled to qualified immunity because the videos demonstrate that Plaintiff cannot plead a constitutional violation nor a violation of clearly established law,” the motion reads in part, referencing body camera, dashboard camera, home surveillance and cellphone video that show the shooting.

That video shows that Lyoya ran away from Schurr during the traffic stop and the two then grappled over Schurr’s Taser, with Schurr repeatedly ordering Lyoya to let go. Schurr was on top of Lyoya, trying to hold him down, when he pulled his gun and shot him once in the back of the head, killing him.

“…Lyoya posed an immediate threat to the safety of Ofc. Schurr once he armed himself with the Taser,” Schurr’s lawyers wrote.

Other cameras — from the officer’s vehicle, a nearby doorbell security system and a bystander’s cellphone — capture different portions of the encounter. Shortly before the fatal shot is fired, Officer Schurr yells, “Let go of the Taser!” Mr. Lyoya is facing the ground and pushing up, with the officer on top of him, in the moments just before the shooting. Again, said statement from a cop-actor performing for the camera is self-serving - the video speaks for itself.

At any rate, Lyoya was under arrest for a traffic violation, which is a minor misdemeanor. As such, he was not a fleeing felon. The Supreme Court has explained the use of deadly force to prevent escape is unconstitutional, at least in regard to white citizens that is. The Court has explained,

The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. 

A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead… Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given. 

Tennessee v. Garner - 471 U.S. 1 at page 11 (1985).

Lyoya’s family’s attorneys have until March 6 to respond to the motion to dismiss.

Schurr has been charged with second-degree murder in Lyoya’s death. A Kent County judge last week said she wouldn't dismiss the charge and ordered the case sent to a jury. An appeal on the criminal front is expected and attorneys on both sides are skeptical the case will go to trial in March, as had initially been scheduled.

Michigan Judge Refuses to Dismiss 2nd Degree Murder Charge Against White Cop who Fatally Shot Patrick Lyoya

From [HERE] Michigan Circuit Judge Christina Elmore Friday refused to drop a second-degree murder charge against Christopher Schurr, a former police officer for the Grand Rapids Police Department. Schurr was on paid leave and then fired after fatally shooting Black motorist Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during a struggle over a taser.

On April 4, 2022, Loyoya was able disarm the officer of his taser during his arrest as the taser was being aimed at him. After being repeatedly asked to “drop the taser,” Lyoya continued to resist before Schurr fired a single shot to the back of Lyoya’s head.

A motion was filed by Schurr’s attorneys to quash the district court’s decision to send the case to trial, because of the video evidence. The attorneys explained that there were multiple ways in which Schurr’s use of deadly force could have been legally justified—notably, the fleeing felon rule, self defense doctrine, and using force to subdue the force of person being arrested. They also commented on the vagueness of the statute applied to law enforcement offices and the district court’s misinterpretation of the law when finding probable cause of Schurr’s use of deadly force during arrests.

Prosecutors filed a response, suggesting that the defendant’s motion to quash the bind over should be denied. According to the prosecution, the court “did not abuse its discretion” when finding probable cause on the charge of second-degree murder—legal standards were applied properly, the prosecutors argue.

Christopher Schurr is set to begin trial from March 13, and a separate civil lawsuit was filed by Lyoya’s family.

5 Years Later Minnesota AG’s Office to Review Death of Hardel Sherrell at Beltrami County Jail

From [HERE] Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said his office will review the death of a man who collapsed after complaining of health problems at the Beltrami County jail in 2018.

Hardel Sherrell, 27, of Apple Valley, was transferred to the northern Minnesota jail in August 2018 in good health to face weapons possession charges, but his condition deteriorated over several days until he collapsed after complaining of several health issues, including chest pains and paralysis, KARE-TV previously reported.

Sherrell died at the Bemidji jail in September 2018.

His mother, Del Shea Perry, asked the state to investigate and filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2019. She alleged in the lawsuit that jail and medical staff did not take Sherrell seriously when he asked them for help. Sherrell suffered from a neurological disorder that, left untreated, can result in respiratory arrest, and he died of suffocation on the jail floor, the lawsuit alleged.

Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs did not immediately respond to a request Monday for comment on Ellison’s announcement.

In a filing in response to the lawsuit, the county denied the allegations, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension completed its investigation of Sherrell’s death in August 2022 and referred the case to Beltrami County Attorney David Hanson to consider possible criminal charges.

Hanson has asked Ellison’s office to review the case, the attorney general said in a news release Friday.

“Hardel Sherrell’s life was important and had value. We’re committed to assisting the Beltrami County Attorney and will follow justice wherever it leads,” Ellison said in a statement. “To Hardel’s mother and loved ones: you have my deepest condolences, and you can count on our very best effort.”

Ellison said it would take some time to review the “voluminous file” in the case.

After an initial inquiry found no wrongdoing by the jail staff, the Department of Corrections opened a new investigation in 2020 in response to protests led by Perry. That investigation found “regular and gross violation of Minnesota jail standards.”

In 2021, the Minnesota Legislature passed the “Hardel Sherrell Act,” which gave the DOC more authority to sanction jails for poor inmate care.

Last January, the state medical board stripped the license of the jail’s medical director at the time, Todd Leonard, saying Sherrell’s death was a tragedy that “should never have occurred. And it must never be allowed to happen again.”

Two weeks ago, the DOC ordered the Beltrami County jail to reduce its headcount to address a staffing shortage that the department said was compromising inmate safety. A similar directive was issued to the Ramsey County Jail in St. Paul.

FBI Opens Investigation, Claims Rankin County Cops Broke Into a Home and Beat and Tortured 2 Black Men Using Torture Techniques. 1 Man Shot in the Mouth No Longer Can Talk: $90M Suit To be Filed

From [HERE] The FBI has opened an investigation into the alleged beating and torture of two Black men by Rankin County deputies.

“The FBI Jackson Field Office, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi have opened a federal civil rights investigation into a color of law incident into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office,” according to a statement from the FBI.

Weeks after Rankin County deputies raided a home and beat and threatened two Black men and shot one in the mouth, a civil rights attorney is calling for justice, answers and for the deputies to be charged.

On Wednesday, Michael Corey Jenkins, 32, was released from the intensive care unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He underwent two surgeries to treat injuries to his mouth and head, including surgical removal of his tongue. As a result, he is unable to talk and now communicates through writing or gestures. “Easily he could have been like Tyre Nichols or on the long (list of) names of victims here of police abuse and police brutality,” said Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice in Washington, D.C., one of Jenkins’ attorneys.

RANKIN COUNTY DEPUTIES ACCUSED OF TORTURE, WATERBOARDING On Jan. 24, Jenkins and another victim, Eddie Terrell Parker, 35, were at a home in Braxton where Parker lives with the property owner when six white Rankin deputies conducting a drug investigation raided. Shabazz said they did not announce themselves or show a search warrant. They accused the men of selling drugs and later charged them with possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia, the attorney said.

For 90 minutes, deputies exercised what Shabazz called intimidation and unjustified torture of Jenkins and Parker. The men were punched, kicked, slapped and tasered while handcuffed. They had guns pointed at them and were threatened with death, Shabazz said. The attorney said during that time, the deputies waterboarded Jenkins and Parker. Waterboarding is an illegal torture technique that involves strapping someone down, putting a wet rag in their mouth and pouring water over them to simulate drowning. “It was senseless and uncalled for,” Parker said at the news conference. “It was traumatizing and something I never thought I’d go through.” It ended when a deputy placed a gun in Jenkins’ mouth and pulled the trigger, Shabazz said. Jenkins could have died, but the bullet exited his mouth.

‘THEY ACTED LIKE MY SON WASN’T EVEN HUMAN’

When Mary Jenkins found out her son had been shot by police, she called the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. She asked what the charges were against Jenkins, but did not get an answer. She was only told he was under investigation. “They acted like my son wasn’t even human,” she said, adding that the sheriff’s office didn’t treat her family well, kept Jenkins under their watch at the hospital and prevented them from seeing him. On Tuesday, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation interviewed Jenkins in his hospital room for the first time since the shooting, and he confirmed what deputies did to him, Shabazz said. The recounting of Jenkins’ and Parker’s experience differs from information offered by investigators and law enforcement. A Jan.25 news release from the Department of Public Safety said Rankin County deputies encountered a person – now identified as Jenkins – during a narcotics investigation at a Braxton residence and shot when he displayed a gun. During the Wednesday news conference, Jenkins shook his head when Shabazz asked whether he had a gun or handled one at any point during the incident.

SHERIFF DOESN’T ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY ALLEGATIONS

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey released a five-sentence statement Tuesday evening that did not address allegations of mistreatment by the deputies against Jenkins and Parker. Bailey is white.

He said the sheriff’s office contacted the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation to look into the deputies’ actions. “We are fully cooperating with that ongoing investigation and will continue to do so,” Bailey said in the statement. “Rest assured, if any deputy or suspect involved in this incident is found to have broken the law, he will be held accountable in accordance with the law.”

Shabazz said the sheriff’s office has not shared much information, including confirmation whether any officers have been placed on administrative leave. The attorney is asking for attempted murder, aggravated assault and conspiracy charges to be filed against all the deputies, all body camera footage be released and Rankin County to respond immediately reply to all records requests related to the incident.

He read the allegations of brutality from a notice to file a lawsuit against Sheriff Bryan Bailey and the government of Rankin County. After a 90-day period, Shabazz can file the lawsuit and is set to ask for $90 million in compensatory and punitive damages for the two men.

Shabazz also wants the “totally false” charges against the men to be dropped. In addition to drug charges, Parker was also charged with disorderly conduct and Jenkins was charged with aggravated assault, the attorney said. Another member of the men’s legal team, attorney Trent Walker, said they will take the lead to get the charges against Jenkins and Parker dismissed. “Something has to change because what is going on here should not go on in a civilized society,” he said.

Shelby County DA Now Reviewing Gershun Freeman's Murder: Cops Beat Naked Black Man to Death by Repeatedly Striking him with Batons, Fists and a Metal Pepper Spray Container as He Was Held Pre-Trial

From [HERE] and [HERE] The death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after a fight with corrections officers has been classified as a homicide, according to a just-released autopsy report.

Gershun Freeman, 33, died at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis on October 5, 2022. The autopsy report, conducted by the county medical examiner and released Thursday, says Freeman “had a cardiac arrest” after the altercation, which ended in officers restraining him. “CPR was initiated,” but unsuccessful. Freeman was pronounced dead at the scene. The Shelby County District Attorney’s office is now reviewing his death. 

The case is attracting attention in a city still coming to terms with the violent police beating death of Tyre Nichols on January 7. VICE News has confirmed that the Nichols’ family attorney, Benjamin Crump, will also represent the family of Gershun Freeman. 

Crump’s local co-counsel, Jake Brown, told VICE that he has watched surveillance video of the incident inside the jail.

“The video began with Mr. Freeman in an isolation cell, naked,” Brown said. “And he was shouting at the camera that was in the cell… there were no sounds and [we] couldn’t make out what he was saying, but he was very agitated about something, possibly having some sort of psychotic episode.”

The autopsy report, obtained by VICE News, noted a past history of psychosis. 

“Not long after, the camera switched to one outside of the cell, and you could see several officers come to his door and open it. And it’s not clear why they opened it,” Brown told VICE. “Mr. Freeman ran out of his cell.”

At that point, Brown said a group of officers arrived and appeared to try to apprehend him, “but they were also striking him repeatedly with batons, fists… at least one officer struck him on the head with what appeared to be a pepper spray container.” 

Brown said the corrections officers, who are deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s office which oversees the jail, also sprayed him with oil-based chemical irritants, and the spray made Freeman’s body slippery and hard to restrain.

“There was pronounced striking, [and] I’m not an expert on this but it seemed to be that there could have been more efficient ways to get ahold of this guy and subdue him rather than just striking him. But that’s what was happening,” Brown said.

According to Brown, the surveillance video then shows Freeman running out of the unit, called a “pod,” through multiple open doors, and up an escalator to an upper floor. 

“When he got to the upper floor, he was sort of surrounded and then sort of set upon by at least three or four deputies, who had him face down on the ground, they were on top of him. And they stayed on top of him for several minutes at least.” 

Brown said the video shows medical personnel in scrubs eventually arriving, and attempting to render treatment, but when they picked up Freeman’s body, it was limp and there was a puddle of blood under where he had been lying, especially around his head. 

The autopsy found Freeman’s cause of death to be exacerbation of “cardiovascular disease due to physical altercation and subdual.” The autopsy classifies the death as a homicide, but notes that it is “not meant to definitively indicate criminal intent."

The autopsy also noted multiple contusions on Freeman’s body, scalp lacerations and multiple hemorrhages in his head and neck. Brown says one of those hemorrhages, a 7 by 3 centimeters on the large muscle in Freeman’s neck that runs parallel to the carotid artery, suggests consistent pressure applied on Freeman’s neck.

“What we're looking at now is trying to determine the likelihood that that was the result of a knee on the neck or some kind of choke hold used,” Brown says. His team has commissioned an independent autopsy by a forensic pathologist based in Little Rock, Arkansas, which has not yet been completed.

Freeman had only been booked into the Shelby County jail four days earlier, on charges of aggravated kidnapping and domestic violence. His bond was set at $75,000.

In a statement, the Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy says upon learning of the death in October, he “immediately called in the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to investigate.” But after receiving the autopsy report on Wednesday evening, his office announced that its own Justice Review Unit will “review” the TBI’s investigation and make a recommendation to DA Mulroy once complete. 

In a phone call with VICE News, the Shelby County Sheriff’s office declined to comment on the case, noting that it was an active investigation. 

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr. is currently a candidate for mayor of Memphis. The election is scheduled for the one-year anniversary of Freeman’s death, October 5, 2023.

Brown said Freeman’s family wants answers and accountability from the Sheriff’s department. 

“They are trying to come to terms with the fact that their son went into the Shelby County Jail on his own two feet and, the way his mother puts it, he came out with a toe tag.”

Liberal Annapolis Authorities Seek to Dismiss $75M Wrongful Death Suit Filed for Renardo Green. Cops Restrained Black Man on his Stomach Causing Cardiac Arrest; Wasn't Under Arrest or a Crime Suspect

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of Renardo Green, a former Annapolis employee whose 2021 death in police custody was ruled a homicide, has until Wednesday to respond to the city’s request to dismiss their $75 million lawsuit.

The federal complaint, filed in December by attorneys Patrick A. Thronson, Brenda A. Harkavy, William H. Murphy, Jr., Malcolm P. Ruff and Dwayne A. Brown on behalf of Green’s wife and four children, lists 20 counts against the city, including gross negligence, excessive force and wrongful death. In the early morning of June 1, 2021, Green was in Annapolis Police custody, restrained face down on a stretcher, when he suffered cardiac arrest. He was placed on a ventilator before dying in the hospital three days later.

Victor W. Weedn, the state’s former chief medical examiner, performed an autopsy on Green last year and found he had suffered cardiac arrest while in police and fire department custody and died because he was restrained on his stomach, which prevented him from breathing. The restraint caused his heart to stop and led to brain death.

Weedn found that drug intoxication contributed to Green’s death as he had mind-altering anesthetics PCP and TCP in his system along with methadone, fentanyl and cocaine, according to his autopsy report. Weedn’s ruling that Green’s death was a homicide caused outrage among community members and elected leaders who voiced concerns about the lack of transparency in the investigation.

Although his death was ruled a homicide no chatges have been forthcoming from white liberal authorities.

The lawsuit states that face-down restraint has been known to be dangerous since 1995, when the Justice Department issued a bulletin that “alerted law enforcement to the dangers of” the practice.

In January, lawyers representing the Annapolis government filed a 50-page motion asking the U.S. District Court of Maryland to close the suit, arguing the family’s allegations were “too vague and generalized” to “draw a plausible connection” to specific law enforcement and emergency response personnel.

The 54-page complaint cites the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services, which at the time of Green’s death instructed EMS responders not to restrain patients in a “face down, hobbled, or hog-tied position,” also stating that if a patient is handcuffed, they should be repositioned “in face-up position with hands anterior and secured to [the] stretcher.

“It was only after this incident that the Annapolis Police Department promulgated a revised use of force policy prohibiting the unconstitutional practice of face-down restraint,” the lawsuit states. “Unlike other police departments, at the time Mr. Green was killed, the Annapolis Police Department unconstitutionally condoned face-down restraint as a matter of custom and policy.” [MORE]

If it’s not dismissed, the city is asking the complaint be amended to provide “more specific allegations attributable” to the individual defendants, four named police officers and five unnamed paramedics. Police and fire department officials confirmed Thursday that all nine responders at Green’s apartment are still employed.

“Plaintiffs present all of their allegations in a vacuum,” the city’s motion states, “without meaningful factual detail explaining what physical contact each Individual Defendant had with Mr. Green, how each Individual Defendant engaged in unconstitutional conduct, or otherwise what actions each Individual Defendant took that provides a basis for each of their claims.”

Police and paramedics had come to Green’s apartment after his wife called for help because he was under the influence of PCP and being destructive. He was never placed under arrest or suspected of a crime.

In their December complaint, the family said they were denied access to body-camera footage of the encounter. While city leaders played the footage for three elected officials and two Capital reporters shortly after Green’s death, the family was told accessing the videos would interfere with prosecutors’ investigation into the matter.

The $75 million lawsuit, which also seeks to require mandatory training for city personnel in dealing with cases like Green’s, would be separate from any criminal indictment pursued by State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess. Though Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson confirmed earlier this month that his department had completed its part of the investigation, Assistant State’s Attorney and spokesperson Brian Marsh said it was still “an open matter” for their office, declining to comment on whether Leitess would be pursuing charges.

Green’s death took place months before a state law requiring Maryland Attorney General’s office to review police-involved deaths took effect.

Baltimore attorney Dwayne A. Brown announces a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Annapolis claiming damages for the in-custody death of Renardo Green, whose death was ruled a homicide due to being restrained face-down by police and emergency services during a June 2021 medical incident at his home. (Dan Belson)

Malcolm Ruff, an attorney who represents the family alongside Patrick Thronson, Brenda Harkavy, William Murphy and Dwayne Brown, said Thursday that the plaintiffs still have not seen any police footage from the case.

A recent Maryland Public Information Act request for the videos filed by The Capital was denied, citing the State’s Attorney’s ongoing investigation.

City leaders also have faced criticism about the lack of transparency surrounding Green’s death. Six months after the incident, both community members and elected officials spoke out against Mayor Gavin Buckley when The Capital revealed the results of an autopsy declaring Green’s death a homicide.

At the time, Buckley said he learned about the ruling “a few weeks” earlier and didn’t tell the public because of the State’s Attorney’s investigation.

Dr. Victor W. Weedn, Maryland’s then-chief medical examiner, determined Green had died because he was restrained on his stomach. Handcuffed and strapped face down on a stretcher, his position prevented him from breathing, causing his heart to stop and Green to become brain-dead.

Weedn listed Green’s cause of death as “prone restraint cardiac arrest,” noting drug intoxication as a contributing factor.

Police and paramedics responded to the 51-year-old’s Eastport apartment after his wife called for help, saying Green was under the influence of the powerful psychedelic drug PCP and breaking things around the house. She said she wanted him out of the apartment and requested an ambulance because Green was bleeding heavily after cutting his hand.

When police arrived, Green was pinned on the ground by a relative, yelling obscenities, according to police reports. Attempts by officers to calm him failed, and he was restrained with shackles and two sets of handcuffs.

Noticing he was struggling for breath — earlier in the evening, officers and medics had found Green outside disoriented, though he waved them away — police planned to take him to a hospital for an emergency evaluation.

Using a sheet, responding paramedics lifted Green onto a spine board and strapped him to the stretcher with his stomach down, applying extra straps once they moved him onto a wheeled gurney outside the building.

According to the autopsy report, Green became unresponsive while being loaded onto an ambulance or shortly thereafter, and paramedics attempted to resuscitate him. Green was revived in the emergency room but never regained consciousness.

The family’s 54-page complaint states facedown restraint has been known to be a dangerous procedure since 1995 when the Justice Department issued a bulletin on the dangers of the practice.

The suit also cites the Maryland Medical Protocols for Emergency Medical Services, which at the time of Green’s death instructed EMS responders to avoid restraining patients in a “face down, hobbled, or hog-tied position.” If a patient is handcuffed, the protocols state they should be repositioned in a “face-up position with hands anterior and secured to [the] stretcher.”

San Mateo County Pays $4.5M Settlement after Police Lied About Murdering Chinedu Okobi. Black Man was Stalked, Smothered and Beaten to Death by a Gang of White Cops after an Unlawful Jaywalking Stop

Okobi graduated with a degree in business administration from Atlanta's Morehouse College. His family said he began to experience mental illness in 2009, but held a series of jobs, including working as a truck driver for Home Depot until January 2018. [an assumption here from statist, racist suspect media is that running from cops who are trying to kill you is crazy.]

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe declined to FILE charges AGAINST COPS WHO COMMITTED MURDER. HE IS A RACIST SUSPECT AND SAN MATEO COUNTY IS OVERWHELMINGLY RUN AND CONTROLLED BY WHITE LIBERALS AND THEIR POLITICS.

From [HERE] and [HERE] San Mateo County will pay $4.5 million to the family of a Black man who died during a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies more than four years ago in Millbrae.

Chinedu Okobi, 36, was shocked seven times with a Taser, pepper sprayed and beaten with batons as deputies tried to arrest him for jaywalking near El Camino Real and Millwood Drive on Oct. 3, 2018. He was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.

In May 2019, Okobi’s mother and daughter filed federal civil rights lawsuits against the county, claiming the deputies used excessive force and racially profiled Okobi.

The settlement was finalized in September, but it only became public this week after The San Francisco Standard filed a records request and obtained a copy of the document.

The county has agreed to larger settlements in the past, but this is the biggest to involve local law enforcement, county spokesperson Michelle Durand said in an email Wednesday.

The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office did not charge the deputies, and an internal affairs investigation found they acted within existing use-of-force policies.

Deputy Joshua Wang’s use of a stun gun was reasonable “given the totality of the circumstances and level of resistance he and other deputies met” when trying to arrest Okobi, Sgt. Jonathan Sebring wrote in a report related to the internal affairs probe.

Police claimed Okobi, a resident of Redwood City, was “running in and out of traffic” on a busy street around 1 p.m., according to an Oct. 3 press release from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, when a deputy tried to make contact with him. The press release stated that Okobi “immediately assaulted the deputy,” who then called for backup. More law enforcement officers arrived as the struggle with Okobi continued. After Okobi was arrested, he was taken to the hospital where he was later declared dead.

Contrary to police reports and media accounts the video speaks for itself and clearly contradicts the police accounts. The district attorney's office posted the footage of Chinedu Okobi’s arrest on the county website.

The black man was not running in and out of traffic and did not immediately assault any cops. On the video a car passes him and he safely crosses the street. There appears to be no traffic on the 4 lane street. He then stops on the median and waits for vehicles going the other direction to pass before he crosses the street.

EVEN THE POLICE VIDEO (above. but hidden by youtube to protect the government) CONTAINS NARRATIVE BASED ON LIES. HERE THE CAPTION SAYS HE NARROWLY MISSES ONCOMING TRAFFIC. YET HE IS NOT EVEN VISIBLE IN THE SHOT [see above]. He crosses after the car has passed him - he is one lane away. see pic below.

On the video he is seen calmly walking on the sidewalk when he is approached by an officer in a police cruiser. On the entire video he is never seen “running in and out of traffic.” When the cop initially approaches him he says something inaudible and calmly walks away from the cop and crosses the street.

While he is walking down the sidewalk cops approach him from both directions. Cops rushed out of their vehicles and began lunging at him. A white cop attempts to grab him [under arrest for what? jaywalking] and then another white cop pushes him into a sign while he has his hands up. Cops start yelling “stop resisting” as he moves away from them to get away. Cops yell “get on the ground” and then tase him. The 330-pound man then dropped to the ground screaming.

Other sheriff’s deputies arrived and a chaotic scene ensued, with deputies shouting at Okobi to turn over on his stomach, while Okobi cried, "What did I do? Someone please help me!"

After writhing on the ground Okobi then attempts to flee as cops give a slow trot chase. After the Black man punches an Asian cop in the face the cops then use deadly force as all 5 punch, pounce and smother him in the street. Like in says their Constitution - If you touch cops they can murder you.

"All of the original coverage was that my brother was running wildly through the street, he was darting in and out of traffic," Okobi’s sister, Ebele, said in a recent interview. "But what we saw is my brother walking on the sidewalk."

Ebele says the footage also refutes the description of her brother’s behavior during the arrest.

"When he was stopped, there was no assault at all, and when they tase him there's no assault," she said.

"The whole thing seems strange to me. Why you would tase someone who didn't represent a physical threat and wasn't doing anything?"

"They were so afraid of an unarmed bystander that they had to use the kind of force that turned out to be lethal. But they expect the person who's being attacked to be completely calm and understand," Ebele said.

"This is an example of a person who is dead, who should not be, based upon the seemingly over-aggressiveness on the part of police officers," said the family's attorney, John Burris.

"Police initiated this conversation, the contact, used force, used their billy clubs, pepper spray and they used a Taser a number of times — all of which contributed to his death."

$5M Lawsuit Claims Mobile SWAT Cops Broke Into Treyh Webster's Home, Murdered Him While He Was in Bed, Confiscated All Home Video Surveillance and Equipment and Lied About It

From [HERE] A wrongful-death suit alleging police malfeasance during a SWAT Team operation two years ago lays out a sequence of events that explicitly contradicts the official narrative.

The key to proving it could rest with home surveillance footage that police seized that day, according to plaintiffs’ lawyer Christine Hernandez.

“It was all caught on video,” she told FOX10 News. “And they have refused to turn any of that back over to the family. And I think that would dispute, factually, what has been said by the officers at that time.”

The federal lawsuit, filed last week, names the city and Lawrence Battiste, who was police chief at the time, and seeks “in excess” of $5 million. It alleges that police arrived at a house on Lakeview Drive East before sunrise on Feb. 4, 2021, and entered the residence without knocking and identifying themselves. Police were at the home to arrest brothers Treyh and Tyhrie Webster on witness intimidation charges.

What ensued, according to police, was a shootout that resulted in 18-year-old Treyh Webster’s death.

Battiste, who now is public safety director, said at the time that police announced their presence before entering.

“The subject continued to fire shots at law enforcement officers and subsequently the SWAT team engaged the subject that was firing at them.,” he said then. “And as a result of them engaging him, he was, he was killed on scene.”

Hernandez disputed that: “That’s not accurate. No one came out firing at the police.”

The family was on edge, according to the civil complaint, because the home had been riddled with gunfire on at least two separate occasions. The complaint states that a family member was sleeping on the couch with an AR-15 rifle and pointed it at the incoming officers but did not fire.

When he realized they were officers, he shouted, “12, 12, 12,” to signal others in the house that it was police. That matches what Battiste said at the time.

But the official account and the narrative in the civil suit diverge from there. The suit alleges that police assaulted Tyhrie Webster while he was in his bed, half asleep. His mother, Georgette Sons, took a gunshot to the foot. The civil complaint alleges the bullet came from police, but police said at the time that Treyh Webster accidentally shot his mother.

Hernandez said police took not only the footage from the home surveillance system, but all of the equipment. She said it has video and, presumably, audio that could explain what happened. She said the city has refused requests to return the system and the footage and has not offered an explanation for why it has refused.

“The fact that they took that hard drive with the surveillance video and refused to turn it over – draw whatever conclusion you want to draw from that,” she said.

The purpose of the raid was to arrest the Webster brothers on charges that they tried to pressure the victim of a robbery by Treyh Webster to “drop the charges.” Prosecutors, ultimately, asked a judge to dismiss the witness intimidation charge against Tyhre Webster, although he did plead guilty to an unrelated charge of shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Memphis DA Agrees to Re-Open Darrius Stewart’s Case. Black Man Killed by a White Cop After Traffic Stop

From [HERE] The top prosecutor in Memphis agreed Thursday to review additional information about the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Black man during an attempted arrest by a white police officer after the man's family asked for the case to be reopened.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy met with the father of Darrius Stewart and the father's lawyer. They want the case presented to a grand jury for a second time for consideration of charges against former Memphis officer Connor Schilling.

The request comes after the January arrest, beating and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man, in Memphis. Five officers, who also are Black, have been fired and face charges including second-degree murder in connection with Nichols’ death. The district attorney’s office has said it will be reviewing past cases involving those officers.

Stewart's father, Henry Williams, and his lawyer, Carlos E. Moore, have asked for the case to be reopened under the district attorney's Justice Review Unit. The independent unit works separately from active prosecutions in the district’s attorney’s office to review past cases, and it reports directly to Mulroy.

Then-Officer Connor Schilling shot Stewart in July 2015 during a struggle following a traffic stop that escalated after an attempted arrest for outstanding warrants. Stewart was not carrying a weapon. [MORE]