Nipsey Hussle's Killer is Sentenced to 60 years to Life in Prison

From [HERE] The killer of a celebrated Los Angeles rapper was sentenced Wednesday after a legal drama that dragged on for three years.

Eric R. Holder Jr., 33, will likely remain in jail for the rest of his life for the murder of Nipsey Hussle. Hussle, born Airmiess Joseph Asghedom, was a Grammy-nominated rapper, entrepreneur and philanthropist who was fatally shot in 2019 outside the Marathon Clothing store he owned in South LA. He was 33 years old.

Holder was sentenced to 50 years to life for his role in the killing as well as 10 years for shooting two other people that day.

Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke II handed down the sentence to Holder in Los Angeles.

I am very mindful of what was presented as to Mr. Holder's mental health," Jacke said, according to The Associated Press. "I am also mindful of the devastation caused to the victims and their families. I believe this sentence balances the two."

Jacke sentenced Holder to 25 years to life for the murder, an additional 25 years for a firearm sentencing enhancement and 10 years for assault with a firearm, the AP reports.

Last July, a Los Angeles County jury also found Holder guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter, as two other men were injured in the gunfire at the crime scene.

Growing up, Hussle had been involved in the same gang as Holder, and prosecutors said Holder shot the rapper multiple times because Hussle called Holder a "snitch."

Hussle had become a leading advocate against gun violence and a community leader who was involved in developing his neighborhood and creating opportunities for kids.

Prior to his murder, Hussle was scheduled to meet with LA Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff and LA Police Chief Michel Moore about ways to stop gang violence across the city.

Last August, Hussle was honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — on what would have been his 37th birthday.

[Vanilla Vice still White] Black CEO Gets NGHR Treatment for Alleged White Collar Crimes – White Liberal Prosecutors Publicly Arrest Carlos Watson by Surprise in NYC

From [HERE] Ozy Media and Chief Executive Carlos Watson were indicted on charges of repeatedly lying to investors and lenders about core aspects of the company’s business, a crippling blow to a once-promising startup that had early backing from big-brand advertisers and venture capitalists.

Mr. Watson, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker and MSNBC anchor who hosts some of Ozy’s television shows and podcasts, was arrested Thursday morning in a Manhattan hotel. He is accused of falsifying information about Ozy’s financial performance and audience size, altering and fabricating contracts for some of its television shows and inflating its projected earnings, in an effort to secure tens of millions of dollars in investments and loans to offset the fledgling company’s mounting debt, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. 

The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y., charged the company and Mr. Watson with conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud.  

Mr. Watson’s arrest came after Samir Rao, a former executive with whom he founded Ozy, pleaded guilty to fraud and identity-theft charges in a secretive federal court proceeding earlier this week. The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a civil lawsuit against Messrs. Watson and Rao and Ozy, alleging they lied to investors. 

Ozy came under federal scrutiny for its business practices after the New York Times reported in 2021 that Mr. Rao, its then-chief operating officer, impersonated an executive of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube during a fundraising call with Goldman Sachs. The call had been arranged after Messrs. Rao and Watson falsely claimed to Goldman that YouTube had paid Ozy $5.75 million to license the “Carlos Watson Show,” according to the indictment.

Mr. Watson acknowledged the impersonation incident in a statement at the time of the article but said Mr. Rao’s behavior on the call was the result of a mental-health issue.

Prosecutors allege that Mr. Watson was aware of Mr. Rao’s impersonation and instructed him over a series of text messages about what to say during the call. In one text, Mr. Watson coached Mr. Rao to say, “I am a big fan of Carlos, Samir and the show.” [MORE]

Trailing Trump, Vaginal Pete Pops Up in Ohio to Hand Out Shamburgers to Residents Affected by the Toxic Waste Disaster Ignored by Feds for 21 Days

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Is The Dependent Media Downplaying The Largest Environmental Disaster in US History? The Entire Ohio River Basin is Affected, 30 Million People

From [HERE] With all of the Chyna balloons and UFOs going around, unless you live in East Palestine, Ohio or if you consume a lot of independent news, you probably don’t know that the US is currently experiencing what may be the largest ecological disaster in its history. 

And I’m not talking about the fake Climate Change catastrophism promoted by the World Economic Forum, I’m talking about the ~100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 pounds of vinyl chloride leaked, spilled and burned, due  to a train derailment in this rural town of 5,000 people, where acid rain and phosgene is expected to decimate a wide swathe of the region’s ecology. The devastation will likely force migrations of people, many of whom will get cancer later on. This is an American Chernobyl.

Dioxins result whenever chlorinated organics like vinyl chloride are burned. Dioxins are degraded slowly in the environment, with a half-life of 25-100 years in the soil. They cause cancers, reproductive harm, damage the immune system and they disrupt hormones.

The toxic plume of airborne hydrochloric acid and dioxin from the East Palestine “controlled burn” has a radius of over 200 miles encompassing Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto. For the past week, it’s been raining down over some of the most fertile farmland in the United States, killing farm animals and aquatic life.

The entire Ohio River Basin is affected, where over 30 million people or 10% of the US population lives, including the metropolitan areas of Louisville KY, Cincinnati OH, Indianapolis, IN and Nashville, TN. The Ohio River, alone provides drinking water to over 5 million people. And it drains into the Mississippi, affecting all those downstream.

It’s not known what caused the derailment but security camera footage taken 20 miles away from the scene of the accident in Salem, OH shows sparks and flames shooting beneath one of the cars. Hot box detectors should have triggered the emergency brake but that doesn’t appear to have happened. The NTSB is investigating the trains data and audio recordings and the hot box detectors along the route.

The national news is not covering this event and there is a major cover-up in progress. Last week, Evan Lambert, an independent news reporter was arrested for simply and unobtrusively reporting on the derailment.

Considering the fact that there have been two other massive railroad accidents this week, involving derailed trains carrying toxic chemicals in Splendora, TX and Enoree, SC, on top of the 96 food facilities burnt to the ground since Joe Biden took office, are we ready for the public conversation that United States citizens are under attack?

Not the EPA. They’re saying that it’s safe for the people of East Palestine to go home, despite the fact that people who own chickens there are all reporting that ALL of their chickens have died suddenly. Not Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who made an appearance on Monday and blamed the country’s infrastructure problems on COVID and didn’t say a word about the derailments. He preferred to complain that there were too many white men in the construction business.

The Biden Regime’s $65 billion “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Deal is focused on “Environmental Justice” and on building charging stations for environmentally ruinous electric cars and other woke pork. They’ve said nothing about this catastrophe.

My friends over at American Intelligence Media say something stinks about the derailment. They think this event may be a harbinger of the dread internet shutdown we’ve been warned about for years, noting that internet fiber trunk lines, wherever possible, are embedded under railroad rights of way and that, “Rail derailments are a sneaky way to selectively shut down digital communications,” in this case, AT&T service throughout the State of Ohio. They also ask whether the derailment is a simulation for bankers who are working to shut down businesses by fabricating disasters to install ESG.

Speaking of simulations and smoking guns, the Netflix movie, ‘White Noise’ appears to have been one of those Event 201-type tabletop exercises, training for the events in East Palestine. It’s quite stunning, how the images of the derailment and the plume that we’re seeing from this event are almost exactly the same as the images foreshadowed in the film. And guess where they shot the film in 2022? In East Palestine! Many of the chemically-bombed residents appeared as extras in the film.

Here are the CDC’s Medical Management Guidelines for Vinyl Chloride.

Media Lying, 5G is Harmful: A new case report on two previously healthy men who developed “microwave syndrome” symptoms after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office

From [HERE] A new case report shows that two previously healthy men rapidly developed typical “microwave syndrome” symptoms shortly after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office.

According to the report, published Feb. 4 in the Annals of Clinical Case Reports, the men experienced headaches, joint pain, tinnitus, abnormal fatigue, sleep disturbances, burning skin, anxiety and trouble concentrating.

The findings match the results of a similar case report published last month in the same journal — that appeared earlier in the Swedish journal Medicinsk Access — showing a previously healthy man and woman developed similar microwave syndrome symptoms soon after a 5G tower was installed on top of their apartment.

Both reports show that non-ionizing radiation from 5G — well below levels allowed by authorities — can cause health problems in individuals who had no prior history of electromagnetic sensitivity (EMS).

The two reports appear to be the first studies in the world on the health effects in humans from exposure to 5G, according to the authors.

The case reports’ lead author, Dr. Lennart Hardell — a world-leading scientist on cancer risks from radiation — said the two reports are “groundbreaking” because they serve as the “first warning of a health hazard.”

“This may be the case for 5G and these results must be taken seriously,” he said.

“People shouldn’t have to leave their homes because of 5G,” said Hardell, an oncologist and epidemiologist with the Environment and Cancer Research Foundation who has authored more than 100 papers on non-ionizing radiation.

Just the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Hardell told The Defender the two case studies are likely just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to 5G’s impact on people’s health.

Because research on the health effects of exposure to 5G is lacking, Hardell said, we don’t know how many people get sick from 5G.

Mona Nilsson — managing director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation and co-author of the case reports — said it was a “great scandal” that “5G has been rolled out for several years now in Sweden and in the U.S. without any study at all being performed about the health effects.”

“These two studies show that 5G is very dangerous to health and that the scientists and doctors who have been warning for years of serious consequences for human health due to a predicted massive increase in microwave radiation … have been right in their assessments,” Nilsson added.

5G impacts many organ systems

In the January case report, telecommunication companies replaced a 3G/4G cell tower with a 5G tower on the roof directly above the apartment of a healthy man and woman, ages 63 and 62.

Days after the 5G tower was installed, the two residents began developing acute physical symptoms, causing them to move out.

The residents’ physical symptoms quickly decreased or disappeared when they moved to a building with much lower radiation levels.

Measurements taken in their apartment showed extremely high levels of non-ionizing radiation throughout the apartment. The maximum value measured was more than 2,500,000 microwatts — the highest maximum value that the meter used can measure — so the actual radiation may have been even higher, Hardell and Nilsson said.

The report’s findings contradict assurances from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority that the amount of radiation a cell tower emits is relatively below, behind or above the tower, she added.

The February report discussed the experiences of two men, ages 57 and 42, when a 3G/4G tower was replaced with 5G equipment on the roof of their office where they worked as information technology and management consultants and sometimes slept.

The men displayed symptoms shortly after the 5G tower was installed and chose to relocate — at which point their symptoms lessened or disappeared.

Hardell and Nilsson measured a maximum of 1,180,000 microwatts (μW/m2) in the men’s office. [MORE]

Republican Senators Push Back Against Accord Giving Unelected Authorities at WHO Power Over US Plandemic Responses

From [HERE] As member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare to gather in Switzerland next week to negotiate final terms of an accord that will give the WHO centralized authority over U.S. policy in the case of a pandemic, Republican senators are pushing back with an effort to reinforce congressional power to authorize treaties.

The draft accord, which would be “legally binding” on all 194 member nations, gives the WHO the authority to declare pandemics and submits member countries to “the central role of the WHO as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work,” in areas like lockdowns, treatments, medical supply chains, surveillance, and “disinformation and false news,” once a pandemic is declared.

Seventeen U.S. senators, led by Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), introduced the “No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act” on Feb 15, which states that the pandemic accord must be deemed a treaty, thus requiring the consent of a supermajority of the Senate, which is two-thirds, or 67 senators. The legislation comes as the WHO gears up to present what it calls the “zero draft” of the accord, negotiated with the help of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, to all member nations on Feb. 27 to agree final terms.

Other sponsors of the bill included Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Katie Britt (R-Ala.).

“The WHO, along with our federal health agencies, failed miserably in their response to COVID-19,” Sen. Johnson stated. “This failure should not be rewarded with a new international treaty that would increase the WHO’s power at the expense of American sovereignty.”

But some doubt this bill, even if approved, will stop the WHO accord from going into effect once President Joe Biden signs it.

“With all due respect to the sponsoring senators, that will not do the trick,” Francis Boyle, professor of international law at Illinois University, told The Epoch Times. The reason, he said, is that the WHO accord is drafted specifically to circumvent the Senate-approval process, and Congress instead should immediately withhold its yearly contributions to the WHO and take the United States out of the organization.

Currently, the United States is the largest contributor to the WHO’s $6.72 billion budget, of which $1.25 billion is for “health emergencies.” The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the second largest donor to the WHO, contributing 9 percent of its budget in 2021; China is the third.

Dr Sucharit Bhakdi: COVID is a Plandemic. A Carefully Planned Conspiracy Designed to Kill Us and Our Children; Create Panic Over COVID in Order to Coerce and Induce People to Take Deadly Injections

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Socialist distancing – the ever-expanding and increasing disparity between the haves and the have-nots until the Socialist (i.e., monopoly capitalist) Welfare State becomes the Farewell State—farewell to your rights, your family, friends and even your life through Plandemics (Coronavirus), $camdemics (Corporate State turned Surveillance and Nanny State), 5G bio-weaponized eugenics, starvation, vaccinations, civil unrest, genocide and other nefarious LWO (Last World Order) activities that will greatly reduce the world’s population by 2030.  (See: Plandemic, $camdemic, Vaccines, Coronavirus, The Farewell State & COVERT-19) 

Big Pharma Exec says the DoD Conspired with China to Develop and Distribute “Biological Warfare Agents Marketed as ‘Covid-19 Vaccines'

From [HERE] Former pharmaceutical industry executive Sasha Latypova has come forward with damning information linking the Department of Defense (DoD) and Pfizer’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” scheme to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Government documents obtained by Latypova show that the DoD partnered with a CCP-linked drug company to develop and distribute the “biological warfare agents marketed as ‘Covid-19 vaccines'” from Pfizer and BioNTech.

“It is curious that the U.S. DoD awarded $10 billion … to a venture whose substantial equity (and IP) holder is the Chinese Communist Party,” Latypova wrote in a December 28 Substack article.

Over the past year, Latypova has dropped numerous bombshell revelations on the world pertaining to Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines,” all of which are a scam.

Government officials, Latypova claims, have been trying to conceal the relationship between Pfizer, the United States deep state, and communist China as it pertains to covid injections – but the cat is now out of the bag.

“I know what is in the redacted part,” Latypova wrote about images she shared of heavily redacted text naming the third party that partnered with Pfizer and BioNTech for the “co-development and distribution” of a “coronavirus vaccine.”

“Fosun Pharmaceuticals … it was not hard to figure out,” she revealed.

(Related: Three months before covid appeared, the DoD issued a “COVID-19 Research” contract to a Ukrainian company.)

It should really be called the Fosun-Pfizer-BioNTech covid “vaccine”

Another document dated March 16, 2020, substantiates Latypova’s claim that Fosun is the redacted third-party partner that worked with Pfizer, BioNTech, and the CCP to unleash covid shots under Operation Warp Speed.

This “strategic alliance,” that document states, was formed to ensure swift development and commercialization of the experimental gene-modification injections.

“Pfizer-BioNTech is really a 3-party R&D alliance: Fosun-Pfizer-BioNTech, and by ‘party’ I mean that one of the three is the Chinese Communist Party,” Latypova maintains.

“Fosun is a huge Chinese conglomerate that owns a large number of global companies, and its chairman, Guo Guangchang, is a very high ranking member of the CCP.”

According to Forbes, Guangchang is currently worth over $4 billion, and is a member of at least three different CCP-aligned organizations, including the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Under the supervision and direction of the CCP, the CPPCC provides consultation and advisory input to various CCP legislative bodies.

A native of the Soviet Union, Latypova has a unique and insightful perspective into the geopolitics of communist China, which is located right next to Russia.

“In China, every large employer, especially in something strategic like biopharma sector, is controlled by the CCP,” she says, adding that this was also the case in her homeland.

“… in the Soviet Union, where each workplace had a ‘partorg,’ a representative supervisor from the Communist party, or a whole department of them.”

There is also a fourth party involved in all this: Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Health was added to the “pharmacovigilance” agreement for data sharing on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the so-called “insurrection” in the U.S. capital.

Latypova says this foursome agreed to “count the bodies and share the data with each other.”

Latypova also maintains that the DoD was directly in charge of the production and distribution of all covid injections unleashed by the Trump administration and its Operation Warp Speed scheme.

These so-called “vaccines” were never categorized by the DoD as medicines or pharmaceuticals, but rather as “COVID countermeasures” under the authority of the military. This is why Trump unleashed them as a military operation after declaring covid to be a health emergency of a pandemic nature.

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.