2 Cops Face Manslaughter Charges after Murdering Herman Whitfeld. Black Man Told Cops, “I Can’t Breath” as They Held Him Face Down. Hadn't Committed a Crime in Indianapolis, a White Liberal City

From [HERE] Two Indianapolis police officers were indicted on manslaughter charges on Thursday in the death of Herman Whitfield III, a Black man who died in April 2022 after he was restrained by the police when his parents called 911 because he was having a mental health crisis.

In addition to involuntary manslaughter, the officers, Adam Ahmad, 31, and Steven Sanchez, 34, also face felony charges of reckless homicide and battery and an additional misdemeanor count of battery. Officer Sanchez faces a second count of involuntary manslaughter for using a Taser, according to the indictment. The officers could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

The indictment by a grand jury in Marion County, Ind., came nearly a year after Mr. Whitfield’s death on April 25, 2022, and after months of calls from his family for the police to release complete, unedited body camera footage, which they eventually did. Mr. Whitfield’s death followed a series of episodes in which Black men were killed in police custody — encounters that have prompted national protests.

The family of Mr. Whitfield, 39, said in a statement on Thursday that they were “grateful that the criminal process will proceed and hope that justice for their son will prevail.” They also said that they would continue to press a federal civil rights lawsuit that they filed against the City of Indianapolis and all six officers involved in the call about Mr. Whitfield.

On Tuesday, activists joined members of Mr. Whitfield’s family at a news conference, calling on the Justice Department to investigate Mr. Whitfield’s death. They also want the Justice Department to examine how the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department “interacts with minority communities and responds to mental health crisis.”

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement on Thursday that Officers Ahmad and Sanchez, along with the other officers who responded to the call about Mr. Whitfield, would remain on paid administrative duty while an “internal process continues.”

The officers arrived at the Whitfield home early on April 25, 2022, after his mother, Gladys Whitfield, called 911 and requested urgent medical care, saying that he was having a mental health crisis.

When officers arrived at their home, police body camera footage showed, Mr. Whitfield’s parents met them at the door. For most of the 22 minutes captured on video, Mr. Whitfield did not engage with police officers as he walked around the home. The officers and his mother asked Mr. Whitfield, who was naked, to put some clothes on because an ambulance was coming for him.

At one point in the video, Mr. Whitfield is seen quietly sitting in a room. He does not respond to the police and his mother as they speak to him. A few minutes later, Mr. Whitfield is seen running, causing a commotion and calling for water.

“Keep that Taser out,” an officer is heard saying in the video.

Moments later, as Mr. Whitfield is seen running around a table, an officer draws a Taser and pulls the trigger, stunning Mr. Whitfield, who falls by the table and pulls a tablecloth over himself.

“Oh my God,” Mr. Whitfield is heard yelling. “I’m dying. I’m dying.”

The police then handcuff Mr. Whitfield, face down.

“Can’t breathe,” Mr. Whitfield is heard yelling, moving his body as officers try to restrain him.

“Tres, be calm,” Mr. Whitfield’s father is heard saying in the background, calling Mr. Whitfield by a nickname. “Calm down, Tres. It’s Daddy.”

After a few moments, Mr. Whitfield gradually stops moving, and his yells fade to whimpers.

“Those are going to be way too tight,” an officer is heard saying about the handcuffs on Mr. Whitfield. “We’ll deal with that in a minute.”

As the police continue to restrain Mr. Whitfield, face down in handcuffs, he eventually stops moving or speaking.

Within minutes, paramedics arrive at the home, and when it appears that Mr. Whitfield is not breathing, they begin doing CPR on him.

“Why are they doing that if he was OK?” Ms. Whitfield is heard asking.

Mr. Whitfield was pronounced dead at a hospital later that morning. The Marion County Coroner later ruled his death a homicide, caused by “cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of law enforcement subdual, prone restraint, and conducted electrical weapon use.”

'They have the team, equipment and the gear. Now all they need is the right address.’ Farmington Cops Murder White Man During Another Wrong House Raid [the power to use Force Offensively is Evil]

From [AMMOLAND] “Farmington police shoot and kill man after responding to wrong home,” Albuquerque’s NBC affiliate KOB4 Eyewitness News reported Friday on an incident from the previous Wednesday.

Police were responding to a domestic violence call and “mistakenly approached the wrong house.”

Per the New Mexico State Police, which is investigating the shooting, the police knocked on the door and announced themselves. “ When no one answered, officers asked dispatch to call the reporting party back and have them come to the front door.”

Killed was homeowner Robert Dotson, 52, who answered his door with a gun in hand. Since it was the wrong house, he’s not the one who got the call. He was presumptively trying to figure out what was going on and who was out there.

“What followed was a chaotic scene, with officers retreating and opening fire” Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe explained in a video posted to the department’s Facebook page. That this is the default reaction on seeing a citizen in his own home holding a gun should be a concern to all, and at this writing, videos are being withheld pending officer statements. Until that happens, the public will not see how Dotson was holding the gun and if he made any attempt to open fire once he saw who was outside his door.

That Dotson’s wife opened fire and received return fire, only stopping and complying after certain she was in fact engaging with police, strongly suggests they had no idea what was going on and the police call was made to the residence where the initial call originated, not to the home of the man they just killed.

That leaves open the question of how police got the address wrong in the first place. What checklist procedures are in place to preclude an armed response and the assumptions that go with one until a positive identification has been established? Were those procedures followed? It also makes it imperative that the investigation be open and complete, especially in light of a prevalence of “wrong house raids,” resulting in headlines like:

• Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House

• Texas Cops Realized They Raided the Wrong House. They Kept Searching Anyway.

• Black woman handcuffed naked in raid at wrong home set to get $2.9 million from Chicago

• Cop Who Wrongly Led No-Knock Raid Against 78-Year-Old Grandfather Can’t Be Sued, Court Rules

If you go to the above link you’ll realize you could play this game all day. Yet despite these outrages, it still happens. And forget the wrong house. Sometimes it can be the “right one,” but the arrest warrant affidavit was falsified, resulting in the highly-publicized shooting death of Breonna Taylor by officers executing a “no knock” warrant.

And other times, it can be the result of a disgruntled neighbor calling in police with allegations of gunfire and death threats that she later withdrew—but not before SWAT responders opened fire on Jason Kloepfer, the subject of a series of exclusive AmmoLand reports.

Such stories are not new. Back in 2011, Jose Guereña, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war was slain in a no-knock invasion by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department SWAT Team, controversial not only because no evidence of drugs was found at the scene, but also because he did not open fire on deputies as they had previously claimed. And deputies blocked paramedics from approaching the scene for well over an hour, cutting off any chance of their victim surviving.

It gets even more outrageous. In 2018, a victim was killed by police as the result of a wrong house revenge SWATting call – two morons got into a $1.50 “dispute” over “Call of Duty” and when one threatened to kill the other, he gave him a previous address that had since been occupied by the completely uninvolved victim. The threatener then called a third party who charged to make the 911 call (read the complete story here).

It’s no surprise that police tried to justify their response by claiming the totally innocent man “lowered his hands toward his ‘waist area’.”  Never mind that they were at a two-story house and the dispatcher reported it was a one-story house. The reported words of the “prankster” who called himself “SWAuTistic”:

“Bomb threats are more fun and cooler than swats in my opinion and I should have just stuck to that. But I began making $ doing some swat requests.”

And every bit as evil as that, when you consider the influence they have  and that they take in donations under the fraudulent pretense of being about “gun safety,” is the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence a group that partners with Giffords and that advises:

Talk about a way to set the stage for even more “gun violence”!

But back to New Mexico…

“What I will tell you as the chief is that this is an extremely traumatic event, that I am just heartbroken by the circumstances surrounding this,” Chief Hebbe continued in his Facebook non-apology. “I am extremely sorry that we are in this position.”

Good grief. The chief thinks he’s heartbroken. What about the wife of the man his men just killed?

And what he’s sorry for is being “in this position”?

This is inexcusable, any way you look at it. But it being New Mexico, with an anti-gun Democrat governor and Democrat-dominated legislature busy imposing every citizen disarmament edict they can get away with, don’t pin too many hopes on the politically-dependent State Police.

Who thinks we won’t see new casualties resulting from “red flag laws,” especially when, using the Giffords/Bloomberg model, where “About a third of gun confiscation orders are wrongly issued against innocent people”?

Uncle Brothers False Flag Productions Feature the Same Fake as Fuck Actors: Actress was at the Nashville and Highland (IL) “Mass Shootings” and in DC Advocating for Gun Control 3 days before Nashville

like Doc Blynd said, ‘all this shit is an IQ test.’ Watch your mind!

5 Racist Suspect Cops Arraigned in Racist Suspect Court after Being Under Charged by Black Rolebot DA. None Charged for the Brutal Torture and Intentional Murder of Ronald Greene

RONALD GREENE WAS A BLACK MAN WHO WAS TORTURED AND MURDERED BY WHITE TROOPERS IN LA. ON MAY 10, 2019, GREENE, WHO WAS UNARMED, DIED AFTER BEING ARRESTED BY LOUISIANA STATE POLICE FOLLOWING A HIGH-SPEED CHASE OUTSIDE MONROE, LOUISIANA. DURING THE ARREST, HE WAS STUNNED, PUNCHED, AND PLACED IN A CHOKEHOLD. HE WAS ALSO DRAGGED FACE DOWN WHILE HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED, AND HE WAS LEFT FACE DOWN FOR AT LEAST NINE MINUTES. AT LEAST SIX WHITE TROOPERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ARREST.

WHEN GREENE'S CORPSE WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL, POLICE TOLD DOCTORS THAT HIS CAR HAD RUN INTO A TREE, A STORY A DOCTOR SAID "DOES NOT ADD UP", GIVEN THE NATURE OF GREENE'S INJURIES AND THE FACT THAT THERE WERE TWO STUN-GUN PROBES LODGED IN HIS BODY; POLICE LATER ACKNOWLEDGED THAT GREENE HAD DIED DURING A STRUGGLE, THOUGH WITHOUT MENTIONING ANY USE OF FORCE BY OFFICERS. ALTHOUGH AUTHORITIES REFUSED TO RELEASE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE FOR TWO YEARS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OBTAINED AND PUBLISHED A PORTION OF IT IN MAY 2021. [MORE]

From [HERE] The five white law enforcement officers indicted in connection with the May 2019 beating death of Black motorist Ronald Greene pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the respective charges they face.

The defendants — four Louisiana State Police troopers and one Union Parish Sheriff’s deputy — were arraigned at the Third Judicial District Court in Union Parish.   

Master Trooper Kory York faces the most serious charges, including one count of negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office. 

After entering their pleas and deciding on dates for the next hearing, the defendants and their attorneys left the Union Parish Courthouse without speaking to reporters who had gathered outside.

Lt. John Clary, the ranking officer on the scene almost four years ago, faces charges of malfeasance and obstruction of justice. An internal investigation revealed Clary mislabeled his body-camera footage. Once it was eventually found, it showed graphic parts of Greene’s beating not captured on any other cameras at the scene. 

York and Clary were suspended from State Police in January but are still entitled to receive any leave and compensatory pay.

Trooper Dakota DeMoss and Capt. John Peters each face a count of obstruction of justice. Union Parish Sheriff’s deputy Chris Harpin faces three counts of malfeasance in office. 

DeMoss was fired in 2021, and Peters has since retired

Greene died May 10, 2019, following a vehicle pursuit outside of Monroe. Body-camera footage of the incident, which State Police withheld for two years, shows the troopers beating, choking, stunning and dragging Greene before leaving him shackled in a prone position for at least nine minutes and failing to render aid. He was dead when paramedics arrived on the scene, according to testimony given to a Louisiana House of Representatives committee that investigated the alleged cover-up. 

State Police initially failed to investigate the incident, which only came to light when Greene’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in May 2020 that spurred news reports. Troopers initially told Greene’s family that he had died on impact after his car struck a tree. 

It took 474 days for state police to launch an internal inquiry and officials from Gov. John Bel Edwards on down refused to release body camera video for more than two years. That was until the AP obtained and published it in May, showing white troopers beating Greene and dragging him by his ankle shackles, even as he pleaded for mercy and wailed, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!”

Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, spoke to reporters after Tuesday’s court hearing and called on Gov. John Bel Edwards to do more to prevent police killings of unarmed Black men. 

“What we saw on those videos clearly without a doubt — everyone knows — was the murder of a Black man,” Hardin said. “You can’t continue to sugarcoat the murder of a Black man while he was driving.”

But they did - none are charged with murder.

The next hearing in the case has been set for May 12.

According to the civil complaint filed on behalf of Mr. Greene:

On or about 12 a.m. on May 10, 2019, Greene was driving a silver Toyota CH-R on U.S. 80 in Monroe, Louisiana. Trooper Demoss contends that he attempted to initiate a traffic stop of Greene’s car. Trooper Demoss does not define any violation of the motor vehicle code that would justify a stop. Instead, he contends that he observed a “traffic violation”. Greene did not stop his car and a vehicle pursuit ensued.

Greene traveled along US 80 to LA 143 and into Union Parish where his car swerved, spun, and crashed into a wooded area.

The front of Greene’s car did not make impact with a tree and his airbag did not deploy. The highest level of impact sustained by the car occurred in the rear driver side and said impact was moderate.

Greene was able to exit the vehicle without assistance. Green was not injured and could walk, speak and otherwise function in a healthy manner after the crash.

Almost immediately thereafter, Trooper Demoss and Master Trooper Hollingsworth arrived on the scene. Shortly thereafter, Captain Peters, Lieutenant Clary, Sergeant McElroy, Master Trooper York, and Deputy Sherriff Harpin arrived at the scene.

Greene exited his car and began to apologize to the officers, telling them he knew he should have stopped the vehicle earlier. Officers pinned Greene down on the ground while he screamed ‘Oh my God.’”

Greene was moaning, begging the officers to stop, and repeatedly saying “I’m sorry.” Despite Greene’s contrition and surrender, Trooper Demoss, Master Trooper Hollingsworth, Master Trooper York, Captain Peters, Lieutenant Clary, Sergeant McElroy, and Deputy Sherriff Harpin individually and in concert used lethal force against Greene.

Trooper Demoss beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat. Master Trooper Hollingsworth beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat.

Master Trooper York beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat.

Lieutenant Clary beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat. Sergeant McElroy beat, smothered and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat. Captain Peters beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat. Deputy Sherriff Harpin beat, smothered, and choked Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat.

Despite Greene’s contrition and surrender Defendant officers used an electronic control weapon against Greene at least three times thus attacking his heart with massive amounts of electricity. It is currently unknown which officer or officers used electronic control weapon(s) because the Louisiana State Police refused to produce or release bodycam footage, dashboard cam footage, discharge logs, use of force reports or any number of investigative materials that would identify who used lethal force.

Trooper Demoss watched other officers beat, smother, choke, and use an electronic control weapon on Greene despite the fact that he had surrendered, was not resisting, was in custody, and posed no threat.

The force used against Greene was unjustified, unreasonable, excessive, and in violation of Greene’s Fourth Amendment rights.

The force used against Greene left him beaten, bloodied, and in cardiac arrest. An officer called for an ambulance at 12:29 a.m.

When the Emergency Medical Technicians arrived at 12:51 a.m. they found Greene unresponsive. He was propped up against an officer’s leg, covered in blood with multiple “TASER” Barbs penetrating his body.

Emergency Medical Technicians determined that Greene was in cardiac and respiratory arrest.

Greene was placed on a gurney and transported to Glenwood Medical Center. He remained unresponsive when he arrived at 1:25 a.m. Greene was pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m.

An initial report from Glenwood Medical Center listed the principle cause of Greene’s death as cardiac arrest. He was also diagnosed with an “unspecified injury of head.”

Master Trooper Hollingsworth confirmed the vicious and unconstitutional nature of the Officers’ conduct by confessing that he choked and “beat the ever-loving fuck” out of Greene until he was spitting blood and went limp.

Master Trooper Hollingsworth confirmed that this vicious and unconstitutional beating was inflicted by multiple officers and in the presence of multiple officers.

All Defendants immediately began efforts to obfuscate the true nature of the conduct that caused Greene’s death. The following are examples of the Officers’ deceptions:

Greene’s family was told that he had been killed in an auto accident.

Greene’s mother was told that he had been killed immediately after hitting a tree.

The call for Emergency Medical Services omitted any mention that force had been used. The sole police report produced to date does not indicate that force was used.

Inconsistent versions of the Officers’ involvement with Greene were provided to medical treatment providers at Glenwood Hospital.

The sole police report produced to date asserted that Greene was intoxicated prior to any toxicology examinations being conducted.

Greene’s body was sent out of the State of Louisiana to conduct an autopsy, denying the right of the family to have a representative observe same. Green’s family has been denied access to video footage of the use of lethal force. Doctor Omokhuale, an emergency room physician at Glenwood confirms the Officers’ deception and stated as follows: “obtaining more history from different law enforcement personal, the account of what happened was disjointed and does not add up. Different versions are present and family did not come to the emergency room. Family states they were told by law enforcement that patient died on impact with tree immediately after motor vehicle accident, but law enforcement state to me that patient out of the car and was running and involved in a fight and struggle where them where he was tased 3 times.”

Grand Jury Indicts Former Texas Corrections Officer Accused of Fatally Shooting Black Inmate in the Back Multiple Times

From [HERE] Isaiah Garcia, a former corrections officer for the Hays County Sheriff’s Office in Texas was indicted last Friday by a grand jury on felony deadly conduct charges in the death of Joshua Leon Wright.

KSAT reported that Garcia allegedly shot Wright, 36, in the back multiple times after a fight broke out at Seton Hospital last December. Wright was receiving treatment at the medical facility when, after Garcia removed handcuffs for Wright to use the bathroom, he suddenly tried to escape.

Garcia, who was guarding Wright, then allegedly shot and killed him.

Hays County Criminal District Attorney, Kelly Higgins, claimed evidence presented by investigators determined the severity of the charges. “After hearing the evidence, the grand jury determined that the offense of Deadly Conduct was the most appropriate charge,” Higgins said. Texas Rangers presented findings from their investigation to the grand jury, including video from Garcia’s body cam.

The victim was incarcerated for numerous charges, including reckless driving, criminal mischief, and evading arrest. Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas (CLEAT), the largest police officers’ union in the state, claim Wright was wielding a weapon when the fight happened.

Legal counsel representing the Wright family, Chevo Pastrano, said the victim was shot at least six times, based on information presented from an independent autopsy. His family also released a statement, with the support of civil rights attorney, Ben Crump, stating, “The family of Joshua Wright is relieved by news of this indictment, as it gets us one step closer to ensuring that former officer Garcia will be held accountable for his deadly actions,” the statement read, according to Hays Free Press News Dispatch.

“It is crucial that when officers act violently and against protocol, that they and the departments that train them are held responsible for their actions to ensure that these killings stop happening.”

Garcia’s charges carry a potential punishment of a maximum of ten years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

Pasadena Police Settle Christopher Ballew Lawsuit for $3.2M. Cops Ordered Black Man to “Shut the Fuck up, Dummy” before Battering Him into Submission w/Authority [aka the rule of law]

From [HERE] It's been nearly six years since then-21-year-old Christopher Ballew was unnecessarily and savagely beaten by two Pasadena Police officers, Zachary Lujan, and Lerry Esparza – in an undoubtedly preventable situation.

The violent flailing of a baton and Ballew’s face being slammed onto the asphalt of Joe's Mobile Service Station on November 9, 2017, remains a contemporary Rodney King moment for many in the Pasadena/Altadena community.

A continuum of a pattern of police violating policy, racial targeting, and, when in doubt — ordering Ballew to “Shut the Fuck up, Dummy” before violently battering him into submission. The two veteran Pasadena Police Department officers served up their brand of policing with no worry or concern about their brute tactics. They did so, knowing that at least one Body-Worn-Camera was recording their actions.

All of them, including former Pasadena City Manager Steve Mermell, had viewed the footage — and saw no problem with it. Instead, police and city officials chose to keep quiet.

From the beginning, Ballew maintained his innocence. He was then and remains adamant that he complied with the officers — even when they ordered conflicting and confusing commands under the threat that he would get a knee to the head if he spoke again.

Ballew filed a Federal Civil Lawsuit that would take his quest to hold the officers accountable. A journey that would be stalled and delayed by the City of Pasadena's legal roadblocks, conflicts of interest, and dragging out the process in a common strategy that further victimizes.

A joint statement released by the City of Pasadena and Civil Rights Attorney John Burton announced a settlement in the lawsuit stemming from the November 2017 unmerciful beating of Ballew by Lujan and Esparza.

According to the statement. “After the settlement, the city will pay $3.2 million in exchange for Mr. Ballew’s dismissal of his federal civil-rights lawsuit.”

The settlement is among the highest paid out by the City of Pasadena, resulting from the Pasadena Police's use of force in recent years.

Ballew wasn't a gang member and had never been in trouble with the law. A look back into the evening of November 9, 2017, it remains clear that Black men are trafficked through the criminal (in)justice system, railroaded by innocuous offenses on their rap sheets. At worst, they don’t make it out alive to tell their stories.

Lujan and Esparza were patrolling members of Pasadena PD’s Gang Enforcement Unit.

Ballew was en route to the gas station when he passed the officers traveling in the opposite direction. The officers noticed his white Mercedes Benz without a front license plate and tinted windows.

When the officers made a U-turn to catch up with Ballew, he had already exited his car and was causally heading towards the gas station convenient store.

After contacting Ballew, Esparza aggressively grabs his arm by applying a ‘pain-compliance’ hold, leading him back to the car.

A bystander and the officers’ car and body cameras captured the attack on videotape. Journalist James Farr produced a documentary based on those videotaped recordings that documents the two officers’ unprovoked and violent assault on the unarmed Ballew as he exited his car at the gas station and started walking toward the convenience store.

In a viral cellphone video that recorded critical moments of the event, Ballew can be seen defending himself from Esparza and Lujan.

Ballew is seen catching and deflecting the baton from Esparza, then being forced to the ground and punched by Lujan. Esparza then struck Ballew repeatedly with the metal baton near his spine. Ballew pleaded with the officers to stop before they overpowered him and handcuffed him on the ground.

The disturbing video footage showed Esparza un-holstering his weapon and placing his finger on the trigger a fraction of a second from possibly firing at Ballew before Lujan two-handedly slammed Ballew’s face into the concrete.

Most of the assault by the police was captured on video by a bystander. That video was discovered by Ballew a month after the assault. The bystander's video of the horrific acts went viral. After considerable community pressure, Pasadena PD released six dash-cam and body-camera videos that provided additional graphic details of the encounter.

Lujan activated his camera. Esparza failed to turn his camera on.

Ballew was transported to a local emergency room. He was later booked on suspicion of assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. After spending about 36 hours in custody, he was released on $50,000 bail.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to press charges against Ballew, citing insufficient evidence.

Former Pasadena Police Chief John Perez cleared the officers in April 2021.

Both Esparza and Lujan remain employed with the department. Available public records show they continued working overtime and special assignments — including the Black History Parade.

Ballew’s attorney, John Burton, said the confrontation could easily have turned fatal. Burton said one of the objectives of the claim is to determine why the traffic stop intensified so quickly.

“This was unprovoked, nearly deadly violence,” said John Burton, Ballew’s attorney. [MORE]

Liberal Authorities in NYC Can't Dodge Suit Over NYPD’s Efforts to Silence People Protesting Against Police Brutality and the Police Murders of Black People by Unlawfully Detaining and Assaulting Them

From [HERE] A New York state trial judge has ruled that the city of New York cannot escape a lawsuit brought by five people alleging they were unlawfully arrested, detained and injured by police during the 2020 demonstrations following George Floyd's killing.

New York Supreme Court Justice Leslie A. Stroth said in an order Thursday that she was denying a bid by the defendants — the city, the New York Police Department and four individuals officers — to dismiss claims that police flouted the state's penal law and constitution when they arrested demonstrators instead of issuing them desk appearance tickets on the spot.

In January 2020, months before Floyd's death, state law was modified to require cops to ticket rather than arrest people accused of low-level offenses. Police arrested the plaintiffs at protests in May and June of that year, charging them with disorderly conduct and for disobeying a curfew imposed by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to looting and destruction. All charges were either dismissed or never filed by prosecutors.

The case largely focuses on the meaning of the word "arrest." At its core, the dispute is whether the law forces police officers to issue desk appearance tickets — which require suspects to show up for court hearings — at the scene of an incident or whether they can transport them to police stations and booking centers.

In her order allowing the suit to move forward, Justice Stroth said she didn't have to rule on those arguments at this stage of the litigation but added that "clarification is needed" on the law.

"Defendants fail to address the fact that the plaintiffs were held in vans and cells, restrained for hours, and were clearly in custody and not free to leave for several hours, which is what occurs in what defendants describe as a full custodial arrest," the order says.

In an amended complaint filed in June last year, the plaintiffs asked the court to declare that the law prohibits police from arresting people for low-level offenses and to award damages for violations of Section 12 of Article I of the New York State Constitution, which includes protections against "unreasonable searches and seizures" similar to those in the U.S. Constitution. The complaint also included claims of false arrest, assault and battery, and excessive force.

In a partial motion to dismiss filed in July, the defendants argued that they did not "arrest" the demonstrators, but rather "transported" them from the scenes of their offenses to a precinct or booking center to issue appearance tickets.

They said the statute at issue — New York Criminal Procedure Law, Section 150.20 — authorized them to issue tickets in locations other than the locations of the incidents or they otherwise had "absolute immunity" in deciding that custody was appropriate under the circumstances.

In her order, Justice Stroth said it was too soon to make determinations on immunity issues.

Marlen S. Bodden of The Legal Aid Society of New York, which represented the plaintiffs alongside attorneys with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP working pro bono, hailed the court decision as a victory.

"The NYPD is not above the law, and this ruling enforces that reality," she said in a statement.

Andrew Ceresney, co-chair of the litigation department at Debevoise, said in a statement that the firm was committed to ensuring that "all New Yorkers have access to equal justice."

"We are pleased that the court denied the city's motion to dismiss, and look forward to vindicating our clients' rights as the case now proceeds," he said.

The NYPD did not respond to an email seeking comment. 

"While the city is disappointed with this decision and that the court has allowed the case to proceed, we are confident that we ultimately prevail on the merits of the claims," Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the New York City Law Department, said in an email statement.

In their complaint, the plaintiffs — Charles Douglas, Julian Gilbert, Derek Baron, Emily Martin and Nicholas Moore — said they were placed in handcuffs or zip ties, transported to a booking center or police precinct in "overcrowded, filthy, and overheated vehicles" and detained for several hours before being issued tickets.

"Despite the law's clear mandate to issue appearance tickets, the NYPD unlawfully arrested, handcuffed, and in some instances physically brutalized the plaintiffs," the complaint says.

Douglas alleged in the complaint that, at the end of a demonstration against police brutality in Union Square on May 31, 2020, several unmasked officers piled on him and he was forced to sit on a sidewalk for several hours with his hands cuffed before being placed in a hot police van without air conditioning en route to police headquarters in Manhattan.

Gilbert said that following a peaceful march in Brooklyn on June 4, 2020, he was yanked from his bicycle and thrown face down onto the ground before being taken to Brooklyn central booking, where he was moved among multiple "filthy, foul-smelling, and overcrowded cells," the complaint says.

Baron, Martin and Moore were among the over 300 protesters the NYPD trapped and arrested in South Bronx on that same day. The incident sparked public outrage and several civil lawsuits, some of which have been settled.

NYPD's crowd control tactics were criticized as too brutal and continue to be the focus of lawsuits — including one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James — that were consolidated for pre-trial purposes and are currently before U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon and U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein in federal court in Manhattan.

The demonstrators are represented by Andrew J. Ceresney, Jared I. Kagan, Brandon Fetzer, Daniel Joiner and Samantha B. Singh of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Corey L. Stoughton, Marlen S. Bodden and Russell S. Novack of The Legal Aid Society of New York.

The city of New York, the New York Police Department and the individual officers are represented by Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Stephanie D'Agostino and Jeffrey S. Dantowitz of the New York City Law Department.

The case is Douglas et al. v. City of New York et al., case number 153606/2021, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

Like the Constitution says ‘Any Black Person w/a Gun Can Be Shot on Sight Even If They Don't Pose a Threat.’ Video Shows Milwaukee Cop Fatally Shoot Herman Lucas in the Back as He Fled w/Gun in Hand

From [HERE] The Milwaukee Police Department on Friday released redacted footage of the fatal police shooting of Herman Lucas, but the video does not show Lucas point a gun at the officer prior to the officer killing him.

If you are running away from someone can you still pose an imminent threat to them?

Kent Lovern, Milwaukee County’s chief deputy district attorney (a white liberal), said Friday the findings of the investigation were turned over to his office days ago and no decision on possible charges have been made. The Waukesha Police Department was the agency leading in the investigation.

The department also addressed public concerns regarding a bystander's video following the shooting where officers move Lucas' body. Sarnow said officers attempted to move him to level ground after approaching cautiously as they were unsure if Lucas still posed an active threat.

The incident began with a traffic stop around 1:48 p.m. Feb. 21 on the 7000 block of West Thurston Avenue on Milwaukee’s northwest side. Police said officers pulled over the vehicle for not having license plates.

The driver initially stopped but then fled west as officers approached on foot. After traveling about a mile and a half with police in pursuit, the driver disregarded a red light and crashed into another car on the 9100 block of West Silver Spring Drive.

Bystander video shows at least four police officers cautiously approaching Lucas’ body as it lays unresponsive on the ground in a corner of a gas station lot, where a fence and building meet. The officers’ guns are drawn and at least one holds a tactical shield as they appear to shout orders at Lucas to put his hands on his side.

Lucas never moves.

DoGooder PropaGandhi Puppeticians Reinstated. Freedumb Flighters Resume Advocacy to Eliminate the Right of Self-Defense Against Criminals and Tyrannical Government and Push for Dialing 911, Slavery

Eliminating the right of self defense is not Black power. Banning so-called “assault weapons” is not freedom but freedumb, slavery. Contrary to dumbocrat clogic, assault weapons don’t make people less safe against criminals or government tyranny. Tyranny prevention is a core purpose of the so-called 2nd amendment, it is a pre-existing right that authorities must discard to impose tyranny. Pre-existing here means it is an inherent, inalienable right that exists without regard to any government. People must be able to obtain powerful weapons to defend themselves against government tyranny for this "Pre-existing right" to be meaningful.

It may difficult for do-gooders clinging to their white liberal dogma to understand but the “2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” [MORE] The 2nd Amendment protects against overreaching government. Is that so hard to conceive when police murder Black men with impunity on a regular basis? As explained by Judge Alex Kozinski, “Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South.” 

Without the right to carry arms for self defense and defense against government tyranny all your other so-called “rights” can be turned on and off like a light by authorities. As explained by legal scholar Skylar Petit,

“All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.”

The chance of being victimized in a mass shooting or active shooter incident is almost 0%. According to the FBI, this type of shooting is the rarest of all types of shooting. [MORE] An American’s lifetime odds of dying in a mass shooting committed in any location is 1 in 11,125; of dying in a car accident is 1 and 491; of drowning is 1 in 1,133; and of choking on food is 1 in 3,461). You’re 55 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a “terrorist.” [more]

Indeed, Historical Analysis Shows Disarmed Formerly Free People Have No Defense Against Slavery or Govt Violence.

All of the ten major tyrannical regimes of the twentieth century and beyond confiscated the weapons of the populations they planned to murder or terrorize en masse.

The ten regimes are listed below:

• Ottoman Turkey

• USSR

• Nazi Germany

• China

• Guatemala

• Uganda

• Cambodia

• Rwanda

• Yugoslavia (the former)

• Sudan.

Of the ten regimes, not one announced its intentions to its victims.  All the victims were deliberately fed disinformation until the last minute in order to preclude resistance. In the 20th Century:

• Governments murdered four times as many civilians as were killed in all the international and domestic wars combined.

• Governments murdered millions more people than were killed by common criminals.

How could governments kill so many people?  The governments had the power - and the people - the victims - were unable to resist. The victims were unarmed. [MORE] As explained by Naomi Wolf,

In Australia, citizens are now arrested when they seek to escape forcible quarantine. This happened so easily. Australians yielded 650,000 privately owned guns in 1996-7 [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback]. Australians can now offer little deterrence to this kidnapping by the state. 

The unarmed people of Shanghai have nothing which which to deter their mass incarceration. Neither can the unarmed citizens of China as a whole deter the transportation of ethnic minorities into detention camps, or organ harvesting or forced abortions. 

You can hate guns. I have hated guns most of my life. I hate violence. I hate gun violence. I hate the slaughter of innocents. I am a peaceful person. 

But it is becoming obvious even to us pacifists, vegans, and tree huggers, that formerly free people who are unarmed are defenseless against the criminal tyrannies exerting massive violence and control upon them. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Second Amendment – (to the Constitution for the United States)—is only intended for a militia to enforce the First Amendment if and when deemed necessary. Every non-felon in the street has the guaranteed right to be packin’ heat. Slave states (the overwhelming majority) are those that have criminalized openly carrying firearms. In the case of Silveira v. Lockyer, Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski summed up the importance of the right to keep and bear arms: “The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” The right to keep and bears arms actually serves as more than an insurance policy, it also serves as a deterrent. For when would-be tyrants know that the citizenry is well-armed, they think twice about imposing tyranny. (See: Gun Control, HUGGS, Self-Ownership, Cowards, Cemetery & Militia)

Militia – a lawful organization outside the control of organized (and unorganized) crime under the direct control of non-merchants formed for the purpose of hands-on remedies for the prevention of violence where there is no “money” to be made (advantage). 2) the last remedy for the non-merchant denied remedy by the merchant courts and police. 3) combat shooting clubs that keep the fetid and flagituous elements (rogue agents and bad actors) in and behind “government” a tad bit nervous. Militias protect the unalienable rights of free men and women. You are more likely to be visited-upon by the “authorities” of whatever stripe more than a would-be robber. Both have the same intention—to take you and/or your property by force. While violence is never the answer, protecting yourself and defending your rights, family, dignity, property and honor is the solution for lawless encroachment by those sworn to uphold the law and those who could care less about you, the authorities, or the law to begin with. “Stop right there! Drop your weapons and let me see your hands in the air—and wave them like you’re in despair.” ~Arnecca DeWoods. Never forget Ruby Ridge. (See: Force Continuum, Gun Control, Startle, Fascism, Rights, Justice System, Unalienable Rights, Police, Law Enforcement, Authorities, Orderlies, Game Warden, Jehovah Witness Protection Program, Surveillance State, Nation- States, Political Boundaries, Free-Range Slavery, Territorial Boundaries, Waco “No-Knock,” The Greater System, WACO, Longevity, Faction, Authority, Government, Granfalloon, Legislation & Second Amendment)

PropaGandhi – passive social non-resistance propaganda. 2) obedience-based servitude to the enforcers of granfalloons uncommonly known as Corporate States and any other group-entities. Mahatma Gandhi mostly walked barefoot which produced calluses on his feet. He also had a very weird diet sprinkled with bouts of fasting which made him rather frail and suffer intermittently from halitosis—this made him… “A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.” (See: Poser, Class, Mass, Racism White Supremacy, Gun Control & Caste)

Racist Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Threats, Slashing Tires, Breaking Windshields and Vandalizing Homes in Effort to Intimidate Black Residents Into Leaving Wisconsin Neighborhood

From [HERE] A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to one felony count and one misdemeanor count of intimidating and interfering with Black residents because of their race and because they were exercising their right to fair housing.

According to court documents, William McDonald, 45, of West Allis, Wisconsin, admitted that in March 2021, he vandalized a Black woman’s vehicle parked outside her apartment by slashing her tires and smashing her windshield. McDonald then left a note on her car, filled with racial slurs, threatening to slash her throat and demanding she move out of West Allis. A week later, McDonald slashed two of her car tires and left another note filled with racial slurs and giving her an ultimatum – move out of the neighborhood or suffer violence. In April 2022, a Black woman and her two minor children moved into McDonald’s apartment complex. Shortly after they moved in, McDonald vandalized her front door with racial graffiti and left her a note, calling her family a racial slur and demanding she get out of the building.

“No one should feel unsafe in their home or be subjected to harmful and derogatory threats because of the color of their skin,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department will continue to protect the housing rights of all individuals and vigorously prosecute those who use racially-charged threats to drive people from their homes.”  

“The conduct at issue in this case strikes at the very core of the civil rights guaranteed to every American citizen under federal law,” stated U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. “I commend the courage of those targeted by Mr. McDonald for coming forward. The U.S. Attorney’s Office remains committed to working with all of our federal, state, and local partners to hold individuals who violate the civil rights of others fully accountable under federal law.”

“Hate crimes are not only an attack on the victim, they threaten and intimidate an entire community. Because of their wide-ranging impact, investigating hate crimes is a top priority for the FBI,” said Special Agent in Charge Michael E. Hensle of the FBI Milwaukee Field Office. “As a law enforcement protector of civil right in the U.S., the FBI will continue to collaborate with our local and state law enforcement partners and bring to justice those who commit hate crimes.”

McDonald faces a maximum sentence of up to 11 years in prison. A sentencing date has been set for June 29 A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The FBI Milwaukee Field Office and the West Allis Police Department are investigating the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Ladwig and Philip Kovoor for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Trial Attorney Nikhil Ramnaney of the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section are prosecuting the case.

Tesla Ordered to Pay More Than $3 Million to Black Man in Racial Harassment Case

From [HERE] Tesla Inc. TSLA -0.30%decrease; red down pointing triangle secured a financial reprieve when a jury ordered the company to pay more than $3 million to a Black former worker in a racial harassment case, a fraction of the payout the company initially owed.

It was the second time in as many years that the case was presented to a federal jury here.

In 2021, a jury found Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle maker liable for subjecting the former factory worker to a racially hostile work environment and failing to prevent racial harassment. That jury awarded the former worker, Owen Diaz, $137 million in damages. Mr. Diaz was an elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory in 2015 and 2016.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick cut that award last year to $15 million, calling the original damages excessive. Mr. Diaz rejected that reduced award.

Jurors in the second trial were asked to assume Tesla is liable and assess how much the company should pay in damages. The eight-person jury on Monday ordered Tesla to pay Mr. Diaz $175,000 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages. 

Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Tesla, declined to comment on the verdict, as did the company’s general counsel.

Attorneys for Mr. Diaz expressed disappointment with the outcome. “I don’t think that the truth drove the decisions here. I think it was a show whereby Mr. Diaz was attacked and his credibility was questioned,” said Larry Organ, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers.

Mr. Diaz’s attorneys have asked Judge Orrick to declare a mistrial, saying Tesla improperly sought to introduce evidence that prejudiced the jury against Mr. Diaz.

Bernard Alexander, another lawyer for Mr. Diaz, asked jurors last week to award more than $8 million in compensatory damages and some $150 million in punitive damages. “If Tesla refuses to protect Black employees inside the workplace, then it is unsafe for them,” Mr. Alexander said in his closing statement.

Mr. Spiro called that damages request “unwedded to law” and accused Mr. Diaz of lying repeatedly. “Justice is not lying to get an advantage,” Mr. Spiro said.

The jury in the earlier trial found Tesla liable for subjecting Mr. Diaz to a racially hostile work environment; failing to prevent him from being racially harassed; and negligently retaining and supervising one or more of Mr. Diaz’s supervisors. The San Francisco Bay Area factory where Mr. Diaz worked was Tesla’s only car assembly plant at the time.

Tesla’s then-head of human resources said in 2021 that the company believed the verdict wasn’t justified.

Tesla also is facing a lawsuit in state court from the California Civil Rights Department, which sued the company last year alleging that Tesla ignored years of complaints from Black factory workers. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came to similar conclusions, Tesla has said.

Tesla has criticized the California agency’s investigation and said it “strongly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment.” The company said earlier this year that it was arranging mediation with the federal commission. [MORE]

After Being Exonerated From Texas’ Death Row, Clarence Brandley Never Received “Justice.” Black Man’s Trial Featured Perjured Testimony and Witness Intimidation from Racist Police and Prosecutors

From [HERE] Clarence Brandley (pictured) was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1981 in Texas for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old white girl. From the outset, he was targeted based on his race. On the day of the murder, a police officer said to the two janitors at the school who had found the deceased, “One of you two is going to hang for this.” Then, turning to Brandley, said, “Since you’re the n****r, you’re elected.” 

Brandley was finally exonerated and freed from Texas’ death row in 1990. Judge Perry Pickett ordered a re-trial for Brandley, which eventually resulted in the prosecution dropping charges. Judge Pickett remarked from the bench, “In the 30 years this Court has presided over matters in the judicial system, no case has presented a more shocking scenario of the effects of racial prejudice, perjured testimony, witness intimidation, an investigation, the outcome of which was predetermined, and public officials who, for whatever motives, lost sight of what is right and just.” 

After his exoneration, Brandley sought compensation for himself and his five children from the state through various avenues but was repeatedly denied. He died on September 2, 2018, but his family continued efforts to obtain restitution. None of the officials involved in the wrongful conviction ever faced any repercussions, and even after Brandley’s release, the case was not reopened or investigated further. 

Since charges against Brandley were simply dropped by the prosecution, he needed a declaration of innocence to qualify for compensation under Texas law. In October 2018, his brother, Ozell Brandley, met with Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon, who agreed to hire a private investigator and provide an update in 3-6 months. Four years later, the DA’s office wrote in an email to the family that “we are unaware of any developments from this investigation.” A 2019 letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott seeking a posthumous pardon remains unanswered, as well.

Ozell Brandley remarked, “Silence reigns with no remedy…there is no justice for those wrongfully convicted, incarcerated, and sentenced to death. No justice in the courtroom. No justice in compensation for those whose lives and families have been devastated and suffered unmerciful humiliation and shame.”

Supreme Court Declines to hear ‘Angola 5’ member David Brown’s Murder Appeal. Prosecutors Withheld Info that Another Person Confessed to the Crime. Black Man Remains on Death Row

From [HERE] The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the case of David Brown, the “Angola 5” member whose death sentence for the killing of a prison guard during a 1999 escape attempt was overturned by a state judge, then reinstated in February by the Louisiana Supreme Court.

The denial marked a victory for Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick’s office.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The case centers on how far the precedent decided in Brady v. Maryland stretches. Known as “Brady material,” the Brady court required prosecutors to disclose information favoring a criminal defendant to the defendant. This doctrine stems from the interests of justice, where the legal system seeks to avoid wrongfully convicting an innocent person.

Brown, who was sentenced to death in 2011 after his conviction of first degree murder for the 1999 death of a prison guard during a prison escape, never confessed to killing Captain David Knapps. While Brown admitted to involvement in the first phase of the assault on Knapps, he stressed during the trial he was not at the scene for the murder of Knapps. The prosecutor obtained information that Barry Edge, who is currently serving a life sentence after his own conviction of first degree murder, confessed that he and another man, Jeffrey Clark, were involved in the murder. This confession came before Brown went to trial, and the prosecutor withheld this information from Brown and his counsel. As a result, Brown was still convicted.

The dissenting justices argued that if the prosecutor disclosed Edge’s confession to Brown following the Brady doctrine, “There is a reasonable probability that at least one juror might have viewed Brown’s culpability in a different light.” Essentially, Brown may have not be on death row if the material had been allowed in during trial.

This decision comes a month after the Supreme Court allowed the execution of Donald Dillbeck, rejecting his argument that his death sentence violated the Eighth Amendment because it was not cruel and unusual punishment.

A Study by a Leading Expert in Sequencing Methods for DNA and RNA finds that COVID mRNA Shots Contain Excessive Quantities of Bacterial DNA that Cause Severe Health Risks

by Michael Palmer, MD and Jonathan Gilthorpe, PhD

From [HERE] Recent studies by Kevin McKernan, a leading expert in sequencing methods for DNA and RNA, have revealed that batches of the modified mRNA vaccines produced by both Pfizer and Moderna contain a high proportion of contaminating bacterial DNA. In all, the DNA accounts for up to 20-35% of the nucleic acids contained in each of the vaccine batches. These alarmingly high concentrations far exceed the levels deemed safe by standard-setting organizations such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This document summarizes the evidence of that DNA contamination and discusses what possible health risks it implies to the recipients of the vaccines.

1. The role of DNA in the manufacture of mRNA vaccines

1.1. General background

Most readers will be aware that

1. the synthetic RNAs contained in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines encode the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein;

2. in living mammalian cells, the instructions for building a given protein molecule are stored as a gene within the DNA inside the nucleus;

3. to build a given protein molecule, the cell first transcribes its gene into RNA and modifies the two ends of this molecule to form messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA is then transported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where it induces the cell’s protein factories—the ribosomes—to translate the mRNA’s nucleotide sequence into the corresponding amino acid sequence and assemble the protein.

1.2. Steps in the manufacture of mRNA vaccines

Since the spike protein is a large molecule, so is the mRNA which encodes it. The total chemical synthesis of large mRNA molecules is not practical at scale. Therefore, in order to obtain the mRNA molecule encoding spike, the process by which cells produce their own mRNAs is mimicked in vitro. This involves the following steps:

1. A DNA copy of the gene for the spike protein is inserted into a bacterial plasmid. This is a ring-shaped, double-stranded DNA molecule which can exist in a bacterial cell independently of the cell’s own chromosomal DNA, and which can also be copied and passed on to both daughter cells when that cell divides.

2. The recombinant (artificial) plasmid carrying the spike protein gene is introduced into a cell of the bacterial species Escherichia coli (E. coli ). Since E. coli cells divide very rapidly, this one cell can within a short time be grown up to a very large number of cells. Each of these progeny cells will contain their own inherited copies of the plasmid, and therefore of the spike protein gene.While there is a certain chance of the plasmid being lost from some of the offspring during successive cell divisions, we can enforce its maintenance by giving it a selectable marker, which ensures that only those cells which retain the plasmid will survive. With the plasmids used by both Pfizer and Moderna, this selection marker is a gene which endows the host cells with resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. To apply the selection, the bacteria are simply grown in the presence of kanamycin.

3. After growing up a sufficient number of bacterial cells in a nutrient broth containing kanamycin, these cells are broken up and the plasmid DNA is purified from the other bacterial cell components.

4. The ring-shaped plasmid molecules are converted to linear form using a restriction enzyme, which cleaves both strands of the DNA molecule at a specific, unique site which is located downstream of the spike protein gene. This step is needed to prevent the formation of RNA molecules that are overly long and might have undesired effects in vivo.The linearized DNA molecules can be purified from remaining circular ones, but in what manner and how efficiently this may be done in the production of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines is not public knowledge.

5. An RNA polymerase is used, in the presence of the necessary nucleoside building blocks and cofactors, to copy the spike protein gene from the DNA version on the linearized plasmid into the mRNA version. Both Pfizer and Moderna employ the T7 RNA polymerase, which is derived from the eponymous bacteriophage. This enzyme binds to a cognate promotersequence likewise derived from T7 that has been engineered into the plasmid upstream of the gene for the spike protein. This interaction between polymerase and promoter initiates the transcription.At this stage, the synthetic nucleoside N-methyl-pseudouridine (mψU) is incorporated into the artificial RNA instead of the natural uridine nucleoside. When delivered in the form of a vaccine, RNA modified in this manner is less stimulatory to the innate immune system than is RNA containing the natural uridine. It is also more efficiently translated into protein, and under certain conditions more resistant to degradation [1]. Both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines contain mψU instead of uridine.

6. The two ends of each RNA molecule are coupled enzymatically to certain moieties that are also found at these positions within natural mammalian mRNAs, and which enhance its biological activity and stability in vivo.

This steps provide a functional mRNA which is capable of instructing the cells’ ribosomes to produce the spike protein. However, at this stage the product is not yet pure—all of the bacterially derived template DNA is still present. The latter should not be included in the final drug product, because it poses health risks to the recipients (see Section 4). To get rid of this DNA, another enzyme called DNase is added. This should break up the DNA into smaller fragments, which can then be removed from the much larger RNA molecules by filtration and other purification techniques. In the final step, the mRNA is combined with a lipid mixture in order to package it into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), which induce human cells to take up the mRNA molecule and to make the spike protein.

2. What did we know previously about the DNA contamination problem?

In a nutshell, very little. The FDA’s assessment reports on both vaccines [2,3] do not mention the issue at all. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) assessment report on the Pfizer vaccine mentions that “The robustness of the DNase digestion step is not considered comprehensively demonstrated” [4, p. 17]. Similar language is used in the EMA report on the Moderna vaccine [5, p. 19f]. However, based on this sparse information alone, it is impossible to say whether the problem was considered serious, and what remedies were required by the regulator, if any.

3. Independent evidence about DNA contamination of mRNA products

As of April 3, 2023, Kevin McKernan has described his recent findings in three articles on his Substack site [6–8]. The experiments described in the first two reports were carried out on samples of newly introduced “bivalent” vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. These preparations resemble the previous “monovalent” ones in their chemical composition, i.e. they should contain highly pure mRNA, complexed with a mixture of lipid (fat-like) molecules into mRNA /lipid nanoparticles. The only difference between the two varieties is that the bivalent vaccines contain a mixture of two mRNAs encoding two antigenic variants of the spike protein. This has no bearing on the technical problem of DNA contamination as such. We note, however, that the extent of DNA contamination may vary between production batches, and that only a small number of batches has so far been characterized in this regard.

3.1. McKernan’s first report

In an initial study [6], McKernan characterized both the RNA and the DNA contained in the mRNA vaccines.

3.1.1. Extraction and direct characterization of nucleic acids from the vaccines

The first step consisted in stripping away the lipids in order to obtain the pure nucleic acids. The solvent-based method that he used does not discriminate between DNA and RNA—if both are present, both will be recovered. The extracted nucleic acids were separated according to size. This revealed not only the expected regular, full-length spike mRNA species, but also smaller fragments, which had been noted previously both by the regulators and in work published by one of the manufacturers [9]. More surprisingly, RNA species larger than the full-length mRNA were also found. These species remain uncharacterized.

3.1.2. Amplification of the extracted nucleic acids

As a preparatory step for determining the exact nucleotide sequences of the extracted nucleic acids, they were amplified by PCR methods. In the case of the RNA, PCR was preceded by reverse transcription into DNA using a dedicated enzyme (reverse transcriptase). Since this study’s primary goal was to study the RNA rather than the DNA, this amplification step was biased against DNA through the addition of actinomycin D, which under the given experimental conditions selectively inhibits DNA synthesis. Accordingly, relatively low amounts of DNA were recovered in the amplified sample. Nevertheless, in case of the Pfizer vaccine, the amount of DNA determined to be present already exceeded EMA’s arbitrarily decided limit for the maximal permissible proportion of DNA per RNA.

3.1.3. DNA sequencing results

With both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s products, DNA sequences of complete DNA plasmids were obtained, although some ambiguity remained in the case of the Moderna plasmids. The features of the plasmid sequences will therefore be discussed in connection with McKernan’s second study, which used more and more pure DNA for sequencing and therefore provided more reliable results.

3.2. McKernan’s second report

The second study [7] focused on quantifying and characterizing the DNA contamination that was qualitatively detected in the first one.

3.2.1. Plasmid DNA contained in the mRNA vaccines is competent to propagate in bacterial cells

In the first experiment, it was determined whether the plasmid DNA whose presence had been inferred from the previous sequencing results is indeed biologically functional, to the extent that it can be introduced into and persist within bacterial cells. To this end, nucleic acids were again extracted from the vaccine samples. These nucleic acids were mixed with a suspension of E. coli cells that had been rendered competent for DNA uptake.

After inducing these cells to take up the DNA and giving them some time to recover, they were spread onto Petri dishes filled with solidified growth medium containing kanamycin. As noted earlier, kanamycin will kill any E. coli cells that do not contain a resistance gene to it. Therefore, the observed growth of bacterial colonies on those Petri dishes confirmed that some cells had indeed acquired resistance to kanamycin by taking up and propagating the plasmids. This was observed with both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine samples.

In this context, we should note that only circular plasmid molecules, but not linearized ones, can be efficiently introduced into bacterial cells. The success of this experiment therefore suggests that some of the plasmid molecules had escaped the linearization step (step 4 in Section 1.2) and made it all the way through the production process in the circular form which exists in bacterial cells. On the other hand, since the number of bacterial colonies observed in this experiment was not high, it is likely that most of the DNA had indeed been linearized. Because the biological hazards of foreign DNA within our own body may vary depending on whether it is linear or circular, the likely presence of both forms in the vaccines is worth noting. The exact proportions of circular and linear DNA in the mixtures remain to be determined.

3.2.2. The abundance of contaminating DNA

The second major finding of this study is the quantitation by PCR of both DNA and mRNA contained in the vaccine samples. As you may be aware, in a PCR reaction, a chosen segment of a nucleic acid sequence is reduplicated by enzymatic synthesis in several successive reaction cycles. From the number of cycles (or doublings) necessary to reach a certain threshold concentration, we can calculate how many copies of the target sequence were present at the outset.

In these experiments, the chosen experimental format was multiplex PCR, i.e. two target sequences were amplified in a single reaction mixture. One of these targets was within the spike protein gene, and it thus should be present both on the plasmid DNA molecules and on the spike mRNA molecules transcribed from them. In order to include the mRNA molecules in this amplification, PCR was again preceded by reverse transcription.

The other target sequence was within the kanamycin resistance gene, which should be present only on the plasmid DNA. By comparing the number of cycles required for each of the two targets to cross the threshold, it was determined that up to 35% of the total nucleic acid contained in the vaccines is in fact DNA. For comparison, the EMA has stipulated that DNA should not amount to more than 0.033% of the total nucleic acids.

3.2.3. Determination of plasmid DNA sequences

The plasmids that had originally been contained in the vaccines and then been introduced into bacterial cells (see Section 3.2.1) were again isolated from those bacterial cultures, and their complete DNA sequences were determined. Such sequences were provided in full in McKernan’s first study [6], but he indicated that he was still working on corroborating and refining the sequencing data. Meanwhile, the functional features of the plasmid DNA found in the Pfizer vaccine samples are shown in Figure 1. They will be discussed in connection with the risk assessment.

FACTS: Halting the Use of the Death Penalty Did Not Result in an Increase in Homicide Rates

From [HERE] Stephen Oliphant’s recent study on the death penalty’s effect on homicide rates published in Criminology & Public Policy found “no evidence of a deterrent effect attributable to death penalty statutes.” Oliphant first discusses deterrence theory, which “posits that punishment, or the threat of punishment, discourages individuals from committing crime,” and its role in capital punishment discourse, where proponents of the death penalty have argued that the threat of the death penalty discourages homicide, and that abolition (or a halt to the use of the death penalty) would lead to increased murder rates. 

The research focused on four states which imposed moratoria on the death penalty—Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington—and examined the homicide rates in each state in the years preceding and following the state’s institution of a death penalty moratorium. Compared to predictions based on homicide rates in similar states, none of the four saw an increase in homicides attributable to the moratoria, contrary to the deterrence argument for the death penalty. Illinois, New Jersey, and Washington actually had reduced homicide rates following their moratoria, even controlling for other influencing factors.

The 2022 US Vaccine Damage Report says COVID Injections Have Caused 300,000 Deaths, 26.6 Million Injuries and 1.36 Million Disabilities. Shots Increase Risk of Myocarditis, Lead to Neurological Harm

From [HERE] and [PDF] STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The 2022 U.S. Vaccine Damage Report revealed a sobering glimpse into the true carnage that occurred at the hands of the COVID-19 shot campaign

• COVID-19 shots resulted in 300,000 excess deaths, 26.6 million injuries and 1.36 million disabilities

• Total economic costs due to the shots are estimated at $147.8 billion, including $89.9 billion from related injuries, $52.2 billion from disabilities and $5.6 billion from excess deaths

• A preprint systematic review found the mRNA-based COVID shots increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1 to 2 per 200 cases

• Evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction, was also found from the shots

We're beginning to see the fallout from the mass COVID-19 shot campaign, which has been referred to as the "greatest violation of medical ethics in the history of medicine, maybe humanity."1

Former BlackRock analyst and fund manager Edward Dowd is one of the few trying to get the word out about COVID-19 shot risks, and he's been using data and statistics to prove his point and publicize the undeniable increase in deaths and disability among young, healthy adults that has occurred since the shots' widespread rollout.2

This group — the 148 million employed Americans between the ages of 18 and 643 — is typically a healthy crowd. This is why private insurance companies love to sell group life insurance policies to large Fortune 500 corporations and mid-sized companies —they hardly ever have to pay out on a claim. But this is changing.

Dowd's 2022 U.S. Vaccine Damage Report4 revealed a sobering glimpse into the true carnage that occurred at the hands of the COVID-19 shot campaign, and its results are striking.

300K Excess Deaths, Millions of Injuries, Billions in Costs

Dowd and colleagues published their 2022 Vaccine Damage Project at their website, Phinance Technologies.5 It revealed the following estimated human and economic costs:6

To put this into perspective, John Leake writes on Courageous Discourse, "Note that this death count in one year is 5.2 times the number of men killed in 10 years of combat in Vietnam," adding:7

"Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this state of affairs is that most Americans don't know it's happening. Every day, young people are dying from heart attacks, strokes, and seizures caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Most of their families and friends are led to believe that they just died — suddenly and unexpectedly — of acute conditions that were extremely rare in young people prior to 2021."

The report included data from employed individuals between the ages of 16 and 64, and categorized the impact into four broad groups:

1. No effect or asymptomatic

2. Mild to moderate outcome including a temporary or short-term, long-term or permanent injury

3. Severe outcome that leads to a disability

4. Extreme outcome leading to death

While group 1 was the largest, comprising an estimated 82% of the population, the authors pointed out that these groups are dynamic, and individuals in one group could move into another, particularly in the case of progressing from no or minor injury to severe injury, such as we've seen with elite athletes suddenly dropping dead on the field:8

"While these groupings characterize different levels of damage from the inoculations, they are not static and could interact with each other. For instance, there might be individuals who had no visible effects after vaccination but nonetheless could still be impacted from the inoculations and could therefore be represented in the sub-group of injured individuals.

In a similar way, individuals with mild injuries from the inoculations could, over time, develop severe injuries to the extent of being disabled, or an extreme outcome such as death. The likely path of outcomes would be from injury to disability to death.

We need to consider, however, that to a lesser extent there could be individuals who suffer extreme outcomes when they had previously only experienced mild injuries until then. We can relate this with the anecdotes of otherwise healthy athletes suffering heart attacks during sports competitions at an alarming rate since the 2021 inoculations."

'The Multiplier Effects Are Massive'

The effects in the report are only what can currently be measured, and are likely to also be fluid. In terms of economic effects, for instance, the report notes that mortuary companies are likely to benefit while life insurers will be harmed, leading to a reallocation of resources.

Meanwhile, in terms of economic costs, milder damage is associated with greater cost, since a larger portion of working age individuals are affected. For instance, those with mild to moderate injury made up a sizeable 18% of the population. According to the report:9

"We make the assumption that the pool of potentially vaccine-injured individuals is about 18% of the population, which is, the rate of related adverse events reported in the Pfizer clinical trial (minus the baseline rate). These injuries will likely manifest a loss of productivity since, as these individuals are likely to have higher absentee rates and, consequently, higher lost worktime rates, than the pre-2019 baseline.

In fact, we performed an analysis of absence rates and lost worktime rates10 in full time workers (using data provided by the BLS). We observed a large increase in absence rates starting in 2020, but accelerating in 2022. Absence rates in 2022 were about 28.6% higher than in 2019, representing a 11 standard deviation variation."

Further, many other economic costs are harder to account for, such as a worker who's still at work but not able to work to their full potential. When these types of scenarios are factored in, the damages could be even more massive. Dowd tweeted:11

"Our economic damage estimates are what we can measure. The knock effects such as lost productivity due to a worker being present but working at say 50%-75% of capacity is missed plus burn out from those picking up slack. Also supply chain delays are not captured etc and etc. The multiplier effects are massive."

Systematic Review Reveals Serious Harms

A preprint systematic review of papers with data on serious adverse events associated with COVID-19 shots again points to significant risks.12 The review was conducted by Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., a former medical scientist with the University of Adelaide and former reporter for ABC News in Australia and Professor Peter Gøtzsche, a Danish physician-researcher who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993.

It included 18 systematic reviews, 14 randomized trials and 34 other studies, noting that "most studies were of poor quality" and additional randomized trials are needed. Still, their review revealed multiple red flags, including:13

• Adenovirus vector vaccines increased the risk of venous thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

• mRNA-based shots increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1 to 2 per 200 cases

• Evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell's palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction, was found

• Severe harms, defined as those that prevent daily activities, were underreported in the randomized trials

• Severe harms were very common in studies of booster doses after a full round of shots and in a study of vaccination of previously infected people

Further, not only have drug regulators and public health authorities been slow to follow up on safety signals showing serious harms from the shots, Demasi notes, but, "Population-wide recommendations for COVID vaccination and boosters ignore the negative benefit to harm balance in low-risk groups such as children and people who have already recovered from covid-19 (natural immunity)."14

Australian Safety Report — 24-Fold Increase in Adverse Events

It's can be difficult to parse out adverse effects from COVID-19 shots and those due to COVID-19 infection. The Western Australia Vaccine Safety Surveillance (WAVSS) 2021 Report, however, shows a unique viewpoint that made this possible. At the time, there was virtually no COVID-19 circulating in the community, yet the area had a 90% vaccination rate among those 12 years and over.15 Umbrella News reported:16

"There are few regions in the world where most of the population was vaccinated before the spread of Covid in the community. Sealed off from the rest of Australia, and the world, for 697 days, WA's closed border earned it the moniker of the 'hermit kingdom'.

State Premier Mark McGowan noted WA's unique role in the global vaccination trial, remarking to a press conference in early 2022, You see, Western Australia is an experiment. We basically have had very few Omicron cases, we have very high vaccination levels, and we have a very compliant population."

So, what happened in an area of the world that had very few COVID-19 cases and very high rates of COVID-19 shots? An "exponential increase" in reports of adverse events following immunization (AEFI), such that it necessitated changes to the vaccine safety surveillance program at the department in order to manage them.17 According to the report:18

"The number of AEFI reported to WAVSS was significantly higher in 2021 than in previous years (10,726 compared with an average of 276 per year for the 2017-2020 period) due to the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination program."

As Umbrella News reported, the peak of AEFI reports coincided with the rollout of shot mandates, culminating in a rush of hospitalizations that strained area hospitals:19

"In 2021, AEFIs for Covid vaccines were reported at almost 24x the rate of AEFIs for all other vaccines combined … In the latter half of the year, as AEFIs peaked, the media regularly reported that WA hospitals were under strain, despite the lack of Covid cases.

The highest month for AEFI reports was October, the same month that vaccine mandates were announced for most of the workforce, the vaccine eligibility criteria were expanded to people aged 18 and over, and walk-in vaccinations became available."

Other standouts from WA's report include a 35% increase in myocarditis and a 25% increase in pericarditis compared to background rates. "Shockingly," Umbrella News noted, "the risk of pericarditis in the age group in the age group 25 to 29 years old was 53.5 cases per 100,000 doses of Spikevax. It is perhaps unsurprising that chest pain was the fifth most common reported AEFI for COVID vaccines in 2021."20

COVID Shot Efficacy 'Grossly Overestimated'

While the risks of adverse effects have been downplayed, the efficacy of COVID-19 shots has been overstated from the beginning. Writing in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, a research team revealed that multiple biases, including background infection rates and cross-overs from unvaccinated to vaccinated in the early days of the campaign, led to an overstatement of COVID-19 shots' effectiveness.21

"We conclude that "real-world" studies using methodologies popular in early 2021 overstate vaccine effectiveness," the study notes.22 Board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough explained that from the lack of efficacy alone, the shots should be removed from the market. And the case gets even stronger when you factor in the significant number of related disabilities and deaths:23

"Multiple sources of bias created illusion that vaccines worked as they failed in the real world … claims that the COVID-19 vaccines worked to reduce spread of infection, hospitalization, and death must be rejected.

The burden of proof has not been met and threats to validity have not been overcome. All of the COVID-19 vaccines should be removed from the market and we should begin the investigative phase into how this massive program failed to stop COVID-19."

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According to Conservative Underreported CDC Data, Over 35k Deaths Have Been Reported Following COVID Shots, which is More Deaths than all other Vaccines Combined over the Past 30 Years

Not Safe or Effective. COVID Shots are the Most Dangerous "Vaccine" in History, Causing More Injuries and Deaths than All Other Vaccines Combined. COVID has a 99% Recovery Rate (the same as the flu)

From [HERE] Data published today by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) show  1,541,275 adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 31, 2023. This includes 287,651 reports of serious injuries and 35,048 deaths.

Of the 35,048 reported deaths, 21,870 cases are attributed to Pfizer, 9,914 to Moderna, 2,993 to Johnson & Johnson, and 18 to Novavax. Of the reported deaths, 9% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, and 13% occurred within 48 hours.

VAERS is a voluntary reporting system co-managed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to detect vaccine safety signals.

In the U.S., 673 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered as of March 27, including 401 million doses of Pfizer, 252 million doses of Moderna, 19 million doses of Johnson & Johnson, and 82,000 doses of Novavax.

Bivalent Booster Data

As of April 5, the CDC reported 55.3 million people had received an experimental bivalent booster dose targeting the no-longer-existing Wuhan strain and obsolete BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants.

Since the rollout of bivalent boosters in September 2022 and March 31, there have been 27,173 adverse events reported to VAERS, with 40% attributed to Moderna’s booster and 60% attributed to Pfizer/BioNTech. The data included 234 deaths, 2,093 serious injuries, and 80 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).

The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of myocarditis. To meet the case definition of myocarditis, people must have had “symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath and feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering or pounding heart, and medical tests to support the diagnosis of myocarditis and rule out other causes.” This allows them to exclude cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes, and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the hospital, obtain a diagnosis, or “dies suddenly.”

The CDC website does not state what happens to these cases, but there is no indication they are tracked or included in the CDC’s myocarditis numbers.

Data for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds

• 6,068 adverse events, including 261 cases rated as serious and 14 reported deaths.

• 5 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

• 48 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 59 reports of seizures.

Data for 5- to 11-year-olds

• 17,260 adverse events, including 836 rated as serious and 34 reported deaths.

• 48 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

• 76 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 193 reports of seizures.

Data for 12- to 17-year-olds

• 41,659 adverse events, including 4,670 rated as serious and 140 reported deaths.

• 276 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment, or resulted in death.

• 1,355 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 1,186 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

• 312 reports of blood clotting disorders, with 285 cases attributed to Pfizer.

• 33 cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) were attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

Data for all age groups to VAERS

• 16% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.

• 53% of those who died were male, and 41% were female. The remaining death reports do not list the gender of the deceased.

• The average age of death was 72.

• As of March 31, 9,071 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines, including 5,248 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.

• Of the 17,189 cases of Bell’s palsy reported, 73% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 22% to Moderna, and 5% to J&J.

• 3,279 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

• 10,413 reports of anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.

• 8,562 reports of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest.

• 46,416 reports of blood-clotting disorders. Of those, 31,886 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 10,475 reports to Moderna, and 3,979 reports to Johnson & Johnson.

• 25,591 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 19,439 cases attributed to Pfizer, 5,640 cases to Moderna, and 452 to Johnson & Johnson.

• 80 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with 66 cases attributed to Pfizer, 12 to Moderna, and 2 to J&J.

• 720 cases of POTS, with 532 cases attributed to Pfizer, 158 cases to Moderna, and 29 cases to Johnson & Johnson.

Although healthcare providers are required by law to report vaccine adverse events to VAERS, research shows very few do. It is essential that anyone who experiences an adverse event report their own injury.

Since the COVID Vax Rollout there has been a Marked Increase in Near Miss Crashes and Medical emergency-related Fight Diversions. CHD asks DOT Secretary Buttigieg to Investigate

From [HERE] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to investigate the spike in near-misses and narrowly averted airline accidents resulting from pilots incapacitated by health emergencies since 2021, coinciding with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S.

In a letter to Buttigieg, Kennedy wrote:

“Secretary Buttigieg, the safety of pilots, cabin crew, airline passengers, and the general public is not and never has been a partisan issue. Everything contained within this letter pertains to fundamental issues of public health and safety, which you, the DOT, the FAA, and the Biden Administration profess to uphold and to protect.

The changes to FAA guidelines and the lack of publicly available evidence on which these changes rest, along with the increasing number of incidents involving the incapacitation or vaccine-related injury of pilots, are highly concerning.”

A Children’s Health Defense (CHD) analysis of raw data obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determined there was a marked increase, on a per-flight basis, in medical emergency-related flight diversions in both 2021 and 2022, compared to 2019 and prior years, Kennedy said.

Similarly, there was a marked increase in medical emergency diversions on a per-passenger basis in 2021 compared to 2019 and prior years, while the 2022 figure is higher than those for 2018 and 2019, indicating an increase in medical emergencies occurring in the air, when adjusted for the reduced number of flights and passengers in the 2021 and 2022 calendar years compared to the pre-2020 period.

Kennedy said the FAA violated its own guidelines by recommending COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use for pilots, contrary to the agency’s policy of prohibiting pilots from taking any medical product that has been on the market for less than 12 months.

Kennedy’s 13-page letter citing 69 sources detailed evidence the FAA loosened medical restrictions for conditions such as myocarditis and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, both documented adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines.

The letter outlines 12 questions Kennedy said Buttigieg and the FAA need to answer for the American public and demands a thorough investigation into whether COVID-19 vaccines may be endangering pilots, flight crews and the public.