PLM [Puppetican Lives Matter]: Man who Attacked Nancy Pelosi's Husband Sentenced to 30 years in Prison

From [HERE] The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday sentenced the man who attacked former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband to thirty years imprisonment for assault and attempted kidnapping.

On October 31, 2022, David DePape was charged with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi and the assault of her husband Paul Pelosi. The indictment alleged that DePape broke into Pelosi’s home and assaulted 82-year-old Paul with a hammer. It also stated that DePape admitted to the police that “[h]e planned to hold Speaker Pelosi hostage” to get the “truth” out of her and “would break ‘her kneecaps'” if she “lied” because Pelosi was the “‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party.” On November 17, 2023, a jury convicted DePape on his charges.

The court gave concurrent sentences of 20 years of imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping and 30 years of imprisonment for the assault of Paul. The court also mandated five years of supervised release and a $200 fine.

In response to DePape’s sentencing, Pelosi’s spokesperson released a statement on X saying:

The Pelosi family couldn’t be prouder of their Pop and his tremendous courage in saving his own life on the night of the attack and in testifying in this case. Speaker Pelosi and her family are immensely grateful to all who have sent love and prayers over the last eighteen months, as Mr. Pelosi continues his recovery.

US Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said in a press release after DePaul’s conviction: “Our public servants and their families deserve to work and live without threats and violence. Defendant’s violent plan to kidnap then-Speaker Pelosi was rooted in his virulent disagreement with her as a result of her official position … violence has no place in politics.“

5 yrs Later the Police Murder of Ronald Greene Still a Low Priority for Corpse Biden’s Justice Dept. White LA Cops Brutally Beat Shackled Black Man to Death w/Fists, Flashlights, Dragged Him Facedown

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]

After White Cops Tortured/Brutally Murdered Ronald Green Uncivilized LA Authorities Hid Video/Reports, Begged DA Not to Charge, Lied About Cause of Death and Prevented Proper Autopsy. Feds Investigate

From [HERE] Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by.

The death of Ronald Greene in northern Louisiana on May 10, 2019, sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white troopers converging on the Black motorist before stunning, beating and dragging him as he begged the racist suspects for his life.

Yet half a decade after Greene’s violent death, the federal investigation remains open and unresolved with no end in sight. And Hardin says she feels ghosted and forgotten by a Justice Department that no longer even returns her calls.

“Where’s Ronald Greene’s justice?” asked Hardin, who refuses to bury her son's cremated remains until she gets some measure of accountability. “I still have my boy in that urn, and that hurts me more than anything. We haven’t grieved the loss of Ronnie because we’ve been in battle.”

Justice Department spokesperson Aryele Bradford said the investigation remains ongoing and declined to provide further details.

Under federal law, no statute of limitations applies to potential civil rights charges in the case because Greene’s arrest was fatal. But prosecutors have wavered for years on whether to bring an indictment, having all but assured Greene’s family initially that an exhaustive FBI investigation would produce charges of some kind.

A federal prosecution seemed so imminent in 2022 that one state police supervisor told AP he expected to be indicted. The FBI had shifted its focus in those days from the troopers who left Greene handcuffed and facedown for more than nine minutes to state police brass suspected of obstructing justice by suppressing video evidence, quashing a detective’s recommendation to arrest a trooper and pressuring a state prosecutor.

Colorado Springs to Pay $2.1M After Slave Catcher Cops Beat Dalvin Gadson "Beyond Recognition" and Attempted to Murder Him to EnForce DUI Law. Black Veteran Pulled Over for Driving Slow on Empty Road

From [HERE] Colorado Springs city council members approved Tuesday a $2.1 million payment to settle a federal lawsuit against three police officers who were accused of beating a Black man “beyond recognition” during a traffic stop, leaving him with significant PTSD-like symptoms. 

Body camera footage released from the October 2022 stop shows officers telling Dalvin Gadson to get out of the car, after he was stopped for driving slowly and not having license plates. Gadson opens the driver’s side door, turns his body to face toward them and asks to stay seated inside.

The officers tell him he is under investigation for a DUI and needs to get out, but he objects. Then, an officer is seen reaching into the car to get him out and a struggle ensues. 

The federal lawsuit filed in 2022 alleges two officers punched Gadson in the face and one of them kneed him in the forehead, causing him to fall back into the car. 

Footage shows an officer punching Gadson repeatedly from the passenger side of the car. According to an arrest affidavit, the officer punched Gadson to prevent him from grabbing a 4-inch knife out of the console. The footage also shows an officer kick Gadson after he was pulled out of the car and on the ground. 

The settlement represented a milestone for Gadson and the people of Colorado Springs, Gadson’s attorneys said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Gadson will continue to seek justice by working with the Department of Justice in its investigation of the incident, his attorneys said.

Gadson filed a civil rights complaint last year alleging the officers discriminated against him because of his race and used excessive force. 

“The settlement should stand as a warning to all those who think their badges entitle them to brutalize the men and women they’ve sworn to protect and serve. You are not above the law and if your own department refuses to hold you accountable, we will,” the attorneys wrote. [lol. Nothing like gullible Sleeping Toms. Authority, the implied power to rule over others is uncontrollable.]

The federal lawsuit names Colby J. Hickman, Matthew Anderson and Christopher Hummel for violating Gadson’s constitutional rights.

Prosecutors dismissed two felony assault charges against him and a misdemeanor charge for obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest, online court records show. He pleaded guilty to a traffic offense for not having license plates properly displayed on his car. 

A Colorado Springs police spokesperson declined to comment on the settlement, but said all three officers were still employed by the department and are “in good standing.” 

Following an internal affairs investigation, Hummel received a 10-hour suspension for making “inappropriate and unprofessional” comments toward Gadson and was removed from his position as a police training officer, according to a July 2023 internal memo. Anderson was required to take a 10-hour training on the use of excessive force for failing to follow CSPD’s use of force policies. 

Video Shows NYPD Cops Shoot Win Rozari to Death in Front of His Mom/Brother as He Begged Cops Not to Shoot. AG Tish James Failed to File Charges [Negro Rolebot Only Serves Her Racist Liberal Masters]

From [HERE] The mother and brother of Win Rozario, a Queens teen in mental distress, begged police officers not to shoot before they fired multiple fatal rounds at him, according to video released by state Attorney General Letitia James on Friday. 

The distressing body camera footage — which took place in late March in Ozone Park after Rozario called 911 — comes less than a day after THE CITY reported the family was frustrated and had called on the police to release the videos and names of the officers.

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell has defended the killing, noting that the 19-year-old had grabbed a pair of scissors from a drawer and moved toward the officers.

The released footage confirms that, but it also shows how the situation rapidly escalated, with officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi tasing and then fatally shooting Rozario, all within three minutes of arriving at the home. The video released by the Attorney General’s Office lists only the officers’ last names.

On Friday afternoon, Rozario’s family said “the officers should be fired and prosecuted for murder as soon as possible.

“It’s been over a month since we lost Win,” the statement said. “And we miss him everyday.” 

Reliving the fatal shooting is “painful and traumatic” the family added, noting they wished the video didn’t need to be made public. 

“The video that was released makes it clear that Win should be alive but the police came and murdered him in our kitchen without any care for him or us,” the family said. “The police created a crisis and killed him in cold blood.” 

The [imaginary] "Right" to Film Police from a Distance Can't Be Found in Reality or in Liberal Richmond (CA): Race Soldier Cop Abandons Suspect to Threaten and Assault Black Man who was Filming Arrest

From [HERE] A disturbing video has been released showing police dismissing a high-speed chase to attack a Black bystander filming the scene on a public street in California.

On May 5, Richmond police followed a speeding driver who parked outside of a store so he and the car’s passenger could step out of the vehicle and surrender to authorities, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Kwesi Guss had filmed police-related incidents before as a bystander and was nearby when he heard sirens. So, he pulled out his phone and planned to record what was happening, but ended up in the throes of the mess himself. The Richmond police redirected their focus from the high-speed chase.

In security footage from the store of the incident the Chronicle uploaded to YouTube, a police cruiser pulls up to the sidewalk next to a man—identified as Guss—holding a phone. An officer who was driving the cruiser, rather than running forward to the parked car from the chase, runs around the back of the cruiser and into Guss while approaching the other officers on the scene.

“Get out of the fucking way,” the officer directed to Guss, according to the Chronicle.

“Shut your bitch ass up,” Guss reportedly replied.

The officer circles back around towards Guss, tells him to repeat what he said, and shoves him five times, causing Guss to stumble, before a woman runs over to intervene.

An officer who was already at the location, runs from one of the other police cruisers towards the scuffle, but the original officer continues to push Guss. The assisting cop pulls Guss’ left arm back to aid the first officer in handcuffing him and kicks Guss in the ankle to make him kneel on the ground.

The video does not have audio.

“I felt the asphalt just cutting in my face,” Guss said, according to the Chronicle.

The news outlet reported that Guss endured cheek abrasion and bruised ribs and that the handcuffs were so tight that they were digging into his wrists. Guss said officers “manhandl[ed]” him because they claimed he was resisting. However, he said he “wasn’t moving.”

The Richmond Police Department did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment Thursday.

White MI Trooper Murders Fleeing Black Man by Intentionally Crushing Him w/Minivan: Cop Drove Onto Sidewalk and Violently Struck Samuel Sterling. Cops Stymied Aid by Handcuffing Him in Torturous Death

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a Black man who was killed after he was struck by an unmarked police mini-van in Michigan spoke out on Saturday after body camera footage of the incident was released by investigators. All the cops involved were white.

Michigan State Police said it handed over its investigative report and all evidence to the state attorney general's office concerning the April 17 death of Samuel Sterling, who was being pursued by officers in Kentwood for outstanding warrants.

Sterling, 25, allegedly fled when officers approached him at a gas station and was hit by an unmarked Michigan State Police car after officers converged on him at a parking lot of a nearby Burger King, police claim. He died later in the day at the hospital.

The body camera footage released Friday showed officers rushing to Sterling on the ground after he was hit moaning in pain and said he did not have a gun. The unmarked police vehicle is seen up on a curb next to the restaurant in front of Sterling.

Attorney Ven Johnson, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said in a statement to ABC News that they were "stunned and appalled to see the MSP trooper deliberately drive over a curb - onto a sidewalk - and violently take Samuel’s life by striking him with an unmarked police car."

"No one person should be able to appoint themselves as judge, jury and executioner, yet deaths from police brutality and excessive force continue to occur too often," Johnson added.

Officers are seen putting handcuffs on Sterling and telling firefighters who responded to the scene to keep the cuffs on.

The footage released Friday came from three agencies who were part of the fugitive task force -- Michigan State Police, Grand Rapids Police Department and Wyoming Police Department -- and included footage from four sources, three officers' body camera footage and one dash camera from a police vehicle, Michigan State Police said.

"I assure the Sterling and Cage families and the communities we serve that we will continue to be transparent in this investigation and will fully cooperate with the Michigan Department of Attorney General as they begin their review," MSP director Col. James F. Grady II, who met with the family Friday, said in a statement.

The state police trooper who was driving the vehicle that hit Sterling was not wearing a body camera and his vehicle did not have a dash camera "due to his assignment on a federal task force," Michigan State Police said in a statement.

The state police launched an investigation into the incident and suspended the trooper -- whose identity has not been revealed because of the probe -- without pay.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will review the police report and evidence and decide if any charges are warranted.

"My public integrity unit has investigated dozens of police-involved incidents and is dedicated to providing a thorough and just review and resolution in each one," Nessel said in a statement last month.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement Friday that Sterling's death was "unacceptable" and called for the termination of the officer if charges are issued.

"I have full faith that her office will work quickly to arrive at a fair and just decision as to whether criminal charges are appropriate," the governor said of Nessel.

3 Alameda Officers are Charged w/Involuntary Manslaughter for Their Murder of Mario Gonzalez: Latino Man Hadn't Committed a Crime When White Cops Smothered Him to Death as He Begged for Life

From [HERE] The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California announced charges on Thursday against three City of Alameda police officers for involuntary manslaughter of detainee Mario Gonzalez.

The incident that ended in Mr. Gonzalez’s death began when the officers responded to a call that a man was loitering and behaving strangely in a public park on April 19, 2021.

Mr. Gonzalez was wandering at the edge of the park, near a row of houses - not harming anyone or any property. Body camera footage captured Officer McKinley approaching Mr. Gonzalez in a polite manner, asking him if he was Ok [racists and authorities are often very polite when they practice racism and/or deception or violence] Mr. Gonzalez spoke incoherently, standing near two shopping baskets of liquor bottles. [standing near baskets of booze isn’t a crime - but it made an impression on white ”journalists” at the NY Times who parrot whatever police tell them]

When a second officer arrived, the encounter escalated, as the men asked Mr. Gonzalez repeatedly for his name and identification. They grabbed his arms, and Mr. Gonzalez began to cry out. The officers brought him to the ground and held him there face down, a restraint technique that is known to pose a risk to a person’s ability to breathe. Gonzalez then died at the scene.

In other words, the police acted without the authority of a warrant and there was no basis for the stop or detention and there was no reasonable and articulable suspicion that Mario loitered or otherwise interfered with anyone or any property. As, such the white cops violated Mario’s so-called “4th Amendment rights” - if you believe in the existence of such things.

An initial investigation did not find any police misconduct. The autopsy pointed to methamphetamine as the cause of death, with stress from the restraint, obesity and alcoholism as contributing factors. But the District Attorney’s Office reopened the case later, and a second autopsy pointed to asphyxiation from the restraint as the cause of death.

The District Attorney’s Office charged the officers with involuntary manslaughter under section 192(b) of the California Penal Code. That statute criminalizes “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice … in the commission of a lawful act which might product death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.” That means the prosecutors need to prove that the officers were negligent in restraining Gonzalez and that the restraint caused his death.

'Outrageously escalatory' behavior from Provocative Chicago Cops After Bullshit “Seatbelt Stop” left Dexter Reed Dead, family says in Lawsuit

From [HERE] The family of a Black man killed in a barrage of bullets by Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the officers involved were “outrageously escalatory” in the traffic stop that left motorist Dexter Reed dead and an officer wounded.

The lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the five officers involved in pulling Reed, 26, over on March 21 outlines 17 counts, including three counts of excessive force, wrongful death, and two violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that hints at a key part of Reed’s past.

The 81-page filing obtained and reviewed by USA TODAY is the latest development in the case that has sparked controversy in the city ever since Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability released footage of the traffic stop.

"Officers who initially approached Dexter’s vehicle were outrageously escalatory," the lawsuit says, adding they used "wildly disproportionate force against Dexter — repeatedly shooting at him even when he clearly presented no threat."

The city has said Reed had a gun and fired first. Chicago’s Law Department said Wednesday that the "city has not been served with the complaint and does not comment on pending litigation."

Seat belt check [4th Amendment is Imaginary]

The story of Reed’s death begins with five Chicago Police officers pulling over the 26-year-old for a seatbelt violation, according to officials. Reed didn’t comply with officers and the situation escalated, according to bodycam footage reviewed by USA TODAY.

Reed fired first and officers responded with as many as 96 shots in 41 seconds, the police accountability office said. Reed was awaiting trial in a gun case, Cook County court records show, and he had a gun, his lawyers said.

A bullet grazed one of the officers in the shooting, according to the lawsuit. But it does not clearly say Reed fired the bullet, saying the officer was hit "at some point either before or after" the other officers began shooting.

Regardless, how the traffic stop unfolded has caused an uproar. The head of the city’s accountability board questioned the truthfulness of the officers involved; the officers have a history of complaints, according to records USA TODAY obtained via FOIA request; and bodycam footage of the shooting shows officers firing on an apparently unarmed and down Reed.

2 counts of 'willful and wanton conduct'

The lawsuit, brought by Reed’s mother Nicole Banks, lists 17 counts; 8 are against the city and the rest are against the officers.

The counts against the officers are making an unconstitutional traffic stop; three counts of excessive force; denial of medical care after Reed was shot; two counts of "willful and wanton conduct" for escalatory behavior and wrongful death; assault; battery; and two counts against the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The ADA charges are based on Reed experiencing PTSD, according to the lawsuit.

The counts against the city include one for a pattern of “unconstitutional traffic stops,” for a pattern of “excessive and escalatory force” and a violation against the Civil Rights Act for targeting Reed, who was Black. [MORE]

Jury of Sheeple Found it Reasonable for Chula Vista Cops to Kill Oral Nunis While Forcing Him to Get Mental Health Services: Cops Put Frail 5’4 Black Man in WRAP Device, Spit Hood and Suffocated Him

From [HERE] A San Diego federal jury has ruled in favor of a group of Chula Vista police officers in a civil trial alleging excessive force was used by the officers while responding to a mental health call, resulting in a Black man’s death.

In a verdict returned Tuesday afternoon, jurors found that four responding officers were not negligent and did not use excessive force against 56-year-old Oral Nunis, whose family members called 911 on March 13, 2020, after he tried to jump from a second-story window at his daughter’s home.

Attorneys representing the family argued Nunis calmed down and was willing to leave the home with police to undergo a mental health evaluation, but became agitated when the first responding officer insisted on handcuffing him.

Nunis then ran out of the home, where he was subdued and held on the ground by a group of officers. A restraint device called a WRAP was placed on Nunis, as well as a mesh spit hood.

Nunis was later moved into an ambulance but stopped breathing, went into cardiac arrest, and later died at a hospital. No drugs or alcohol were detected in his system.

Anthony Sain, an attorney representing the city of Chula Vista, told jurors that based on what was reported to officers during the 911 call and how Nunis acted after officers arrived, the officers acted reasonably.

Sain said that before any officers arrived, they were told Nunis had physically struggled with his own family members as they tried to prevent him from leaping out of the window.

The attorney said “5150” calls, in which a person can be involuntarily detained while in the midst of a mental health crisis, are among the most dangerous ones officers face, can easily turn violent, and that “securing” the person as quickly as possible is in line with police training.

Once outside the home, Nunis wasn’t complying with officers’ commands and was physically combative, Sain said. Though the officers outweighed the diminutive Nunis, who stood at about 5 feet, 4 inches tall, Sain argued that Nunis was able to fight and struggle with the officers for several minutes.

The family’s attorneys argued the officers didn’t follow proper protocols for dealing with someone undergoing a mental health crisis and that they ignored the risks associated with positional asphyxia by pinning Nunis to the ground.

Sain argued that a medical examiner ruled out asphyxia as a contributing factor, and that the WRAP device and spit hood do not constrict breathing. Instead, Sain argued Nunis’ death was caused instead by exertion and stress, stating that by struggling with the officers, he “fought so hard that he overtaxed his body.”

In 2021, the District Attorney’s Office announced that no criminal charges would be brought against any of the officers involved.

No Matter what the Constitution says Blacks are Prohibited from Possessing Guns: White FLA Cop Shot a Black Man to Death Seconds After He Opened Front Door w/a Gun @ His Side, Had Committed No Crime

The quality of Black citizenship is so low that; no matter what the law says, Blacks are prohibited from possessing guns, Blacks are subject to omnipresent interference by cops with their freedom of movement and their right to be left the fuck alone, Black people are 3 times more likely than whites to be murdered by cops and the police have no legal duty to protect any particular citizen from harm unless they are in custody (“the public duty doctrine”). Said factors exist in a legal context in which law enforcement is uncontrollable by citizens, generally unaccountable to them, can’t be hired or fired by citizens and has irresponsible, limitless power over people to take life on the street as they see fit while providing a compulsoryservice” that citizens have no “right” to decline.

2ND AMENDMENT FOR WHITES ONLY From [HERE] Under mounting pressure to offer a justification for the fatal police shooting of a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman in his own apartment last week, a Florida sheriff on Thursday released body camera footage of the deadly encounter.

The footage shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, answering the door of his apartment in the Florida Panhandle and immediately being shot by a White deputy from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The video also shows that Airman Fortson was holding a gun at his side, within split seconds the white cop began firing.

When the officer seized the Black man he was not under arrest and had not committed any crime.

The footage released Thursday shows that the deputy, who has not been identified, had been told by a woman at the apartment complex in Fort Walton Beach, in the Florida Panhandle, that he should go to apartment No. 1401 because of an apparent domestic dispute there.

It is unclear who the woman is, why the deputy had been called in the first place and whether the apartment number was correctly identified.

When the deputy arrives at Apartment 1401, the footage shows, he first knocks without identifying himself. He then knocks again, says, “Sheriff’s office, open the door,” and steps away from the door.

Seconds later, the deputy shifts to the other side of the door, knocks and announces himself again, the footage shows.

Airman Fortson then opens the door, holding in his right hand a gun that appears to be pointed downward. The deputy says, “Step back,” and then fires several times at the airman, who raises his left hand in front of his chest, according to the footage.

After Airman Fortson falls back, the deputy yells, “Drop the gun!”

“I don’t have it,” Airman Fortson replies.

The deputy calls in emergency medical services and tells Airman Fortson, “Do not move.”

Mr. Crump said on Thursday that Airman Fortson was shot six times and that he was alone in his apartment.

9th Circuit Court Rules that Laws Prohibiting People w/Non-Violent Convictions from Possessing Guns Violate the 2nd Amendment b/c People Have The Right to Carry Arms in Public for Self-Defense

From [HERE] Yesterday, in United States v. Duarte, No. 22-50048 (9th Cir. May 9, 2024) (available here(link is external)), a split panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that  under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to Duarte, a non-violent offender who has served his time in prison and reentered society. The opinion, written by Judge Bea and joined by Judge VanDyke, begins:

       18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) makes it a crime for any person to possess a firearm if he has been convicted of an offense “punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.” Steven Duarte, who has five prior non-violent state criminal convictions—all punishable for more than a year— was charged and convicted under § 922(g)(1) after police saw him toss a handgun out of the window of a moving car. Duarte now challenges the constitutionality of his conviction. He argues that, under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to him, a non-violent offender who has served his time in prison and reentered society. We agree.

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      At step one of Bruen, we easily conclude that Duarte’s weapon, a handgun, is an “arm” within the meaning of the Second Amendment’s text and that Duarte’s “proposed course of conduct—carrying [a] handgun[] publicly for selfdefense”— falls within the Second Amendment’s plain language, two points the Government never disputes. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 32. The Government argues only that “the people” in the Second Amendment excludes felons like Duarte because they are not members of the “virtuous” citizenry. We do not share that view. Bruen and Heller foreclose that argument because both recognized the “strong presumption” that the text of the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms that belongs to “all Americans,” not an “unspecified subset.”Bruen, 597 U.S. at 70 (quoting District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 581 (2008)). Our own analysis of the Second Amendment’s publicly understood meaning also confirms that the right to keep and bear arms was every citizen’s fundamental right. Because Duarte is an American citizen, he is “part of ‘the people’ whom the Second Amendment protects.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 32.

     At Bruen’s second step, we conclude that the Government has failed to prove that § 922(g)(1)’s categorical prohibition, as applied to Duarte, “is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the” Second Amendment right. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 19. The Government put forward no “well-established and representative historical analogue” that “impose[d] a comparable burden on the right of armed self-defense” that was “comparably justified” as compared to § 922(g)(1)’s sweeping, no-exception, lifelong ban. Id. at 29, 30. We therefore vacate Duarte’s conviction and reverse the district court’s judgment entering the same.

Judge Smith's dissent starts this way: 

     Whether felons have a Second Amendment right to bear arms is settled in our circuit. They do not. United States v. Vongxay, 594 F.3d 1111, 1115 (9th Cir. 2010). Until an intervening higher authority that is clearly irreconcilable with Vongxay is handed down, we, as a three-judge panel, are bound by that decision. See Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 893 (9th Cir. 2003).

    The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), did not overrule Vongxay. Instead, Bruen reiterates that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens. Duarte’s Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as applied to nonviolent offenders, is therefore foreclosed. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

Due Process Only for the Wealthy: Supreme Court Says After an Arrest, Cops Can Seize Your Car Without a Hearing. Car Owners Can Challenge the Seizure in Court - If They Can Afford to Do $So

If you lend your car to a family member or friend who is stopped and arrested for drug charges while driving your car in Alabama, state law permits seizure of a car “incident to an arrest” so long as the state then “promptly” initiates a forfeiture case.  

In Culley v. Marshall, No. 22-585 (May 9, 2024)(link is external), the Court considered what test should district courts apply to determine whether a state or local government must provide a preliminary hearing to someone who has had property seized under a civil asset forfeiture law. In a 6 to 3 opinion delivered by Justice Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and BarrettJ. The Court held:

When police seize and then seek civil forfeiture of a car that was used to commit a drug offense, the Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing. The question here is whether the Constitution also requires a separate preliminary hearing to determine whether the police may retain the car pending the forfeiture hearing. This Court’s precedents establish that the answer is no: The Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing; the Constitution does not also require a separate preliminary hearing.

Justice Gorsuch also filed a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Thomas. Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. The dissenters criticize the majority's adoption of a universal rule that due process never requires the minimal check of a retention hearing before a police officer deprives an innocent owner of her car for months or years. The majority's rule "cannot be squared with the context-specific analysis that th[e] Court's due process doctrine requires." The majority's rule ignores the reality that police often have financial incentives to seize cars, hold them indefinitely, and then rely on an owner's lack of resources to forfeit those cars to fund agency budgets, all without any initial check by a judge as to whehter there is a basis to hold the car in the first place. What's more, "officers have a financial incentive to target marginalized groups, such as low-income communities of color, who are less likely to have the resources to challenge the forfeiture in court."  Given the diverse schemes adopted by states, some with adequate safeguards and some without, the dissenters argue the Court "should have identified the applicable due process test and left lower courts the flexibility to apply the appropriate test in these myriad circumstances." [MORE]

Juror Who Sentenced Toforest Johnson to Death Now Believes He Is Innocent

From [HERE] Monique Hicks, one of the twelve people who served on the Alabama jury that convicted Toforest Johnson and sentenced him to death, said in an op-ed published on April 22, 2024 that she now believes Mr. Johnson deserves a new trial. Ms. Hicks recounts the new evidence that has come to light in the case and writes, “My role in the wrongful conviction of an innocent man keeps me awake at night.” 

Mr. Johnson’s conviction rested on the testimony of a single witness who, despite not knowing Mr. Johnson, claimed to hear his voice confessing to the crime on the phone and who was secretly paid a $5,000 reward. For two decades, local officials repeatedly denied the existence of any reward paid to their star witness.  Only after defense counsel received information from a retired state employee did the state finally admit it. Numerous Alabama legal officials support a new trial, including the current District Attorney, the original trial prosecutor, a former Chief Justice, and a former Attorney General.  

‘I Knew They Were Killing People’: Whistleblower Says COVID Hospital Protocols Caused Patient Deaths. 'Nothing Would Make Me Get the COVID Injection. They Would Have to Kill Me to Take It.'

From [HERE] “Hospitals became the place where people go to die instead of the place where people go to get better,” said Zowe (not her real name), a medical coder who worked for several Phoenix, Arizona, hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an emotional testimonial with Polly Tommey on Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) “Vax-Unvax” bus earlier this month in Salem, Oregon, the whistleblower exposed the practices and protocols that she believes led to patient deaths.

As a medical coder, Zowe’s job was to review patient records and assign codes for diagnoses and treatments. The codes determined how hospitals and physicians were paid.

“I call it the central intelligence of the hospital or the SimCity level view,” she said.

But Zowe said what she witnessed during the pandemic left her distraught and compelled her to speak out.

Lack of COVID patients in early pandemic

According to Zowe, hospitals were not running out of beds when the pandemic first began and the “flatten the curve” initiative was announced.

“We didn’t have patients in the hospital at that time. They slowly started to trickle in maybe after months and months,” she said.

Despite the low patient numbers, hospitals were instructed to create bed capacity by sending patients home earlier than usual. Zowe noted that this practice was a significant change from pre-pandemic protocols, as it posed a financial liability for the hospitals.

“If patients came back, we would have to pay for their care,” she explained. “It’s a Medicare rule so that was definitely very different.”

Financial incentives for COVID treatment

New ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision) codes for COVID-19 diagnosis and an updated code for COVID-19-related remdesivir treatments were introduced in 2020, leading to significant financial incentives for hospitals treating patients with the virus.

“They had to have that diagnosis in order to get the 20% bonus for COVID patients,” Zowe said. She explained that a patient put on remdesivir also qualified the hospital for “an additional 20% bonus in payment because of the risk of an unproven technology.”

Hospitals initially received free hydroxychloroquine from the national stockpile and people treated with it “were actually doing well” before hospitals suddenly switched to remdesivir, Zowe said.

However, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the new ICD-10 codefor COVID-19 infections, effective April 1, 2020, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave remdesivir an emergency use authorization on May 1, things began to change.

“It was like a line in the sand,” Zowe told Polly. “We stopped azithromycin and hydroxychloroquineand we went straight to remdesivir.” [MORE]

Dr Derek Knauss: ‘There is No Such Thing as COVID-19, It is Imaginary and Fictitious: The Flu was Re-named "COVID" and Most Deaths were of People who Got the Flu and Had Comorbidities

From [HERE] and [MORE] A clinical scientist and immunologist-virologist at a southern California laboratory says he and colleagues from 7 universities are suing the CDC for massive fraud. The reason: not one of 1500 samples of people tested “positive” could find Covid-19. ALL people were simply found to have Influenza A, and to a lesser extent Influenza B. This is consistent with the previous findings of other scientists, which we have reported on several times.

Dr. Derek Knauss: “When my lab team and I subjected the 1500 supposedly positive Covid-19 samples to Koch’s postulates and put them under an SEM (electron microscope), we found NO Covid in all 1500 samples. We found that all 1500 samples were primarily Influenza A, and some Influenza B, but no cases of Covid. We did not use the bulls*** PCR test.’

At 7 universities not once COVID detected

‘When we sent the rest of the samples to Stanford, Cornell, and a couple of the labs at the University of California, they came up with the same result: NO COVID. They found Influenza A and B. Then we all asked the CDC for viable samples of Covid. The CDC said they can’t give them, because they don’t have those samples.’

‘So we came to the hard conclusion through all our research and lab work that Covid-19 was imaginary and fictitious. The flu was only called ‘Covid,’ and most of the 225,000 deaths were from co-morbidities such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, pulmonary emphysema, etc.. They got the flu which further weakened their immune systems, and they died.’

‘This virus is fictitious’

‘I still need to find one viable sample with Covid-19 to work with. We who conducted the lab test with these 1500 samples at the 7 universities are now suing the CDC for Covid-19 fraud. The CDC still has not sent us a viable, isolated and purified sample of Covid-19. If they can’t or won’t, then I say there is no Covid-19. It’s fictional.’

‘The four research papers describing the genome extracts of the Covid-19 virus never managed to isolate and purify the samples. All four papers describe only small pieces of RNA that are only 37 to 40 base pairs long. That is NOT a VIRUS. A viral genome normally has 30,000 to 40,000 base pairs.’

‘Now that Covid-19 is supposedly so bad everywhere, how come not one lab in the world has completely isolated and purified this virus? That’s because they never really found the virus. All they ever discovered were small pieces of RNA that were not identified as the virus anyway. So what we’re dealing with is just another flu strain, just like every year. Covid-19 does not exist and is fictitious.’

‘I believe that China and the globalists have set up this Covid hoax (the flu disguised as a new virus) to establish a global tyranny and totalitarian control police state. This intrigue included (also) massive election fraud to overthrow Trump.’

CDC itself admits to having no identifiable virus

Deeply hidden in an official document on Covid-19, the CDC ruefully admitted as early as summer 2020 that it does not have a measurable virus: ‘As no quantified (= measured) isolated virus objects of 2019-nCoV are available at this time…’ (page 39 of the ‘CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel’ (July 13) In other words, the CDC, as one of THE leading medical authorities in the world, could not, and still cannot, demonstrate a virus.

bout the for this purpose scientifically totally debunked, but still shamelessly abused PCR test, the CDC wrote under the heading ‘limitations’: ‘The detection of viral RNA cannot demonstrate the presence of an infectious virus, or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent of clinical symptoms.’ And in addition: ‘This test cannot exclude other diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.’

In other words, we cannot prove that the people who get sick and are hospitalized, and very occasionally die, were sickened by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, nor can we prove that it caused them to develop a new disease called ‘Covid-19.’ It could just as easily be a different virus and a different disease. (And since all the symptoms, including severe pneumonia, correspond seamlessly to what flu can cause historically in vulnerable people… ‘if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck’.

Reward of $265,000 for demonstrating coronavirus

Earlier this year, Samuel Eckert’s German Team and the Isolate Truth Fund pledged a reward of at least $265,000 for any scientist who can provide incontrovertible proof that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been isolated and therefore exists. They too pointed out that not one lab in the world has yet been able to isolate this corona virus.

Yes, systems scientists claim they have, but this ‘isolation’ consists only of a sample from the human body, which is a ‘soup’ full of different kinds of cells, remains of viruses, bacteria, et cetera. With the help of (toxic) chemicals one then searches for some (residual) particles that may indicate a virus that once existed or may still exist, after which this is designated as ‘evidence’.

Canadian team also received no evidence despite 40 Public Access Law requests

In late December 2020 there was a similar initiative to the one in Germany. A team around Canadian investigative journalist Christine Massey submitted no less than 40 Public Access Law requests to medical authorities worldwide with the simple request for proof that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been isolated and its existence can therefore be objectively proven. Not one of the agencies and authorities written to was able to provide that evidence.

‘Impossible to demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 causes a disease called Covid-19’

Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Andrew Kaufman and Sally Fallon Morell recently published a statement on “the continuing controversy over whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus is isolated or purified. But based on the official Oxford definition of “isolation” (“the fact or condition of being isolated or secluded, a separation from other things or persons, standing alone”), common sense, the laws of logic and the rules of science dictate that any unbiased person must come to the conclusion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been isolated or purified. As a result, no confirmation of the existence of the virus can be given.’

‘The logical and scientific implications of this fact are that the structure and composition of something whose existence cannot be proven cannot be known, including the presence, structure and function of hypothetical spike or other proteins. The genetic sequence of something that has never been found cannot be known, nor can the “variants” (mutations) of something whose existence has not been demonstrated. It is therefore impossible to show that SARS-CoV-2 causes a disease called Covid-19.’

Combined PCR test for corona and influenza ‘because there’s hardly any difference’

Not surprisingly, the world’s largest biotech company, China’s BGI, recently launched a new PCR test that can simultaneously test for influenza A, B and corona. Apart from the proven fact, acknowledged trough various lawsuits, that a PCR test cannot prove infection with any virus whatsoever, BGI’s explanation that both diseases are so difficult to distinguish from each other and that they have therefore made only one test, says more than enough. Maybe there IS no difference at all, ‘Covid’ is just another name for ‘old familiar’ flu viruses, and this is just another clever marketing trick?

Most people have been fooled by fear propaganda

With worldwide, government-controlled 24/7 fear propaganda by the mass media, most people have come to believe that there is indeed a life-threatening virus that makes people sick much faster and more severely than seasonal flu. However, even the latter is demonstrably not the case. Influenza A has been the leading cause of death from pneumonia in the developed world for years.

But send people designated as severe Covid patients to a few ICU’s, put cameras on them constantly, instruct a few physicians that they should only discuss the worst cases, and you have your “televised pandemic. The argument ‘we are doing it because otherwise care will be overburdened’ was undermined by governments itself some time ago, by rejecting offers of additional ICU beds or staff, because ‘it is not necessary’. (Was this perhaps the first and only time the truth was told?)

Official figures: nothing to worry about (yet it never gets back to normal)

Now that also the official figures show that after the normal traditional flu season nothing is wrong, and according to the EU statistics (EuroMOMO) there is even a significant lower mortality, the society – if it really was about a virus and public health – should immediately go back to normal to start repairing the huge damage caused by government policies.

However, as you know, that will never be done, and that is because this carefully planned pandemic hoax is carrying out an ideological agenda, the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’, which aims to largely demolish the society and economy of the West, and then subject it to a global technocratic climate-vaccine dictatorship, in which all our freedoms, civil and self-determination rights will be done away with once and for all.

At least that was their plan.

World Economic Forum White Paper Claims 98% of Central Banks are in the Process of Adopting CBDCs

From [HERE] The World Economic Forum has been fixated on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) lately, and as usual, they’re manipulating facts to garner support for their latest attempt to control people.

This time, they’ve released a white paper making the claim that 98% of all central banks are currently pursuing their own CBDCs.

They may want people to believe this, but just two countries have officially launched CBDCs so far – Nigeria and Zimbabwe – while just a handful have made it past the “proof of concept” stage.

Moreover, a number of countries have scrapped their CBDC projects, such as Finland, Denmark, the Philippines, Ecuador and Kenya. Countries that are currently in the pilot stage, however, include India, Russia and China.

In the paper, entitled “Modernizing Financial Markets With Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency,” they sing the praises of these currencies, applauding their ability to streamline cross-border transactions.

The paper claims: “CeBM is ideal for systemically important transactions despite the emergence of alternative payment instruments…Wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) is a form of CeBM that could unlock new economic models and integration points that are not possible today.”

However, given the World Economic Forum’s globalist agenda, their real interest in pushing these currencies and making it seem like everyone wants to adopt them is because they could pave the way for a future global currency model – and, by extension, the removal of physical securities and money known as “dematerialization” that they are so eager to implement. [MORE]

Central Bankster Tells WEF that the COVID Plandemic Helps w/the Transition to a “Cashless” Society

While speaking at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) ‘Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy Development‘ Sunday, Central Bank of Bahrain governor Khalid Humaidan told the ‘Open Forum: The Digital Currencies’ Opportunity in the Middle East‘ panel that the goal of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is to replace cash with digital payments, and that the Covid pandemic was a convenient helper toward that goal.

“I think the transition to fully digital [currency] is not going to be a stretch, people are used to it, people are engaged in it, and circumstances that help is adoption rates increased because of Covid,” Humaidan said.

Humaidan also stated that the general public is not resisting the CBDC.

“This is where contactless [payment] started to become something of a necessity, something of a safety, something of a requirement, and because of that there is very little resistance, trust is already there,” the central banker said.

He also talked about how central banks control the issuance of cash, managing the supply via interest rates, and that the effort is largely controlled by the private sector. The banker stated that it is likely a CBDC will be no different, in the fact that private central banks will still dominate the system.

Most ominously, the man said that he hopes cash will go away completely.

“At some point in time hopefully we’ll be able to be 100 percent digital,” he said. [MORE]

‘Bigger Than the Holocaust’: British Member of Parliament Says 10-20 Million People Were Killed by the Experimental and Deadly COVID Injections

From [HERE] British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen said other MPs have “blood on their hands” for pushing the experimental COVID mRNA vaccines that have likely killed “between 10 and 20 million people.”

“The evidence was pretty considerable 18 months ago when I first spoke out. It’s overwhelming now. Every week there’s more evidence,” he told GB News, citing a recent Japanese research paper that found “a clear link between people who’ve had the boosters and increased cancer.”

“We know why, it’s the SV40, the Simian Virus 40 promoter region that Pfizer didn’t disclose in their vaccines that’s clearly promoting cancer,” he said.

“The MPs have got their hands in blood up to their armpits they put out hundreds if not thousands of letters saying that the vaccines are safe and effective over the last few years,” Bridgen continued.

“There’s a general election coming later this year, and they really just want to hold the line. So after the general election, because on both sides of the House there’s so much political capital that the vaccines are safe and effective, which they are neither safe nor effective.”

Bridgen went on to point out that experts’ claims that the COVID shot rollout was a crime against humanity on par with the Holocaust is likely a conservative estimate.

“A leading cardiologist had said that the vaccine rollout is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust. I’m afraid I think it’s going to be bigger than the Holocaust because I think we’re going to be somewhere between 10 and 20 million people who have been killed by these experimental vaccines worldwide — and it’s still going up.”

The Health Canada regulator confirmed in 2023 the presence of a Simian Virus 40 (SV40) DNA sequence fragments in the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which the manufacturer had not previously disclosed.

Pfizer Canada spokeswoman Christina Antoniou pushed back against the agency’s characterization, claiming SV40 is not included in either starting materials, plasmid DNA or in the final product of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

“The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been reviewed by multiple regulatory authorities, including the EMA and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and advisory bodies globally and has met all safety and quality control guidelines,” Antoniou said in a statement.

Infowars reported last year that a scientific report published by the Correlation Research in the Public Interest found that the COVID shots were causally linked to a drastic increase in all-cause mortality in 17 countries, ultimately resulting in 17 million deaths worldwide.