Prosecution is about Locking Up Blacks Not Prosecuting Cops Who Murder Black People: Gullible Black DA who Tried to Get Justice for Freddy Gray is Now Jobless and On House Arrest for Victimless Crime
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Contrary to the illusion presented in The Spectacle The Legal Profession is Lilly White: ACCORDING TO THE ABA, only 3% of All elected prosecutors are Black, only 5% of All attorneys are Black and 85% of All attorneys are White
In general, the small number of Black attorneys that are actually filtered into the legal system are merely tolerated and remain in active, semi-successful practice only so long as they indirectly or directly work in service of RWS or complement governmental authority in some manner AND/OR NEVER CHALLENGE IT. Gullible civil rights advocates and do-gooders such as Ms. Mosby fail to understand what they are dealing with.
Racism is the dominant feature of the criminal justice in the United States and a major goal of the white supremacy system is the greater confinement of substantial numbers of non-white people, particularly Blacks. As explained by Kenneth Montgomery, a former Black prosecutor for the Brooklyn, New York district attorney’s office, “prosecution is about locking black people up.” “I thought that because of who I was, because of the street and academic smarts I had, I was able to do some things that were more in line with justice. But, it was like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. In the long run, I didn’t think it was worth it, so that’s why I left.” [MORE]. The black prosecutor will be rewarded so long as he/she continues to lock up Black people. REFORMERS GET REFORMED INTO THE SYSTEM. To the extent that a prosecutor decides to spend his/her time prosecuting other persons such as police officers or ELITE white folks he or she will be soon be disappeared, Kaepernick style. [MORE]
From [HERE] The former top prosecutor in Baltimore, convicted of fraud for lying about financial hardship during the pandemic in order to buy a beach house with money from the federal government, will serve no prison time.
Marilyn Mosby, 44, was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest, 100 hours of community service and three years of supervised release Thursday, Erek Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland announced.
The ex-prosecutor was found guilty of multiple felony charges in two separate trials, one that took place this year and one last fall.
During the sentencing hearing in Prince County, U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby sentenced Mosby to home confinement with electric monitoring and also ordered forfeiture of 90% of the property Mosby bought with the fraudulently obtained mortgage.
Mosby garnered national attention in 2015 when she charged six Baltimore police officers in connection to the death of Freddie Gray. A Black man, Gray, 25, died in police custody a week after he was brutalized on the street and then suffered a severe spinal injury while traveling without a seatbelt in the back of a police van on the way to the police station.
Prosecutors had asked for a 20-month sentence
Under the law, Mosby had faced up to 35 years in prison for her fraud and perjury convictions.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sean R. Delaney and Aaron S.J. Zelinsky prosecuted the federal cases. Federal court records show they had argued for a 20-month prison sentence.
The court agrees these are very serious offenses and that this conduct displays a pattern of dishonesty,” The Baltimore Sun reported Griggsby told Mosby in court. “This dishonesty also occurred when you held the highest office for a prosecutor in the City of Baltimore.”
While Mosby’s crimes didn’t have “victims in a traditional sense,” the outlet reported, Griggsby said Mosby "betrayed people who looked up to her in the community."
Climate Change in Gaza: Pale Interloper Alien European Hebrews Reclaim Their Land and Ancestral/Genetic Connection to Afrikan Hebrews from Ancient Times: Video Shows Annihilation of Life, Destruction
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According to FUNKTIONARY:
Israeliens – impostor (pale interloper alien) Hebrews—Eastern European stock Caucasians who adopted the philosophy, myths, fables, and traditions of the so-called “Jews” while living in Russia—masquerading as if they had any genetic or historical ancestry and cultural heritage to the Afrikan Hebrews, the Afrim people, who occupied Canaan (Palestine) from ancient times. 2) those who currently are occupying Palestine (the land of Canaan), colonizing and killing its rightful descendants, historic owners and dwellers), and are undeniably alien (foreign—not aboriginal) to that land. 3) impostor Hebrews originating from the Pale of Settlement in Kazzarian Russia currently an occupying force (militarily holed-up and propped-up by US financial support and British skullduggery) in occupied Palestine. 4) alien Jews—Pinchbeck Hebrews. Israeliens are East Europeans with no genetic or actual historic ties whatsoever to the land now called Palestine. Israeliens have brainwashed (and fooled) themselves and many others into believing this historical lie and propaganda that they are the descendents of “Jews” (a misnomer for African Hebrews, itself a misnomer for the Afrim people). Anyone with a modicum of research skills, knowledge of basic geography, philology, and an unbiased-by-religious-myth mind can easily confirm or validate this fact for his or herself. Both so-called Sephardim and Ashkenazim “Jews” are not historically tied to the Afrim. It’s not that Caucasians who have adopted the “Jewish” religion shouldn’t have a place to live—but how about suggesting relocating where they came from—the hills of Russia, and not on another peoples’ land. You don’t invade (break into) someone’s house (property) and expect them to just go away and not fight to get it back (despite how much force, murdering, deception, and propaganda that is brought to bear to justify such wrongful invasion and genocide). Psychological repression is both invisible and reflexive. (See: Zionism, USS Liberty, Gulf of Tonkin, Genocide, Immigrant Human, Jew, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Evolution, Caucasian, Pilgarlick, El & Judaism)
The UN is Manipulating the Gaza Death Toll to Support Israeli Terrorcrats and Conceal Ongoing Holocaust
/From [HERE] Controlling narratives is critical in the context of international war and the media. The UN’s reported death toll from Gaza has recently come under fire; allegations suggest that the UN dramatically reduced its numbers downward. The UN has denied this accusation, but it seems to be a part of a larger disinformation operation meant to support Israeli state propaganda and hide the truth about Palestinian suffering.
The UN promptly refuted the initial accusation that it had significantly altered the death toll from Gaza. In spite of this, the idea was not written off as a straightforward error in the media but rather as a conscious attempt at misinformation. The number of civilian deaths recorded by the Gaza Health Ministry—figures that are also cited by significant NGOs and the UN—has long been contested by pro-Israeli pundits and government representatives. These officials, frequently without supporting documentation, have written off these figures as Hamas propaganda for years.
Unwanted Cop Acquitted in Manny Ellis Case Sues Tacoma and DA for “False Allegations.” Was 1 of 6 White Cops who Held Black Man Down in a Hobble Restraint and Smothered Him to Death w/Spit Mask
/From [HERE] Swift reaction to a $47 million claim filed by one of the three Tacoma police officers acquitted in the beating death of an unarmed black man.
Former Tacoma Police officer Timothy Rankine filed the claim, four months after a jury found him and two other officers not guilty in the death of Manuel Ellis.
Now Rankine and his wife are suing the state and city of Tacoma.
All three officers settled with the city for half a million dollars earlier this year and then resigned.
Now Timothy Rankine and his wife say the damage to their lives was so great they want more.
This, after a jury determined he and his fellow officers were not guilty of murder in the death of Manny Ellis.
“You think you got away with something but everybody’s going to be judged in the end,” said Brad Williams, a barber.
Emotions still run high inside the Goodfellas Barbershop when the subject of Manny Ellis comes up. The 33-year-old black man was repeatedly punched, tased, a spit hood placed over his head, in a deadly encounter with three Tacoma police officers four years ago.
“And I know of that man,” Williams said. “He used to go to this church over here.”
So, news that one of the acquitted officers, Timothy Rankine, and his wife, are now seeking $47 million in damages from the city and the state, well, it rankles.
“I don’t think anyone should be compensated for doing wrong,” Williams said.
A jury deliberated for three days before finding Rankine, Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins not guilty in Ellis’s death last December.
In January, the three officers each agreed to a half-million-dollar settlement with the city of Tacoma in exchange for turning in their badges.
Now, in the $47-million claim filing, Rankine is accusing the city and the state attorney general of “politically motivated, false allegations of biased policing and criminal misconduct, creating a hostile work environment, inciting hatred, threats, and violence toward me and my family.”
That does not sit well here.
“Because he already had his $500,000 depart,” said Leonard Olsen, barber. “And that’s it. Enough is enough. That’s just putting salt on the wound of disrespect.”
KIRO 7 spoke to Timothy Rankine’s attorney by telephone. She said she was too busy today to have a statement.
But she says she wants his voice heard. So, stay tuned.
A White Woman is the Latest Derek Chauvin Accuser Claiming the Killer Cop Performed the Same 'Signature Pose' on her that he Used to Murder George Floyd in Liberal, Minneapolis
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From [HERE] Disgraced policeman Derek Chauvin is accused of using the same deadly restraint against a woman just a few months before he murdered George Floyd.
Patty Day is suing him and the City of Minneapolis for $9 million in damages for injuries and psychological trauma she suffered during a January 2020 arrest.
The lawsuit filed by Robins Kaplan LLP in federal Minnesota court alleged that five months before George Floyd's death Day was 'violently jerked from her car' and thrown to the ground by Chauvin and his partner Ellen Jensen.
Chauvin then allegedly applied his knee to Day's back while she lay handcuffed - the same stance he would fatally take for nine minutes during his arrest of Floyd.
Day claimed that due to the excessive force, she suffered 'significant' arm and shoulder injuries, as well as a fractured tooth.
All the while, Jensen did nothing to intervene, according to the suit.
She argued the City of Minneapolis was aware officers within its police department had a history of 'gratuitous use of excessive force'.
'Sadly, my experience with Derek Chauvin is not unique,' Day said.
'George Floyd died at the hands of this individual, and had the City intervened on his behavior after my interaction, he could still be alive today... It was a traumatic part of my life that I hope no one else will have to endure.'
Day, who was at the time communications director for the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, got behind the wheel after drinking on January 17, 2020.
Chauvin and Jensen showed up after someone called 911 to report a driver who appeared to be intoxicated stuck in a snowbank.
Judge Denies San Francisco Government’s Claim that 2 White Cops are Immune from Suit after They Fabricated Evidence to Falsely Convict a Latino Man who Spent Most of His Life in Prison
/From [HERE] San Francisco police inspectors will face a trial following a judge’s finding Tuesday that they can’t use qualified immunity to avoid claims that their investigation led to the wrongful imprisonment of a man for 32 years.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore deemed Joaquin Ciria’s case against two San Francisco police inspectors ripe for a trial, denying most of their requests for summary judgment.
However, two conspiracy claims, a claim for nondisclosure of evidence, and all claims against one officer who filed a report based on the inspectors’ case against Ciria, will not proceed to trial.
Attorneys for Ciria did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Jen Kwart with San Francisco's city attorney's office said in an emailed statement, “We are pleased the court granted portions of our motion for summary judgment, and we are evaluating all options moving forward.”
The trial of Inspectors James Crowley and Arthur Gerrans is set for July 1.
Joaquin Ciria challenged the city for charging him with a 1990 killing he didn’t commit, leading to a conviction of first-degree murder at the age of 29. After spending most of his life behind bars, he was officially exonerated in the shooting death of his friend Felix Bastarrica in 2022 at age 61.
He accused the city in the same year of conspiracy and false imprisonment, among other claims, saying that officials deprived him of his civil rights by fabricating evidence "despite obvious evidence of his innocence."
Westmore said in a 24-page order Tuesday that Ciria made a sufficient case for “a triable issue as to the state of mind of Inspectors James Crowley and Arthur Gerrans.” She added that qualified immunity "cannot act as a shield to judicial deception."
The judge detailed the shaky case built by the city to charge Ciria for the shooting and prosecute him, from misidentifying him to using witness interviews with very little basis in fact, which led to his exoneration several decades later.
At least one interview was coerced, as when the inspectors threatened to charge witness George Varela with murder if he did not identify Ciria as the shooter they were looking for.
"Much of the other cited evidence and witness interviews were not based on personal knowledge, and, instead, are more akin to gossip or rumor, which may not be relied upon for a finding of probable cause," the judge wrote.
The case built in total “falls far short of what is required for a finding of probable cause to arrest,” Westmore said, adding that it creates a triable case to explore “whether there was probable cause to prosecute.”
“If the jury believes plaintiff’s version of events, it could find that Crowley and Gerrans’ conduct, at the very least, involved reckless or callous indifference,” Westmore said.
However, the judge granted most claims for summary judgment against Nicholas Rubino, another officer involved in filing the case against Ciria.
Westmore also granted summary judgment on the claims of intraconspiracy and state law conspiracy, and of nondisclosure of evidence, for the inspectors. She said the plaintiff failed to build a plausible case that any San Francisco department policy, custom or training was in place that would have allowed the inspectors to carry out the actions which Ciria accuses them of.
The city argued in a hearing before Westmore earlier this month that inspectors proved their investigation met the legal standard for probable cause, and that only the facts they had at the time they got the warrant matters. Attorneys cited a Ninth Circuit ruling that probable cause to arrest a person can come from an identification, a physical description and a connection to a vehicle used in a murder.
Ciria’s family also separately filed claims in June 2023, saying they want the city to pay for his wrongful detention. His son Pedro and former partner Yojana Paiz say his conviction resulted from the city and police department’s “unconstitutional investigative policies” and a failure to train or intervene or to implement remedial measures to address “tainted, reckless and unconstitutional investigation and interrogation techniques.”
Ciria says it was a pattern of tactics the city used to craft unreliable suspect identifications — including by suggesting that witnesses make less-than-certain identifications, selectively recording portions of interviews, falsely documenting witness identifications and priming witnesses to identify specific suspects.
The Northern California Innocence Project and The Innocence Commission successfully cleared Ciria’s name in 2020, saying police relied on rumors and coerced another man who drove the actual shooter to falsely name Ciria.
At least five Black men were falsely convicted of murders that occurred between 1990 and 1991 in San Francisco based on fabricated evidence, unconstitutionally influenced witness identification or improperly incentivized evidence from San Francisco Police Department officers and inspectors.
Fed Judge Denies Immunity to a White Cop who Framed Desmond Green for Murder based on a “lying, drug-impaired jailhouse informant” whom she Steered to Select Black Man from a Photo lineup
/From [HERE] The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a compelling decision Monday denying qualified immunity to a detective who falsely accused Desmond Green of capital murder based on a “lying, drug-impaired jailhouse informant” whom she steered to select Mr. Green’s face from a photo lineup.
The “horrifying wrong” of being wrongly accused and arrested was compounded by Mr. Green’s imprisonment for nearly two years in the Hinds County Detention Center, which was full of violence, rodents and snakes, and moldy food, where he endured “constant yelling, fighting, and threats,” often had to sleep on the bare floor, and “constantly feared for his life.”
After the informant recanted and prosecutors dropped the charges, Mr. Green filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Jackson police detective (as well as the city itself and Hinds County, which runs the jail) seeking justice for his wrongful prosecution and conditions of confinement.
The detective responded that Mr. Green’s suit should be dismissed under the doctrine of qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that, according to the court, “means people wronged by government agents cannot sue those agents unless the Supreme Court previously found substantially the same acts to be unconstitutional.”
In his 62-page order, District Judge Carlton W. Reeves concludes after a detailed legal analysis that the detective is not entitled to qualified immunity because her actions violated clearly-established law.
The court goes on, however, to address Mr. Green’s argument that qualified immunity is itself unlawful, setting out the historical context for the doctrine’s invention and tracing its evolution into what Justice Sonia Sotomayor has called “an absolute shield” against accountability for police officers accused of using excessive force.
Qualified immunity “has no basis in law,” the court concludes. “It is an extra-constitutional affront to other cherished values of our democracy.”
“Waves of Terrorism”
The federal statute under which Mr. Green sued the police detective is usually called “section 1983,” but the court insists on using the law’s formal name—the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871—to underscore why Congress passed it in the first place. The decision sets the historical stage this way (citations omitted):
After the Civil War, white supremacists unleashed waves of terrorism across the South. Lawlessness was the order of the day. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan carried out “thousands of beatings, lynchings, and incidents of torture and mutilation.” “These atrocities were inflicted with impunity because judges, politicians, and law enforcement officers were fellow Klansmen and loyal sympathizers.” White supremacy empowered them to kill Black men, women, and children without fear of consequences.
EJI has documented nearly 2,000 confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people by white mobs during Reconstruction, the 12-year period following the Civil War. Thousands more were attacked, sexually assaulted, and terrorized by white mobs and individuals who were shielded from arrest and prosecution. [MORE]
Alabama DA Seeks New Trial for Toforest Johnson, Black Man on Death Row. No Physical Evidence Connected Him to the Crime, 10 witnesses placed him at a nightclub and Liar Witness Paid by Government
/From [HERE] On May 20, 2024, Jefferson County, Alabama District Attorney Danny Carr asked a circuit judge to grant a new trial to Toforest Johnson (center), an Alabama death row prisoner whose conviction DA Carr believes is “fundamentally unreliable.” This extraordinary request is the latest in a series of appeals for Mr. Johnson, who was sentenced to death in 1998 for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy but has always maintained his innocence. “A thorough review and investigation of the entire case leaves no confidence in the integrity of [Mr.] Johnson’s conviction,” DA Carr wrote. “The interest of justice demands that [Mr.] Johnson be granted a new trial.” DA Carr initially filed a motion requesting a new trial for Mr. Johnson in 2020, voicing similar concerns over the validity of his conviction. The United States Supreme Court declined to hear Mr. Johnson’s case in October 2023.
Mr. Johnson was convicted in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Hardy, who was killed in a hotel parking lot, despite his maintenance that he was at a nightclub across town. His conviction relied largely on testimony from Violet Ellison, who claimed to have listened to phone calls between her daughter and heard someone at Jefferson County Jail who identified himself as “Toforest” confess to the shooting. DA Carr wrote that Mr. Johnson’s original prosecutor has acknowledged that the case hinged on Ms. Ellison’s testimony and that “nobody contests that [Ms.] Ellison is the key to [Mr.] Johnson’s conviction and the reason he is on death row today.” In 2008, several individuals submitted affidavits in support of Mr. Johnson, claiming they had seen him across town on the night of the murder and in 2022, information was revealed indicating Ms. Ellison was a key witness in several other criminal cases for the State. “We also know the [Ms.] Ellison was not believed by law enforcement initially and that a different theory of the case that contradicted her account was pursued after [Mr.] Johnson’s trial and that the lead prosecutor now has such grave concerns about [Ms.] Ellison that he supports a new trial for [Mr.] Johnson,” DA Carr wrote.
Lawyers for Mr. Johnson have long argued that the prosecution suppressed evidence that Ms. Ellison had knowledge of the $5,000 reward being offered in the case and testified in hopes of receiving that money. In a 2018 hearing in Jefferson County, a copy of the check that was paid to Ms. Ellison surfaced after the US Supreme Court sent Mr. Johnson’s case back to state court. The Circuit court ruled that Mr. Johnson’s legal team could not establish that Ms. Ellison knew there was a reward when she talked with the police.
Former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, former Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, and several former judges and prosecutors have also voiced support for a new trial for Mr. Johnson, as well as three former jurors on the case. Shanaye Pool, Mr. Johnson’s daughter, was grateful for DA Carr’s support of her father. “Our hope is that the courts will agree with him. Our hope is for our family to finally be reunited,” said Ms. Poole.
Video Surfaces of Israel’s Security Minister Appearing to Celebrate the Murder of a Palestinian Baby (Ali Dawabsha) Who Was Burned Alive. Israeli’s Laugh, Sing, Stab and Burn a Picture of the Child
/From [HERE] 8 YEARS before Oct 7, Israel’s current security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was partying with settlers celebrating the burning alive of a Palestinian BABY, Ali Dawabsha! They laugh, sing, stab the picture, burn it & hit it jubilantly
One-and-a-half year old Ali Saad Dawabsha became a victim of Israeli violence on July 31, 2025. He was burnt to death. Other members of his family were also severely burnt in a Jewish settlers’ attack on their home in the village of Duma, near Nablus, in the West Bank.
A spokesman for Rabbis for Human Rights told Al Jazeera Arabic that this is the tenth attack on Nablus by settlers in July. A statement issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) provided an even more alarming statistic, putting the number of Jewish settlers’ attacks, some of them lethal, at an estimated 11,000 since 2004.
Ali Dawabsha is not the first Palestinian child to be burnt to death, although the story of Mohamed Abu Khdeir who was tortured and burnt alive by a group of Jewish extremists in July 2014 now serves as a hideous benchmark for Israeli settler violence, which is often conducted under the watchful eye of – or as part of larger violent campaign led by – the Israeli army.
Despite Israeli political theater and statements of condemnations following Abu Khdeir’s grisly murder, Israeli violence against Palestinians is part and parcel of Israel’s Occupation policy, draped in numerous crimes gone unpunished. [MORE]
The IRS Finally Acknowledged that Racial Disparities in Taxpayer Audit Rates have Negatively Affected Black Taxpayers
/From [HERE] The IRS finally acknowledged this month what Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy research uncovered in 2023: Racial disparities in taxpayer audit rates have negatively affected Black taxpayers. The IRS has committed to reevaluating the mechanisms that caused the disparity and refining their compliance approaches—but tweaking the dials on the algorithm is insufficient.
We need true, fact-based accountability for why data-driven algorithms exhibited decidedly human biases in their outcomes. The tax system’s integrity depends on the IRS’s willingness to outline what went wrong and how taxpayers can be certain that the issue is resolved. Furthermore, open-sourcing the audit algorithms would provide both transparency and an opportunity to engage in a feedback loop with researchers and watchdog groups.
Biased Algorithms
Concern over racial disparities in IRS audits isn’t just about statistics. These disparities undermine how much taxpayers can trust the fairness of the tax system—especially if the IRS wants to foster voluntary compliance. Commissioner Danny Werfel has acknowledged that such disparities “degrade trust in our tax system,” and such degradation isn’t going to be improved with a mere assertion that the issue has been resolved.
Algorithms aren’t biased. But the people who write the algorithms—or the people who collect the data that the algorithms are applied to—may be. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly popular for automating tasks and increasing operative efficiency, there are going to be more opportunities to scapegoat “the algorithm.” [MORE]
[racists spare no expense to Dominate non-whites] Costs to Arizona taxpayers to reach $314 Million in profiling verdict against Racist Sheriff Arpaio who Targeted Immigrants Based on Skin Color
/From [HERE] Seven years after Joe Arpaio was ousted as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers are still footing the bills from a racial profiling verdict over his signature immigration crackdowns — and those costs have been getting heavier since.
The tab for the legal and compliance costs in overhauling the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is expected to reach $314 million by mid-summer 2025, including $41 million approved Monday by county officials — the most expensive for Maricopa County taxpayers since the lawsuit was filed in 2007.
Nearly 11 years ago, a federal judge concluded sheriff’s deputies had racially profiled Latinos in Arpaio’s traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. Consequently, the judge ordered costly overhauls of the agency’s traffic patrol operations and, later, its internal affairs unit.
The taxpayer spending is expected to continue until the sheriff’s office attains full compliance with the court-ordered changes for three straight years. Though progress has been made on some fronts, the agency hasn’t yet been deemed fully compliant. [MORE]
Under the Guise of Creating Bird Flu Vaccines, the US Govt and Bill Gates are Funding Gain-of-Function Research to Make Bird Flu Viruses More Lethal and Transmissible Among Mammals
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From [HERE] U.S. health officials only recently admitted to funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — but for decades, the U.S. government has funded the same type of dangerous research on bird flu in the U.S.
And that research continues today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), theU.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) — even the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — have funded or are funding research to make bird flu more pathogenic and/or more transmissible in mammals.
Appearing on the “Kim Iversen Show” on May 16, Brian Hooker, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defensechief scientific officer, said he is concerned the U.S. is “making agents of … biological destruction” that could “put us into another pandemic.”
Hooker echoed warnings by former CDC Director Robert Redfield, who suggested the next pandemic would be sparked by a leak from a lab working to humanize bird flu viruses.
Hooker told Iversen the CDC’s Influenza Division infected ferrets with the currently circulating H5N1 avian influenza strain, then infected human lung cells, to make the virus more infective to humans.
Their justification, he said, is to be prepared for a zoonotic outbreak — where a virus from a bird or other animal jumps to humans.
“The party line that you hear all the time is, ‘Well, we have to develop these pathogens because then we can develop the countermeasures,’ — the vaccines, the monoclonal antibodies, the therapeutics,” he said.
Long list of gain-of-function studies on bird flu
The CDC, BARDA, NIAID and the World Health Organization (WHO) have conducted or funded dangerous bird flu studies.
Jessica Belser, a lead researcher with the CDC, was involved in numerous studies exploring the pathogenicity and transmissibility of bird flu viruses. She is co-author of a March 2024 study on the H5N1 strain causing fatal disease and transmitting between co-housed ferrets.
In 2020, Belser studied how different strains of the H9N2 flu virus, which have genetic and antigenic differences, show varying patterns of replication and transmission in mammalian animal models. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was a collaborator.
In 2016, Belser studied how different bird flu strains, including H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2, could infecthuman pulmonary endothelial cells.
Richard Webby, Ph.D., a BARDA-associated researcher and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds, is co-author of a May 2024 paper studying the susceptibility and transmissibility in the pig population of highly pathogenic avian influenza derived from mink.
In a 2017 study funded by the NIAID, Webby tested bird flu vaccines on ferrets, infecting them with the wild virus to determine the vaccines’ efficacy.
Hooker told The Defender this research is dangerous because ferrets “are immunologically very close to humans. … It’s not a huge leap for them to suddenly get into the human population and start human-to-human transmission.”
Christine Oshansky, chief of Pandemic Vaccines and Adjuvants at BARDA, co-authored a 2021 study ofhighly pathogenic influenza H7N9 and a vaccine formulation.
In 2018, Oshansky tested H5N1 vaccines stored in the national Influenza vaccine stockpile for up to 12 years to determine if they could be effective against divergent A (H5) influenza viruses.
The WHO funded the May 2020 study, “Pandemic potential of highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4 A(H5) viruses.” Collaborators included the CDC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and other organizations. Webby and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, Ph.D.of the University of Wisconson are among the listed authors.
“That’s the huge danger of doing this work,” Hooker said. “Whether it’s an accidental or intentional release, you’re playing with these pathogens so that they’re basically creating variants that are infectious in humans.”
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The vaccine cash cow
Hooker told Iversen there are “myriad patents associated with bird flu vaccines [and] bird flu pathogens.”
Kawaoka, the researcher long funded by NIAID to conduct bird flu research, has 78 patents in his portfolio, many of them related to bird flu vaccination.
In 2023, Kawaoka filed patents on:
Mutations that confer genetic stability to additional genes in influenza viruses (US-11802273-B2).
Recombinant influenza viruses with stabilized HA for replication in eggs (US-11807872 – B2).
A humanized cell line (US-11851648-B2).
In 2022, Kawaoka filed a patent for influenza virus replication for vaccine development (US-113906-B2).
Richard Bright, former BARDA director and a bird flu researcher at the CDC from 1998-2006, has an “extensive patent portfolio on — you guessed it — bird flu vaccines,” Hooker said. “And so these prophets of doom hit the airwaves and they scare everybody.” [MORE]
Will Federal Ct Uphold the Law of the Jungle or Hold Police Accountable for Murdering a Black College Student? White Cops 'Shot Jamarion Robinson to Bits' @ Close Range–Shot @ 76X, Engaged in Cover-up
/From [HERE] The mother of a 26-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police officers nearly eight years ago asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse the dismissal of her civil rights suit. The three-judge circuit panel did not signal when they intend to issue a ruling.
Monteria Robinson's excessive force claims were dismissed by a lower court because the officers were acting as part of a federal task force law with the U.S. Marshal Service.
On appeal, she argued that should be able to sue because the officers on the task force were acting under state law and abiding by state agencies' policies and procedures.
Her attorney, Mario Williams, argued before the 11th Circuit panel on Friday that all members of U.S. Marshal Service enforcement operations are required to comply with state agency guidelines, including those concerning the use of firearms and deadly force.
If the officers were not employed by local law enforcement agencies, which empower them with Georgia general arrest powers, they wouldn't have had the authority to execute the arrest warrant against Jamarion Robinson to begin with, Williams argued.
But U.S. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch noted differences between this case and the Supreme Court Bivens case, which found that an implied cause of action existed for an people whose Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure had been violated by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Unlike in Bivens where federal narcotic officers executed a warrantless arrest, the task force officers in this case were acting in execution of valid arrest warrants. They also engaged in a gunfight with Jamarion Robinson who was armed, where as the suspect in Bivens was unarmed.
"This is a very hard hill for you to climb up," said Branch. "How is having an arrest warrant for him not meaningful?"
Williams said the fact that the arrestee was armed does not mean the officers did not engage in excessive use of force.
U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor asked whether a Bivens remedy applies against officers working as fugitive task force agents of the Marshal Service. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Egbert held that any claim that isn't highly similar to the facts in Bivens provides a "new context" in which a damages claim can't proceed if there is any reason to think Congress might be better equipped to create a damages remedy.
Assistant U.S. attorney Gabriel Mendel, representing task force officers Eric Heinze and Daniel Doyle, argued the circumstances of this case present a new context requiring consideration of special factors.
Mendel defended the lower court's finding that alternative remedial structures exist, including an administrative scheme under the Federal Tort Claims Act that permits plaintiffs to sue those acting on behalf of the United States. Monteria Robinson had already done so, and the 11th Circuit previously affirmed the judge's dismissal of those claims on summary judgment.
U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Hull, expressed concern that Monteria Robinson may be barred from raising her claims because she did not raise the question, during her first appeal, of whether the court correctly held the defendants were acting as federal officers.
That was in 2022, when she appealed a judge's previous dismissal of the case finding that the officers' "use of force was objectively reasonable” and granting them qualified immunity.
An 11th Circuit panel found that evidence from a bystander's video created a "genuine dispute of material fact" and remanded the case for further proceedings on claims that officers Heinze and Doyle used excessive force after a flashbang exploded. [MORE]
According to the complaint in the civil case the facts are as follows:
On August 5, 2016, at approximately 12:30, seven or more members of the Task Force, including the Defendant-Officers, met at a church near Washington Road and Interstate 285 in Atlanta for the purpose of receiving information about serving an arrest warrant on decedent Jamarion Robinson at 3129 Candlewood Drive in Atlanta. Among other things, Steve O'Hare “relayed…ROBINSON’S mental health history” to the defendant officers in attendance. Approximately an hour after the meeting in the church the Defendant-Officers moved from the church near Washington Road and Interstate 285 to positions around and in front of 3129 Candlewood Drive. One or more of the Defendant-Officers pounded loudly on the front door of 3129 Candlewood Drive multiple times. Then one or more Defendant-Officers broke down the front door and, without cause or provocation by Jamarion Robinson, began “spraying” bullets around the interior of 3129 Candlewood Drive with one or more H&K 9 mm submachine guns, one or more H&K .40 mm submachine guns, and one or more Glock .40 pistols.
When one or more of the Defendant-Officers began “spraying” bullets around the interior of 3129 Candlewood Drive, they did not know how many people were in the building. Fifty-nine bullets or more from the sub-machine guns and Glocks of the Defendant Officers entered the body of Jamarion Robinson, killing him. After killing Jamarion Robinson, one or more of the defendants ascended a single flight of stairs to a second-floor landing, where the bullet-riddled corpse of Jamarion Robinson was lying.
With the intention of covering-up their actions by manipulating the evidence on the scene and with the intention making it more difficult if not impossible to accurately reconstruct the shooting-event, the defendant officers:
Set off a flash bang grenade after lethally shooting Jamarion Robinson;
Stood over Jamarion Robinson corpse and mutilated it by firing into it two 9 millimeter bullets;
Handcuffed the corpse knowing that it was lifeless and without the power of animation to react to them;
Put an oxygen rebreathing mask over the corpse knowing that it was lifeless and without the power of respiration;
Dragged the corpse from the second floor landing down a flight of stairs to the first floor, with the purpose of attempting to destroy the evidentiary connection:
between the bullet entry-and-exit wounds on the corpse and the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling;
between the corpse and the blood- and flesh-spatter patterns on the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling; and
between the corpse and its actual position when found by the defendant officers; and f. Otherwise tampered with the evidence on the scene with the intention of destroying the evidentiary value
Heinze and Hutchens are accused of using unnecessary force by continuing to shoot at Robinson even after he fell to the ground and was unresponsive.
Daniel Doyle, another task force member who opened fire that day, died of cancer in March 2020 and was never charged.
According to a medical examiner’s report, Robinson was shot 59 times, with 75 bullet wounds that either entered or exited his body. The family said that a pathologist found that Robinson had been shot several times through the palms of both hands.[3] Attorney for the state Natalie Adams said Thursday that the report showed that Robinson’s “hands and arms were shot to bits.”
None of the officers were injured in the incident.[4] None of the police officers involved in the shooting wore body cameras.[13] [MORE]
Ambulance was 1 Hour Too Late Causing a Miscarriage. 'So What?' says Federal Court, 'There's No Constitutional Right to Receive Emergency Services and Govt Has No Duty to Provide Rescue Services'
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PURSUANT TO THE SO-CALLED “SOCIAL CONTRACT,” Citizens are contractually obliged to obey all laws and GOVERNMENT commands and IF they fail to do so the government CAN punish the citizen, usually with fines or imprisonment. IN CONTRAST, authorities HAVE NO SUCH OBLIGATION TO THE CITIZEN - AS AUTHORITIES are bound ONLY to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it and to whom they choose, but no one in particular. AS STATED BY THE COURT IN THE MATTER DISCUSSED BELOW, ‘THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO obligation To provide competent rescue services - if it chooses to provide SUCH SERVICES. HERE, “OBLIGATION” means a legally enforceable and vested right to receive services the citizen is entitled to RECEIVE. WE ARE OBLIGED TO OBEY THE GOVERNMENT BUT GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE SERVICES IF IT SO DESIRES. Dr. Blynd asks “Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it? ” [MORE]
From [HERE] A federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed the wrongful death and negligence claims brought against a county by a married couple whose unborn daughter died after an ambulance took over an hour to arrive during the wife’s medical emergency. Their claims do not sustain a constitutional violation, and without this, their state law questions are not appropriate for the federal court to consider. The court ruled:
Plaintiffs’ Section 1983 claims against the other Defendants fail because Plaintiffs have not alleged a violation of Stephanie or Paisley Reiner’s constitutional rights. The Bill of Rights is a charter of negative liberties, prohibiting government action rather than requiring it. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is no different. It prohibits any state from “depriv[ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”66
The Third Circuit has long-standing precedent that there is no constitutional right to receive emergency ambulance services, nor is there “an affirmative obligation on the State to provide competent rescue services if it chooses to provide them.” 67 So any injuries resulting from flawed or incompetent emergency rescue services are not constitutional injuries, and hence not actionable under Section 1983.68 Plaintiffs’ argument that they only waited an hour for the ambulance because they did not know it would take so long requires a closer analysis of this Circuit’s “state-created danger” theory of liability.
According to the court’s decision:
The complaint in this case revolves around the negligent training and response of a 911 Center and dispatcher, whose response to a call requesting emergency medical assistance exacerbated Stephanie Reiner’s injuries and resulted in the death of her unborn daughter, Paisley.
On September 23, 2022, Stephanie Reiner was approximately 32 weeks pregnant with Paisley.8 Stephanie Reiner began experiencing stomach discomfort that same afternoon, which worsened and became constant.9 Reiner contacted a triage nurse in the labor and delivery department at Geisinger Medical Center at approximately 3:00 p.m.10 While on the phone with the nurse, Reiner felt a sensation similar to her water breaking and believed she was going into labor.11 After Reiner described her condition, the nurse advised her to contact 911 so that she could be admitted to the hospital.12 After the call, however, Reiner discovered that her water had not broken, and that she was bleeding profusely.13 She immediately called 911 and spoke to a dispatcher at the 911 Center, informing the dispatcher that this was a medical emergency and that she was in need of an ambulance.14 The dispatcher advised Reiner that an ambulance would be dispatched immediately.15
Reiner’s mother-in-law Luann Snyder came to the residence minutes after Reiner called 911.16 Snyder observed a pool of blood beneath Reiner and throughout the kitchen.17 After waiting for the ambulance for ten minutes, Snyder called 911 to find out when it would arrive.18 The dispatcher stated that an ambulance had been dispatched and was on the way.19 After waiting another ten to fifteen minutes, Snyder called 911 again, asking where the ambulance was coming from and how far away it was.20 But the dispatcher refused to tell Snyder where the ambulance had been dispatched from.21 Instead, the dispatcher reiterated that an ambulance had been dispatched and would be there soon, and that Snyder should be patient.22 Snyder waited another ten to fifteen minutes, and then again called 911.23 She advised the dispatcher that if they could not get Reiner to an ambulance, they needed to get her to a helicopter because she was bleeding out.24 After an additional fifteen minutes of waiting, the ambulance finally arrived.25 Throughout the time Reiner waited for the ambulance to arrive, she experienced severe pain and constant gushes of blood from her vaginal area.26
Two ambulance companies are located within approximately ten miles of Reiner’s residence, while a third is located approximately 24 miles from her residence.27 Yet unbeknownst to Reiner and Snyder, the 911 Center never contacted these companies, which were in service and available on the date of Reiner’s incident.28 Instead, the ambulance which actually arrived was in fact coming from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which was over an hour away from Reiner’s residence.29 If Reiner and Snyder had known that the ambulance was coming from Harrisburg, they would have driven to the nearest hospital immediately.30
Reiner’s misfortune did not end with the arrival of the ambulance. The ambulance that was dispatched was from CLT, located approximately 60 miles from Reiner’s residence.31 After arriving at Reiner’s residence, the Emergency Medical Technicians (“EMTs”) forced Reiner to walk approximately 100 feet to the ambulance outside, even though Reiner advised them that she believed she was hemorrhaging.32 The EMTs then asked Reiner to get on the stretcher by herself, despite her profuse bleeding and difficulty walking.33 They then downgraded the call from a Code 3 response to a Code 1 response,34 and did not leave for approximately an additional seven minutes after Reiner was secured in the ambulance.35 The ambulance did not use lights and sirens and stopped at every red light on the way to Geisinger Medical Center (“Geisinger”).36 And the EMTs never took Reiner’s blood pressure or administered intravenous (“IV”) therapy.37 During the ambulance ride, Reiner vomited four times.38
The EMTs never contacted anyone at Geisinger on the way to the hospital, and Geisinger personnel were unaware of Reiner’s condition when she arrived.39 After the ambulance arrived at Geisinger, the Geisinger nurses asked why Reiner did not have an IV and sent the EMTs away.40 Upon Reiner’s arrival at Geisinger, Paisley Reiner, her unborn daughter, still had a heartbeat.41 Reiner was rushed to the operating room for an emergency Caesarean section.42 Geisiner medical personnel informed Reiner that she had a full placental abruption and hemorrhage.43 Reiner’s surgery continued for five hours because doctors could not stop her bleeding, and doctors were forced to give Reiner large doses of medications to promote blood clotting to attempt to stop the bleeding.44
Ultimately, Paisley Reiner was delivered stillborn that same day.45 Reiner’s treating physician advised her that if she had arrived at the hospital sooner, Paisley Reiner would have survived the trauma.46 The physician stated that Reiner’s condition started as a partial placental abruption and developed into a complete abruption by the time she arrived at Geisinger. As a result of this incident, Reiner suffers from blood clots and has had three miscarriages.47 On September 26, 2022—three days after Reiner’s incident—Russell Fellman, the 911 Coordinator in charge of the Northumberland County 911 Center, modified the Computer Aided Dispatch (“CAD”) station order relating to Reiner’s call at the 911 Center.48 Fellman changed the 13 EMS district station order to reflect the correct station order that should have been used when Reiner originally contacted the 911 Center.49 Although Area Services was not recommended for dispatch on September 23, 2022 because it was listed deep in the station order, Fellman also modified the CAD system station order to move Area Services higher on the list of emergency services dispatched to a particular location.50
The Northumberland County District Attorney’s Office investigated the incident.51 In October 2022, the Northumberland County Fire Chiefs Association’s vice president claimed that mismanagement of the 911 Center had placed the public in danger; another fire chief expressed concern that mismanagement of the 911 Center would result in civilian death.52 At this same meeting, fire officials aired grievances concerning prolonged dispatch times and significant dispatcher turnover, and called for Fellman’s termination.53 Fellman resigned as 911 Coordinator in December 2022.54 According to Plaintiffs, dispatchers at the 911 Center were not properly trained to dispatch ambulances.55
Chad Reiner, Stephanie Reiner, and the estate of Paisley Reiner now bring a five-count complaint against Defendants.56 Counts I and II seek damages against all defendants for alleged violations of Paisley Reiner and Stephanie Reiner’s federal constitutional rights under Title 18 U.S.C. § 1983.57 The remaining counts are brought exclusively against Defendant CLT under Pennsylvania state law. Count III states a claim for Gross Negligence, Count IV seeks damages under Pennsylvania’s Wrongful Death Act, and Count V seeks damages under Pennsylvania’s Survival Action statute.58 [MORE]
Tennessee Authorities Claim They Can Murder People Convicted for Child Sexual Assault in Direct Challenge to Supreme Court Death Penalty Precedent
/From [HERE] On May 9, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a bill authorizing the death penalty for aggravated rape of a child, following Florida’s passage of a similar law last year. Both laws contradict longstanding Supreme Court precedent holding the death penalty unconstitutional for non-homicide crimes. Tennessee’s law takes effect on July 1. The state has had a death penalty moratorium in place since May 2022 after Governor Lee learned that state officials had failed to test execution drugs for bacterial contamination; he ordered a subsequent independent investigation which found that the state had systematically failed to follow lethal injection protocols. Governor Lee did not release a statement upon signing the bill and has issued no recent updates on the status of the moratorium.
The Supreme Court held in Coker v. Georgia (1977) that the use of the death penalty is disproportionate to the crime of rape, violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The Court extended that ruling to child rape in Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008). While the Court emphasized the “hurt and horror inflicted” by perpetrators of child rape and the “years of long anguish” endured by the victim, the Court noted that only a handful of states authorized the death penalty for child rape and only two men in the entire country were on death row as a result, making the punishment unconstitutionally “unusual” for the crime. The Court further noted the disproportionate nature of the punishment of death on a person who had not caused death, raising concerns about the “incongruity” between child sexual abuse and the “harshness” of the death penalty. “When the law punishes by death, it risks its own sudden descent into brutality, transgressing the constitutional commitment to decency and restraint,” the justices wrote.
Critics have argued that such laws could further traumatize victims. Maria DeLiberato, Executive Director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, pointed out that 30% of child sex abuse victims are abused by family members and 90% of victims know their abuser. “You’ve got this whole dynamic where a child is going to bear the weight of a possible death sentence to a neighbor, an uncle, a grandfather,” she said. Similarly, the Court noted in Kennedy that it “is not at all evident that the child rape victim’s hurt is lessened when the law permits the death of the perpetrator,” as death penalty cases “require a long-term commitment by those who testify for the prosecution” and victims would have to relive their trauma through law enforcement interviews and testimony for decades. The practice “forces a moral choice on the child, who is not of mature age to make that choice,” the Court wrote.
There is also evidence that such laws increase the risk of wrongful execution. The Kennedy Court discussed research showing children have a heightened susceptibility to suggestion or fabrication in law enforcement interviews. The National Registry of Exonerations has identified over 300 wrongful convictions involving child sex abuse.
Governor DeSantis and Florida legislators designed their bill as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn Kennedy. “This bill sets up a procedure to be able to challenge that precedent,” DeSantis said. Florida prosecutors announced their first case under the law in December. Some Tennessee legislators made the same argument; state Senator Janice Bowling suggested that “the atmosphere is different on the Supreme Court” and the bill’s sponsors were “simply challenging a ruling.” (Governor Lee denied signing the bill to “test” it in court.) These efforts come amidst challenges at the Supreme Court to the “evolving standards of decency” test used in Kennedy and numerous landmark capital punishment cases. A pending death penalty case from Alabama challenging the test, Hamm v. Smith, has been relisted by the Court fourteen times without a certiorari decision, and advocates recently appeared to sidestep a nearly-identical challenge to the test in a case argued before the Court in April.
