DOJ Sues LA County Sheriff’s Department for Purposefully Delaying Concealed Carry Permit Applications

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit Tuesday against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, alleging violations of citizens’ Second Amendment rights and becoming the first suit filed by the DOJ in support of gun owners.

On March 27, the DOJ began a Second Amendment investigation after receiving numerous complaints of unreasonable delays in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department related to concealed carry weapon (CCW) permit applications. The investigation, conducted jointly by the Civil Rights Division and Assistant US Attorneys from the Central District of California, reviewed nearly 8,000 CCW permit applications before filing suit.

According to the complaint, some applications have been pending for more than two years. Only two permits were issued between January 2024 and March 2025.

Currently, 2,768 applications for new licenses are still pending, with interviews scheduled as late as November 2026. The DOJ cited 2022 Supreme Court case New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, arguing the court made clear that “the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”

Acting US Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California addressed the suit, stating “the right to bear arms is among the founding principles of our nation. It can and must be upheld.” The LA County Sheriff’s Department has not issued a statement on the matter. [MORE]

A New Study Reveals the Sugar Industry has Manipulated Fluoride Science Since the 1930s — Exaggerating Benefits, Concealing Risks and Steering Attention Away From Sugar’s Role In Tooth Decay

The sugar industry has manipulated scientific research on fluoride since the 1930s — exaggerating its benefits, suppressing concerns about serious side effects and shifting attention away from sugar’s role in tooth decay, according to a study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health.

Internal sugar industry and dental organization documents, analyzed by the study’s author Christopher Neurath, detail how the sugar industry helped shape the public health policies that, for decades, touted fluoride as a “magic bullet” against tooth decay.

The documents also show how the tobacco and chemical industries later adopted those tactics.

Neurath, research director for the American Environmental Health Studies Project, told The Defender that his research builds on work by Dr. Cristin Kearns. Kearns revealed how the sugar industry paid scientists to downplay links between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as a risk factor.

The sugar industry — and the industrial food industry as a whole — “have played a huge role in manipulating not just the science, but the policy,” Neurath said of his findings. “I think this helps to show they are likely culprit No. 1 in the chronic disease epidemic.”

Controversy over water fluoridation exploded after plaintiffs won a landmark lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in September 2024. The ruling — now on appeal — compels the agency to set new rules for regulating fluoride in water because fluoride poses an “unreasonable risk” to children’s neurodevelopment.

Since then, numerous communities — and two states — have decided to stop fluoridating their water. [MORE]

Trump Administration Sued Over Massive ‘Interagency Database’ of Americans’ Private Information

Advocacy groups are suing to block the Trump administration’s creation of vast, centralized databases of Americans’ personal information for purging voter rolls and launching criminal investigations. 

The groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit Tuesday in Washington D.C. against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Social Security Administration (SSA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the heads of those agencies in their official capacity, alleging violations of federal privacy and regulatory procedure laws. 

“The federal government’s secretive and unlawful collection and consolidation of Americans’ personal data is a clear example of the constitutional crisis we are living through,” Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters (LWV), one of the plaintiffs, said in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “Our federal government is abusing its power to access American’s personal information, and several states are using that private data to harm voters and our individual right to privacy.”

The other plaintiffs are LWV’s Virginia and Louisiana chapters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and five individual Americans.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March directing DHS to expand the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’s Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program for use in checking the citizenship of registered voters, incorporate Social Security data, and make it free for state election officials to use. Since then, DOJ has taken voter registration roll data it has collected from some state election officials and shared it with DHS for use with SAVE. [MORE]

Georgia Supreme Court backs landowners' fight to protect historic Gullah-Geechee Community

Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves.

The state Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that had stopped a referendum to consider repealing a revised zoning ordinance passed by McIntosh County officials two years ago. Residents of Sapelo Island opposed the zoning amendments that doubled the size of homes allowed in a tiny enclave called Hogg Hummock.

Homeowners feared the change would result in one of the nation’s most historically and culturally unique Black communities facing unaffordable tax increases. Residents and their supporters last year submitted a petition with more than 2,300 signatures from registered voters seeking a referendum in the coastal county, which lies 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Savannah. [MORE]

79 yr Old Non-White Citizen Files $50 Million Claim Against DHS and ICE Race Soldiers after they Slammed Him to the Ground Causing Brain Injury During LA Raid of His Car Wash Shop

From [HERE] Rafie Ollah Shouhed, a 79-year-old U.S. citizen, has filed a $50 million federal tort claim against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging he was severely injured by agents using “excessive force” during a raid at his Los Angeles car wash.

Shouhed claims he was thrown to the ground, resulting in multiple broken ribs, contusions, and symptoms of a traumatic brain injury. The incident took place on September 9 while ICE agents were attempting to arrest five individuals from Guatemala and Mexico.

According to Shouhed’s claim, he approached the masked agents asking, “What can I do for you? Can I help you?” before he was allegedly slammed to the ground by three agents and briefly taken into custody. He was eventually released without being charged.

DHS released a statement saying Shouhed was initially arrested for “impeding” a federal officer during the operation.

“This was an outrageous and unlawful assault on a 79-year-old American citizen in his own place of business,” said V. James DeSimone, Shouhed’s attorney. He further claimed agents “body slammed Mr. Shouhed, pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck, ignored his pleas for medical care, and left him broken and in pain for hours.”

DHS has six months to review the claim and either settle or deny it before a federal lawsuit can be formally filed.

This action comes as tensions between California state officials and federal agencies continue to escalate over immigration enforcement tactics. California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) recently signed a bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces, a measure he supported after stating masked ICE agents have been “terrorizing local communities.”

The Trump administration and DHS have already indicated they will not comply with the new state law.

‘Police Treated Us Less Than Human.’ $17M Settlement after Liar White CA Cops Knocked Out, Dragged and Falsely Arrested Black Woman who Stopped to Switch Drivers During Family Trip. Only Crime was DWB

From [HERE] A woman who was knocked unconscious and arrested by two sheriff’s deputies in northern California after stopping to change drivers during a family trip in 2020 has reached a $17m settlement with the county, her lawyer said on Monday.

Nakia Porter had filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Solano county sheriff’s office deputies violating state and federal civil rights statutes by engaging in “unlawful seizure, assault and excessive force”.

Porter, her father and her three young children were driving home at night on 6 August 2020, when they pulled off the road. Porter, who is Black, was already out of the car when the deputies pulled up with lights flashing and she explained that they were just switching drivers and would be on their way, according to the lawsuit.

Body cameras worn by the deputies recorded them pulling guns on Porter before slamming her to the pavement while handcuffing her along a rural road in the town of Dixon. Her father, Joe Powell, was also placed in handcuffs and briefly detained.

Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, but never charged.

“What happened to Ms. Porter and her family should never happen in our society,” Porter’s attorney, Yasin Almadani, said in a news release announcing the settlement.

The Solano county sheriff’s department and a spokesperson for the county did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment after business hours on Monday evening.

The lawsuit also accused the deputies of lying on their arrest reports about Porter fighting them and the length of time she was unconscious.

“For those that are listening, I am not resisting,” Porter can be heard saying on the body camera footage. “You are not reading me my rights.”

The deputies then pushed Porter against the squad car and then to the pavement while trying to handcuff her.

“Put your hands behind your back. Get on your stomach,” one deputy shouts.

Porter alleged the deputies punched her in the head and the stomach, kneeled on her back and pulled her hair. She said she passed out seconds after the deputies closed the handcuffs.

“I think she’s out,” a deputy can be heard saying on the video.

Porter, who is 5ft 2in (1.6 metres) and 125lbs (57kg), said she was dragged unconscious to the back of the squad car, where she came to about five minutes later.

“These deputies treated us less than human and left a void we are still struggling to fill,” Porter said in Monday’s news release. “I cannot describe what this type of experience does to a person, but I wish it on no one.”

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FBI Fires Agents who Protested the Police Murders of Black People in 2020 by Kneeling

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were pictured kneeling at a racial justice protest over the death of George Floyd, US media report.

The termination letter cited alleged "lack of judgement" in their actions, according to a source cited by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. Between 15 to 20 agents have reportedly been sacked.

The agents reportedly took the knee alongside others during a demonstration in 2020. Floyd, a black man, had been killed by a police officer who knelt on his neck in May that year, sparking global outcry.

The FBI Agents Association condemned the dismissals, stating that the agents' rights had been violated. The FBI declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.

The reported firings come as the Trump administration seeks to purge what it sees as left-wing and so-called "woke" policies and officials from every part of the federal government. [MORE]

ICE Murder: DHS Said a Cop was “Seriously Injured” by a Non-White Migrant who Hit and Dragged him w/His Car, So He Fatally Shot Him. Video Shows the Cop Had Minor Injury, Dismissed as “Nothing Major”

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez had just dropped off his 3-year-old son at day care when an unmarked vehicle pulled in front of his car. Less than a minute later, the father of two was shot dead by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says ICE was targeting a “criminal illegal alien” who refused to follow officers’ commands. In a statement, DHS said Villegas-Gonzalez drove his car at law enforcement officers, hitting one and dragging him a “significant distance.” “Seriously injured” and “fearing for his own life,” DHS said, the officer fired his gun.

“We are praying for the speedy recovery of our law enforcement officer,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said. “He followed his training, used appropriate force, and properly enforced the law to protect the public and law enforcement.”

But videos collected from nearby businesses and bystanders show both officers engaged in tactics that experts in policing said put them at unnecessary risk. Video also shows the hurt officer was fully mobile after the shooting and described his injuries as “nothing major.” And while DHS has said it is targeting the “worst of the worst,” records from Chicago’s Cook County show Villegas-Gonzalez had no record of violence. Since illegally crossing the border nearly two decades ago, he had been charged only with traffic violations in the city where he settled.

“Reckless conduct, in my opinion, may have led to the officer being in a situation where they were, quote, ‘dragged,’” said Philip Stinson, a professor of criminal justice and founder of the Police Integrity Research Group at Bowling Green State University. “And I would use the term drag with a bit of caution in terms of accepting that as the truth, because we really don’t know.”

Stinson is one of four experts with decades of experience in criminal justice who reviewed the Sept. 12 footage at The Washington Post’s request. The experts said the videos provide too little information to determine whether the use of fatal force was proportionate to the officer’s perceived threat. ICE officers do not routinely wear body cameras, and the only available such footage is from responding agencies capturing the aftermath.

In a statement, DHS said the officer who fired his weapon is a military veteran who has worked at ICE since 2021 and was previously employed by another federal law enforcement agency. The agency said it was his first time firing in a “use of force incident” and that both officers are “well seasoned and trained professionals.”

“The smears and misleading reporting in the days since the incident have been disgusting and contribute to our officers facing more resistance and assaults against them,” McLaughlin said.

Villegas-Gonzalez’s shooting death has triggered calls for an independent investigation and raised concerns about whether officers assigned to conduct street arrests have been properly trained. Chicago’s Democratic elected leaders argued that the shooting is an example of ICE’s unnecessarily aggressive tactics against immigrants who do not pose a danger.

“Thus far DHS’s story doesn’t seem to add up and a man is dead and a family is shattered,” said U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Illinois), who called on anyone with evidence from the incident, including law enforcement, to come forward. “The agency responsible just keeps hiding behind the rhetoric that it continues to espouse.”

A final stop

Villegas-Gonzalez, 38, was a single father caring for two boys, ages 7 and 3, both U.S. citizens. He arrived in the United States from west-central Mexico in 2007 but the details of his migration story are unclear. Family members said he worked as a cook and delivery driver, and had married a U.S. citizen but was separated from her.

DHS declined to explain why ICE agents targeted Villegas-Gonzalez, but said in a news release that he had “a history of reckless driving.”

Cook County court records show Villegas-Gonzalez had received citations 11 times for traffic violations between 2010 and 2019; about half were dropped. Most were civil infractions such as driving an uninsured vehicle and driving with an expired license. The most serious offense was speeding in 2013, a misdemeanor. The citation states he had exceeded the speed limit by more than 31 mph.

Records show Villegas-Gonzalez complied with supervision, which typically consists of avoiding new tickets for a period of time and paying a fine, which he satisfied through payment or community service.

“He was cooperative with the officers — he was never fleeing or eluding. And he realized his mistake and didn’t do it again,” said Manuel Cárdenas, who represented Villegas-Gonzalez in two of his traffic cases. “The perspective that DHS gave that he was some violent person just doesn’t fit the facts.”

The morning of the shooting, Villegas-Gonzalez stopped at a day care in Franklin Park where workers remembered him as “always polite and respectful.” [MORE]

RecogNegro Kash Patel Tells People Not to Mourn Assata Shakur, then he Got Back to Doing More Step & Fetchit Activity for His Master

Writing on X following news of her death, Patel said: “Joanne Chesimard didn’t ‘fight for justice.’ She murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in cold blood, then fled to Cuba to escape accountability. The FBI never stopped calling her what she was: a terrorist. Mourning her is spitting on the badge and the blood of every cop who gave their life in service.” [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

RecogNegro – spotting a sell-out who has either crossed over or passed over into a reality that continuously crosses his or her kind out or passes them over to the “authorities” (racist economic and criminal injustice system). Everybody your color ain’t your kind or deeper still—all your skinfolks ain’t your kinfolks. (See: Afro-Sin-Trick, Sambo & Criss-Crossover)

Massa Media and Gov Authorities Claim that Black  Eulipion Assata Shakur Passed Away in Cuba

Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a white New Jersey state trooper, has died in Cuba, where she had fled to after escaping from prison, Cuban officials said Friday. She was 78.

Her conviction for the murder of Trooper Werner Foerster, and subsequent escape garnered her a permanent spot on the New Jersey State Police's Most Wanted List. The state long sought to extradite Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, from Cuba, without success.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said she died in Havana of health complications and advanced age. [MORE]

THE ARTILLERY ABOVE IS FROM THE BLACK PANTHER KEVIN RASHID JOHNSON

Sister Shakur is a Eulipion, which FUNKTIONARY defines as follows:

Eulipion – a Journey Agent. Eulipions invoke and evoke the sound-frequency and imagery society hides from us to keep our unconscious—the crypt of consciousness—at bay so that it doesn’t come out to play in the conscious world. Eulipions exorcise our shadow-side and help deliver us our integrated selves—help us realize our shadow, our imperfections, our humanity, our divinity and our wholeness—our complicity in Unicity. 2) a languacultural shaman or shamaness—ghetto griot—sacred scribe. 3) a mysterious traveler who transforms the sole journey into a souljourn through the reanimation and resonation of vibrant energy that infuses some, confuses others. A eulipion is an outsider, often feeling like a stranger even to one’s self. Creative expressions of eulipions are largely compulsive and done primarily, if not exclusively, for their own amusement. Our enjoyment of them are secondary, a by-product. Never forget, genius always comes at a price. [MORE]

Michigan Church Shooting Story Becoming Truth w/o Questioning. Until Proven Otherwise It Looks Like a False Flag: An Instant Bio of the Shooter w/Lots of Pics and People who Look Like Crisis Actors

Smoke and flames billowed from a Michigan church Sunday after, authorities said, a man rammed a truck into the building where worshipers gathered for a packed service. He then opened fire, killing two and injuring several others, police said.

Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of the nearby city of Burton, was identified by police as the only suspect in the attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Grand Blanc Township. Police chief William Renye said 10 gunshot victims were sent to local hospitals, two of whom died as of Sunday evening.

Police “neutralized” the suspect minutes after the attack began, according to Renye. Police did not respond to questions seeking to clarify how the suspect died.

A fire that began during the attack had engulfed the church before being contained Sunday. Renye said authorities may find additional victims as they scour the debris. [MORE]

"Neighbors of suspect in deadly Grand Blanc Township church shooting." Here, a media probot finds a guy wearing a 2nd Amendment baseball cap (read that again) who says "something needs to be done (about guns)." He and his lady companion, who serves as his prop, did not give their names. They did not witness the event. The only reason they were on TV was to state propaganda. He also said he did not know the shooter but knew someone who did, and that person told him, "he's a stand up guy." This type of unverifiable hearsay from unknown or unidentified declarants is hallmark trait of false flaggotry. Of course, unknown or unidentified people have no credibility. What you see is what you get - these folks look like police wearing costumes. According to FUNKTIONARY the definition of slaves is "disarmed men and women."

Crisis actors need props: The pro-2nd amendment hat the gentleman is wearing can be purchased from amazon for $11.99

A Familiar Narrative We Are Conditioned to Believe? As with other suspected false flag/uncle sham hoax events 1) the alleged perpetrator is conveniently shot dead by police or conveniently leaves an ID behind or easily surrenders. 2) Dead terrorists can't talk but these cold killers also conveniently leave behind an unauthenticated web page, engraved bullets or a gun with a message on it, manifesto or diary complete with a complete confession to crimes or where other inculpatory, unverifiable statements from social media are attributed to him; or if the terrorist is still alive they issue a press release or provide a full recorded confession to police (which also provide motive and point to other tangible evidence); 3) the alleged perpetrator pre-meditated and carefully planned the entire episode - except, of course, his getaway and like wearing a mask - b/c they want to get caught & then be killed - but still have their story told. 

Like a false flag the case closed before its opened. No need for any formal police investigation or investigative reporting: all evidence is conveniently turned over to the media in a little box. These stories become truth without questioning. [MORE] Naturally,  4) there will be no need for an actual adversarial trial with discovery, rigorous cross examination, scrutiny of witnesses, evidence and statements in a forum where the rules of evidence would be applied to so-called evidence. 5) The media employs a 'let's focus on the victims approach' emphasizing emotional rhetoric from authorities and their media and crisis actors – as opposed to a presentation of actual facts about what occurred -9/11 style.

In Michigan, look for materials found in the “killers truck,” hearsay statements he allegedly made to his neighbors and political messages on his gun or bullets or somewhere else. As a matter of course, look for; an instant bio complete with many photographs, dry-eyed emotional people either wearing glasses or looking away from the camera when fake crying, government agent actors trying hard to look and sound authentic (see video above), lots of photos of fire and smoke and lost of emotion and few details and evidence about how “it” actually occured .

Elites at Washington Post Announce that from Now On Authorities Will be Using Engraved Bullet Casings in False Flag Events and are Phasing Out “Manifestos,” which are Hard to Authenticate

The do-gooder elites at WashPost tell sheeple: “It’s a stark and alarming trend: Mass shooters engraving bullet casings with cryptic messages, leading officials to speculate about their motives and, more recently, their political affiliations.

It happened in Dallas on Wednesday. Officials investigating an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that killed one detainee and critically injured two others announced that they had recovered unspent ammunition, with at least one labeled “ANTI-ICE.”

Mass shooters left political messages on guns and ammunition associated with attacks on a Minneapolis Catholic school last month; a Nashville Christian school in 2023; a grocery store in Buffalo in 2022; a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019; and a high school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. There were also marked shell casings in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last year, and there were inscriptions in the case of Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting earlier this year.”

Government authorities and media lie so much that if you unquestioningly believe anything they say, then you must want to be deceived - and you are the real problem. As explained by Osho, an enlightened zen master, “There are millions of people who are ready to be deceived, who are simply waiting for someone to come and deceive them - because of their beliefs, dogmas, because of their vicious desires, because of their greed.” It is no exaggeration to say belief in the media and government is necessary for any event where there are few first hand accounts and only partial video. Dead terrorists can't talk but authorities and their media probots want us to believe that these cold killers conveniently leave behind unauthenticated web pages, manifestos or crime diaries that contain complete confessions to crimes or they present us with other inculpatory, unverifiable hearsay from unknown persons or sources. Where the terrorist is still alive and captured government authorities generally issue an immediate press release or provide a full recorded, instant confession to the whole affair.

That is, generally speaking, in false flag operations authorities want us to believe that a terrorist pre-meditated a carefully planned and timed crime that considered every detail except a getaway plan or a way to conceal their identity (wearing a mask). We are further told that despite all the rational and meticulous planning the criminal irrationally desired to get caught and then be killed in order to have their story told, which couldn’t be done another way. Unlike all other criminals, these cold killers are special because they also snitch on themselves without being asked a single question by police. Only law enforcement officers have such comic book style thinking and envision a Hollywood ending where the villain is quickly apprehended without issue (see the Dylann Roof slow speed chase).

Now, elites have added engraved bullet casings and messages written on guns into the false flag mix. For instance, the so-called Buffalo Supermarket killer wrote “nigger” on the gun he used to murder black shoppers. Right. New tools are necessary to deceive the public because “manifestos” (a word only law enforcement would use, no one used it before the Christopher Dorner episode) or crime diaries are difficult to authenticate. The falsity of the manifesto jeopardizes the entire false flag. For one thing, a writing cannot be authenticated as being from a particular person merely because it bears his name or is on is letterhead or website. The writing also must have distinctive characteristics with consistent internal patterns which would include its appearance, contents and peculiarities such as spelling or mispelling, use of jargon, punctuation, syntax, paragraph structure, etc. Like Dylann Roof’s manifesto, most manifestos appear to be written by multiple authors (agents) using various styles, grammar etc. and contain inconsistent content. Upon any scrutiny manifestos are revealed to be government fiction. Rather than deal with such “reality entanglement” authorities and their media will now use bullet casings and guns with messages on them, which they stupidly believe is more effective method to deceive the public.

Scrutiny of events as false flags is non-existent in the dependent media (and its copy cat media). These stories become instant truth without questioning because it is considered wrong to question the media narrative (which parrots the government narrative). Also, there are no contested trials (Dylann Roof was unrepresented during his murder trial, so it was uncontested- he had legal representation only for his sentencing. Similarly, the Black crisis actor in Waukesha was also unrepresented during his murder trial) and the Parkland shooter merely had a sentencing hearing, not a trial. At any rate, due to the fact that “the shooter” is nearly always killed or pleads guilty, there is no need for an actual adversarial trial with discovery, rigorous cross examination, scrutiny of witnesses, evidence and statements in a forum where evidentiary rules would be applied to so-called evidence and the government would be forced to prove the event really occurred beyond a reasonable doubt.