Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Been Killing with Its Boat Strikes, Says Gov Doesn’t Need to Know That Before They Commit Murders [expanding the tyrant paradigm in Sheeple's Minds]

From [HERE] US War Department officials don’t know the identities of the 61 people who have been extra-judicially executed in US military strikes on boats in the waters near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, POLITICO reported on Thursday, citing House Democrats who attended a classified briefing on the campaign.

“[The department officials] said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on these vessels to do the strikes, they just need to prove a connection to smuggling,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA). “When we tried to get more information, we did not get satisfactory answers.”

While the Trump administration has cited overdose deaths in the US related to fentanyl to justify the bombing campaign, lawmakers were told in the briefing that the boats that have been targeted were allegedly smuggling cocaine, though the Pentagon has not provided evidence to back up its claims about what the vessels were carrying.

“They argued that cocaine is a facilitating drug of fentanyl, but that was not a satisfactory answer for most of us,” Jacobs said.

The briefing on Thursday came after the Pentagon shut out Democrats from another briefing it held with Republicans a day earlier, which left Democratic senators fuming. Democrats who attended Thursday’s briefing said Pentagon lawyers were pulled from the meeting at the last minute.

“Am I leaving satisfied? Absolutely not. And the last word that I gave to the admiral was, ‘I hope you recognize the constitutional peril that you are in and the peril you are putting our troops in,'” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) told reporters after the briefing, according to CNN. [MORE]

15 Million Venezuelans Grip Up and Enlist to Defend their Country Amid U.S. War [white american rhetoric] Threats, according to ex-diplomat Carlos Ron

From [HERE] BdF spoke with Carlos Ron, former Venezuelan vice foreign minister and the country’s chief negotiator in Washington. - Sul 21

He stresses, however, that the atmosphere is not one of panic despite the possibility of military aggression.

Since late August, the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela’s coast has become a stage of tension. With a significant military presence, the United States has attacked vessels navigating international waters. At least 27 people have been killed in what President Donald Trump claims are operations against drug cartels, classified by him as terrorist organizations, and he has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of leading the drug trade.

None of these accusations have been supported by concrete evidence. Venezuela has responded by mobilizing troops along its borders and arming civilians to resist a possible U.S. advance. Caracas maintains that Washington’s real goal is to overthrow the government and install opposition figure María Corina Machado as head of state. [MORE]

"Not What You Signed Up For:" Billboards Posted Outside US Bases Provide Troops Legal Advice: 'Don't Participate in Trump's Boat Strikes' [It is Murder Under International Law]

From [HERE] “Don’t let them make you break the law,” read new digital billboards on expressways near U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Florida, where the U.S. military’s ongoing operations in the Caribbean Sea are being overseen.

The billboards were put up in response to the ongoing military strikes ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration, in what the White House and Pentagon have described as a concerted campaign against “narcoterrorists.”

New billboards have been put up near Miami, Chicago, and Memphis, Tennessee.

The veterans behind the billboards at Win Without War and About Face: Veterans Against The War, describe it differently, calling them “ongoing lawless strikes on boats near the South American coasts.” 

The billboards are part of a very public pressure campaign run by veterans at the two organizations in response to the Trump administration’s unprecedented use of the military — the increasing use of the National Guard for domestic policing and an active duty force build-up in the Caribbean of nearly 10,000 troops, warships, guided missile destroyers, surveillance aircraft, and drones.

Over the last few months, the Pentagon has also carried out at least 11 deadly strikes against fishing boats in the Caribbean for reasons that defense officials have said are to “dismantle transnational criminal organizations” and to “counter narcoterrorism.” [MORE]

THERE IS NO ARMED CONFLICT, SO “THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT” DOES NOT APPLY. THESE ARE JUST MURDERS. Based on the fact that the US military killed persons from another country while they were outside of the US, international law applies.

The analysis is straightforward: Is there an armed conflict between the United States and Columbia or Venezuala? The answer is no. So it means that the international human rights law standard is applicable. According to said standard the use of lethal force against an individual must be “absolutely necessary.” JAN RÖMER, KILLING IN A GRAY AREA BETWEEN HUMANITARIAN LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS 102 (2010). An international court would determine whether the individual(s) in the boat(s) posed a “concrete, specific, and imminent threat to life and physical safety,” and whether the United States could have reasonably used nonlethal force to address that threat. 

In other words, due to the fact that the boat strikes have occurred outside of an armed conflict, the Blight House’s actions are legal murder unless the individuals posed such a threat and such force was necessary. [MORE] and [MORE]

Not What MAGA Voted For: Trump Promised to Go After Fauci, Epstein, Pfizer and Other Big Kingpins in CrimethInc, Instead the FBI Charged an NBA Coach for Poker Games and Now DOJ Targets BLM for Fraud

The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

In recent weeks, federal law enforcement officials have issued subpoenas and at least one search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. and other Black-led organizations said the people, who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing criminal probe by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. [MORE]

Lamont Mealy Died of Thirst after He Repeatedly Begged Maryland Jail Authorities for Water. Complaint says Prison Cops Shut Off Water to Black Man's Cell in Solitary Confinement and Denied Food

From [HERE] On December 22, 2022, 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his roommate and was sentenced to serve life in prison at the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. A little more than six months later, he was found dead in his cell. Now, his sister, LaShawn Tyler, is suing the state, accusing prison staff of deliberate neglect and withholding records that could reveal how Mealy's death happened.

According to a complaint filed in the Baltimore County Circuit Court, Mealy, who had a history of mental illness, was placed in cuffs, chains, and a suicide-prevention vest and taken to solitary confinement "on or about" June 30, 2023. After placing him there, two officers—neither of whom was wearing name tags or displaying rank insignia—inexplicitly shut off the water to the cell. 

Around July 2, the same two officers returned to the outside of the cell to taunt Mealy, asking him, "Are you thirsty?" Mealy repeatedly begged them for water but was never given any. The filing also asserts that he was denied several meals and that his condition rapidly deteriorated over the course of the next several days.

On or around the morning of July 5, a lieutenant warden allegedly stood in front of Mealy's cell, "but took no action," according to the complaint. From roughly 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day, the required welfare checks—meant to occur every half hour in Mealy's ward—were not performed. It wasn't until approximately 3 p.m. that the lieutenant warden ordered a sergeant to "pull the man out of there." Staff then dragged Mealy's fresh corpse out on a blanket; no medical staff were called prior to the removal, the filing attests.

Initially, the prison informed Mealy's family that he died of "natural causes," Kristen Mack, the plaintiff's attorney, tells Reason. However, Danny Hoskins, another prisoner who was being held in solitary confinement in a cell adjacent to Mealy's, claims he saw what really happened. [MORE]

US Bombs Somalia for Three Consecutive Days - Massa Media Pays No Attention

The US has launched three more airstrikes in Somalia over three consecutive days, according to press releases from US Africa Command, as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace.

AFRICOM said that it launched an airstrike on October 26 that targeted al-Shabaab about 25 miles north of the southern port city of Kismayo. That same day, the US-backed Somali government said a “precision airstrike” killed an al-Shabaab leader, though the town it said he was targeted in, Bu’ale, is more than 100 miles north of Kismayo, so it’s unclear if it was the same strike.

AFRICOM offered no other details about the strike as it stopped sharing casualty estimates and assessments on potential civilian harm earlier this year. “Specific details about units and assets will not be released to ensure continued operations security,” the command said.

The command also announced two separate strikes in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, launched on October 27 and October 28. AFRICOM said both strikes targeted the ISIS affiliate in the region and were launched about 53 miles southeast of the Gulf of Aden port city of Bosasso, and shared no other details. [MORE]

Charlie Kirk is Probably Not Dead. Substantial Evidence Demonstrates that his ‘Assassination’ Should Be Presumed to be a False Flag, a Psy-Op, Until Proven Otherwise

According to FUNKTIONARY:

fronts – distractions in the form of shadow operations: groups, individuals, movements, publishing houses, cliques, organizations or memes that lead you away from the actual source of your discontent. “The U.S. and Britain, they’ve been behind all the major wars and they also dangle this idea of opposition before your eyes so you would attack all the wrong (false) fronts and false flags. Fronts that they also controlled like ‘feints,’ as they call it in boxing. A feint is where a boxer is going to hit with the right, and you go to defend yourself and you leave your left wide open, and he hits you right there and that’s what they do. It’s the same technique. You attack what you see is the obvious source of your malcontent and it’s always the wrong one.” ~Alan Watt. (See: Foundations, Institutions, Council on Foreign Relations, CIA, Technique, SPOC, Technocratic Age, Memes, Programming, Conditioning, Technotronics & The DIMMER)

false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.

The Idea of Protesting, Petitioning, and Voting for a Master as an Answer to Tyranny Is Beyond Asinine!

The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.”

~ Larken Rose

From [GARYBARNETT] The absolute obtuse reactions to tyranny by the common hordes continues to astound me. The ‘thinking’ (abject ignorance) of the masses continues to concentrate on ‘solutions’ dependent on their master’s whim, as the collective intellect is in an advanced state of degeneration. For decades I have attempted to get across the point that one cannot gain freedom by petitioning the very government that caused the loss of freedom in the first place. Yes, I do understand that government is not in charge, but is the pawn of the real power behind the throne, but with that said, the true controllers, who are few in number, could not rule without the middleman of government. Government is the conduit from the master class to the proletariat. Without government, and acceptance of government by the plebiscites, those few overlords would find it impossible to rule so many.

The fact that the people accept, obey, and bow down to government, expecting all along that they will be taken care of by their chosen (selected) masters, a total submission to the State, is in and of itself a testament to the fact that most of humanity has already accepted slavery as their lot in life. Most will aggressively disagree with this statement, but that is strictly due to a high level of long term indifference that was built into society via propaganda, indoctrination, and extreme brainwashing over generations. This would never have been possible in this country without the State prison systems called ‘public’ schools becoming the parents, guardians, and manipulators of children from near infancy to full adulthood. The result of this generational dumbing down, and training of students at the lowest common level, in order so that all would “fit in” to the sought-after system of only an ‘elite’ class and all the rest as peons, would be the AI, digitized, technocratic network being implemented today.

As I write this, there are headlines claiming that well over two million people have signed petitions in the UK against the digital ID system mandated by Prime Minister Starmer. What that means is that most all those are signing these so-called petitions digitally, and by providing personal information, email addresses, and location, while attempting to beg the very government ‘led’ by Starmer, to cease the implementation of the ID mandate. This is completely idiotic, as all these people are playing right into the hands of the monsters controlling them and digitizing their lives, while they are at the same time begging for freedom from them by using a digital system. As you can see, all logic has been replaced by mass stupidity.

Voting is no different, as it only entails the herds of  sheep who are labeled State (owned) ‘citizens,’ ‘choosing’ (not really) which master is to be their lord and savior. The absurdity of such a system is evident only to the very few who actually understand that all rule is evil, and those numbers of thinking individuals, are but an infinitesimal number of the whole of society. This is the reason that this country, and most all others as well, are at the precipice of total failure and global rule. To expect anything else is sheer madness given the lack of intellect and complicit attitudes of the lowly compliant masses.

And then there is protest; that insane act of misinformed fools carrying signs, blocking roadways, destroying private property, setting fires, stoking violent behavior, and attempting to make a ‘statement’ as a collective ‘one,’ instead of doing something of value individually in order to escape the entirety of the heinous authoritative scheme called government. The irony here is spectacular, as division and ‘civil unrest,’ which are what physical protests invariably lead to, is exactly what the abhorrent ruling class desires, as it only causes a brutal and aggressive response by the State thugs called enforcers. After all, the protesters have all gathered in one place, so that they instantly become easy targets for the State’s police and military. In addition, since protesters are indiscriminate in their violent behavior, the rest of the sheeplike herd will beg the government to come to their rescue by taking out the protesting mobs. [MORE]

The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances

From [HERE] Like its mythic counterpart, the Vampire State seduces its victims with promises of safety, comfort, and national greatness. Once trust is secured and access granted, it feeds slowly and methodically—just enough to keep the populace docile, but never enough to rouse them from their trance.

Once it latches on, the Vampire State’s tyrannical hunger only grows.

The Vampire State feeds on fear. Fear is the oxygen of tyranny. Every crisis—real or manufactured—fuels the quest for more power. Fear, however, is only the beginning. Once fear takes hold, the next step is to turn people against one another. Demagogues know well how to do this.

The Vampire State feeds on division. The American Police State has perfected the art of pitting citizen against immigrant, left against right, protester against police, rich against poor—because a divided nation is far easier to control. Division, in turn, breeds submission. Once a society is at war with itself, obedience becomes the only refuge.

The Vampire State feeds on obedience. Obedience, however, is never enough. Tyranny requires endless sustenance—material, financial, and human.

The Vampire State feeds on wealth. No predator survives without a steady source of sustenance, and the state’s preferred meal is the taxpayer. Endless wars, bloated budgets, emergency powers and corporate concessions keep the machine humming. Yet even that cannot satisfy a regime that wants total control. To control completely, it must know everything about those in its power.

The Vampire State feeds on privacy. A true predator must know its prey. The predatory state now drinks deeply from the digital lifeblood of the nation—every call logged, every movement tracked, every purchase recorded. And when fear, division, obedience, wealth, and privacy have been mined to exhaustion, the Vampire State turns to its most precious prey—the human spirit.

The Vampire State feeds on hope. The final hunger is spiritual. It drains its victims of hope until despair is all that’s left. A hopeless populace is a controlled one.

Every horror story reaches a moment when the victims realize what they’re up against. Ours has come. The question is how to break the spell. [MORE]

Mounting Evidence Shows Israel Propped up and Funded Hamas Before the "Attack" on October 7, 2023: Memo Shows Israel Encouraged Qatar to Send Money to Gaza Knowing It Would Fund Hamas

From [HERE] A newly released memo from the Israeli government shows that Tel Aviv pressed Qatar to send money to Gaza, knowing the funds would benefit Hamas. The document adds to the pile of evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu propped up Hamas for years before the October 7, 2023, attack. 

Kann News journalist Suleiman Maswadeh reported obtaining a 2020 memo that pushed Qatar to continue sending financial support to Gaza, knowing some of the funds would reach Hamas. “Israel’s begging documents to Qatar, requesting to continue transferring money to the Gaza Strip, even though there were indications that part of it was leaking to Hamas,” Maswadeh wrote on X. “The Qataris, in return for the money, sent actual invoices to Israel. In short, everything is documented.”

Left-wing Democratic leader Yair Golan said the report proved Netanyahu was “an asset of Hamas.” “Tonight, it became clear that he groveled and begged the Qataris to continue transferring cash to Gaza, despite knowing that the money was going directly to Hamas’s military wing,” Golan argued on X.  

“With this Qatari money, Hamas strengthened, trained, built tunnels, and carried out the October 7 massacre.” He continued, “Netanyahu was and remains an asset of Hamas and a dangerous partner of its primary sponsor, Qatar.”

Maswadeh’s disclosure adds to the evidence that Netanyahu propped up Hamas’s control of Gaza for years. Netanyahu told Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019, “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas… This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank. It’s impossible to reach an agreement with them. Everyone knows this, but we control the height of the flames.” [MORE]

Leaked files reveal how Google and Amazon Granted IsrAlien Authoritites Unprecedented Control over Cloud Data and Surveillance Tools

When Google and Amazon sealed a $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government in 2021, they agreed to more than just technical terms. According to a leak-based investigation by The Guardian, "Israel" insisted on a clandestine addition, a covert signal system known as the “winking mechanism".

The unusual demand required the two tech giants to discreetly alert Israeli authorities whenever they were compelled to share Israeli data with foreign law enforcement agencies.

In practice, this meant finding a way to bypass global legal disclosure limits, a move that could place the companies in potential conflict with international law. [MORE]

White Jury Rejects White Cop's Testimony BUT Lets Him Off the Hook: Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder, Not Guilty on 3 Counts of 1st-Degree Murder Despite Intentionally Shooting Sonya Massey in the Face

From [HERE] An overwhelmingly white jury found white Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson guilty of second-degree murder for the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey.

Grayson was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the 2024 deadly police shooting, and the jury was given the option of convicting him of second-degree murder. They found him not guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder, sparing him a possible life sentence for killing Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman.

The jury alerted the judge that they had reached a verdict around 2 p.m.  It was read at 2:28 p.m.

The jury was made up of 11 white people and 1 black person - nine men, and three women. [MORE]

Grayson was stoic as the verdict was read. Afterward, he stood from the table, put his hands to be handcuffed, and was led out of the courtroom through the back door. His sentencing date has been set for Jan. 29 in Sangamon County court. 

One of Grayson's family members was seen crying in the courtroom when the verdict was read. 

Massey's family, by contrast, was quiet and appeared deflated or upset as the second-degree conviction was handed down. They spoke after court adjourned, and called the conviction a miscarriage of justice.

"I am fueled by rage right now," said Sontae Massey. "You get an officer who says, 'I'm going to shoot you in the face' and you only get second-degree murder. The justice system did what it's supposed to do; it's not meant for us." [MORE]

"He told my child he would shoot her in the F-ing face and he did it. And all we got was a second-degree murder conviction out of this?" said Massey's father, James Wilburn.

"He was in six police departments in three and a half years. That is shameful," he said.

CBS News Chicago legal expert Irv Miller said the jury's verdict was not particularly surprising, considering the evidence presented at trial and the fact that the judge gave the option for second degree murder in the first place. 

Miller explained that by finding Grayson guilty of second-degree murder, the jury determined that as a police officer he had an unreasonable belief that he was acting in self-defense when he opened fire on Massey. In this case, Miller said, whether or not Grayson's belief he was acting in self-defense was reasonable was pivotal; if a jury had found it was a reasonable belief, he would have been found not guilty. Since the jury found his belief was not reasonable, they found him guilty of second degree murder. 

Grayson, who was a Sangamon County sheriff's deputy in Illinois at the time of the shooting, claimed he was defending himself from Massey, who had called police to check on a suspected prowler. Grayson said that inside the home, Massey acted erratically and rebuked him "in the name of Jesus" while walking toward a pot of water on her stove.

He testified that he viewed Massey's pot of boiling water as a threat and was trained to use force to gain compliance. 

Grayson then testified he closed the distance between himself and Massey to “gain a direct line of sight on her,” and that he intended to arrest her for aggravated assault on an officer. That’s when, Grayson said, Massey jumped up, grabbed the pot of water and made a throwing motion at him. Grayson then fired three times at Massey, one bullet striking her just under her left eye.

However, body-worn camera footage introduced by prosecutors in the trial showed Massey had already removed the pot when Grayson said he would “shoot her in her f***ing face,” and pointed his gun at her. Massey then put her hands in the air, said, “I’m sorry,” and ducked behind her counter.

Prosecutors said Grayson failed to render medical aid to Massey right after the shooting. 

Miller said he expects whatever sentence is handed down, Grayson will be expected to serve at least 50% of it. While probation is an option, Miller said he wouldn't expect that sentence in this case. 

Attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, who represent the Massey family in their civil lawsuit, issued a statement after the verdict, saying in part, "While we believe Grayson's actions deserved a first-degree conviction, today's verdict is still a measure of justice for Sonya Massey. Accountability has begun, and we now hope the court will impose a meaningful sentence that reflects the severity of these crimes and the life that was lost. We will continue to fight for Sonya's family and for reforms that protect everyone from unlawful use of force."

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 29. [MORE]

Billionaire's Daughter w/No Cop Experience who Runs the NYPD has Turned NYC Into a Surveillance Colony and Has Police Prepared to Wage War Against Citizens

DATA FROM THE COURT MONITORING PROJECT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE NYPD TARGETS BLACKS AND LATINOS: AS BLACKS/LATINOS MAKE UP 90% OF ALL NYPD ARRESTS, MOSTLY FOR VICTIMLESS CRIMES. NYC, A CITY CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS IS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST AND LEAST EQUAL PLACES IN THE COUNTRY [MORE]

In a recent report for the Libertarian Institute, I investigated Zionists’ role in creating the crisis point at which New York City now finds itself: caught between a colonial elite which has commandeered government and a progressive-socialist backlash to that elite which proposes to expand government. In this report, I will trace how, in response to the progressive-socialist threat to their power, Zionists and their allies are expanding government in new and frightening directions. The leading player in this operation, like in all good intelligence ops, is not a colorful or charismatic character. But she has all of the subtler qualities—connections, management prowess, presentational understatement—that the city’s minders look for in those who hold actual power.

Jessica Tisch, the New York Police Department Commissioner since 2024 who will definitely stay on if either Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo wins the mayoralty according to public statements made by both men, is the third generation of the billionaire Zionist family that has had prominent roles in shaping the city since the 1980s. Her grandfather, Laurence Tisch, bought CBS in the 1980s not long before his brother Robert bought the New York Giants, establishing the family, which had started in hotels and movie theaters, as the owner of two of the city’s landmark organizations. In the 1990s, Laurence Tisch was a member of The Study Group, the informal philanthropic Zionist gathering co-founded by Leslie Wexner and Charles Bronfman, which led directly and indirectly to the foundation of Taglit Birthright, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and various other projects for Zionist continuity. Laurence’s son and Jessica’s father, James Tisch, is the chairman of the Board of Leows Corporation, the family’s flagship business. James’ wife and Jessica’s mother, Merryl, was the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, responsible for supervising all educational activities in the state; and is the chair of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, responsible for supervising the state university system.

Within this context of a family involved in media, finance, philanthropy, and part-time politics, Jessica Tisch, who is now 44, charted her own specific path: from security to administration to the cusp of politics with the backing of money. She started in the NYPD in the decade of the September 11 attacks; continued in the department in the 2010s; moved in the first half of the 2020s to the Sanitation Department, arguably New York’s most important after police and fire. She has returned in the mid-2020s to the NYPD as its commissioner, while also widely being considered a potential future mayor. Like Mamdani, Tisch is a product, this time a direct one, of the decades of Zionist influence that preceded her rise. Like Mamdani, rewinding Tisch’s career shows how she is the capstone to a project of military policing that began in the 1990s and 2000s but that has sharpened under pressure into a full-blown project of social control. [MORE]

FBI Backtracks on Denying Children were Zip Tied in Idaho Raid, Now It Says No “Young Children” Were

From [HERE] Days after advocates said they witnessed children who were zip tied at a law enforcement raid on Sunday in southwest Idaho, federal law enforcement agencies denied that claim. 

At 3:34 p.m. Wednesday, Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Sandra Yi Barker told the Idaho Capital Sun in a written statement that “Reports suggesting children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets during the October 19 FBI-led operation in Wilder are completely false.”

But less than an hour after denying any kids were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets at the raid, the FBI clarified that no “young” children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets. At 4:18 p.m., Barker released an updated statement adding “young” before the word “children.”

“Reports suggesting young children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets during the October 19 FBI-led operation in Wilder are completely false,” the updated statement read.

KIVI-TV first reported on the FBI’s modified statement, saying the FBI’s update came after the news outlet sent the FBI a photo reportedly of a 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties. 

The FBI could not be immediately reached for comment on why it changed its statement on law enforcement’s tactics at the raid in Wilder of an alleged illegal horserace gambling operation at La Catedral Arena.

Advocates who were at the scene of the raid have denounced aggressive tactics they say they saw used, including law enforcement detaining everyone at the venue, children being zip-tied, and people being struck with rubber bullets. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it arrested 105 people on immigration violationsin the raid. The FBI announced five arrests of people linked to the alleged illegal gambling operation.

Earlier Wednesday, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue and Caldwell Police Chief Rex Ingram said the FBI, not ICE, led the raid. In a joint statement, they called the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s statement that gave ICE credit for the raid “completely false and a serious misrepresentation of the facts.”

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the Idaho Capital Sun in a statement Wednesday that “ICE didn’t zip tie, restrain or arrest any children.” [MORE]

2 Gruesome Murders of Black Men by Gangs of White Police Officers in 2 Prisons Across the Street from Each Other Reveal the Klanarchy that Rules Prisons in NY, a state Controlled by Elite Liberals

From [HERE] JB. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison outside of Utica had died in early December after an encounter with correction officers. Reporting on a prison death can be tricky, but, in this case, there was evidence that rarely exists—video footage.

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, promised to release the footage, and, shortly before noon on December 27th, Nicholas was seated at his computer, waiting for James’s virtual press conference to begin. Nicholas, who is fifty-five, brought unusual expertise to this story: he had spent twelve years in the state’s prison system, from 1991 to 2003, serving time for manslaughter.

James appeared on his computer monitor, framed by the U.S. and the New York State flags. She explained that the videos were from body-worn cameras that the officers had on “at the time of the incident.” The cameras had been powered on, but not activated, so the officers did not realize they were recording. “These videos are shocking and disturbing,” James said. “I encourage taking caution before viewing.”

In the footage, a forty-three-year-old Black man named Robert Brooks appears in prison greens. It is 9:21 p.m. on December 9th, and Brooks is outdoors, on a walkway at Marcy Correctional Facility. He is surrounded by officers. At 9:22 p.m., three of them carry him by his limbs—wrists cuffed behind him, head hanging down—into a building, and then into a room in the infirmary. Two stethoscopes hang on the wall by the door, next to a poster about how to aid a choking victim. The guards place Brooks on a gurney covered by exam paper. And then a group of officers, all of whom appear to be white, start beating him.

Most of the officers are dressed in blue uniform shirts and navy uniform jackets, with a U.S.-flag patch on one arm. At 9:25 p.m., one officer shoves what appears to be a rag into Brooks’s mouth. Another lifts him by the neck and repeatedly drops him on the gurney. A third officer strikes Brooks with Brooks’s own boot. An officer steadies himself by placing his hand on a counter, then stomps on Brooks’s groin. At 9:26 p.m., another officer enters the room and locks a pair of cuffs around Brooks’s ankles.

As the minutes tick by, and the beating continues, Brooks becomes increasingly bloodied and unresponsive. More than a dozen people either participate in or witness what is happening, but nobody intervenes. Nobody even seems particularly surprised or distraught. Two male nurses watch from the hall, and a camera captures them smirking. [MORE]

In Honor of the Klancestors and to Celebrate FreeDumb Trump Resurrects a 30 Foot Statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, alleged Founding Member of the KKK

A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that was torn down and torched by protesters in 2020 was restored to its original location in downtown Washington over the weekend by the National Park Service.

The Park Service announced in August its plan to return the refurbished statue of Pike, a Confederate Army brigadier general, to a small federal park at Third and D streets NW in the shadow of D.C. police headquarters. The move “aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and reinstate preexisting statues,” an NPS spokesman said at the time.

This spring, President Donald Trump ordered the creation of the “D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force,” which included ordering the “restoration of Federal public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties that have been damaged or defaced, or inappropriately removed or changed, in recent years.” [MORE]

DC Cover Up: 1 of Trump's Fed Cops Shot at a Black Man During a Traffic Stop. Although DHS Claimed he Tried to Run Over the Cop, A Police Report doesn't Mention Gunfire or any Attempt to Ram Officers

From [HERE] A federal agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop earlier this month while working alongside D.C. police officers, according to three of the man’s lawyers, who accused city police of misconduct because the gunfire isn’t mentioned in the incident report

D.C. police officer told a judge he was instructed by a superior not to document the shooting in a court record, a transcript of court proceedings shows, and the judge dismissed charges against the driver over a lack of evidence.

On Oct. 17, D.C. police were driving a marked cruiser through Northeast Washington when they spotted a Dodge SUV with dark tinted windows and missing a front tag, according to court records. They were patrolling in collaboration with officers from five federal agencies, including the FBI and Customs and Border Protection, as part of the “Make DC Safe Again initiative,” court records show.

The officers caught up with the Dodge and, according to court records, believed the driver was trying to flee. At some point, a Homeland Security Investigations agent shot into the car at Phillip Brown, 33, D.C. police confirmed in a statement to The Washington Post.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Tuesday that the special agent fired at Brown “in fear for his life” after Brown drove at officers “in a deliberate attempt to run them down.” But D.C. police officer Jason Sterling told a judge that none of the law enforcement officers were standing in front of Brown’s car. Brown bumped into a civilian vehicle stopped in front of him and his criminal attorney, Quo Mieko Judkins, pointed out to the judge that the bullets entered the car from the side, not the front.

Sterling testified officers believed Brown planned to flee because the Dodge engine revved.

Civil rights attorneys Bernadette Armand and E. Paige White say the case symbolizes the potentially fatal consequences of the local police department’s collaboration with federal agents.

“Miraculously, every shot missed Brown,” they said in a statement Monday. They declined to make Brown available for comment but provided images of his car showing what appear to be two bullet holes in the driver’s side window and two in the passenger seat. He had been headed to the store to get milk for his three young children at the time of the shooting, Judkins said.

Sterling testified in D.C. Superior Court that he was told by a department leader not to mention the shooting in the court documents, a transcript of the Oct. 21 hearing shows.

When asked during cross-examination why there was no mention of gunfire in the police report, Sterling said at first he wasn’t sure he was even going to be the officer authoring the report and he “inquired in the office” about whether to mention it. One of the “unit team leads” advised him not to, he said. He didn’t mention the gunshots to the prosecutor either, he added. He said that wasn’t at the direction of someone else — it appears he was tired.

“I had one eye open, one eye closed when I got the phone call” from a lawyer in the prosecutor’s office, he testified.

The Post reviewed the public incident report from the traffic stop and confirmed that it does not contain anything describing any gunshots. On Tuesday morning, a D.C. police spokesperson provided a separate public incident report that does not mention the traffic stop, Brown or a reason for shooting but says an “HSI member discharged their service pistol at a subject of force.” That report is dated the day after the shooting. There is no mention of the shooting in the police affidavit filed in court.

When asked Monday by The Post about the shooting, police spokesperson Tom Lynch said that the investigation into whether Brown had committed a crime is separate from the investigation into the shooting. D.C. police investigate all police-involved shootings in the District and are investigating the shooting committed by the Homeland Security Investigations officer, Lynch said, but records related to that probe aren’t public. He declined to comment on Sterling’s testimony. [MORE]

‘We Deeply Regret These Errors’: DOJ Walks Back Key Evidence In Defense of Trump’s Portland Deployment

From [HERE] The Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday corrected a key piece of evidence it repeatedly cited in defense of President Donald Trump’s attempted military deployment in Portland, Oregon, last month.

In a letter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Andrew Bernie, a DOJ attorney, said the Trump administration made several “errors” in describing how many special law enforcement officers it sent to Portland in response to protests outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city.

The disclosure, which came in Portland and Oregon’s lawsuit against the deployment, marks a rare walkback from the DOJ that may damage its legal defense of Trump’s military intervention in the City of Roses.

Attempting to prove that Trump had the authority to send troops into the city, government officials claimed 115 Federal Protection Service (FPS) officers were ordered to the city between June and September. The number represented nearly a “quarter” of the whole FPS force that protects federal facilities and employees, the government claimed in court filings.

In oral arguments and court filings, the DOJ repeatedly argued that this major reallocation of FPS officers indicated that Trump was unable to enforce federal law in Portland with regular forces and was therefore justified in calling up around 200 Oregon National Guard troops in September.

The number of FPS officials allegedly sent to Portland was a key piece that a Ninth Circuit panel relied on in determining last week that Trump had the authority to  federalize and deploy Guard troops to the city. [MORE]