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« Reply #5175 on: September 16, 2021, 10:36:47 PM »
No justice for Justine Damond. Don't expect any riots or looting. She was a white woman killed by a black cop.

Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor's murder verdict reversed over Justine Damond Ruszczyk's death



The family of an Australian woman fatally shot by a police officer in 2017 has responded to the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision to reverse the man's third-degree murder conviction, saying they are "heartbroken" the "depraved and senseless shooting" does not count as murder.

In 2019, Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond Ruszczyk, a dual US-Australian citizen who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.

Noor, who is no longer a police officer, was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.

The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction, saying the charge did not fit the circumstances in the case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/mohamed-noor-minneapolis-shooting-justine-damond-ruszczyk/100465680

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« Reply #5176 on: September 16, 2021, 10:48:32 PM »
Funny how the headline mentions "Tesla driver" but doesn't mention the power-tripping crossing guard, a black woman who lied and of course is not being identified. She probably hoped she would get an easy pay day by playing the victim.

The driver should sue the city, the police department, the prosecutors and of course the lying Shaniqua though it's unlikely she will go to prison and pay out of her own pocket.


Tesla driver arrested, spent night in jail for allegedly hitting crossing guard -- video shows different story

Maryland police arrested a Tesla driver last week for allegedly hitting a crossing guard with his car before fleeing the scene – but video from a neighbor’s security camera seems to call those charges into question.

The incident happened Thursday morning in Glen Burnie, a suburb south of Baltimore. A female crossing guard with the Anne Arundel County Police stopped traffic so three students could cross the street.

Police said an "impatient" driver in a blue Tesla assaulted the crossing guard by driving his vehicle toward her, "intentionally striking her leg, causing a minor injury."

The driver, whom they identified as 32-year-old Joseph Hernandez, then fled the scene, police said. A nearby officer noted the driver’s license plate and Hernandez was arrested.

Hernandez was put in handcuffs in front of his girlfriend and her child before he was taken to jail, WJLA reported. He is charged with failure to render aid to an injured person, reckless driving, and negligent driving as well as second-degree assault.

Hernandez has said all the charges against him are completely false – and footage from a neighbor's security camera seems to back him up.

It shows Hernandez pull up to a crosswalk in the blue Tesla. The crossing guard gestures for him to move up so another car can pass. She appears to back into his car while motioning for three students to cross the street.

Hernandez inches the car backward and it appears that he and the crossing guard exchange words. He drives away and the security guard appears unharmed.

WJLA questioned the crossing guard Tuesday morning about her claims. She said, "everything speaks for itself. I know what took place."

The station reported that the crossing guard told them off-camera the blue Tesla didn’t exactly "hit" her, but "touched her body, the back of her leg."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tesla-driver-arrested-spent-night-jail-allegedly-hit-crossing-guard-video-different-story


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« Reply #5177 on: September 20, 2021, 11:42:06 AM »
And another one of those finest people.


Jersey City cop pleads guilty to charge of attempted sex with minors, faces 8 years in prison

A 34-year-old Jersey City police officer pled guilty to a charge he traveled to Atlantic City to sexually assault two underage girls, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said Thursday.

Stephen T. Wilson, 34, of Bayonne, had been charged with one count of second-degree attempted aggravated sexual assault in Atlantic County. Under his plea agreement, the state will recommend Wilson be sentenced to eight years in state prison.

He will also be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to parole supervision for life, the AG’s office said.

Wilson reportedly used a chat app with other adults told him they’d provide him access to children he could sexually assault, reports said. The Attorney General’s Office said Wilson, who was suspended after his Feb. 26 arrest, traveled to Atlantic City to meet adults he met on an incest chat app, who offered him access to underage girls, ages 8 and 10, in exchange for $200. When he was nabbed, he reportedly had condoms and more than $500 in cash on him.

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2021/09/jersey-city-cop-pleads-guilty-to-sex-with-minors-charge-faces-8-years-in-prison.html

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« Reply #5178 on: September 22, 2021, 12:21:26 AM »
A headline from another website sums it up nicely:

Feds decide Feds won’t charge undercover armed Fed discovered at Fed rally


Federal officer arrested at Capitol rally won’t be charged

A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday’s rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January’s insurrection but will not be prosecuted.

The 27-year-old New Jersey man is an officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He was arrested by Capitol Police for illegally possessing a gun on the grounds of the Capitol after people in the crowd reported seeing him with a handgun and notified nearby officers.

His arrest and presence at the event were surprising because the rally was billed as an event to support those who have been charged in January’s riot.

https://apnews.com/article/arrests-riots-capitol-siege-gun-politics-us-customs-and-border-protection-f35fb9ad54ac0babf710e87eaec8a4b1




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« Reply #5180 on: September 27, 2021, 11:05:04 AM »
Kidnapping, assassination... Just another day for the government and its goons.


Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request “sketches” or “options” for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”

The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agency’s multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the group’s members, and stealing their electronic devices.

While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as “Vault 7,” which the agency ultimately concluded represented “the largest data loss in CIA history.”

President Trump’s newly installed CIA director, Mike Pompeo, was seeking revenge on WikiLeaks and Assange, who had sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden on rape allegations he denied. Pompeo and other top agency leaders “were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about Vault 7,” said a former Trump national security official. “They were seeing blood.”

The CIA’s fury at WikiLeaks led Pompeo to publicly describe the group in 2017 as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” More than just a provocative talking point, the designation opened the door for agency operatives to take far more aggressive actions, treating the organization as it does adversary spy services, former intelligence officials told Yahoo News. Within months, U.S. spies were monitoring the communications and movements of numerous WikiLeaks personnel, including audio and visual surveillance of Assange himself, according to former officials.

This Yahoo News investigation, based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks. It was a campaign spearheaded by Pompeo that bent important legal strictures, potentially jeopardized the Justice Department’s work toward prosecuting Assange, and risked a damaging episode in the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally.

The CIA declined to comment. Pompeo did not respond to requests for comment.

“As an American citizen, I find it absolutely outrageous that our government would be contemplating kidnapping or assassinating somebody without any judicial process simply because he had published truthful information,” Barry Pollack, Assange’s U.S. lawyer, told Yahoo News.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html

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« Reply #5181 on: September 29, 2021, 09:21:23 AM »

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« Reply #5182 on: September 29, 2021, 10:46:29 AM »
Another "brave hero" attacking a 75 year old man. As usual the taxpayers will probably foot the bill.

Body cam shows Colorado police officer use Taser on 75-year-old man, place knee on his neck

An Idaho Springs police officer issued no warnings to a 75-year-old man before shocking him with a Taser and later placing his knee on the unconscious man’s neck, newly released body camera footage of the incident shows.

The 75-year-old, Michael Clark, was living independently at the time of the incident but now resides in a nursing facility after suffering health complications following the incident, according to his attorney, Sarah Schielke.

Schielke released the body camera footage Thursday after receiving it from the district attorney’s office.

Nicholas Hanning, the officer who used the Taser on Clark, was fired from his job July 13 and is facing an assault charge for his actions. The other officer on scene, Ellie Summers, remains employed by the Idaho Springs Police Department.

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/07/22/idaho-springs-nicholas-hanning-body-camera/



The "brave hero":







Once again the uniformed criminal gangs abuse the weak and the disabled. The same cops who attacked and abused that 75 year old man, now attacked a deaf man. Such "brave heroes"... Because of these career criminals the deaf man spent 4 months in jail until suddenly the charges against him were dropped.


Deaf Colorado Man Sues Police After Being Wrongfully Arrested And Jailed For 4 Months

A deaf man is suing two Colorado officers who banged his head against the concrete and tasered him for “resisting arrest” after not realizing he couldn’t hear their instructions.

Brady Mistic was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of second-degree assault on a police officer and resisting arrest following the violent arrest in September 2019. The charges were ultimately dismissed and Mistic was released, the lawsuit said.

Now Mistic is suing officers Nicholas Hanning and Ellie Summers, seeking unspecified compensation for pain and suffering, as the officers failed to issue a “warning or attempted communication” before knocking him to the ground. He is also suing the City of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners.

Hanning was fired from the department in July in connection with another violent arrest, while Summers currently remains on active duty.

The incident began on September 17, 2019, when Mistic was arrested for allegedly running a stop sign.

According to the indictment, Mistic did not realize he had done anything illegal and entered the parking lot of a laundromat, got out of his car and started walking towards the building. After his arrest, he lost his car.

He was unaware that Hanning and Summers had pulled up behind him until he saw the flashing lights of their police vehicle.

Mistic, who cannot read lips and can only form a few words verbally, relies on American Sign Language to communicate. He attempted to use his hands to communicate with the officers, but to no avail, the lawsuit alleges.



https://whatsnew2day.com/deaf-colorado-man-sues-police-after-being-wrongfully-arrested-and-jailed-for-four-months/


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« Reply #5183 on: October 02, 2021, 09:50:10 PM »
As expected, they don't care about due process or laws, they outright ignore them.

Inspector General Audit Finds "Widespread" Problems With FBI's FISA Applications

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a report (pdf) on Sept. 30 on the FBI’s applications to surveil U.S. citizens, finding “widespread” failure that “raises serious questions” and criticizing agents for not fixing flaws spotted in previous audits.

The inspector general (IG) reviewed about 7,000 applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants—the same used to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016—and found that the agency had failed to follow key rules, the Woods Procedures, in the program. In December 2019 review, Horowitz discovered 17 significant errors and omissions in the FISA surveillance application targeting Page.

The most recent audit of the agency’s Woods Procedures—rules that the FBI follows to ensure that FISA applications are “scrupulously accurate”—found sweeping “non-compliance” that “raises serious questions about the adequacy and execution of the supervisory review process in place at the time of the applications we reviewed,” Horowitz said, stating that the FBI’s quality-control officials apparently missed these problems.

His office also identified 183 FISA applications that had a missing or incomplete Woods file, which is a document meant to ensure the accuracy of statements made to the secretive FISA court. The report also found hundreds of other cases where there were instances of noncompliance with the agency’s Woods procedures.

“A failure to adhere to the Woods Procedures … could easily lead to errors that do impact probable cause—and therefore potentially call into question the legal basis for the government’s use of highly intrusive FISA warrants,” Horowitz wrote.

Horowitz recommended that the FBI attempt to make “additional efforts to communicate and emphasize to its workforce the importance” of the bureau’s own standards when applying for FISA warrants.

In a statement released after Horowitz’s report, the FBI told media outlets on Sept. 30 that it appreciated the IG’s “determined focus on the FBI’s FISA process, especially given the significant changes and policy enhancements that we have worked to make in concert with, and in many instances, prior to the issuance of this most recent OIG Audit Report.”

The federal law enforcement bureau will accept Horowitz’s recommendations detailed in the report and has adopted about half of them already, according to the statement. FBI officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The audit report is an extension of a report that was issued by Horowitz in March 2020, when he reviewed 29 FISA applications. According to that report, the inspector general couldn’t review four of the applications because the FBI wasn’t able to locate them. Of the 25 he could review, all of them had flaws—209 errors in total, Horowitz said.

“Our testing of FISA applications … identified apparent errors or inadequately supported facts in all of the 25 applications we reviewed, and interviews to date with available agents or supervisors in field offices generally have confirmed the issues we identified,” he said in his March report.

Horowitz lamented in the Sept. 30 audit that the FBI hasn’t taken his earlier report seriously.

“In response to the findings in our December 2019 FISA report and March 2020 [report], the FBI Director publicly acknowledged the seriousness of the identified problems and announced numerous steps the FBI was undertaking to address them,” he said.

“However, we believe certain public statements from the FBI and NSD in 2020 failed to recognize the significant risks posed by systemic non-compliance with the Woods Procedures, and during our audit, some FBI field personnel minimized the significance of Woods Procedures non-compliance.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inspector-general-audit-finds-widespread-problems-fbis-fisa-applications

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« Reply #5184 on: October 05, 2021, 07:15:51 PM »
FBI raids NYPD sergeants' union headquarters

The FBI made an early morning visit to the headquarters of the NYPD sergeants' union.

Multiple sources tell NY1’s Dean Meminger this is part of an ongoing investigation into the Sergeants Benevolent Association and its controversial president Ed Mullins.

The FBI would only say there is an investigation. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney in Manhattan would only say that a "law enforcement action" was being conducted at the location.

One source with knowledge of the probe tells NY1 that the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into possible mismanagement of funds.

Mullins, who is fiery and often takes extreme positions to defend his members, is also currently in trouble with the police department.

He is facing a departmental disciplinary trial for releasing information on social media about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter’s arrest during a Black Lives Matter protest.

He has also used foul language to describe the former city health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, and Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres.

His police departmental trial will resume later this month.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/10/05/fbi-sba-raid

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« Reply #5185 on: October 05, 2021, 08:40:26 PM »

Once again the uniformed criminal gangs abuse the weak and the disabled. The same cops who attacked and abused that 75 year old man, now attacked a deaf man. Such "brave heroes"... Because of these career criminals the deaf man spent 4 months in jail until suddenly the charges against him were dropped.


Deaf Colorado Man Sues Police After Being Wrongfully Arrested And Jailed For 4 Months

A deaf man is suing two Colorado officers who banged his head against the concrete and tasered him for “resisting arrest” after not realizing he couldn’t hear their instructions.

Brady Mistic was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of second-degree assault on a police officer and resisting arrest following the violent arrest in September 2019. The charges were ultimately dismissed and Mistic was released, the lawsuit said.

Now Mistic is suing officers Nicholas Hanning and Ellie Summers, seeking unspecified compensation for pain and suffering, as the officers failed to issue a “warning or attempted communication” before knocking him to the ground. He is also suing the City of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners.

Hanning was fired from the department in July in connection with another violent arrest, while Summers currently remains on active duty.

The incident began on September 17, 2019, when Mistic was arrested for allegedly running a stop sign.

According to the indictment, Mistic did not realize he had done anything illegal and entered the parking lot of a laundromat, got out of his car and started walking towards the building. After his arrest, he lost his car.

He was unaware that Hanning and Summers had pulled up behind him until he saw the flashing lights of their police vehicle.

Mistic, who cannot read lips and can only form a few words verbally, relies on American Sign Language to communicate. He attempted to use his hands to communicate with the officers, but to no avail, the lawsuit alleges.



https://whatsnew2day.com/deaf-colorado-man-sues-police-after-being-wrongfully-arrested-and-jailed-for-four-months/


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« Reply #5186 on: October 05, 2021, 08:43:39 PM »
No justice for Justine Damond. Don't expect any riots or looting. She was a white woman killed by a black cop.

Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor's murder verdict reversed over Justine Damond Ruszczyk's death



The family of an Australian woman fatally shot by a police officer in 2017 has responded to the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision to reverse the man's third-degree murder conviction, saying they are "heartbroken" the "depraved and senseless shooting" does not count as murder.

In 2019, Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond Ruszczyk, a dual US-Australian citizen who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.

Noor, who is no longer a police officer, was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.

The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction, saying the charge did not fit the circumstances in the case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/mohamed-noor-minneapolis-shooting-justine-damond-ruszczyk/100465680


Exactly- Why no full scale riots
& 24/7 MSM Coverage of her Murder .

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« Reply #5187 on: October 09, 2021, 03:35:11 PM »
Kidnapping, assassination... Just another day for the government and its goons.


Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request “sketches” or “options” for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”

The conversations were part of an unprecedented CIA campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its founder. The agency’s multipronged plans also included extensive spying on WikiLeaks associates, sowing discord among the group’s members, and stealing their electronic devices.

While Assange had been on the radar of U.S. intelligence agencies for years, these plans for an all-out war against him were sparked by WikiLeaks’ ongoing publication of extraordinarily sensitive CIA hacking tools, known collectively as “Vault 7,” which the agency ultimately concluded represented “the largest data loss in CIA history.”

President Trump’s newly installed CIA director, Mike Pompeo, was seeking revenge on WikiLeaks and Assange, who had sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden on rape allegations he denied. Pompeo and other top agency leaders “were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about Vault 7,” said a former Trump national security official. “They were seeing blood.”

The CIA’s fury at WikiLeaks led Pompeo to publicly describe the group in 2017 as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” More than just a provocative talking point, the designation opened the door for agency operatives to take far more aggressive actions, treating the organization as it does adversary spy services, former intelligence officials told Yahoo News. Within months, U.S. spies were monitoring the communications and movements of numerous WikiLeaks personnel, including audio and visual surveillance of Assange himself, according to former officials.

This Yahoo News investigation, based on conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials — eight of whom described details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange — reveals for the first time one of the most contentious intelligence debates of the Trump presidency and exposes new details about the U.S. government’s war on WikiLeaks. It was a campaign spearheaded by Pompeo that bent important legal strictures, potentially jeopardized the Justice Department’s work toward prosecuting Assange, and risked a damaging episode in the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally.

The CIA declined to comment. Pompeo did not respond to requests for comment.

“As an American citizen, I find it absolutely outrageous that our government would be contemplating kidnapping or assassinating somebody without any judicial process simply because he had published truthful information,” Barry Pollack, Assange’s U.S. lawyer, told Yahoo News.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html


After the revelations that the US planned to kidnap and even assassinate Assange, which received very little media coverage in the US, a convicted pedophile who is one of the FBI's key witnesses in their case against Assange has been imprisoned in Iceland.

Key witness in Assange case jailed in Iceland after admitting to lies and ongoing crime spree

Sigurdur Thordarson, a key witness for the FBI against Julian Assange, has been jailed in Iceland. The notorious alleged hacker and convicted pedophile was remanded to custody in Iceland’s highest security prison, Litla Hraun, on September 24.  Þórðarson´s lawyer, Húnbogi J. Andersen, confirms that he is in custody. Thordarson was given immunity by the FBI in exchange for testimony against Julian Assange.

Thordarson was arrested the same day he arrived back in Iceland from a trip to Spain, and was subsequently brought before a judge after police requested indefinite detention intended to halt an ongoing crime spree. The judge apparently agreed that Thordarson’s repeated, blatant and ongoing offences against the law put him at high risk for continued re-offending.

Thordarson is a key witness for the United States Justice Department according to documents presented to a UK court in an effort to secure the extradition of Julian Assange. He was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In a recent interview with Stundin he admitted to fabricating statements to implicate Assange and contradicted what he was quoted as saying in US court documents.

https://stundin.is/grein/14117/sociopathic-witness-assange-case-jailed-iceland-after-admitting-lies-and-ongoing-crime-spree/

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« Reply #5188 on: October 09, 2021, 09:49:00 PM »
U.S. Supreme Court Concurs: Trouble Understanding Police Orders Constitutes Resistance, Justifies Use of Excessive Force

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn a lower court ruling that justifies the use of excessive force by police on people who don’t understand police orders. Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute and the Supreme Court Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law had asked that Oklahoma police be held responsible for brutalizing an African-American man who, despite complying with police orders during an arrest, was subjected to excessive force and brutality, including being thrown to the ground, tasered, and placed in a chokehold that rendered him unconscious and required his hospitalization for three days. The petition in Edwards v. Harmon argued that Jeriel Edwards was not only deprived of his Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force but also his right to have a jury decide, based on video of his arrest, whether the officers’ actions were clearly unreasonable.

Affiliate attorneys Erin Glenn Busby, Lisa R. Eskow, and Michael F. Sturley of the University of Texas School of Law Supreme Court Clinic, and Andrea and Wyatt Worden of The Worden Law Firm assisted in the defense of Edwards’ Fourth Amendment rights.

“If you ask police what Americans should do to stay alive during encounters with law enforcement, they will tell you to comply, cooperate, obey, not resist, not argue, not make threatening gestures or statements, avoid sudden movements, and submit to a search of their person and belongings,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “The problem is what to do when compliance is not enough. How can you maintain the illusion of freedom when daily, Americans are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order or merely exist?”

On October 25, 2016, Jeriel Edwards was sitting in his car in the parking lot of a Muskogee Wendy’s restaurant in Muskogee, Okla., when he was approached by a police officer and ordered to put the car in park and provide his identification. According to body and dashboard camera video, the officer then ordered Edwards to exit the vehicle and remove his hands from his pockets. Edwards complied with all of the officer’s orders. A second Muskogee police officer arrived at the scene. Edwards was ordered to face the vehicle and place his hands behind his back. One officer grabbed Edwards’ right arm while the other officer shoved his head into the corner of the car door. Edwards was then slammed to the pavement. As the officers pushed Edwards’ head and neck to the ground, they also placed a knee on his body to pin him to the ground. Edwards repeatedly asked why the officers were abusing him, but got no answer. Instead, the first officer fired a taser at Edwards as he lay on the ground. A third officer arrived on the scene and made two striking motions at Edwards, the impact of which can be heard on the body camera video. A fourth officer arrived at the scene and put Edwards in a chokehold. As the four officers dragged Edwards to the ground, another joined the fray and held Edwards down by digging his knee into his body. Edwards lost consciousness en route to the hospital, where he was admitted to the ICU. Despite this brutality, the trial court granted summary judgment for the police in Edwards’ excessive force lawsuit against them without even allowing Edwards a trial to have a jury consider the evidence, a ruling which was affirmed on appeal.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/u.s_supreme_court_trouble_understanding_police_orders_justifies_use_of_excessive_force

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« Reply #5189 on: October 26, 2021, 06:48:48 PM »
Armed goons terrorizing a poor innocent woman with her newborn and as usual they try to blame her.


U.S. Marshals approach wrong apartment, force mother and baby out at gunpoint

A Bradenton woman is still confused, upset, and terrified after U.S. Marshals appeared at her front door and entered – armed and without a warrant – Friday morning.

Staples was napping with her 3-month-old daughter when she opened the app.

"When I clicked on it, there was two men standing there in bulletproof vests with guns pointing at my door," Staples said.

"U.S. Marshals. Come to the door!" a marshal can be heard yelling in the video from her doorbell camera.

The group from the U.S. Marshals Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force was looking for a suspect wanted by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office for homicide.

"Tell him to come out with his hands up," one of the officers yells to the camera. "We know he’s in there.  The place is surrounded."

Staples responded, "Nobody’s in here!  Ok? Hold on, hold on, hold on, I’m coming."

"I was scared, I didn't really know what to do. I didn't want to open the door, but I was more scared that if I didn't open the door, they were going to come in," Staples said.

When she cracked her door, she says the marshals ushered her out, leading her down the breezeway.

"There was probably seven or eight guys out there with guns. Three of them run in my apartment with no warrant or anything and are just running around," she said.

Staples says the encounter only lasted about three minutes. She says the marshals left as quickly as they came.

The U.S. Marshals Service told FOX 13 News that Staples’ apartment was never their target, but the team saw a man matching the suspect’s description near her unit. In a statement, the U.S. Marshals Service said the man entered the breezeway adjacent to Staples’ unit. They claim they were "engaged by a woman in [Staples’ unit]" but that officers never entered her unit.

"If the resident had not made contact with the team through the Ring doorbell, the team would not have had any contact with anyone at [Staples' apartment]," the agency said.

However, the video from Staples’ doorbell camera shows U.S. Marshals appear to have approached the door and then held the door open before realizing they were at the wrong apartment.

https://www.fox13news.com/news/video-u-s-marshals-approach-wrong-apartment-force-mother-and-baby-out-at-gunpoint


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« Reply #5190 on: October 27, 2021, 01:31:45 PM »

The Sharon Hill police officers who shot an 8-year-old girl at a football game acted with recklessness, a lawsuit says

The family of 8-year-old Fanta Bility, who was killed by police at a football game in Sharon Hill in August, has sued the borough and the police officers who opened fire, accusing them of excessive force in responding to reports of a shooting and saying the department has a history of improperly training its staff.

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, attorney Bruce L. Castor said the girl’s family “seeks answers and damages for the tragic and unnecessary death ... and the injury and trauma inflicted on others as a result of the misconduct of Sharon Hill Police officers.”

An attorney representing Sharon Hill, its police department, and the three officers, Robert DiDomenicis, declined to comment Tuesday.

Fanta and her family were leaving a football game at Academy Park High School on Aug. 27 when police shot at a vehicle driving near the stadium, authorities said. One of the bullets missed the vehicle and struck Fanta in the back. She died a short time later at the scene in her mother’s arms, Castor said in the lawsuit.

He said the officers were “deliberately indifferent and reckless” that night, and that the borough and its police chief had given the officers “tacit approval” to behave in that manner.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/fanta-bility-lawsuit-sharon-hill-police-shooting-football-game-20211026.html

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« Reply #5191 on: October 31, 2021, 10:59:55 PM »
Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly

“Open the door now, you are going to get shot!” an officer in Rock Falls, Ill., shouted at Nathaniel Edwards after a car chase.

“Hands out the window now or you will be shot!” yelled a patrolman in Bakersfield, Calif., as Marvin Urbina wrestled with inflated airbags after a pursuit ended in a crash.

“I am going to shoot you — what part of that don’t you understand?” threatened an officer in Little Rock, Ark., adding a profanity, as she tried to pry James Hartsfield from his car.

The police officers who issued those warnings had stopped the motorists for common offenses: swerving across double yellow lines, speeding recklessly, carrying an open beer bottle. None of the men were armed. Yet within moments of pulling them over, officers fatally shot all three.

The deaths are among a series of seemingly avoidable killings across the United States. Over the past five years, a New York Times investigation found, police officers have killed more than 400 drivers or passengers who were not wielding a gun or a knife, or under pursuit for a violent crime — a rate of more than one a week.

Most of the officers did so with impunity. Only five have been convicted of crimes in those killings, according to a review of the publicly reported cases. Yet local governments paid at least $125 million to resolve about 40 wrongful-death lawsuits and other claims. Many stops began with common traffic violations like broken taillights or running a red light; relative to the population, Black drivers were overrepresented among those killed.

The recurrence of such cases and the rarity of convictions both follow from an overstatement, ingrained in court precedents and police culture, of the danger that vehicle stops pose to officers. Claiming a sense of mortal peril — whether genuine in the moment or only asserted later — has often shielded officers from accountability for using deadly force.

In case after case, officers said they had feared for their lives. And in case after case, prosecutors declared the killings of unarmed motorists legally justifiable. But The Times reviewed video and audio recordings, prosecutor statements and court documents, finding patterns of questionable police conduct that went beyond recent high-profile deaths of unarmed drivers. Evidence often contradicted the accounts of law enforcement officers.

Dozens of encounters appeared to turn on what criminologists describe as officer-created jeopardy: Officers regularly — and unnecessarily — placed themselves in danger by standing in front of fleeing vehicles or reaching inside car windows, then fired their weapons in what they later said was self-defense. Frequently, officers also appeared to exaggerate the threat.

In many cases, local police officers, state troopers or sheriff’s deputies responded with outsize aggression to disrespect or disobedience — a driver talking back, revving an engine or refusing to get out of a car, what officers sometimes call “contempt of cop.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html

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« Reply #5192 on: November 03, 2021, 03:36:14 PM »
Domestic terrorism.

Jailed, innocent, in labor – and shackled

January 7, 2020, began like any other evening at their Dayton, Minn., home. Faris Hussien sat in his living room playing video games on his laptop; his wife, Sara, 9-months-pregnant with their first child, cooked in the kitchen.

Due in only two weeks, they dreamt of how they would welcome their son into the world. Her husband would be by her side to comfort her, with their family close by, ready to bring him back to a home filled with everything their new baby could possibly need.

“We were so excited to be a family,” Faris said.

Then they heard what sounded like a boom at their front door.

The night would end with 26-year-old Sara alone in the Hennepin County jail, booked for a crime she did not commit, weeping in searing pain and in labor.

Her 26-year-old husband sat behind bars in another part of the jail, arrested after he says he defended his wife and unborn child against what he thought were home invaders.

Instead, they turned out to be police, raiding his home because they wrongly suspected he was working with a small-time shoplifter.
After Sara said she spent the next day and a half begging jail guards for help, her water broke. Then, records and interviews show, she was taken to a hospital shackled to the ambulance gurney and then to a hospital bed.

The American Medical Association calls restraining pregnant women during the birthing process “barbaric.” An expert who reviewed the case says it was a clear violation of state law.

In 2014, the Minnesota legislature made it illegal for jails and prisons to restrain pregnant women unless they were safety and security risks.


Full story:

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/jailed-innocent-in-labor-and-shackled/89-185601ee-702c-4ec3-a6c7-5ed3f7266b03


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« Reply #5193 on: November 09, 2021, 06:39:39 AM »
James O’Keefe: “10 FBI Agents... handcuffed me and threw me against the hallway... partially clothed in front of my neighbors.”
https://100percentfedup.com ^ | Nov 8, 2021 | Staff
Posted on 11/9/2021, 9:32:44 AM by Red Badger

On Saturday morning, James O’Keefe was awoken to the FBI banging on his door to conduct a predawn raid at his home as a continuation of an investigation surrounding Ashley Biden’s diary. O’Keefe was thrown against a wall, handcuffed, and forced to allow the confiscation of many confidential reporter notes and source identities.

In a Fox News interview, O’Keefe described the events of this raid:

“There were 10 FBI agents with a battering ram… they turned me around, handcuffed me, and threw me against the hallway. I was partially clothed in front of my neighbors. They confiscated my phone, they raided my apartment. On my phone were many of my reporter’s notes, a lot of my sources unrelated to this story, and a lot of confidential donor information to our news organization”.

James O’Keefe explains the predawn raid on his house Saturday morning. pic.twitter.com/0isPUgPiNu

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Watch the full interview here.

The raid on O’Keefe’s house followed a series of FBI raids on former and current Project Veritas journalists just days prior.

The FBI has reportedly been conducting these searches to recover a diary that is rumored to belong to Ashley Biden, which O’Keefe insists his organization turned over to law enforcement after being unable to verify the journal’s validity.

O’Keefe has expressed his concern for the extreme and unprecedented violation of his First Amendment rights. “Journalists everywhere have to rise up,” implored O’Keefe in his Fox News interview, “because we broke no laws here. If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody.”


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« Reply #5194 on: November 12, 2021, 12:45:13 PM »
Following FBI's Political Raid On James O'Keefe, Contents Of His Privileged Communications With Lawyers Are Leaked to New York Times
Ace of Spades ^ | November 12, 2021 | Ace
Posted on 11/12/2021, 1:23:17 PM by Mount Athos

And note-- O'Keefe is in a lawsuit with the New York Times.

The FBI launched a political raid on Project Veritas' offices, and the personal homes of James O'Keefe and his reporters -- with battering rams at the ready -- and then not only seized his private, confidential, protected communications with counsel, but then immediately leaked them to the corporation they are politically allied with whom James O'Keefe is suing.

The New York Times immediately ran a hit piece which they intend to help their court case, claiming that James O'Keefe talked to his lawyers about how to avoid breaking the law in his sting operations. In other words -- he sought legal advice as to how to... act lawfully while committing acts of non-state-approved journalism.

By the way, if you're going to secretly record anyone, you must consult a lawyer -- or at least understand the law keenly yourself -- to know if you are in a one-party or two-party consent state. If you're in a two-party consent state, you cannot record someone without their permission.

So yes -- you need a lawyer to advise you of such matters.

The New York Times -- again, being sued by James O'Keefe and Project Veritas in a case that the courts refuse to dismiss, which is going to trial -- spins this as "James O'Keefe has a long history of using lawyers' advice to help him skirt the law," or that sort of terminology.

The NYT, who themselves literally have an entire law firm on retainer to advise them in such matters, casts mere consultation with lawyers as some kind of shady criminal conspiracy.

And this was leaked to them by the FBI, after an illegal, political raid.

And these raids are all about Joe Biden directing the FBI to harass anyone who had contact with... his druggie self-confessed nymphomaniac daughter's lost diary! Something the federal law enforcement agencies have absolutely no jurisdiction over!

This.

Is.

Not.

America.

Not anymore.

This is straight-up fascism.

This cannot go on much longer.

And what cannot go on, will not.

A court has ordered the FBI to stop extracting data from James O'Keefe's phones. Perhaps some judges and government officials are not yet part of the fascist takeover of what was once America.

Here's the NYT, "talking its book," prepping the jury pool with the gift it got from its buddies at the Democrat Armed Enforcement Squad at the DOJ:

Mark Mazzetti @MarkMazzettiNYT Project Veritas has long occupied a gray area between investigative journalism and political spying, and documents reveal how much the group has worked with lawyers to gauge how far its practices can go before breaking the law. W/⁦@adamgoldmanNYT⁩ https://nytimes.com/2021/11/11/us/politics/project-veritas-journalism-political-spying.html?referringSource=articleShare Sean Davis @seanmdav You clowns worked hand in glove with the corrupt spies and left-wing con artists on the most fraudulent political smear operation in American history--the Steele dossier--and you have the audacity to cast stones at someone else�s journalism? You people belong in Gitmo.

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain If the New York Times has these memorandums -- why wouldn't it also have PV's privileged communications that relate directly to PV's lawsuit against the Times?

This is just a massive, massive scandal

Sean Davis @seanmdav The FBI is a corrupt, criminal organization that has no valid reason for existing.

I went to follow Drew Hernandez -- the videographer and commentator who appeared at the trial yesterday as a surprise (?) witness -- and I found, happily, that I was already following him.

Here's his advice:

Drew Hernandez @DrewHLive Pay attention to so called conservatives/patriots that don't report on James O'Keefe being targeted by the FBI

Excellent advice.

Though I'm pretty sure I can predict the entire list.

And they're not conservative. They're Conservative, Inc., and they're liberal grifters.

I think he might be talking about fed plants, though.

Defund the FBI.

Disband it.

Start a new agency.

Follow Malone's rules -- if the barrel is filled with rotten apples, pick fresh apples off the tree.

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« Reply #5198 on: January 04, 2022, 07:08:33 PM »
Police Set Dog On Uber Driver Who Missed Rental Car Payment
Ali Badr was unarmed, barefoot, and complying with police when their dog mauled his right arm

Last year, we told you about the 165 Hertz customers who were arrested for stealing cars that they had lawfully rented. The months they spent in prison, and their desperation in getting recompense from the company, could make you shy away from ever renting a car again. But if their stories didn’t, one out of San Ramon, CA might: An Uber driver whose late rental payment caused him to be mauled by a police dog.

Ali Badr, an Oakland resident, lost his car when Uber fares dried up during the Covid-19 pandemic. To keep some form of driving income, he found a car rental service called CarMommy, catering to rideshare drivers. The company rented him a Camry for the last four months of 2020, but by the end of that contract Badr had fallen behind on payments. He claims he spoke with the company, and told them he would pay up.

Instead of waiting for that payment, CarMommy reported the Camry stolen. When an automated license plate scanner saw Badr and the Camry driving to a gas station, six police vehicles swarmed the car. Officers drew their guns, took cover behind their vehicles, and barked orders as Badr, barefoot, exited the vehicle. Less than ten seconds later, a K9 unit was sinking its teeth into his right arm.

The San Francisco Chronicle spoke with Badr, his attorney, and the San Ramon police department, and obtained both photos of Badr’s injuries and body cam footage of the traffic stop. In the footage, Badr appears to be complying with every command given by police — despite the department’s later recommendation to the District Attorney’s office that he be charged with resisting arrest.

The Marshall Project spent a year investigating use of police dogs in the U.S., and found that K9 units are “frequently used in minor cases,” including traffic stops. The investigation also found that police dog injuries are often serious, and can even be fatal — a harsh contrast to the severity of the crimes for which they’re used.

Because of their potential for danger, the San Ramon police department requires approval from a commander and an audible warning to the suspect before releasing a dog. Badr claims that warning never came, and there certainly isn’t one to be heard in the body cam footage.

Badr has filed suit against both the San Ramon police and the rental car company, but no amount of financial compensation will fix what Badr claims is “extensive and permanent damage” from the dog’s bite. He was never charged with a crime.

https://jalopnik.com/police-set-dog-on-uber-driver-who-missed-rental-car-pay-1848300142

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« Reply #5199 on: January 11, 2022, 09:56:29 AM »
The Likely Cause of the Media Blackout on Imploding Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
American Greatness ^ | January 10, 2022 | Julie Kelly
Posted on 1/11/2022, 12:05:41 PM by Heartlander

The Likely Cause of the Media Blackout on Imploding Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
It is impossible to report on the Whitmer case without connecting it to January 6. So rather than do its job, the national news media is completely ignoring this sensational story.
Once upon a time in America, a high-profile federal prosecution imploding amid credible accusations of FBI entrapment would earn wall-to-wall headlines in the national news media. A wife-beating FBI agent who used at least one criminal informant and a dozen more government assets to concoct a plot to abduct a sitting governor—intended to create damaging headlines for an incumbent president right before Election Day—would receive nonstop coverage on cable and broadcast news outlets.

Social media would be flooded with all the juicy details. Names like “Richard Trask” and “Stephen Robeson” would be household names.

But none of that is happening with the Justice Department’s rapidly crumbling case against several men arrested for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation cottage in the fall of 2020. Defense attorneys have made a strong case that without the FBI’s guiding hand—and deep pockets courtesy of American taxpayers—the scheme never would have materialized past random social media chatter.

“[The] undisputed evidence . . . establishes that government agents and informants concocted, hatched, and pushed this ‘kidnapping plan’ from the beginning, doing so against defendants who explicitly repudiated the plan,” five defense attorneys wrote in a December 25 motion, one of several defense filings that details proof of an elaborate FBI operation to lure their clients into the abduction caper.

And the bad actors in the government’s script keep finding themselves in more trouble.

Richard Trask, the lead FBI agent on the case, was fired for physically assaulting his wife in a drunken rage following a swinger party last summer. Body-camera footage made public last month shows a shirtless and clearly inebriated Trask being arrested by local police. (He was not charged with driving under the influence.)

A Michigan news station recently unearthed Trask’s Trump-hating rants posted on social media in 2020. “If you still support our piece of shit president you can fuck off,” Trask wrote on Facebook at the same time he was “investigating” threats against Whitmer. Trask said he hoped people who support Trump “burn in hell.”

Two other FBI agents working with Trask at the Detroit FBI field office who handled multiple informants also have been dismissed from the case; FBI agent Jayson Chambers is accused of running a security business on the side and FBI agent Henrik Impola is accused of committing perjury in another case. The Justice Department just notified the court that Trask, Chambers, and Impola are no longer on the government’s witness list.

And just when it looked like things couldn’t get worse for prosecutors, Stephen Robeson, a main informant and convicted felon, has been charged with committing two other crimes while directing the Whitmer kidnapping ruse. Prosecutors last week accused Robeson of acting as a “double agent.” Prosecutors said Robeson “broke an agreement with the FBI by offering charity money to buy weapons to be used in attacks, illegally obtained weapons, and offered personal equipment, including a drone, to aid in committing domestic terrorism.”

Not only is Robeson off the government’s witness list but the Justice Department is fighting to stop defense attorneys from presenting damning evidence of Robeson’s involvement during the trial scheduled to begin in March.

All of this salacious drama should be front-page news. After all, when the Justice Department announced the kidnapping charges in a press release on October 8, 2020, it was a bonanza for the corporate media right before Election Day. The shocking news resulted in widespread condemnation of Donald Trump, blamed once again for promoting violence against his political opponents and emboldening so-called “militia” groups loyal to him.

Whitmer made an emotional statement the day the charges were announced, accusing Trump of encouraging “domestic terrorists” who tried kill her; Joe Biden, quickly siezing on the politically advantageous moment, blasted Trump’s “dog whistles” to violent extremists.

Dozens of articles and columns were posted at the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, and other influential publications in a matter of hours. “A thwarted plot could thwart Trump,” two Politico reporters predicted. Mary McCord, a former Obama Justice Department official and perpetual Trump antagonist, had a New York Times column ready to go on the very same day her former employer publicly revealed the plot. (McCord now is advising the January 6 select committee.)

The Washington Post published a guest column by Whitmer herself on October 9, repeating her allegations that Trump was responsible. In fact, Whitmer made the media rounds for days, conveniently playing the victim to Trump’s villain as early voting was underway in her swing state.

“It’s incredibly disturbing that the President of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me, 10 days after that was uncovered, the President is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism,” Whitmer complained on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

CNN ran numerous articles about the thwarted plot. Jake Tapper confronted both Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, and Lara Trump with accusations that the president was responsible for the alleged attack. “Why does he continue to use such heightened rhetoric at a time when her life was literally in danger, according to the FBI?” Tapper asked Lara Trump on October 18.

Considering all the histrionics and allegations that Trump incited a potential domestic terror attack—attempted murder, even!—it seems that these same journalists would eagerly cover all the evidence emerging in the case ahead of the March 8 trial. But the Whitmer kidnapping plot hasn’t just been memory-holed by the national media, it faces what one can only assume is a coordinated and intentional news blackout. Tapper, a copious tweeter, has not tweeted anything about the Whitmer kidnapping ruse since October 2020. CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Politico haven’t published any news about the Whitmer case in months.

MSNBC aired one interview last month on recent defense motions to dismiss the case on grounds of entrapment; former prosecutor Joyce Vance opined that there is a “zero chance” a Michigan judge will drop the federal charges.

The last time the New York Times printed Richard Trask’s name was in October 2020 after he testified that rogue “militia groups” were involved in the kidnapping plot. Ditto for October 2020 mentions in Politico and CNN. Trask’s name is dying in darkness over at the Washington Post, which has never published his name in any Whitmer-related article. Apparently a federal cop who nearly strangled his wife to death after a swinger party then received a slap-on-the-wrist sentence for the assault is of no interest to the otherwise man- and cop-loathing reporters and columnists at the nation’s most influential news organizations.

To its credit, BuzzFeed is the only outlet on the Left that has relentlessly covered the government’s imploding prosecution. BuzzFeed reporters Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison have produced a string of detailed investigative reports worthy of awards despite an obvious political slant.

So, why the media blackout? Because the news media know that any coverage of the FBI-concocted plot to “kidnap” Gretchen Whitmer will bolster suspicions that the FBI played a key if not primary role in the events leading up to, and including, January 6. After all, the Justice Department continually ties the two events together, describing both as acts of “domestic terror” and blaming President Trump for both.

The head of the Detroit FBI field office was promoted to the D.C. FBI field office one week after the Whitimer kidnapping arrests were announced in October 2020; Steven D’Antuono now is in charge of the same office that deployed agents to Capitol grounds on January 6 and is aiding the prosecution of more than 700 Americans arrested for participating in the protest.

It is impossible to report on the Whitmer case without connecting it to January 6. So rather than do its job, the national news media is completely ignoring this sensational story. Too many “insurrectionists” to smear and destroy, apparently.