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I guess her Net worth of $2.5 billion, that she made over both Liberal & Conservative admins, proves pimping racism and discrimination in the US is $$$$$$$$$?
OR, is she just another aging camera seeking far left liberal celebrity running their mouth for attention?
Any bets she takes a 30-day vacation and returns bellowing Anti-MAGA to CYA her PR lie and return?
[HotAir] I, along with millions of other people, do not doubt that Minneapolis Policeman Derek Chauvin was railroaded during his trial over the death of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... While I believe that the overwhelming evidence shows that Floyd died of a meth-induced heart attack and that he was innocent of the charges, I don't dispute that the jury had a right to find differently or that they may have reached that conclusion based on the evidence and arguments put before them.
The trial itself, on the other hand, was decided based on a pack of lies pushed by the prosecution. It's clear that high-level Minneapolis police officials committed perjury and got away with it.
I came to this conclusion after watching the much-criticized and "fact-checked" documentary The Fall of Minneapolis by Liz Collin (well worth the watch!). While critics claim that it was full of lies, those critics are as reliable as all fact checkers, meaning they are nothing but propagandists. The evidence is clear and in black and white, supported by other coppers.
There are many evidentiary issues with the case, but one of the most significant was Chauvin's claim that the restraint technique he used with George Floyd was trained as safe and effective by the MPD. MPD officials denied this, despite training manuals demonstrating it and MPD officers confirming it.
While most people think that Floyd was asphyxiated, the reality is that there is no evidence that this is true. Quite the opposite--Floyd COULD breathe and showed no signs of asphyxia; rather, he had fatal doses of methamphetamine and fentanyl in his bloodstream because he swallowed his drug stash to hide it from the police.
MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell testified under oath that the restraint method used on George Floyd was never taught by the department, while dozens of officers have denied this, training manuals showed it, and now photographs of the training have been uncovered.
Blackwell is suing Liz Collins for defamation, but there is a problem.
In a court filing over a dozen officers have provided sworn statements that Blackwell lied during the trial, and her lies are pretty obvious.
Alpha News, a terrific independent news outlet here in Minnesota, has the receipts. Liz Collins is associated with Alpha News, so obviously they have a reason to defend her, but you can see the photos of MPD officers training the technique. The photos are pretty hard to dispute. And the sworn affidavits are quite compelling evidence that Blackwell simply lied to the court.
Fourteen current and former coppers with the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) have signed sworn declarations which say they believe MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell perjured herself when testifying in former MPD officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.
Specifically, the group of former officers say they believe Blackwell perjured herself when she testified in court that the restraint method Chauvin used to subdue George Floyd in May 2020 was not a part of MPD officer training. In that trial, Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... many say the knee-on-neck restraint Chauvin employed was trained under the maximal-restraint technique (MRT), a restraint the MPD taught and allowed until 2023.
Those 14 statements were among dozens of declarations submitted by lawyers representing Alpha News in a defamation lawsuit brought by Blackwell last October against Alpha News, Alpha News news hound Liz Collin, producer J.C. Chaix, and a publishing company. In her lawsuit, Blackwell alleged that the Alpha News documentary film The Fall of Minneapolis and a book authored by Collin wrongly accused Blackwell of lying.
This week, lawyers for Alpha News filed a 113-page motion with 592 footnotes to have the case dismissed with prejudice.
A vast swathe of Minneapolis was burned down, including a police precinct (the first time in America). Crime skyrocketed, and the City Council had voted to "defund the police." Crowds of protesters gathered outside the court, shouting "No justice, no peace." And the city was on edge. The Attorney General's Office itself was prosecuting Chauvin, and of course, the governor--Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... , of course--was clear that he was seeking "justice" for George Floyd.
Chauvin was an easy scapegoat. He was the officer who restrained Floyd, the video was seemingly damning, implying something that turned out to be false--that Floyd was asphyxiated--and the best way to protect the politicians and the city was throwing Chauvin to the wolves.
“Specifically, we were trained that when two officers were trying to handcuff a person that was resisting arrest, one officer should use his or her knee to employ a knee-to-neck/upper shoulder restraint to control the subject’s head, and the other knee should be used to control one of the subject’s arms during handcuffing.”
Describing how Blackwell said “that’s not what we train” when examining images of Chauvin restraining Floyd, Tidgwell wrote:
“If by ‘we’ Katie Blackwell referred to the MPD, then I believe that she perjured herself. Every MPD officer knows that restraint was trained, and every MPD officer knows it was trained as part of the MRT process. We were trained that ‘where the head goes, the body will follow.'”
The former patrol sergeant also mentioned that he and another member of MPD put together a “virtual museum” of the department. This museum chronicles over 100 years of department history with various photos and documents. In his declaration, Tidgwell produced a photo from the museum project which depicts Blackwell arresting a man in 2014.
“It appears that Katie Blackwell was employing the knee-to-neck/upper shoulder restraint that I described in this declaration in the picture I included in paragraph 5 above,” wrote Tidgwell.
As alluded to in that quote, Katie Blackwell, who testified that Minneapolis doesn't train the technique, had been photographed using it during a riot 6 years earlier when she was a patrol officer.
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If the witnesses lied, they need to be prosecuted for that crime. The prosecutors need to be prosecuted as well. Prosecution is about the truth not the conviction.
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[IsraelTimes] US president says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’.
Admittedly the entire West, including the US, had been orientalizing itself for several years, adopting the values and principles of polities like China, Russia and the Islamic states.
But that, hopefully, was an aberration and the Trump reelection signals a return to Western normalcy.
Free speech is an asset, not a luxury.
It is our superior error detection and error correction mechanism.
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That necklace charm he was wearing, is that a Chinese fashion? Seems I saw a pendent of that design with a Chinese blessing inscribed on it.
I mean, if so, fashion, whatever, lots of people with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. fashion. It would just be a very strange thing to wear in what was a highly produced video.
And it was. Totally a Common Person theme with the background, and the (supposedly $900) watch.
[Breitbart] Perfect. Lt. Col Sausage first, then all his comrades
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Vindman claimed that due to his “refusal to remain silent as Trump engaged in criminal activity, undermined free and fair elections by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden, to steal the 2020 election” and his “refusal to betray” his oath to the United States Constitution, he “was fired.”
[10News] "Who ya gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?" He's flailing
CALIFORNIA (KGTV) — Gov. Gavin Newsom launched www.californiafirefacts.com on Saturday to address what he calls "mis- and dis-information" being spread online about the recent fires in Southern California.
It was inspired by allegedly false information being spread by Fox News, Donald Trump, and "Elon Musk’s platform," or X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a press release.
"There is an astonishing amount of mis- and dis-information being spread online - much of it by so-called leaders and partisan media outlets who seek to divide this country for their own political gain," said Governor Newsom in a statement. "It breaks my heart that families in Los Angeles don’t just have to worry about the fires but also this malicious disinformation as well."
The website is primarily dedicated to responding to posts on X that the Governor alleges are false, like a Fox News post saying, "Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires."
"A ridiculous lie," Newsom called this in his own post. "We have doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased the forest management ten-fold since taking office."
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Whats the state law on shooting arsonists on sight? Asking for a fren
Prolly arrest and incarceration for up to 60 years due to current Cali firearm and/or DEI discrimination laws.
So one should consider the archery or crossbow option, much quieter. It is unlawful to use any bow or crossbow without a draw weight of at least 30 pounds for a bow or 125 pounds for a crossbow, however.
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Mullah, as long as you can drag the body into the fire there won't be any useful evidence.
[IsraelTimes] Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the US Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead.
The department discloses Smith’s departure in a court filing, saying he had resigned one day earlier. The resignation, 10 days before Trump is inaugurated, follows the conclusion of two unsuccessful criminal prosecutions against Trump that were withdrawn following Trump’s White House win in November.
Smith’s departure is another marker of the collapse of the criminal cases against Trump, which could end without any legal consequences for the incoming president and sparked a backlash that helped fuel his political comeback.
Trump, who has frequently called Smith “deranged,” had said he would fire him immediately upon taking office on Jan. 20, and has suggested that he may pursue retribution against Smith and others who investigated him once he returns to office.
At issue now is the fate of a two-volume report that Smith and his team had prepared about their twin investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Justice Department had been expected to make the document public in the final days of the Biden administration, but the Trump-appointed judge who presided over the classified documents case granted a defense request to at least temporarily halt its release. Two of Trump’s co-defendants in that case, Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, had argued that the release of the report would be unfairly prejudicial, an argument that the Trump legal team joined in.
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^ Smith was illegally put in Special Prosecutor position, his political crap report should be buried and he should have to reimburse the taxpayers for all expenses paid
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What won't government hacks do to protect their magic paychecks?
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^ ^ ^ ^
I'd be interested in reading the Fiction.
As it quotes backstabber & sources names, that need to be watched and or indited.
Plus, it lets the public see the steps the DC Swamp, Democrats, RINO's all took to commit treason, to protect their $$$$ making turf and power.
Dear Loren Merchan, president of Authentic Campaigns — a company that's done political work for Democratic clients like President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
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