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96thdayofrage · 3 years ago

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There’s been a disproportionate focus on the black community in the wake of Joe Biden’s announcement of vaccine mandates. But the hesitancy to get the jab is understandable, given we’ve suffered decades of health discrimination.

Vaccine mandates for travel, work, and even restaurants, as witnessed in Carmine’s in New York City this week, have become a hot-button issue for a lot of civil liberties and civil rights activists alike.

There have been bipartisan mass protests happening in NYC every week, where people from all walks of life have taken to the streets to show their opposition to the mandates put in place by Bill de Blasio and the Biden administration.

Professional athletes, celebrities, and social media influencers have used their voices to take a stand against what can only be seen as an authoritarian overreach of federal power. However, it seems that the majority of mainstream media, policy makers, and even marketing efforts have targeted one group in particular when it comes to mandates: black Americans.

At this point, it is well documented that black Americans do not have much faith in the effectiveness or safety of the available Covid-19 vaccines. There’s a litany of reasons to justify that hesitancy, spawning from years of healthcare discrimination within our community.

Many are already familiar with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, a truly abhorrent study conducted on black people to “observe the natural evolution of untreated syphilis” from 1932 to 1972. All the black men recruited for the experiment were told they were receiving treatment for bad blood. Even after penicillin became the treatment prescribed for syphilis in the late 1940s, almost 30 years before the experiment actually concluded, most of the men were never given it. In fact, they received no treatment at all.

The discrimination black people deal with in the healthcare system can also be seen in less overt practices. For example, as early as 2016, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science found that over half of medical trainees believed at least one of the following myths about the physiology of black people: that black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than white people’s, that black people’s skin is thicker than white people’s, and that black people’s blood coagulates more quickly than white people’s. Some even believed all three. No less than 40% of first- and second-year students endorsed the belief that “black people’s skin is thicker than white people’s.”

The aforementioned examples, combined with the infinite ways the US government has systematically oppressed the black community through our tumultuous history, give black people little reason to believe that it, or the FDA, or any of its medical institutions, have their best interests at heart.

However, our genuine distrust of these institutions and the mandates they’re now implementing have been minimized, with academics and media pundits often citing socioeconomic obstacles as the reason for the black community’s underwhelming vaccination numbers or ‘ignorance.’

What’s more, if you listen to the rhetoric coming from politicians and neoliberal media pundits, you might be led to think that every person who is vaccine hesitant or not in favor of mandates is a Trump-loving Republican merely attempting to throw another wrench in the ‘liberal agenda.’

Not only is this far from the truth, but those same pundits, politicians, and influencers seem to be aware of this as well, given the truly disturbing efforts we’ve seen dedicated to targeting the black community to convince them to lie down and accept vaccine mandates.

There are several ways the black community has been directly targeted by vaccine initiatives – a clear indication that the political and media worlds are fully aware that anti-mandate sentiments are not unique to conservatives.

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tifatait · 3 years ago

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CASERTA. Tira brutta aria al Comune: si è dimesso il coordinatore dell'Ambito sociale C1 Carmine De Blasio, fu nominato da Marino su dritta dell'assessora regionale Fortini, amica di Sofia Flauto | casertace.net

CASERTA. Tira brutta aria al Comune: si è dimesso il coordinatore dell’Ambito sociale C1 Carmine De Blasio, fu nominato da Marino su dritta dell’assessora regionale Fortini, amica di Sofia Flauto | casertace.net

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masterofd1saster · 3 years ago

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CJ current events 23sep21

By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura

Sept. 18, 2021

New information emerged on Saturday about a brawl outside a popular Italian restaurant in Manhattan that raises questions about initial accounts of the altercation, in which the police said they arrested three women from Texas after they attacked a hostess who had asked them to provide proof of their vaccination status.

In a statement on Thursday, the police said that they had responded to an assault in front of Carmine’s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan involving a 24-year-old hostess, who told them that she got into a dispute with three women after she requested to see their Covid-19 vaccination cards. The three women were charged with assault and criminal mischief.***

“Restaurants are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding Black patrons,” said Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter Greater New York.

Restaurants across New York City have been grappling with how best to adhere to the new mandate from Mayor Bill de Blasio that requires people to prove they have received at least one dose of a virus vaccine before dining indoors. The city began enforcing the rule on Monday.

Most of the burden of enforcement has fallen on restaurant employees, particularly front-of-house staff members who are typically the first to engage with customers.*** https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/nyregion/carmines-vaccination-fight.html

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HOUSTON – The president of the Houston Police Officer’s Union is calling for a Harris County judge to step down after allowing a habitual offender, who has since been accused of shooting two Houston police officers, to bond out of jail.

Deon Ledet is accused of killing Sr. Police Officer William “Bill” Jeffrey -- a 30-year veteran of the department. The other officer, Sgt. Michael Vance, was shot several times and is in stable condition. It could take him months to recover.

“He needs to have the integrity to step down,” said HPOU President Doug Griffith. “Until he decides to step up and explain himself, we will continue to come after him. I will actively search for people who will run against him.”***

The Harris County District Attorney’s office tells KPRC 2 that Magistrate Lionel Castro set bond amounts for Ledet at $20,000 and $40,000 on Nov. 17, 2020. The next day, on Nov. 18, the District Attorney’s office asked for the bond to be denied because Ledet had two felony convictions. Instead, the DA’s office said Judge Greg Glass of the 208th District Court lowered the bond amounts to $10,000 and $20,000.***

Ledet was shot and killed in the shooting. His case is no longer pending.*** https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/09/21/houston-police-union-calls-for-judges-resignation-after-man-who-was-given-low-bond-shoots-two-hpd-officers/

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In R. Kelly news,

After more than a month of witness testimony from the prosecutorial team during the federal sex trafficking trial against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, it was time for the defense to petition the court on Monday.

As Buzzfeed News reports, the first witness to take the stand in defense of the entertainer was Kelly’s former bodyguard, longtime friend and former Chicago police officer Larry Hood. Hood initially claimed that he had “never seen the singer with underage girls,” but as his testimony continued, he later admitted to “seeing Aaliyah and some of her ‘little friends’” when she was around 12 or 13 years old.***

Hood began working for Kelly in 1991 and became a police officer three years later. He would go on to work with the singer throughout the mid-’90s and again in the early 2000s. His time with Kelly ceased in 2004 and in 2007; he left Chicago PD “after pleading guilty to felony forgery for the use of fake $100 bills,” though he initially told the prosecutors that he left “in good standing” during cross-examination.*** https://www.theroot.com/r-kelly-s-defense-begins-with-shaky-start-as-witness-c-1847714875

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Sussmann indictment analysis

***It is unusual for a one-count false-statement charge, which can be alleged in a paragraph, to be presented as a 27-page speaking indictment. But Durham wrote a highly detailed account of the facts and circumstances surrounding the false-statements charge. It is significant in that it tells us far more about his investigation***

Tech Executive-1 was having contact with Sussmann and another Perkins Coie lawyer (who is not identified in the indictment, but appears to be Marc Elias, who was the main lawyer at the firm for Clinton and the DNC), and with what is identified as a “U.S. investigative firm.” That firm appears to be Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson’s oppo-research outfit that was retained by Perkins Coie, on behalf of the Clinton campaign, to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump — the exercise that resulted in the farcical “Steele Dossier,” generated principally by Christopher Steele, the former British spy recruited by Simpson for that purpose.***

The indictment details that researchers at Tech Executive-1’s companies were very uncomfortable being tasked to run extensive queries about Trump and his campaign in their databases, but they did it because Tech Executive-1 was a powerful person. The researchers also highlighted significant weaknesses in the Trump–Russia narrative that they were being asked to weave, to the point that even Tech Executive-1 acknowledged it was a “red herring.” But because the objective was to craft a political theme that would damage Trump, rather than to prove an actual national-security peril, this information was kept from the government.***

There is one last thing that I find interesting but that is not in the indictment. Among the many risible aspects of the Steele dossier is that Steele, the great Russia expert, obviously doesn’t know much about Alfa Bank . . . which he repeatedly misspells as “Alpha” Bank. One of Steele’s “intelligence reports” from September 2016 makes extravagant claims about connections and favors exchanged between the owners of Alfa Bank and Putin. Consequently, the owners sued Steele for libel in London.

In British court, Steele was deposed. He related that he didn’t know about any Alfa Bank–Trump connection. So why put it in the dossier? Well, he was told about the alleged corrupt Alfa Bank–Trump tie by . . . wait for it . . . yes . . . Michael Sussmann. (See excellent reporting by Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller and Jerry Dunleavy at the Washington Examiner.)*** https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/the-real-story-in-durhams-indictment-of-democratic-lawyer-michael-sussmann/

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Men take vehicle with ‘free car’ sign, later find body in trunk

COPIAH CO., Miss. (WLBT) - According to Copiah County Sheriff Byron Swilley, a body was found inside of a vehicle in Copiah County.

Sheriff Swilley said a man drove the vehicle from Byram to Copiah County but realized that there was a body inside the vehicle’s trunk.

Coroner Ellis Stuart said two men found the car in Byram with a “free car” sign on it, with the key inside. They drove the car to Copiah County and looked inside after arriving at a family member’s home. *** https://www.wlbt.com/2021/09/20/men-take-vehicle-with-free-car-sign-later-find-body-trunk/

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You are the fun police

The mayor of San Francisco is pushing back at critics after a viral video showed her dancing without a mask last week at a crowded indoor nightclub.

"We don't need the fun police to come in and try and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing," Mayor London Breed told reporters on Friday, The Washington Post reports.***

Breed, who was criticized previously for dining at the upscale eatery French Laundry in the California wine country while restaurants in San Francisco were closed to indoor dining, said she got caught up in the moment during her night out at Black Cat. Other politicians, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, have drawn backlash for behavior that violated public health rules during the pandemic.

"I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit," Breed said Friday, "and I wasn't thinking about a mask."*** https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/san-francisco-mayor-responds-maskless-174616042.html

We all want to defund the fun police. We don’t care that you were maskless; we care that we are masked.

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Lives are precious; security is cheap.

Anyone know about

a social media post in regards to a subject who entered one of the on-campus housing units during a get together this past Saturday, Sept. 18. The subject entered through a partially opened rear door. This subject was not invited and was eventually escorted out by some of the guests. His behavior was concerning as he introduced himself as “bad guy” and kept his hand behind his back. The SVSU Police Department immediately began to look into the incident and it is currently under investigation. We feel confident that we will have the situation resolved soon. We appreciate the calls and additional information we have received.***

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Failure as a hoops coach; failure as, oh wait

A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted a Michigan doctor today for his role in masterminding and executing a complex scheme to defraud Medicare and other health insurance programs by administering medically unnecessary spinal injections in exchange for prescriptions of high doses of opioids to patients.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Francisco Patino, 66, of Wayne County, excessively prescribed highly addictive opioids to his patients at his medical clinic in Livonia. In exchange for opioids, these patients would receive (or be billed as if they had received) facet joint or nerve block injections, both lucrative spinal injections. Although these spinal injections were purportedly intended to treat chronic pain, evidence at trial demonstrated that Patino injected patients without regard to medical necessity. Evidence also revealed that if patients refused to accept the injections, Patino would withhold their prescriptions for opioids. From January 2012 through July 2017, Patino billed Medicare for more of these injections than any provider in the country. The evidence at trial also showed that in 2016 and 2017, Patino prescribed more 30-milligram Oxycodone pills than every other provider in the state of Michigan.

Patino also developed illegal kickback relationships with at least one diagnostic laboratory, under which he was paid in exchange for referring his patients’ samples to that lab. The evidence showed that the labs funneled money into bank accounts held by others, who then distributed the money to Patino or spent it on his behalf. Patino also spent funds he derived from these various schemes on jewelry, cars, and vacations. A sizable portion of Patino’s fraud proceeds were devoted toward the promotion of Patino’s specialized diet program and lifestyle and wellness book. Patino paid Ultimate Fighting Championship and other mixed martial arts fighters to promote the Patino Diet.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pain-doctor-convicted-over-100-million-health-care-fraud-scheme

Life is worth $300?

A Denver jury on Friday found a 28-year-old guilty of shooting a man in the back of the head because his car had been impounded and he didn’t want to pay the $300 tow fee.

Victor Arenas-Foote, 28, was convicted of first- and second-degree murder for shooting Paul Dakan, 36, in the early morning of Dec. 15, 2019, at 4800 Washington St., the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday in a news release.

Arenas-Foote is set to be sentenced Nov. 12. https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/21/tow-hard-shooting-murder-denver/

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Three people accused of having been negligent in their role as caregivers have been charged in connection with the death of an 86-year-old woman who died June 14 after being left out in the heat for six hours, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a news release Tuesday.

His office said in the release that the charges arise from the death of Hazel Place at Cappella Assisted Living and Memory Care in Grand Junction. An investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Colorado Department of Law and the Grand Junction Police Department found that Jamie Johnston, 30; Jenny Logan, 50; and Letticia Martinez, 27; were responsible for Place’s death.

The Attorney General’s Office didn’t provide details surrounding the circumstances of Place’s death. National Weather Service data shows that the official high temperature in Grand Junction on June 14 was 102 degrees.

Johnston, Logan and Martinez face felony charges of negligent death of an at-risk person and criminally negligent homicide. Martinez and Johnston also are charged with second-degree forgery, a misdemeanor.

The forgery charge against Martinez allegedly involves a record of patient medication administration, while Johnston is accused of forging a record of patient checks, according to the criminal complaints filed by the Attorney General’s Office.*** https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/caregivers-charged-in-86-year-olds-death/article_fe088200-1aff-11ec-9e00-df390975e8e2.html

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A sergeant with the Loveland Police Department has resigned after an independent investigation into the use of force against Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was thrown to the ground and injured by an officer.

Sgt. Phil Metzler was a supervising officer who responded to the scene and approved the use of force by Officer Austin Hopp. Additionally, Metzler, along with two others, signed off on the use of force in August 2020, two months after the incident occurred, according to court documents.

In June 2020, Garner had started to walk out of a Walmart store in Loveland without paying — $13.88 — for items when she was stopped by employees, who took the items back. Employees called Loveland police and Hopp confronted Garner, throwing her to the ground, breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder. Hopp faces a felony assault charge in the incident.

Earlier this month, Loveland agreed to a $3 million settlement with Garner’s family over the violent arrest.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/22/phil-metzler-loveland-police-karen-garner-resignation/

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Investigators have secured a warrant for the arrest of Rigoberto “Rigo” Valles Dominguez, 33, on suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer in the shooting of Officer David Snook, police Chief Doug Stephens said.***

Stephens said during an afternoon news conference that Snook “is conscious and able to talk to us. We’re very thankful that he’s doing better today, getting a little better every day.”

The two officers responded to a call of shots being fired from a vehicle in the area of South Bannock Street and West Powers Avenue shortly after midnight Tuesday. They located a vehicle they believed was involved in that incident, and two men ran from it, police have said.

As the man police have identified as Dominguez entered an apartment building at 183 West Powers Ave., he turned and fired multiple shots, striking Snook at least three times, officials said. *** https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/22/littleton-police-shooting-suspect/

He apparently carjacked another person to flee the scene after shooting Officer Snook.

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Littleton PD has asked for help in locating Mr Dominguez.

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Why “Cultural Defense” is a crime itself

MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

In unrelated cases, two individuals have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and with three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one count alleging the use of force. The indictment alleges that that the victims had not attained the age of 16 years and were at least four years younger than the defendant.

Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her. The indictment alleges that the assault occurred on September 7, 2021.*** https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictments-charging-afghan-evacuees-crimes-while-fort-mccoy

Describe the victims in these offenses.

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When you make Chris Brown look like St Francis of Assisi, maybe you should be canceled.

Actor Johnny Depp said on Wednesday that "no one is safe" from "cancel culture."

The Hollywood star, who was dropped as a cast member for the Fantastic Beasts franchise in November after losing a libel case against the United Kingdom newspaper the Sun over its branding of him as a "wife-beater," made the comments before receiving the honorary Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, according to Deadline .*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/johnny-depp-warns-no-one-is-safe-from-cancel-culture

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WASHINGTON — Police are investigating after a Special Police Officer was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. Tuesday night.

According to D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee, the shooting happened in the 3300 block of 10th Place around 8:30 p.m.

When officers arrived, they found a female officer suffering from a gunshot wound. She later died from her injuries.

On Wednesday, MPD identified the officer killed as 41-year-old Angela Washington of Suitland, Maryland. She is survived by her four children, who are between the ages of 17 and 23, as well as grandchildren.*** https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/special-police-officer-shot-killed-southeast-dc-police-say/65-98875929-8cba-4297-bf34-d1e4f01f20b1

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usgag · 4 years ago

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De Blasio’s inability to make a decision could be death knell for NYC restaurants

City restaurateurs reacted with shock and disbelief to Mayor de Blasio’s lack of urgency to reopen eating places indoors — an industry that employs over 300,000 people and is an indispensable part of the Big Apple’s social and business fabric.

More than 1,000 of the city’s 25,000 sit-down eateries have closed since the start of the pandemic — and a prolonged shutdown without a blueprint to reopen threatens to sink many more by winter’s end.

“When outdoor dining is done, when PPP loans and SBA loans are spent, it’s over,” said Aquavit owner Hakan Swahn. “Any restaurant will quickly run out of cash. Without indoor dining and any additional government financial assistance we will not be open very long.”

De Blasio set tongues wagging on Tuesday when he pooh-poohed the struggle restaurateurs face by describing their business as an “optional” activity for people with money that can wait.

The comments have chefs and owners calculating anew how long they can survive once the city’s program to expand outdoor dining ends on Oct. 31. Many say they won’t last through next year.

“Unless my [outdoor and delivery] business picks up, we can probably only stay open until the end of the year,” said Key Kim, owner of Japanese hand-roll favorite Maki Kosaka. “Restaurants cannot survive on delivery.”

He added that an indefinitely prolonged shutdown spells doom for high-end sushi restaurants — a pride of the city’s dining scene — because “to do omakase [a chef’s tasting menu], we have to order multiple fish from Japan and if it’s not guaranteed to have a certain number of orders, it becomes too costly.”

Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert prepares meals for health care workers this past May.AFP via Getty Images

Three-Michelin-star Le Bernardin has no takeout, delivery or outdoor seating and chef/owner Eric Ripert said he’s ready to reopen his indoor dining room next month if it’s allowed. If he can’t open until March, “we can survive. But the majority of restaurants cannot,” he said.

The Oaxaca Taqueria chain’s dishes are all $13.95 and below. But owner David Schneider says that without indoor service, and without help from landlords and PPP extensions, “It will be tough to last more than a few months at our Manhattan locations.”

For Yann de Rochefort, founder of four locations of Spanish-theme Boqueria in Manhattan, survival depends on whether it will have to continue to pay its rents, which range from $16,000 to $50,000 a month.

“If we’re losing more money [with takeout and delivery] than our rent payments,” de Rochefort said, “It becomes a question of whether the landlord allows us not to have to pay rent.”

De Rochefort called de Blasio’s claim that indoor dining is too risky “capricious” given that restaurants in other parts of New York have served indoors for two months now.

Carmine’s and Virgil’s owner Jeffrey Bank fumed, “The mayor can’t have it both ways. You can’t have an identical-size restaurant with an identical HVAC system in Yonkers and Long Island open but not Manhattan. Either we follow the science or we don’t.”

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