Proud Boys Activist Alan Swinney Arrested: We Break Down The Charges

Proud Boys activist Alan Swinney was arrested by the Portland Police this morning in connection with his alleged activities at various Blue Lives Matter, Patriot Prayer, and Proud Boys events in Portland, Oregon in recent months. We previously issued a snitch advisory warning for downtown Portland, Oregon on August 22, 2020 in response to obvious attempts by Antifa to get Swinney into trouble with the police. We do not agree with Swinney's view, but we strongly support his right to express those views. We also documented how snitches from both sides responded to the FBI's snitching form (https://ift.tt/2FUpw8C) and a lot of those snitches were snitching on Swinney. Are these charges justified or is this selective enforcement? What are the Charges? The charges against 50 year old Alan James Swinney of Texas read as follows: ATT ASSAULT IV (B Misdemeanor) Bail: $1,500 Status: Unsentenced UNLAW TEAR GAS ETC 2 (A Misdemeanor) Bail: $2,500 Status: Unsentenced ASSAULT II (B Felony) Bail: $5,000 Status: Unsentenced UNLAW USE WEAPON (C Felony) Bail: $5,000 Status: Unsentenced ASSAULT II (B Felony) Bail: $250,000 Status: Unsentenced ASSAULT II (B Felony) Bail: $250,000 Status: Unsentenced UNLAW USE WEAPON (C Felony) Bail: $5,000 Status: Unsentenced UNLAW USE WEAPON (C Felony) Bail: $5,000 Status: Unsentenced MENACING (A Misdemeanor) Bail: $2,500 Status: Unsentenced POINT FA AT ANOTHER (B Misdemeanor) Bail: $2,500 Status: Unsentenced UNLAW TEAR GAS ETC 2 (A Misdemeanor) Bail: $2,500 Status: Unsentenced ASSAULT IV (A Misdemeanor) Bail: $2,500 Status: Unsentenced We have already seen video footage of the incidents for which Swinney's charges are based. Most of them are from the August 22nd Proud Boys rally outside the same building where Swinney was booked into custody this morning. In that footage we recall seeing behavior on Swinney's part that did violate some of the statutes that he is charged with violating. The event was streamed live online and so many people pointed out what he did already that we do not feel that anything we say helps the government's case at all. We observed him using mace on Antifa, pointing a firearm at Antifa, and shooting Antifa members with a paintball gun. We believe that some of his actions were in a self defense capacity, but not all of them. We believe that he pulled the gun for the purpose of deterring Antifa from advancing on his position, so we consider that to be self defense. We watched the event live online and noticed that Antifa had been advancing on his position and that the Antifa group far outnumbered the group of Proud Boys. That scenario typically requires the use of deadly weapons in a deterrence capacity for the smaller group to stand their ground. We believe that is what took place. We do not consider showing up with a paintball gun for the purpose of paint balling Antifa self defense or that Swinney's use of mace was limited to just defending himself from advancing Antifas. A lot of the footage from the August 22nd event showed behavior that was consistent with the "Patriot Caravan" event which was basically one big drive by paintball shooting with mace. To sustain a charge of assault under Oregon law the state must prove that Swinney injured someone. That injury can be as minor as a bruise from a paintball gun or the effects of mace on the eyes. We believe that Swinney most likely committed the offenses of Harassment, Assault in the Fourth Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, and Unlawful Use of Mace. We do not see any evidence of him committing Assault II (https://ift.tt/3ijUJzA) because Assault II requires one of two things not present in this case: 1) Serious physical injury; 2) Use of a deadly or dangerous weapon. Mace and paintballs cause physical injury but not serious physical injury. Mace and paintball guns are not deadly or dangerous weapons. We believe that the police are overcharging Swinney on the Assault II counts. We also do not believe that a lower charge of Assault III would be justified either because Assault III requires that someone recklessly cause serious injury. The Assault II counts are part of a charging strategy commonly used to stack the deck against defendants for the purpose of gaining leverage in plea negotiations. It is a fairly simple strategy where police and prosecutors charge someone with anything they think they can get an indictment on whether or not they think the accused is actually guilty. The only criteria that they use to justify using this tactic to themselves is the knowledge that the defendant is guilty of at least one charge on the list. Then they usually offer to dismiss the more serious fake charges if the defendant admits to lesser charges that he did in fact commit. Then the prosecution will go to sentencing and act as if the defendant is still guilty of the more serious charges, but was allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges due to the government being reasonable. The end result is a perception among the general public that the defendant was guilty of everything, but got off light. Why would someone like Swinney want to plead guilty to avoid trial on more serious charges that he did not commit? To avoid ending up like Jeremy Christian (https://ift.tt/3g1Mesh). Multnomah County juries are extremely liberal and as such they are notorious for allowing irrelevancies to control their decision making. In the Jeremy Christian case, an autistic man stabbed three men on a Max train after a known Antifa activist threw him on the ground twice. Due to his developmental disability Christian's ability to respond rationally to the situation was significantly diminished and that should have been enough to lower the seriousness of the murder charges to those of First Degree Manslaughter. Christian was also found guilty of Assault II as a hate crime for defending himself from Demetria Hester the night before the stabbings. In that incident Christian started an argument with Hester, unknown words were exchanged, Christian turned to walk away from Hester after getting off the train, she attacked him with mace, he tried to keep walking away, and only after she followed him with the mace did he throw a half empty plastic Gatorade bottle full of Sangria at her eye. Antifa and the government made the Christian case all about race. The question for the jury became, "is he racist?" Not just "is he guilty?" Christian was a little racist, but not full blown white supremacist racist. That was all it took for the jury to want to convict him of everything they had the power to convict him of, which is what they did. We believe that the government and Antifa will try to do the same thing to Swinney. The outcome of the Christian case would make Swinney a fool not to accept a plea deal to lesser charges if one is offered and it might even be enough to embolden the government to only offer a plea deal to the more serious charges. Juries in Multnomah County have proven that they are not capable of rendering decisions based solely on the letter of the law. If District Attorney Mike Schmidt thinks his case can survive dismissal motions from Swinney's lawyers, we believe there is a good chance that he will use Swinney to put the Proud Boys on trial and not offer him any plea agreement at all. What is Selective Enforcement and Prosecution? Selective enforcement occurs when police enforce the law against a similarly situated person based on an impermissible motive. When that person is prosecuted in court it becomes selective prosecution. Politics is considered an impermissible motive for prosecuting someone under the law. We expect Swinney to argue that he is similarly situated to the Antifa activists that he was fighting with on August 22, 2020. We would agree with him on that issue. If two sides get into a fight and the government bases their decision to charge just one side based in part on that side supporting Donald Trump then they are denying that person the equal protection of the laws. Unfortunately for Swinney, the Ninth Circuit has recognized that it does not take much to move a person out of the similarly situated category. For instance, two people caught doing the same thing are arguably similarly situated, but if one of those people has a criminal record they are no longer considered similarly situated. The way the government handles a case can make people that were similarly situated when a case commenced no longer similarly situated by the time a selective prosecution claim is raised. If a previously similarly situated person becomes a cooperating witness then the Ninth Circuit no longer considers the person similarly situated. The government would most likely argue that Swinney is not similarly situated to the Antifa activists now even if they were similarly situated to him on August 22nd because a named victim is not similarly situated to a named defendant, that argument would be consistent with current precedent in the Ninth Circuit. Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson recently sued Mike Schmidt in federal court for selectively prosecuting him (https://ift.tt/2KUA6uY). Coincidentally we had already criticized Schmidt's predecessor Rod Underhill for selectively prosecuting Gibson in that case. Gibson's lawsuit saws that Schmidt is now discriminating against him by failing to dismiss a riot charge after announcing that his office will not prosecute people charged with riot and other crimes on a short list unless they are also charged with something more serious (https://ift.tt/3ixdUGr). Schmidt's best defense to Gibson's lawsuit would be to argue that a person protesting racial injustice is not similarly situated to a person that opposes them. He might be able to win that if he shows that Gibson showed up for the purpose of provoking a response from the Antifa crowd. Most of the case law working against Swinney and Gibson focuses on preventing people from committing crimes, saying that they are being prosecuted in part due to their speech, and being able to get away with the crimes by claiming selective prosecution. Even though the Supreme Court only requires that a case be based in part on protected speech to constitute selective prosecution, lower courts are eager to find excuses to rule that cases were based entirely on other things even if the government was obviously agitated by the speech. Proving selective prosecution typically requires a smoking gun statement from the government where they spell out their prohibited motive in plain English. Did Swinney Prove His Point? If Swinney's point was to prove that some members of the Antifa movement are hypocritical snitches that support defunding the police only to work with them when it suits them then Swinney has made his point. All anyone has to do to prove that is go to Portland, Oregon and stand on a street corner with a pro-Trump sign. Such people will almost always be threatened, attacked, and if they defend themselves they will be told on. Then the government will present the Antifa narrative as fact in court. That narrative will be something to the effect of a white supremacist provoking people for the purpose of arguing self defense later. Conclusion Alan Swinney is screwed not because he broke the law, but because he broke some laws in a jurisdiction that cares more about social justice than justice under the law. The Multnomah County Courts have proven incapable of enforcing the letter of the law in cases where one side is considered to be a far-right agitator and will almost always return guilty verdicts on all counts that juries are allowed to decide. He did break the law, but he is being overcharged for political reasons. #alanswinney #proudboys #antifa #bluelivesmatter #patriotprayer

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25988/proud-boys-activist-alan-swinney-arrested-we-break-down-the-charges

Presidential Candidates Debate Police Accountability

President Donald Trump refused to denounce white supremacists while Joe Biden refused to acknowledge the existence of Antifa when asked about their views regarding police accountability, Black Lives Matter, and social justice protests. Neither response was surprising. Trump repeated his support for law and order while Biden took a position in the middle between the far-left and the President. What Sleepy Joe Biden Said Biden answered a question about his position regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, police accountability, and social justice protests by saying that they are about "Equity, equality, decency ... it's about the Constitution." He went on to say that there is "systemic injustice in this country," while at the same time failing to acknowledge that most cops are in fact complicity with their silence and inaction when other officers do bad things. Biden said most cops are "good people .. there are a few bad apples ... they have to be held accountable ... these cops are not happy to see what happened to George Floyd ... violence is never appropriate." When asked if he supported law and order, Biden said that he supports "law and order with justice where people get treated fairly." He also said that he is "totally opposed to defunding police officers" and that they need more help not less. Help like sending mental health professionals with them when responding to mental health emergencies. Biden also said of Trump, "he is racist" and quoted Trump aid Kellyanne Conway as saying that "riots and chaos and violence help his cause." Biden says that Trump knows nothing about the suburbs while pointing out that unlike Trump he actually grew up in the suburbs. Biden also refused to acknowledge the existence of Antifa by calling Antifa an idea and not an organization. That is simply not true. Antifa is both an idea and a network of organizations (ex: Rose City Antifa) across the country. What Stupid Donald Trump Said Trump tried to make Biden look racist by pointing out that he supported the 1994 Crime Bill and said that Biden called black people "super predators." The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was largely written by Joe Biden. That bill created a lot of the mandatory minimum sentencing laws and practices that have been ruining lives unnecessarily ever since. Few acts have harmed communities of color more than the Crime Bill of 1994. Trump went on to discuss the mostly peaceful protests that have taken place across America in response to the murder of George Floyd. He criticized cities run by Democrats for not coming down on protesters with a heavy enough hand to stop them. Trump said, "If they called us in Portland we would put out that fire in half an hour." He said that if the protests, which have mostly taken place in downtown areas of major cities, were allowed to continue that "our suburbs would be gone." When asked if he would be willing to denounce white supremacists and militia groups, he refused to answer the question, said that the Proud Boys should "stand down and stand by," and attacked Joe Biden for not acknowledging the existence of Antifa. Trump also defended his decision to end racial sensitivity training programs in law enforcement saying, there is a "radical revolution taking place," inferring that such programs are a form of reverse racism saying "it was sort of a reversal ... teaching people to hate our country," and said that "we have to go back to the core values of this country." Conclusion Joe Biden is the best candidate available for anyone that wants to see better accountability in policing. We cannot recommend Donald Trump for other reasons (https://ift.tt/36kp3YC) as well as these. At the same time we do not think that Biden is capable of providing the level of change that is really needed, but his position that America needs "law and order with justice" is better than just "law and order." This election is a battle of sleepy vs. stupid in which stupid is the evil of two lessers. #donaldtrump #joebiden #presidentialdebate #antifa #georgefloyd

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25987/presidential-candidates-debate-police-accountability

Donald Trump is America's Greatest Threat to Free Speech

CopBlaster.com is not in a position to endorse Trump under any circumstances due to his attack on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. We depend on Section 230 of that act to allow other people to exercise free speech on this platform. Donald Trump wants to eliminate immunities that online platform providers such as us have from legal liability for statements made by others. Under Section 230 we are not liable if someone signs up for our service and says something tortious. Trump attacked that immunity earlier this year after Twitter censored some of his Tweets. He signed an executive order asking the FCC to look into doing away with Section 230 so that sites like Twitter could not censor him with impunity. While we strongly disagree with Twitter censoring any speech on their platform that is not facially unlawful, the way Trump is going about fighting that censorship is entirely wrong. What Trump should do is try to classify certain social media platforms that have large market shares as public goods. That would give Congress the right to regulate their censorship activities the same way. Many industries are subject to federal regulations based on the essential roles they play in daily life. It has been universally recognized for a long time that once the public becomes dependent on a good for essential tasks that the government can regulate that good. Our idea would involve recognizing the essential role that social media plays in society, that censoring social media amounts to regulating what someone can or cannot say in a public square, and prohibiting such censorship by platforms that have a dominant amount of market share. Then the FCC would be allowed to levy censorship fines for things like deleting Trump's Tweets. Donald Trump's approach would require to small social media platforms to dedicate an unreasonable amount of resources to moderating content for the purpose of avoiding lawsuits based on the veracity of statements made by third parties. Companies like Twitter and Facebook have the financial resources to moderate content at that level, but most smaller companies do not. If Trump gets his way then small platforms will disappear and only the big ones will be left. Those big ones will end up deleting anything they think might be false or inflammatory just to avoid being treated as the speaker of the content in court. The end result would be a public square where someone is constantly stopping people from speaking. That result is far worse for free speech than leftist tech companies censoring conservative voices for political reasons. Right now conservatives can still go to smaller platforms to exercise free speech, but those platforms would not last without Section 230 of the CDA. #donaldtrump #joebiden #freespeech #twitter #cda

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25986/donald-trump-is-americas-greatest-threat-to-free-speech

Snitch 100% her and sister emily and amanda wallace

I was very close to her and she busted john in culpepper the crack man or her sister did she set up several heroin dealers both her and sister have charges and they will be drop soon due to snitching drug charges hit and run dui etc... #emily #wallace #informant #snitch

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25985/snitch-100-her-and-sister-emily-and-amanda-wallace

Buffalo Police Officers John Davidson and Andrew Moffett Suspended

Buffalo Police Officers John Davidson and Andrew Moffett have been suspended for allegedly making false statements following a drug arrest. The statements formed the basis for the false arrest of Morgan Eaton on charges of possession of 30 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute. The alleged cocaine was his fiance's medicine. Body camera footage shows the officers finding a bottle of pills in his fiance's bag and saying they think the pills are cocaine, but the pills were not cocaine. All field and laboratory tests on the pills proved that the pills were not cocaine. All Eaton had on him was a personal amount of marijuana. After getting out of jail, Eaton reported reported the incident to Driving While Black and a public backlash followed. We combined all known body camera footage of the incident into one file for your convenience (embedded below). It begins with Officers Davidson and Moffett searching Eaton's car. Moffett opens a pink laptop bag, rummages around, and finds an unmarked pill bottle full of capsules containing an unknown white substance. Davidson asks, "are those all coke?" Moffett responds, "I think so, I mean unless...." Davidson responds, "that's awesome, that's a lot!" Davidson then finds Eaton's marijuana and says, "oh, and here's the weed, I knew I smelled it. He threw it back here when we pulled up." Their attention then focused exclusively on the pills. The pills are tested for cocaine and other drugs using a field testing kit in the next scene. The test produces no results, but that does not stop the officers from trying to build a cocaine case against Eaton. After testing the substance, Officer Moffett says, "Its not coke, I don't know what it is." Officer Davidson argues that the reason for the negative test might be due to cutting agents and that the quality must be so poor that the coke itself was not detected. Davidson also argued, "It's something illegal because it's not in a container." To their credit the unmarked bottle would make anyone in their position suspicious, hence the field test for drugs, but having medication in an unmarked container by itself is not a crime. The officers speculate that it might be meth, but again they have field tests for meth. Moffett also speculates that the substance could be one of any types of vitamins and Davidson points out it could be PCP or anything. They fail to mention that a lot of vitamins and supplements are sold in powdered form for people to either mix with a drink or make their own capsules. The substance turned out to be suppositories that Eaton's fiance had bought over the counter to treat a yeast infection. The potential embarrassment of being caught with yeast infection suppositories explains why they were in an unmarked bottle. Eventually Lt. Mark Ambellan arrived on the scene and questioned Eaton while the other officers filled out paperwork. Ambellan acted as if the field test actually produced a positive result. That is a common tactic used by police to trick people into making a confession. Eaton did not take the bait and denied being involved in any drug dealing activity. Despite no evidence beyond an unknown substance and speculation, Eaton was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The substance was eventually sent to a lab and no controlled substances were found. Eaton complained to an advocacy group called Driving While Black. Driving While Black helped Eaton reach out to the media and expose how an innocent man got arrested and lost his job even though the charges against him were dropped. Eaton wants the officers to be fired and plans to sue the city. Media reports (see source link above article) reveal that Officer Davidson has a history of sketchy drug arrests. #johndavidson #andrewmoffett #morganeaton #markambellan

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25984/buffalo-police-officers-john-davidson-and-andrew-moffett-suspended

Ex-Long Branch Officer Jake Pascucci Gets 8 Months For Killing Woman

Judge Michael Toto proved that holding police accountable does not mean that justice will be served when he sentenced former Long Branch Police Officer Jake Pascucci to just 8 months in jail for killing Karen Borkowski. Pascucci hit Borkowiski driving full speed while drunk and was found guilty of vehicular homicide on a strict liability standard. He had been sentenced to 12 months before the Court of Appeals reversed his sentence citing a failure by the judge to consider the actions of Borkowiski herself. Pascucci successfully received a 4 month reduction after blaming the victim at re-sentencing. He is currently in the Middlesex County Jail. As a former police officer Pascucci will be a target and is most likely being held in protective custody where he will get out of his cell for one or two hours a day by himself. That should make it easy for him to avoid fights with other inmates and get released after far less than 8 months for good behavior. His conviction was due to a new law that takes away victim blaming for drunk drivers as a defense, but still allows it as a mitigating factor at sentencing. Pascucci was allowed to remain free pending appeal, so he was not required to serve any time until this past Friday. #jakepascucci #michaeltoto #karenborkowski #dui

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25983/ex-long-branch-officer-jake-pascucci-gets-8-months-for-killing-woman

Detainee Escapes from Portland Police Van: Caught on Video

A detainee escaped from a Portland Police van at a protest in downtown Portland, Oregon earlier tonight (see video below). We do not know who he is or how he escaped, but we do know that he is fast. So fast that as far as we can tell he has not been caught. The crowd yelled "run" as police officers weighed down with riot gear tried to catch up with him, but he was always a few steps ahead. This is one of those funny moments when even blue backers can agree that some cop did not do his job. Hopefully this guy was just a protester and not a murderer (https://ift.tt/3hVJNaX) or a child molester (https://ift.tt/30R7ISJ) like other protest attendees have turned out be. #escape #policechase #civildisobedience #protest #portlandprotests

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25982/detainee-escapes-from-portland-police-van-caught-on-video

Good Samaritan Fails to Rescue Friend From Ocean City Police

A good samaritan was arrested earlier this evening for trying to rescue his friend from the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) in Maryland. The incident was caught on camera in which a man, who appears to be doing nothing wrong, is chased by the police and tackled. Then an unidentified man, whom we presume to be a friend of his came running, hit one of the officers like a special teams blocker in a football game, and was then arrested himself. Unfortunately, there were far more cops that showed up right away and swarmed them. Nobody else in the crowd helped and they both went to jail. Large crowds and a lot of police officers descended on Ocean City for a H2Oi car rally. The rally took place despite cries from local government to call it off due to the coronavirus. H20i is an annual rally held in Ocean City by owners of small German cars. You can watch a short clip below and the entire video can be found at https://ift.tt/2GanGR0 Trying to save a friend from the police is not always a bad idea. Earlier this summer, protesters successfully saved a comrade from federal agents in Portland, Oregon (https://ift.tt/2ZLNbiN). The key difference in the Portland case was that the police were greatly outnumbered. The lesson to be learned here is that unless you have more people with you that are actually willing to do all it takes to help you rescue a friend from being kidnapped by the cops then it is usually pointless to try, but the man should be given credit for at least trying. We wish we had friends like that. #kidnapping #assault #germancars #goodfriends #coronavirus

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25981/good-samaritan-fails-to-rescue-friend-from-ocean-city-police

Pettis County Sheriff Claims His Deputies Will Start Wearing Body Cams

Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond claims that his deputies will start wearing body cameras again in the near future. We will believe that when we see it. His announcement comes conveniently before the election and there is a good chance that he will be voted out of office in favor of Dr. Brad Anders. Kevin Bond's conveniently timed commitment to body cameras is far too little far too late in our opinion. We believe that this is a last ditch effort by him to save his job by throwing his own deputies under the bus. We hope that the people of Pettis County are smart enough to see this for what it truly is. Sheriff Bond claims that the County Commission made body cameras a priority after special prosecutor Stephen Sokoloff refused to charge Deputy Jordan Schutte with the murder of Hannah Fizer citing in part the lack of body or dash camera footage. Sheriff Bond said, "The fact that the deputy did not have a camera on was an issue that came about very quickly. And it was something that the County Commission realized was a priority that needed to be addressed." That is a lie, the fact that his deputies do not wear body cameras is not an issue that came about quickly at all. According to Pettis County IT Director Luke Goosen (https://ift.tt/3j6tCsx) it was Sheriff Bond who conveniently made it impossible for his department to fix the body camera system after PCSO deputies began wearing them more than three years ago. It took the murder of an innocent woman on her way to work by an incompetent deputy for the people of Pettis County to demand body cameras and the County Commission has since made the cameras a priority thanks to the cries of their constituents. Kevin Bond has shown through his actions that the people of Pettis County cannot and should not trust him with their safety. Our sources in Sedalia, Missouri have informed us that Sheriff Bond and Deputy Schutte's father were the best of friends. We believe that nepotism runs strong in local government there and that Sheriff Bond has prioritized the interests of his friend's son over the well being of the general public. The fact that Sokoloff, whose been a pro-cop lawyer his entire career, did not indict Schutte only shows how tight the law enforcement fraternity is in Missouri. Despite that, even Sokoloff seemed to blame Sheriff Bond for denying justice to Hannah Fizer (https://ift.tt/2FCQJwt). Sokoloff's findings basically said that there was not enough evidence to prove that Schutte was lying about Hannah threatening to shoot him. Those alleged threats combined with surveillance footage of her reaching towards the floor of her car, likely looking for her phone since Schutte admits she threatened to film him, and despite no gun being found, were enough for Sokoloff to refuse to indict Schutte. There is a systemic double standard that favors law enforcement personnel in such cases in this country. Those responsible for holding them accountable require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they are lying when an ordinary person would be charged and forced to prove themselves innocent in a court of law. Body cameras are necessary to overcome that double standard by providing proof of what really happened. If Sheriff Bond actually implements a functional body camera system before the election we hope that people still do not view that as good enough to earn their vote. We hope that such a system saves Brad Anders the work so that he can focus on fixing other problems there. Problems like Schutte still being employed by the PCSO. Sokoloff's findings made it clear that Schutte could have handled the situation better and we believe those words should serve as grounds to fire him. Should Bond remain employed by the PCSO is a lesser capacity after the election, we hope that Anders has the presence of mind to fire Bond so that his department can get as much of a fresh start under him as possible. Hannah Fizer's family and friends have convinced us in recent months that they are good people. Watching them protest peacefully every weekend seeking justice for Hannah only to get slapped in the face by Sokoloff was absolutely heart breaking. If there is one thing the people of Pettis County can do to honor Hannah in a way that the Fizer family will support it would be to vote for Brad Anders. #hannahfizer #jordanschutte #kevinbond #bradanders #murder

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25980/pettis-county-sheriff-claims-his-deputies-will-start-wearing-body-cams

Chyvonne Traver Snitch Luzerne

Felon caught with guns and fentanyl. Faced federal charges. Mandatory minimum of 10 years... got 3 and a half for snitching out everyone #snitch #luzernecountypa #

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25979/chyvonne-traver-snitch-luzerne

Louisville Police Major Bridget Hallahan's Derogatory Email Exposed

Louisville Police Major Bridget Hallahan a.k.a. Bridget Thomerson claimed responsibility for a derogatory email sent to fellow Louisville Police officers degrading Black Lives Matter and Antifa. The media is presenting this as evidence of how frustrated the LMPD is over the Breonna Taylor protests. She later admitted to the email publicly and said that she wrote it to boost morale. Major Hallahan is the commander of the LMPD 5th Division. Her message began in part: "These ANTIFA and BLM people, especially the ones who just jumped on the bandwagon 'yesterday' because they became 'woke' (insert eye roll here), do not deserve a second glance or thought from us," it continues. "Our little pinky toenails have more character, morals, and ethics, than these punks have in their entire body." - Major Bridget Hallahan She went on to say that Antifa members will spend the rest of their lives playing Call of Duty in their parents' basements, washing their cars, and cashing them out at Wallmart. Then she went on to attack First Amendment protected publishing activities and claimed that several government agencies are trying to combat it. Those are publications such as this one that legally include publicly available information about police officers including their home addresses. Posting that information is not illegal and the LMPD is not justified spending tax payer money attacking the citizens they swore to protect just because they do not like how they exercise their First Amendment rights. Her anti-doxing rant was as follows: "We continue to have officer being doxed merely because people just don't like being told what to do or what not to do by police. RTCC and CIC are very vigilant about watching for it. There is currently no recourse we have for incidents involving the doxing of officers or their families. What we can do is speak up against them and put the truth out there. Through the PIO office and the LMPD FB page we will come back at them on their own page to let them and everyone else know they are lying. We will print the facts. I will see to it. We have already taken care of one incident. I hope we never have to do it again. Just know I got your back." - Major Bridget Hallahan. Major Hallanah is absolutely right that she and her fellow officers have no legal recourse to the doxing of them. That is because although there are laws on the books against making publicly available restricted personal information about police officers (see 18 U.S.C. 119 https://ift.tt/2mkX98d). That statute does not cover information gathered from public records that the government itself made publicly available. That is because one cannot make publicly available what is already publicly available. The founder of Cop Blaster successfully rebutted an allegation of violating that same statute in 2017 when he was being detained for violating the conditions of his supervised release in an unrelated case. While he was detained the assistant U.S. attorney assigned to the case floated the idea of adding an allegation of new criminal conduct for allegedly violating 18 U.S.C. 119 by doxing most of the people he considered responsible for prosecuting him in a case where he was the real victim. The Cop Blaster's counsel successfully argued that all the information posted on this website was copied from another source and that source got the information from public records made available by the government. That was enough for him to drop the issue. The best he could argue was that the spirit of that law disfavored that conduct and that it was evidence of anti-social behavior. Due to his experience we know that we have every legal right to post the following publicly available information about Major Hallanah: BRIDGET LYNN THOMERSON FEMALE DOB: DEC-1972 AGE: 47 Last Known Home Address: 203 BELLEMEADE RD LOUISVILLE, KY 40222-4501 Possible Email Addresses: bhallahan[at]charter.net bthomerson[at]alltell.net bhallahan[at]gmail.com We post this type of information because we know that it may be of use to people organizing peaceful protests in the Louisville area. We also know that most platforms do not allow people to post this type of information, so doing it adds value for our users and helps distinguish our service as a beacon for free speech. We do not encourage property damage of violence, so if you protest there please stay off the property, do not break anything, and do not touch anyone. We encourage people to make their voices heard. When people protest at an officer's home (ex: https://ift.tt/2WZeogb) they make them have to hear them on their own time. That is a protected form of speech. We are of course prepared just in case people like Major Hallanah think they can take us down by abusing their position. We are well aware of how people like her have no problem fabricating frivolous charges for the purpose of holding people with the hope of getting what they want. That is why we use an offshore server. By hosting offshore we don't have to worry about our account being suspended due to a frivolous order from an American court or by a police raid in the United States. When the feds did go after the owner three years ago because of this website they failed to get it taken down even while he was in jail under an order not to have anything to do with it as a condition of detention. That did not stop him from sending out articles to be posted about the conditions of the facilities he was in. Locking him up just gave him more material, exposed bad people in the local corrections systems, and by being able to whether the storm his cred went way up. #bridgethallahan #blacklivesmatter #antifa #breonnataylor

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25978/louisville-police-major-bridget-hallahans-derogatory-email-exposed

Molotov Cocktail Proves Portland Protesters Are Aiming Better

Portland protesters had a flaming surprise for the Portland Police tonight and unlike a couple weeks ago, the protester almost hit his target with the Molotov cocktail and did not light another protester on fire. The Portland Police also showed that when the fire is close to them that they are quick to put it out, unlike the last Molotov when they let the burning man run around comically while protesters tried to put it out. You can check out the last Molotov using the source link above and tonight's Molotov in the video below. We do not know if the protester is affiliated with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or the Proud Boys. All three possibilities are viable since Proud Boys and other far right agitators are known for infiltrating Anitfa/BLM for the purpose for violently attacking police (ex: https://ift.tt/31hBUHU). They do it because they are trying to discredit the mostly peaceful protests by making protesters look violent, provoke the police into violently attacking protesters, and possibly because they also hate the cops deep down because they have helped Antifa in the past (ex: https://ift.tt/3g1Mesh). We also would not put it past a rogue Antifa to have stepped out of line and gotten violent like some of them have in the past (https://ift.tt/3hVJNaX). He could have also been an angry black man fed up over being mistreated by the cops all of his life (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv9cjDwrNdk) or maybe even a woman, we do not know. #molotov #antifa #blacklivesmatter #proudboys

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25977/molotov-cocktail-proves-portland-protesters-are-aiming-better

Louisville Police Shot: Friendly Fire, Agitator or Justice Served?

Media reports out of Louisville, Kentucky are reporting that at least 10 shots have been fired at LMPD officers. The LMPD is accusing people protesting the murder of Breonna Taylor by former LMPD Detective Brett Hankison, but the exact source is unknown. Is this just the latest example of LMPD officers shooting away at anything they perceive as a threat, a right wing agitator trying to provoke a deadly response by the police, or is this justice being served by the people for the LMPD firing on Taylor's apartment with no regard for human life? This shooting took place during a protest over the failure of the District Attorney to obtain an indictment against Detective Brett Hankison for the murder of Breonna Taylor (https://ift.tt/2Hjs0Om). In that incident three LMPD officers broke into Taylor's home without identify themselves, Taylor's boyfriend opened fire thinking they were burglars, and the officers returned fire by recklessly shooting into the apartment through blinded windows with no regard for the people inside. When it was over Taylor was dead. The officers claimed self defense and today Hankison was indicted for wanton endangerment of Taylor's neighbors. This incident proved that the LMPD have no problem shooting recklessly in the direction of anything that they perceive as a threat. This shooting could easily be more of the same, but with their fellow officers being in the line of fire. Such an explanation would be consistent with the cowardly behavior exhibited by the LMPD in the past. This could have been the result of a far-right agitator seeking to give the LMPD an excuse to use deadly force against mostly peaceful demonstrators. Far right agitators have been caught committing acts of violence against police while infiltrating protest groups. Their objectives are usually to discredit protesters by making them look violent and provoke violent responses from law enforcement. The gunman could have been such an agitator. This shooting could have been an Antifa or Black Lives Matter activist retaliating for the wrongful killing of Breonna Taylor and the system of oppression that permits police to murder with impunity in this country. Like the "shot heard the world" at Concord (https://ift.tt/3hYQ8SY) we typically classify such incidents as justice being served by the people. We are not saying that anyone should go out and shoot at the police, but are saying in retrospect that when we analyze such incidents that they usually end up being categorized as justice served. We are not sure if that is the case here, and again we are not advocating for anyone to shoot anyone in the future. We will be doing the best we can to answer those questions and update this article accordingly. We do know that at least one officer was seen on the ground. In the video below you can hear gun shots, see the journalist point towards where she could see an officer down, and the police began to retreat as fast as they could. #breonnataylor #bretthankison #civildisobedience #justiceserved

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25976/louisville-police-shot-friendly-fire-agitator-or-justice-served

Brett Hankison Charged for Endangering Breonna Taylor's Neighbors

Former Louisville Police Detective Brett Hankison was charged with wanton endangerment for endangering Breonna Taylor's neighbors when he murdered her. Fellow Officers Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove face no charges whatsoever, but we do feel that they are not as responsible as Hankison for her death. Brett Hankison was a detective that failed to do basic detective work that would have led him to learn that Breonna Taylor had not been dating Jamarcus Glover for some time. Hankison had used an alleged sighting of Glover leaving Taylor's apartment in January as one of his reasons for seeking a warrant to search her apartment in March. A reasonably competent detective would have figured out if Glover was still associated with Taylor at that time. On March 13, 2020 Hankison grabbed a couple patrol officers as back up, went to Taylor's apartment in the middle of the night, and broke down her door. Witnesses differ as to whether or not the officers announced themselves as police. The officers of course say that they did and all but one of Taylor's neighbors say that they did not. Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker thought that the officers were burglars and opened fire on them. The officers then fired on the apartment through a sliding glass door and windows despite them being covered with blinds even though department policy requires that officers only fire when they have a line of sight. The shooting killed Breonna Tayor. Kenneth Walker was charged with assault and attempted murder of police officers, but the charges were later dropped. The City of Louisville fired Detective Hankison and agreed to pay Breonna Taylor's family $12 million. Officers Mattingly and Cosgrove were not fired or charged. We believe that is because any patrol officer asked by Hankison to accompany him as backup that night would have behaved as Mattingly and Cosgrove did. It really was not their job to figure out if they were going to the right house. When a detective asks a patrol officer to accompany him as backup to help serve a no knock warrant they are not trained to ask questions. That is why we have gone soft on those two because this really is Brett Hankison's screw up. The rest of the blame falls on the City of Louisville for failing to properly train and supervise their officers. When Brett Hankison broke down Breonna Taylor's door, Kenneth Walker did what any reasonable person in his position would have done, he opened fire at the unknown strangers that were invading her home. The patrol officers then did what most people would have done when shot at, they returned fire. None of that would have happened if Hankison had done his job. Hankison should be charged for needlessly causing the death of Breonna Taylor, but he is not being charged with wronging her at all. He is only charged with endangering her neighbors because when he fired aimlessly through blinded windows some of his bullets ended up in their apartment. What was that grand jury smoking? Obviously they were on something or the presentation made to the grand jury did not paint an accurate picture of what really happened. In response to the failure to charge Hankison with at least manslaughter, President Donald Trump praised Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron saying "The really brilliant Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job, I think he is a star." Public records contain the following information about former Detective Brett Hankison: Brett Kristofer Hankison Last Known Home Address 15 AUDREY CT TAYLORSVILLE, KY 40071-8466 Publicly available information about Daniel Cameron can be found at https://ift.tt/3evHdH1 We disseminate publicly available information about current and past bad government officials to assist non-violent demonstrators. Please do not use this information to harm people or property. #bretthankison #breonnataylor #danielcameron #donaldtrump #murder

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25975/brett-hankison-charged-for-endangering-breonna-taylors-neighbors

Alyssa Milano Exposes Herself as a Hypocrite by Calling Cops on Teen

Actress Alyssa Milano exposed herself as a hypocrite when she called the police on September 20, 2020 to report what she thought was an armed gunman on her property in the gated community of Bell Canyon, California. The "armed gunman" turned out to be a local teen that was shooting at squirrels with an air gun. Milano is best known for her in acting in shows like "Who's the Boss" and "Charmed," but she is also a prominent "defund the police" activist and Black Live Matter supporter. Milano is just the latest anti-police activist to expose herself as a blue backer when it suits her needs. We previously covered hypocrites within the Antifa movement that openly admit and endorse snitching on their opponents (https://ift.tt/2FUpw8C) and why their members will not do well in prison (https://ift.tt/2F0qTlO). We consider people that protest the police while calling the cops on their opponents or others at the same time to be hypocrites, snitches, and ultimately fake anti-cop activists. Just the other day we found ourselves arguing with people online that supported calling the cops on a pair of drunks that rolled up to an Antifa/BLM protest in a pickup truck, but we did not post anything about it. Alyssa Milano is no different than those people. According to media reports her husband Dave Bugliari was also involved in her phone calls to police. That makes Bugliari a snitch just like his wife. We previously covered the leader of a group within Portland's Black Lives Matter movement that has a history of working with the Portland Police and Multnomah County District Attorney's Office. Demetria Hester is the leader of Moms United for Black Lives (https://ift.tt/31I2zN9) which is great, but she also was a key witness who testified against Jeremy Christian. In that case she attacked Christian with mace, Christian tried to walk away, she followed him spraying the mace, and he defended himself by throwing a plastic bottle full of booze at her eye. She claimed he attacked her for being black and the jury found him guilty of assault as a "hate crime." At sentencing Christian said, "I agree with a lot of what she said about the criminal justice system. I don't like it either, but you can't get up here and snitch and talk about the criminal justice system that you're using to prosecute me while you sit there and snitch on me. Ok, that's hypocrisy plain and simple." We believe that people like Alyssa Milano, Demetria Hester, and the members of Antifa that snitch on their opponents make the anti-cop movement look bad. As we have said before, we support their efforts to defund the police (https://ift.tt/3hP4s0n), but we can never fully support their organizations as long as they let rats stay on their ships. We hope that people stop following Alyssa Milano. UPDATE: Alyssa Milano Released a statement on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1308509341067087873/) in which she blames her neighbor for calling the cops, but she also admits that her husband called 911. As a result of her denial we have added "Who's the Rat?" to the featured image on this page. #alyssamilano #davebugliari #famoussnitches #blacklivesmatter

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25974/alyssa-milano-exposes-herself-as-a-hypocrite-by-calling-cops-on-teen

Linden Cameron Full Body Camera Video Shows No Justification

The full body camera footage of the Linden Cameron footage was released today and can be viewed below. There can be no other interpretation of this footage than to say that a yet to be named Salt Lake City Police officer fired more than 10 shots at an unarmed 13 year old autistic boy just because he didn't get on the ground. Another angle can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKUnbgcDGQo where you can see that Linden made no threatening moves whatsoever towards this cop. Watch the footage and judge for yourself. As we previously covered (https://ift.tt/3bFDdUu) Linden's mother had called the 911 seeking help for her autistic son during a mental health crisis. She told officers that he was unarmed, and as you can see from the hospital pictures, he looks younger than he really is. Linden can be heard in the body cam footage saying "I don't feel good, I don't feel good" as he lay on the ground in agony. He We can think of no justifiable reason to empty an entire clip into anyone, let alone a 13 year old autistic child, just because they refuse to get on the ground. The officer is on paid administrative leave and has not been fired. We can think of no justifiable reason why this officer has not been fired and charged with attempted murder. Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown gave a statement today (https://ift.tt/2G2nfrK) in which he said "as a father of three young sons this has had a big impact on me personally." He then went on to talk about America's mental health crisis, emphasized the importance of learning from this, and growing as an organization, but he was silent as to the status of the officer that shot Linden. He has not named him or announced any disciplinary actions against him at all. That is why we posted Chief Brown's personal contact information shortly after the shooting because he is treating this like all law enforcement agencies treat cases they plan to justify later (https://ift.tt/32kExZW). The handling of this case is eerily similar to the way authorities in Missouri have handled the murder of Hannah Fizer (https://ift.tt/2HmQO8j). In that case a woman was gunned down on her way to work, the deputy was put on paid leave, the local sheriff called it a tragedy, the investigation was completed, and a special prosecutor refused to prosecute saying that a reasonable officer would have feared for his safety. Lack of action at this stage after this among of time is almost always a bad sign in cases like this one. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said that as the mother of a 14 year old boy she is "profoundly heartbroken" but limited in what she can say at this time because of the pending investigation. She promised that body cam footage will be made available on YouTube within 10 business days whenever this type of forced is used from now on. #lindencameron #childabuse #mikebrown #erinmendenhall

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25973/linden-cameron-full-body-camera-video-shows-no-justification

Enhanced Protest Techniques on Display in Portland, Oregon

Enhanced protest techniques were on display last night in Portland, Oregon when a lone protester stood in front of a Portland Police vehicle like Tank Man in Tiananmen Square (https://ift.tt/1iSen0j). This unidentified man stood in front of a Portland Police SUV as it attempted to enter the Central Precinct on September 19, 2020. The SUV stopped briefly before turning around and driving away. This is a great example of how enhanced protest techniques can win the day. What are enhanced protest techniques? Enhanced protest techniques is a euphemism for the use of tactics outside the bounds of what mainstream society considers acceptable behavior. The tactic could be unacceptable because although technically legal it involves conduct that is likely to be ill-received by the target, or constitute conduct that only violates minor letters of the law and enforcing those laws would be a greater burden for society than acceding. Successful protest movements almost always depend on enhanced protest techniques for their success. In this case, this protester illegally blocked a Portland Police vehicle and likely did so knowing that Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt had already announced a new policy of not prosecuting people for such things (https://ift.tt/3ixdUGr). The protester also was likely aware that de-escalation policies in law enforcement require that when forced to choose between turning around, running someone over, and trying to make an arrest while surrounded by a hostile crowd, that the officer should just turn around. Law and order supporters would likely describe this behavior as a crime that the protester should have been arrested or possibly run over for. They would say "the law is the law, he is breaking the law, the cop should have just kept driving." They would ask "how can you support breaking the law?" Then call you a criminal and have no interest in your input for the rest of their lives. We call such people blind sheep because they only do what they see as normal, not breaking the law is normal for them, and they are of average to below average intelligence. At the same time we are not advocating for people to engage in anything we consider real crime. There is nothing wrong with someone blocking the street to protest Police brutality in Portland, Oregon because the community has agreed for the most part that nobody should be prosecuted for that. It is a great place to get to and would not be possible without enhanced protest techniques. Every police officer has what is called "discretion" which means he or she can pick and choose when to enforce the law and against whom. Enhanced protest techniques can play a critical role in the discretion phase of criminal proceedings. Enhanced protest techniques can create additional factors to consider that may make exercising their discretion against you undesirable. In Portland, Oregon heavy handed responses by law enforcement only swelled the protesters ranks, overwhelmed the courts with more cases than they could possibly prosecute, and as a result a partial amnesty was the best option. Enhanced protest techniques are to thank for the current state of the city. A state where the government has no choice but to honor the First Amendment rights of people protesting police brutality. We support enhanced protest techniques as long as those techniques do not involve damaging private property or physically harming anyone. We reject the idea that following rules written by others for the purpose of controlling you is more important than the pursuit of liberty and justice. We support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and many of Anitfa's actions in support of BLM. We support them when they are pursuing liberty and justice; are willing to use enhanced protest techniques when necessary; and refrain from physically harming people or private property. We wish that they would put a stop to beatings and private property damage by policing their own people better, but as a whole those drawbacks and the importance of avoiding them pales in comparison to the importance of liberty and justice. #civildisobedience #mikeschmidt #antifa #blacklivesmatter

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25972/enhanced-protest-techniques-on-display-in-portland-oregon

Andrew Myerberg Calls Pepper Spraying 8 Year Old Girl an Accident

Seattle Office of Police Accountability Director Andrew Myerberg released body camera footage (see video below) and an official report (see PDF link above) justifying the pepper spraying of an 8 year old black girl by Seattle Police officers back in May. His justification is that because the girl was among a group of mostly peaceful protesters that the SPD was justified in their actions because some people in the group would not move when directed and one of them grabbed an officer's baton. The body cam footage verifies that there was a group of protesters, that the group was mostly peaceful, and one of them did grab an officer's baton, but that does not justify macing the 8 year old girl whose only crime was standing near some unruly protesters. To find an officer guilty of excessive force the force used must be objectively unreasonable for an officer based on what the officer knew at the time. The officer said he or she, whose name has not been released, did not notice the little girl, so according to OPA the officer is not responsible. To the OPA's credit it would be hard to prove that the officer was aware of the girl's exact location in the crowd when the spraying began based on this footage, but there is enough to tell that the SPD was just spraying away with no regard for the crowd as a whole and did not stop spraying after it became obvious that the girl was among the victims. We believe that their failure to stop spraying immediately demonstrated a reckless disregard for the girl's safety and should constitute deliberate indifference under the law. Unfortunately, the government will almost never pursue one of their own in criminal court based on a claim of deliberate indifference, but a showing of deliberate indifference is still enough to overcome qualified immunity in civil court. We believe that Mr. Myerberg failed that little girl by not at least trying to hold the officers accountable for their indifference. In our opinion the officers were not morally justified to start spraying in the first place because they attacked an entire group for the actions of just a few members. They attack groups of mostly peaceful people just like this one on a regular basis. The perpetrators of these attacks do not care about hurting innocent people. They only care about protecting themselves and harming the person they consider the aggressor. It literally does not matter who is in the crowd. If one member of the group makes an officer feel threatened, the officer usually feels justified attacking the entire group. The job of the police is to protect people like that little girl even if it means having to put up with a little abuse from the citizenry. #andrewmyerberg #assault #childabuse #civildisobedience

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25971/andrew-myerberg-calls-pepper-spraying-8-year-old-girl-an-accident

Hannah Fizer's Family and Friends Under Duress in Sedalia, Missouri

The family and friends of Hannah Fizer in Sedalia, Missouri appear to be under duress from the Pettis County Sheriff's Office (PCSO). Hannah Fizer was murdered by Deputy Jordan Schutte back in June, prosecutor Stephen Sokoloff refused to prosecute him, and Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond will not name let alone fire him. In the months since Cop Blaster has been following the case closely due in part to Sheriff Bond personally refusing to turn over public records we requested and threatening us with criminal prosecution (https://ift.tt/30YvYUF). As part of our activities we became active in Facebook groups started by people seeking justice for Hannah Fizer. Our interactions with those Facebook groups and protest organizers have led us to conclude that people in Pettis County are operating under duress from the PCSO. Why would someone seeking justice for a woman murdered by police censor information about those responsible? We have heard a variety of reasons from Facebook groups such as Sign the Petition Justice for Hannah (https://ift.tt/3g42IjC) and Justice for Hannah Fizer (https://ift.tt/33FkDbz). Those reasons usually include a disagreement with our methods, statements saying that our way is not their way, and usually claims that Hannah's family asked that they not post certain types of information about people involved in Hannah's murder. Back in June, Cop Blaster was banned from Sign the Petition Justice for Hannah after posting links to information that could have helped the public identify the killer. That group enacted a rule against naming deputies that you suspect. That rule inspired people to create groups like Fight for Hannah (https://ift.tt/2NwxOnt) and 100% Real Justice for Hannah Fizer (https://ift.tt/3iO0lTF) so that people can discuss the case without being censored. We continue to actively participate in the censorship free groups. Fight for Hannah specifically is run by someone that is not in Missouri and not under duress. Cases such as this one need outside eyes watching and it has that thanks to groups like Fight for Hannah as well as websites like this one. A week ago we were happy to hear that one of the admins at Sign the Petition Justice for Hannah had left that group and formed her own group called Justice for Hannah Fizer. We eagerly joined the group and enjoyed having discussions with people that were not possible in the old group. One of the group's first posts said "Invite who you want to I will not limit post or censor anything unless facebook flags a post this group is for Hannah so feel free to post pictures videos and say what you want !" (https://ift.tt/3hLP0lQ) Our response was to share a link to information about Deputy Schutte, Sheriff Bond, and Stephen Sokoloff (https://ift.tt/2FCQJwt). That link appeared welcome. We also shared a link to this article (https://ift.tt/3mpeuJd) that criticized the protesters in Sedalia for failing to use all techniques available to them. We believe that their self-restraint is one reason why justice has not been served in this case. It appears that they are only willing to conduct themselves within the same rules that enable bad cops like Jordan Schutte to get away with murder. We are not aware of any successful protest movement that operates that way. When patriot militias stared down the Bureau of Land Management in Bunkerville, Nevada they openly did all that was necessary to prevent the theft and slaughter of cattle at the Bundy Ranch. That would not have been possible had those men decided that they did not want to appear anti-government. Had they cooperated with the government the whole thing would have accomplished noting besides maybe a few headlines about people picketing near some ranch. When Black Lives Matter protested in the streets of Louisville for months the city realized that they had to settle a lawsuit with the family of Breonna Taylor and pay them $12 million. Had they fought and won in court the consequences for the city from protests of such a verdict would have probably been far more. That could not have been accomplished had they exercised the restraint that friends and family of Hannah Fizer have so far. We are not saying that they should break the law, but we are saying that more aggressive protest technique are available and those techniques would better motivate local government to cooperate. The use of those techniques are not without risks due to the lack of police accountability in that county. The PCSO lacks body cameras, so unless people are filming them they can do whatever they want and make up a story to justify it later (https://ift.tt/3j6tCsx). We have seen activity online indicating that people want certain information to be out there, but then they delete later. Hannah's father named the shooter back in July before quickly deleting the post and saying he should not have posted it (https://ift.tt/3iIyrZy). That seemed like the actions of someone that wanted the truth to be known while fearing retaliation at the same time. Other members of the Fizer family posted his name in the days that followed only to delete it later. Why would someone seeking justice for Hannah remove the name of her killer from their social media pages? We have noticed people posting our Jordan Schutte Wanted Poster on some of the aforementioned groups only to have it deleted (https://ift.tt/32aGUin). Justice for Hannah Fizer was one such location. That group was started for the stated purpose of letting people post anything that Facebook does not flag, we saw people with no connection to Cop Blaster post our wanted poster, we then shared our recent articles, and other people were saying things they could not say on Sign the Petition Justice for Hannah. That all changed earlier today when the admin suddenly said "I had to change some settings on here today and remove a couple of people. We're also going to pre-approve post just so we can watch a little better what's being put on here." (https://ift.tt/3cdVmZX). That statement was a clear about face from the stated purpose of the group and it was made a day after the admin ran into Kevin Bond as he got off work (https://ift.tt/32HNIUr). She said that she ambushed him with questions about Hannah's case, that Bond stated he was waiting for the final report, and she encouraged people to flood his office with phone calls before voting him out in November. What caused this admin to go from that to deleting links to important information about Bond and his associates? She claims that Hannah's family asked her to remove them because their lawyer recommended that she do so. The admin of Justice for Hannah Fizer told Cop Blaster that the lawyer representing the Fizer family believes that our posts about Sokoloff are harmful to their upcoming lawsuit, so links to those posts are not welcome in their group anymore. They even refused a link to the best article ever written about the case, we assume because it has a lot of links to Cop Blaster. That same admin liked the article so much that she posted a link to it on Sign the Petition Justice for Hannah but it was eventually taken down by the group's founder (see source link above this article for more). We find this development alarming because although lawyers can be valuable sources of legal information and services, they are also officers of the court and bound by certain rules that render them useless in some scenarios. No lawyer would have recommended to Cliven Bundy that he invite hundreds of armed militia men to his ranch and allow them to take up defensive positions for the purpose of deterring federal agents from seizing cattle pursuant to a court order. Eventually the Bureau of Land Management retreated, the criminal case against Bundy was dismissed, and Bundy kept his cattle. Bundy won because he was smart enough not to listen to attorneys. No attorney would have recommended that people in Louisville use less that completely peaceful tactics to protest the murder of Breonna Taylor, but they did it anyway and eventually the city realized that setting the lawsuit was preferable to winning or losing in court. No lawyer would recommend that protesters in Portland, Oregon commit any number of minor offenses that the DA no longer prosecutes people for, but they protested anyway, overwhelmed the court system so that it could not possibly prosecute all of them, and as a result the protesters in Portland are winning. We do not see the protesters in Sedalia doing anything like that. We do not see them doing all they can to motivate the government to do the right thing because they are restraining themselves, why? Are they restraining themselves because doing what is necessary to beat the government violates their own sense of right and wrong? Or, have they been threatened by the PCSO? We find it highly suspicious that the admin of Justice for Hannah Fizer ran into Kevin Bond the day before she started censoring her new group. We believe that Kevin Bond probably said something to her about the Cop Blaster links. We believe that the PCSO has most likely said similar things to other friends and family of Hannah Fizer to deter them from using enhanced protest techniques like some of the ones we have advocated for. We believe that they want to speak out like we have been and would love to protest in ways that we have recommended, but are afraid to do so. PCSO has no body cameras, so they can pull someone over or go to their home and do with them as they like when they are least expecting it. That threat can be somewhat mitigated with live streaming if your streaming service saves the footage and the cops know that they are being recorded, but what is to stop them from finding an excuse to take your phone? As long as the PCSO does not wear body cameras nobody is safe in Pettis County. We have heard from many people in recent months that say Pettis County is dirty. Almost all of them have seemed to imply that they are worried about what the PCSO might do to them. They have mentioned several suspicious deaths in recent years, conspiracies involving freemasonry (https://ift.tt/31lb1Du), and culture within the PCSO of doing as they please while always looking out for each other. If we were in Pettis County we would not feel safe running this website. In fact, we too are under duress to a point because we censor home addresses of local law enforcement officials in order to maintain the peace with them. That allows us to use Oregon as a base of operations while trying to help similarly situated people elsewhere. We know what it is like to live in places where the police can do what they want and it is just your word versus theirs. We know how they feel and for that reason we believe that they are under duress. When people are under duress they say and do things that they would not otherwise. When people are known to be under duress it is important to question anything they ask you to do. You need to ask yourself if they are competent to make the best decisions in that matter or are they under duress. #hannahfizer #kevinbond #jordanschutte #censorship #facebook

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25970/hannah-fizers-family-and-friends-under-duress-in-sedalia-missouri

Multnomah County Claims That 8th Amendment Applies to Pre-SRV Inmates

Andy Jones, an attorney for Multnomah County, erroneously claimed in a recent summary judgment motion that federal detainees accused of violating the terms of their federal supervision are the same as those in county custody for violating the terms of their parole. Mr. Jones' argument failed to account for key differences between parole and supervised release as well as the fact that the plaintiff in the lawsuit in question was not serving a term of imprisonment on the date in question. The lawsuit stems from the plaintiff being assaulted by jail deputies and having his arm intentionally broken. Mr. Jones argued in a motion for summary judgment that "An inmate held pursuant to a judicially imposed sentence, including for violation of the terms of parole or post-prison supervision, is protected under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment, not the Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment." To support his position, Jones cited Canell v. Multnomah County, 141 F.Supp 2d 1046, 1052 (D. Or 2001). Canell made no mention of "post prison supervision" as Jones implied, dealt only with someone in custody while on parole or after being sentenced for parole violations, and only addressed the Fourteenth Amendment as applied to persons serving sentences for violating parole in the State of Oregon. The relevant paragraph from Canell read: "Assuming arguendo that a Fourteenth Amendment analysis should apply to the alleged pretrial detainee claims, it is undisputed that plaintiff was either on parole or in custody pursuant to a revocation of parole during the time of his incarceration in the Multnomah County Corrections facilities. An inmate serving a sentence of incarceration on a parole violation is not a pretrial detainee." - Ninth Circuit The Canell decision did not specify if Canell were incarcerated pending a hearing on alleged parole violations at any time covered by the lawsuit, but that really would not matter. The U.S. District Court for the District or Oregon has already ruled that the plaintiff was on federal supervised release and was being detained pending sentencing for a violation of supervised release. A person on supervised released is not similarly situated to a person on parole. This is evident in the United States Sentencing Guidelines: "(b) Supervised release, a new form of post-imprisonment supervision created by the Sentencing Reform Act, accompanied implementation of the guidelines. A term of supervised release may be imposed by the court as a part of the sentence of imprisonment at the time of initial sentencing. 18 U.S.C. 3583(a). Unlike parole, a term of supervised release does not replace a portion of the sentence of imprisonment, but rather is an order of supervision in addition to any term of imprisonment imposed by the court. " - USSG Chaper 7 (https://ift.tt/2FE0AlO) Based on the U.S.S.G. one can see that there is a distinct difference between parole and supervised release. A person on parole is serving the remainder of a term of imprisonment in the community. A person on supervised release has completed their term of imprisonment and has been released into the community. That difference is obvious if looking at two sentencing proceeding side by side when one is sentenced to imprisonment with eligibility for parole after a specific period of time and the other is sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed a specific amount of time followed by a term of supervised release. The difference between a person serving a term of imprisonment and one that is not makes Canell's holding that persons on parole are covered by the Eighth Amendment irrelevant to persons on supervised release. Furthermore, 18 U.S.C. 3624(e) (https://ift.tt/1Iy2DMf) only authorizes the imposition of "a term of supervised release after imprisonment" not during, so it is impossible to be both imprisoned and on supervision in the same case at the same time, and again the court already held that the plaintiff was on supervised release when his arm was broken. The Ninth Circuit's decision in United States v. Morales-Alejo, 193 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 1999) (https://ift.tt/32GLpRF) further supports the plaintiff's position. In that case the Ninth Circuit held that a term of supervision cannot be tolled during a period of pre-trial detention even if the supervisee is convicted and that term of pretrial detention is credited towards his sentence. In Morales-Alejo the Ninth Circuit clearly distinguished between a sentence of imprisonment and a period of pre-trial detention before ruling that Morales-Alejos prior term of supervised release had been served in pre-trial detention. Had the Ninth Circuit wanted to adapt the position that a person's status as a detainee can be retroactively changed to that of a sentenced inmate serving a term of imprisonment they would have. The Ninth Circuit explained, "there must be an imprisonment resulting from or otherwise triggered by a criminal conviction. Pretrial detention does not fit this definition, because a person in pretrial detention has not yet been convicted and might never be convicted." The plaintiff argues that a pre-violation detainee is indistinguishable from a pretrial detainee because a person in pre-violation detention is in detention due to an allegation of a violation not a conviction, has not yet been violated and might never be violated. In United States v. Brown, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska (3:04-00119-JWS) appeared to support the plaintiff's argument when it ruled that a person held pursuant to civil commitment proceedings following release from a term of imprisonment was not imprisoned despite never leaving Bureau of Prisons custody. Conclusion As a person not serving a term of imprisonment, the plaintiff's excessive force claim is governed by the Fourteenth Amendment and not the Eighth Amendment. If the court were to adapt the position that a person on supervision, who does not have the right to be punished at all beyond their conditions of supervision, were to have their conditions of detention evaluated under Eighth Amendment standards, then they would not enjoy the equal protection of the laws that all other detainees whose detention is not a punishment enjoy, and the word "punishments" in the Eighth Amendment's "cruel and unusual punishments" clause would be meaningless. #multnomahcountyjail #bruceandrewjones #ninthcircuit #dueprocess

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25969/multnomah-county-claims-that-8th-amendment-applies-to-pre-srv-inmates

Apple Inc. and Verizon Turning Over User Data to FBI in Protest Cases

Apple Inc. and Verizon have been ratting out their customers to the FBI. One such case was exposed by the mainstream media today (see source link). In that case Apple turned over iCloud data that included pictures, videos, contacts, history, and location data from Kelly Jackson's iPhone after the FBI had already obtained location information from Verizon. Jackson is accused of removing hazardous obstacles from public thoroughfares using enhanced protest techniques during George Floyd protests earlier this year. This shift of loyalties comes as an unpleasant surprise for Apple customers that enjoyed the safety and security of Apple's prior refusal to cooperate with law enforcement. In 2019 Apple made international headlines when the FBI went to them with a complaint that they could not search the contents of an iPhone without the user's password or Apple's help circumventing security (https://ift.tt/2yad8O6). Apple did the right thing and refused to betray their customers. Unfortunately, the FBI was able to gain access to the phone anyway after paying a company called GrayKey over $70,000 to hack the phone. Despite that setback, Apple was still able to maintain their image as a company that was loyal to their customers, but that is not the case anymore. Today we can no longer recommend Apple products to anyone because Apple has betrayed their customers to the federal government. Verizon is not recommended either for the same reasons as Apple. Verizon has shown that they will turn your data over to the government upon request even if that data could be used to put you in prison. Nobody should do business with a company like that unless they have no other option for obtaining essential services. There really is no such thing as an unhackable phone, but that does not mean that there is nothing you can do to keep your phone from getting you busted. If you are going somewhere to do something that the police might investigate you for, leave your phone at home and order a pay per view movie that you've already seen before leaving the house. That way your location data and TV use histories will support the claim that you were at home watching a movie. If you must take a phone with you, use a more secure phone (https://ift.tt/3cNmP4E). What are Apple and Verizon Thinking? We have seen no information indicating that working with the FBI is good for either company. The goal of a company is to make money. That is the primary objective of a corporation. How does a company accomplish that objective by betraying their customers? As far as we can tell neither company has produced any information showing that their stock went up because they worked with the feds. Decisions like these cost them customers and revenue, so it is never appropriate for a company to do such things. #apple #fbi #antifa #blacklivesmatter #kellyjackson #verizon

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25968/apple-inc-and-verizon-turning-over-user-data-to-fbi-in-protest-cases

Breonna Taylor Settlement Should Inspire All That Protest Police Abuse

The family of Breonna Taylor received a $12 million settlement from the City of Louisville, Kentucky today. This is the largest settlement ever given to the family of a black person murdered by police according to attorney Ben Crump who represents the Taylor family. We think that this is a major step in the right direction, but ultimately not good enough. It is not good enough because Louisville Police Officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove remain free men. None of them are facing criminal charges, but at the same time that lack of accountability in this case could serve as a beacon of hope for other victims of police brutality that have also been denied justice in criminal courts. We have not talked about the Breonna Taylor case a whole lot here on Cop Blaster mainly because so many people are talking about it that until now we have felt that anything we had to say would have just been more of the same. Breonna Taylor was an innocent law abiding woman gunned down in her own home by police officers that literally went to the wrong house serving a no knock warrant intended for another person that had not lived there for many months. Taylor's boyfriend thought they were burglars and fired shots at them, when the cops returned fire Taylor was killed. This was a difficult case for anyone seeking justice or trying to uphold the rule of law. That is because even tough the police in question had no right to be at her home in the first place it is hard to say that a reasonable officer in their shoes would not have feared for their safety once shots were fired in their direction. That is the main reason why criminal charges were not brought against them. The lead detective, Brett Hankison, has been fired because he did not do good detective work when he recklessly obtained a no knock warrant based on outdated information. The other officers are hard to fault in this case because of the command and control culture of law enforcement in general. When a superior officer tells a rank and file officer to do as they are told they do it, which is what Officers Mattingly and Cosgrove were doing when they followed orders to help Hankison serve the warrant. They seem to have been operating within the policies of the City of Louisville and since those policies failed Breonna in the worst possible way the City of Louisville rightfully shoulders the blame for those policies. Hope for Others The fact that Breonna's family has prevailed in a lawsuit despite the refusal of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to hold any of her murderers criminally accountable should give the families of other victims hope. We are thinking specifically of the family of 25 year old Hannah Fizer of Sedalia, Missouri who were dealt a demoralizing blow just yesterday (https://ift.tt/2FCQJwt). That blow was the refusal of special prosecutor Stephen Sololoff to criminally charge Pettis County Sheriff's Deputy Jordan Schutte with Hannah's murder. Like Daniel Cameron, Sokoloff's job was to protect the accused officer, so we knew that absent undeniable proof that Schutte was lying that Sokoloff would give Schutte the benefit the doubt. Such practices are in stark contrast to how criminal investigators approach civilians. When the accused is a civilian their job is to find any excuse they can to charge the person with a crime. As a result civilians are falsely charged with murder at a far higher rate than cops are rightfully charged with murder. It is a double standard that continues to enable law enforcement to break the law and hide behind the rule of law to avoid accountability. That is why people seeking justice against police officers must disregard the rule of law. What Made Breonna Different Breonna's case was different because her supporters proved that they were willing to disregard the rule of law in large numbers until justice was done. There were several mostly peaceful protests in her name in which a small minority committed criminal acts, there was a black militia that marched bearing arms, and in one case a huge group was arrested for trespassing on AG Cameron's front lawn (https://ift.tt/3evHdH1). These actions made it clear to the government that the rule of law could not protect them unless they found an option within those laws to give the protesters what they wanted. If one is going to use unlawful conduct to compel a government entity to do something they always have to give that entity a way to meet their demands without citing appeasement to unlawful conduct as the official reason. That is one reason why it can take a long time for the government to finally cave and decide to choose a legal reason to give the people what they want. If they don't have an option at their discretion within the law they won't cave, but if they have an option at their discretion and the people show that exercising that discretion is the only way to stop them then the government will. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when protesting the government is choosing on their own accord not to break the law. When people say that they are just decent law abiding folks the government breathes a sigh of relief knowing that they will respect the rules that allow them to do what they want. That is why people like Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond responded to yesterday's decision saying "We at the Sheriffs Office have allowed to Rule of Law to properly take its course." Because Kevin Bond and Stephen Sokoloff had no reason to think that choosing to make the rule of law take the course that it did would result in any consequences for themselves, they felt free to take whatever course they wished. This lack of personal accountability allowed Bond to prioritize protecting Deputy Schutte, whose father was reportedly one of Bond's best friends, over minimizing consequences for himself. That was not the case in Kentucky with Breonna Taylor. In her case thousands of people made it clear that they would not stop seeking justice for Breonna unless the state made justice a priority. The government knew that the only way to keep angry crowds off their door steps was to do what was right for the people and not just their own people. We have a lot of respect and admiration for the people that have been out picketing in Pettis County on a weekly basis since Hannah was murdered, but we have been at odds with them at times over proposed tactics. Protest organizers in Sedalia have taken the position that they do not want to be seen as not supporting law enforcement in general. We found this out after doxxing Kevin Bond (https://ift.tt/30YvYUF) and most of his staff (https://ift.tt/37RQt6D) shortly after the murder. Rather than being thanked for our help we were banned from the largest Facebook group seeking justice in this case (https://ift.tt/3g42IjC). Many people in Sedalia posted comments or sent us messages saying that our way was not their way, that they would never do anything to compromise the home of a cop out of concern for their family, and that they didn't want any type of Antifa/George Floyd riots in their town. We knew that unless they changed their mind on those issues that they would never find justice for Hannah because as long as they voluntarily cooperate with law enforcement in a case like this they are essentially rolling over for them. Such comments tell Kevin Bond that he does not have to worry about any real consequences for himself should he do what he wants. That would not have been the case had the weekly protests taken place outside his home as we recommended, but people in Sedalia seem to care more about whether or not such protests would scare Bond's wife and kids than they do about getting justice*. We have the utmost respect for Hannah's family, but at the same time we cannot stop thinking about what their position on not wanting to be seen as being anti-law enforcement says about the culture of their community as a whole. How deeply ingrained their customs must be for people to lose a daughter, sister, cousin, etc. and still support those customs over justice. It is like they are saying that their way of life is more important than losing a few of their people. That protecting the institution of law enforcement as a whole is more important than justice in this case because they fear a future without police more than they fear a future with a few more Hannahs. We would expect nothing less from a community of conservative Christians where sheep fear wolves so much that they would rather have a few rabid sheep dogs than no sheep dogs at all. Where people will never seek justice if doing so requires them to do anything written on ancient stone tablets after the words "thou shalt not." It is hard to find better example of group think in a bubble gone wrong. Conclusion Anyone truly seeking justice for anyone wronged by law enforcement needs to be more like the people of Louisville and less like the people of Sedalia. They need to do all they can to show the government that justice and only justice will save the government future headaches. They need to show that they cannot be constrained by the rule of law, but do so without giving the government a way to legally neutralize them and while leaving the government at least one option within the rule of law to give them what they want. It is not too late for the people of Sedalia because last we heard the family of Hannah Fizer is represented by an attorney, but we fear that Pettis County will not settle any lawsuit they file as long as the people in that town continue to play by their rules. Playing by their rules tells county officials that all they have to fear is being found liable after a civil trial overseen by a judge whose job it is to support the county. There is no such thing as a fair trial. The people of Pettis County need to make life a living hell for county officials until they agree to pay the Fizer family millions of dollars. Only when they view settling the case as the best way to avoid consequences for themselves will they settle. * Foot Note: We share their concern for the children of police officers, which is why we do not post their names or pictures even though officers like Bond do that to them themselves on Facebook. We also ask that whenever people protests at a cop's house that they leave anyone alone that they see on the property. We believe that just being related to people like Kevin Bond should be punishment enough. #breonnataylor #bencrump #danielcameron #hannahfizer

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25967/breonna-taylor-settlement-should-inspire-all-that-protest-police-abuse

Stephen Sokoloff Calls The Murder of Hannah Fizer "Justified"

Special Prosecutor Stephen Sokoloff is defending the murder of Hannah Fizer inSedalia, Missouri by saying that he will not file charges against Deputy Jordan Schutte. In so doing Sokoloff is actively aiding and abetting a murderer and in our opinion that makes him as well as Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond (https://ift.tt/30YvYUF) just as guilty as the man that pulled the trigger. That trigger man is Deputy Jordan Schutte whose wanted poster can be found at https://ift.tt/32aGUin and his history can be found at https://ift.tt/3iIyrZy. More to come as we dissect his excuses and post our analysis here. We profiled Sokoloff last month (https://ift.tt/3gAJd2Q) and refrained from posting his address hoping he would do the right thing and seek justice for Hannah. Because he did not do that we are releasing his last known home address for the purpose of assisting non-violent protesters that want to make themselves heard in person or by mail. That address is: Stephen Paul Sokoloff 1524 ROSEVALLEY DR Jefferson City, MO 65101 We will remove his address if and only if he changes his findings and files charges against Jordan Schutte. As long as Sokoloff continues to aide and abet a murderer, his neighbors and the rest of the world have the right to know that there is a person in their community that protects murderers of innocent women. The same goes for Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond. The community has a right to know that he is aiding and abetting a murderer. People that aide and abet murderers are a danger to the community. The danger known as Kevin Charles Bond resides at 4130 Apple Ridge Road in Sedalia, Missouri. We will remove his address if and only if he publicly denounces Sokoloff's findings and fires Jordan Schutte. Because the prosecuting decision is out of Bond's hands now we are not going to demand that he arrest Schutte at this time. Last, but certainly not least is the trigger man himself, Jordan Daniel Schutte of Sedalia, Missouri. His last known address was 1002 S Kentucky Ave in Sedalia, Missouri. We are wiling to remove Schutte's address if and only if he writes and signs a confession stating that he unnecessarily shot Hannah Fizer five times. #stephensokoloff #hannahfizer #jordanschutte #murder

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25966/stephen-sokoloff-calls-the-murder-of-hannah-fizer-justified

1 Year Old Baby Shot by Police in Portsmouth, Virginia

An unidentified Portsmouth Police Officer shot and nearly killed a one year old baby in the upper body today while also grazing in unidentified woman with a bullet. Not much is known about this case at this time. We will be following this case and update this article once we know the name of the victims and officers involved. We do not know what danger if any that this baby posed for the officers, so they will probably blame the female victim for the child's injuries. We can think of nothing that would justify shooting a child let alone an infant that is not strong enough to carry even the smallest of pistols. They are not saying if that the baby was armed or aggressive. We are not aware of any allegations against the woman that would have justified shooting her. Women are not usually a physical threat that would justify using a weapon unless they have gun. #childabuse #assault

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25965/1-year-old-baby-shot-by-police-in-portsmouth-virginia

Ricardo Munoz Shot by Police in Lancaster, Protest Mostly Peaceful

The Lancaster Bureau of Police shot and killed a Ricardo Munoz today in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a mostly peaceful protest followed. We do not know more than that at this time. We will be following this closely and will update this page once we know the name of the officers involved. Police are accusing Munoz of being armed with a knife and say that they were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance. There are no indications that the police tried to deescalate the situation or use less than lethal force at this time, but like the source link says not much is known right now. Body cam footage shows Munoz chasing after an officer with a kitchen knife before the officer shoot him, but unlike Kyle Rittenhouse this officer had a taser and could have at least tried to use less than lethal force. We think he should have tried the taser first and the the gun second, but we are going to say that legally we believe that this officer acted in self-defense. As the video we originally included with this post shows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxbFxVYwXOU) this tragedy was followed by a mostly peaceful protest in which a small minority of protesters damaged a police vehicle. A protest is mostly peaceful when most of the protesters are peaceful, so if 6 out of every 10 protesters are peaceful then the protest is mostly peaceful regardless of what the other 40% do. That is why we say that almost all protests since the death or George Floyd have been mostly peaceful because most of the participants have been peaceful. UPDATE: This article has been updated now that we know that the name of the victim was Ricardo Munoz UPDATE: This article has been updated now that body cam footage has been released. #blacklivesmatter #selfdefense #ricardomunoz

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25964/ricardo-munoz-shot-by-police-in-lancaster-protest-mostly-peaceful

Black Man Shot by Police in Lancaster, Protest Mostly Peaceful

The Lancaster Bureau of Police shot and killed a black man today in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a mostly peaceful protest followed. We do not know more than that at this time. We will be following this closely and will update this page once we know the name of the victim and the officers involved. Police are accusing the man of being armed with a knife and say that they were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance. There are no indications that the police tried to deescalate the situation or use less than lethal force at this time, but like the source link says not much is known right now. We also do not know if the Lancaster BOP wear body cameras. As the video below shows, this tragedy was followed by a mostly peaceful protest in which a small minority of protesters damaged a police vehicle. A protest is mostly peaceful when most of the protesters are peaceful, so if 6 out of every 10 protesters are peaceful then the protest is mostly peaceful regardless of what the other 40% do. That is why we say that almost all protests since the death or George Floyd have been mostly peaceful because most of the participants have been peaceful. #blacklivesmatter #racism #murder #civildisobedience

source https://copblaster.com/blast/25964/black-man-shot-by-police-in-lancaster-protest-mostly-peaceful