Judge Bruce Schroeder has been getting a lot of criticism for refusing to allow prosecutors to call those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse "victims" during the guilt phase of his trial. We believe that Schroeder made the right decision because prosecutors should never be allowed to call anyone a "victim" during the guilt phase of a criminal trial unless a court has already reached a verdict in support of such a label in a prior proceeding (ex: calling people "victims" that a defendant was previously convicted of victimizing). We believe this is necessary due to the prejudicial effect that the word "victim" has on the jury. We also support allowing the defense to call the alleged "victims" other things because it is necessary to level the playing field in an injustice system that so heavily favors the government that people are essentially guilty until proven innocent. When a government official is allowed to call someone a "victim" before the jury has a chance to make up their minds it can give jurors the impression that some official determination has been made that the defendant is in fact guilty because the word "victim" implies guilt when in fact the government is merely alleging that someone is a "victim." That said, if the government is allowed to use the word "victim" at all they should only be allowed to use it in conjunction with the word "alleged" or words of similar meaning (ex: "the defendant killed the alleged victim in cold blood."). The phrase "alleged victim" sure doesn't have the same ring to it does it? Under such circumstances the government is better off simply referring to the alleged "victim" by name without using the word "alleged" at all (ex: "the defendant killed Mr. Rosenbaum in cold blood."). Remember that the average juror is typically not smart enough to get out of doing jury duty let alone truly understand the law beyond grasping basic concepts such as what "guilt" and "not guilty" mean. There are also few checks and balances in place to stop jurors from prioritizing their own personal feelings, political views, etc. over legal technicalities. That is especially true of jurors with average to below average IQs. It is bad enough that seeing someone in a defendant's chair makes too many jurors automatically think that they wouldn't be there if they didn't do something. Judge Schroeder however has also banned use of the phrase "alleged victim" from the trial. We think that may go a little too far because we think the phrase "alleged victim" accurately describes the deceased in this case while at the same time acknowledging that their status as victims is merely alleged. Still we think that too is a step in the right direction because it further limits the state's arsenal. The fewer weapons the state has at their disposal the less likely the jury is to reach a biased result in the state's favor. Schroeder has decided to allow the defense to call the alleged "victims" several things like "looters, rioters, or arsonists" which has drawn a lot of criticism from those that feel it stacks the deck in favor of the defense. The deck should always be stacked in favor of the defense because the state has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. The defense has no burden to meet and therefore should be allowed to call alleged "victims" whatever they wish without any proof. Despite that Judge Schroeder is requiring the defense to provide evidence that the alleged "victims" were involved in looting, rioting, or arson in order to call them looters, rioters, or arsonists. That is inappropriate. The defense should never be required to ask a court for permission before calling an alleged "victim" anything. If they want to dehumanize Joseph Rosenbaum by calling him stuff like child molester, sex offender, sexer, rapo, chomo, etc. they should not need the court's permission. Joseph Rosenbaum was a convicted sex offender whose prior offense was a sex crime against a minor (https://ift.tt/2QpqQCq). The defense should also be allowed to argue that as a minor Rittenhouse had every reason to fear getting raped by Rosenbaum even if they can't provide proof that he had any way of knowing that Rosenbaum was a chomo (https://ift.tt/3mxxRlo). Likewise they should be allowed to argue that Rittenhouse did society a favor by killing a chomo and the jury should reward him with a verdict of not guilty with regards to Rosenbaum by reason of putting in good work. The state of course should be allowed to point out that the law does not permit the systematic killing of chomos, but ultimately the jury should be allowed to decide for themselves if nullification is warranted with regards to Rosenbaum due to his chomo status. In the case of the other alleged "victims" the defense should be free to call them anything as long as the state has the opportunity to argue that the defense might be applying inaccurate labels. Defense lawyers already have incentives against making false accusations against alleged "victims" because if they are shown to be inaccurate it hurts their credibility and ultimately their client's case. Lawyers also have conflicts of interest which can prevent them from zealously representing their client by presenting false information or causing witnesses emotional distress out of fear that they could be charged or face disciplinary action from the bar. Such conflicts are typically enough to motivate defense lawyers not to apply labels to alleged "victims" that might be disproven. We think that groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa should support Schroeder's decisions because they are more likely to benefit people of color down the road. Everyone knows that people of color are disproportionately persecuted by the injustice system, so they should benefit more than others from legal precedents that prevent prosecutors from labeling people as "victims" before the arguments are presented. Likewise people of color should benefit from being able to apply whatever label they wish to those supporting the government's cases. For instance, if a black man is being prosecuted by racist government officials he should be able to call them racist in front of the jury even if he doesn't have proof of them actually being racist beyond his own personal opinion. #kylerittenhouse #bruceschroeder #selfdefense #antifasource https://copblaster.com/blast/45698/kyle-rittenhouse-excluding-word-victim-is-step-in-right-direction
New York State Trooper Christopher Baldner was arrested this week for the murder of Monica Goods. Goods was just 11 years old when Baldner rammed her father's vehicle knowing full well that there were children in the car. The vehicle flipped over, Goods was ejected, and pronounce dead at the scene. The murder took place on December 22, 2020, but due to double standards in prosecutorial priorities Baldner was allowed to remain free while still working for the New York State Police (NYSP) for nearly a year. He is now being held in the Ulster County Jail on charges of 2nd Degree Murder, 2nd Degree Manslaughter, and six counts of 1st Degree Reckless Endangerment. After the indictment was filed the NYSP immediately suspended Baldner without pay. He is scheduled to appear in court on November 4th when he is expected to seek bail. We have been covering this case since it was brought to our attention in June (https://ift.tt/3xyfr6P). We were outraged that anyone let alone a police officer would ram a vehicle with small children inside. We were also outraged that anyone let alone a police officer would pepper spray a vehicle with small children inside. We believe that Monica's father, Tristan Goods had a legitimate fear for his safety when he drove away from Baldner after being attacked with pepper spray. Police officers are trained not just to apprehend people, but also to make sure that they don't take unnecessary risks while pursuing suspects. Even if Mr. Goods didn't exactly have a legal right to flee Baldner, he did nothing to justify ramming his vehicle. When a motorist drives away from an officer they have the right to pursue that person, but not with unnecessary forceful tactics. Usually when someone drives away from the police they will eventually come to their senses and pull over. Mr. Goods was robbed of the opportunity to come to his senses. In so doing Baldner demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life which is why he is charged with 2nd Degree Murder. The other charges are either lesser included offenses or related to the reckless endangerment of other passengers including three people he endangered in 2019. Today we found out that this is not the first time that Baldner has gotten into trouble for unnecessarily ramming a vehicle. In 2019 he rammed a vehicle containing three people causing the driver to lose control and crash into a guardrail. Baldner's strikingly similar conduct in that case also demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life which is why he is charged with reckless endangerment. The NYSP released a false statement following Baldner's arrest claiming that "Accountability is critically important to our agency." If that were true they would have at a minimum suspended Baldner without pay last year when he killed Monica Goods. They also would not wait for a conviction to fire him. If accountability were important to their agency it wouldn't take a murder indictment to get Baldner suspended and it would at least be enough to get him fired. The Goods family has setup a website https://ift.tt/3bpKwk8 which a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/MonicaGoods). #christopherbaldner #monicagoods #murder #pepperspray
Yamhill County Judge Ladd Wiles should recuse himself from a recent lawsuit assigned to him because as the husband of former U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall he has plenty of experience having his home address posted online. The lawsuit filed by members of the Newberg School Board accuses 4 people of violating Oregon's new unconstitutional anti-doxxing bill by posting information about their employers on Facebook. We believe that state law requires that Judge Wiles recuse himself due to his prior experience. We posted Amanda Marshall's home address back in 2017, but that data is currently hid behind a block programmed to display the word "CENSORED" instead as long as the admin of Cop Blaster is never prevented from being able to login to his account for more than 14 days for any reason (see https://ift.tt/3EggBHj). That block is the result of what seems to be a cessation of hostilities on the part of the federal government towards us. The feds responded to the information we released by getting our founder detained pending resolution of a supervised release violation he had already been charged with. While he sat in jail the site stayed up and the government made all sorts of wild accusations claiming that people in Ladd's wife's position feared for their safety, experienced emotional distress, etc. We believe that this experience created a pre-existing bias against the posting of personal information online and Judge Wiles is more likely to make an adverse ruling against the defendants as a result. HB 3047 is unconstitutional for a few reasons. We recommend checking out our prior articles about the bill most of which are linked to at https://ift.tt/3AbjabM. Our arguments are mostly based on overbreadth and are backed by federal court decisions striking down similar bills. Those similar bills were not as broad as HB 3047 and focused mostly on the disclosure of home addresses belonging to law enforcement officers. Courts have repeatedly protected that practice because it has legitimate uses such as organizing peaceful picketing. Some say HB 3047 was more focused on protecting private citizens, but even if banning the practice with regards to private citizens were deemed constitutional, the bill makes no distinction between a government official and a private citizen, so that is just one example of why HB 3047 is too broad. The legislature thinks they can use "intent to harass" to justify it, but the definition of harass adopted by the legislature is so broad that that it includes the intentional infliction of minor things including anxiety. So, if someone posts the contact information of a business hoping people will use it to complain about a specific employee because of something they did, they can be sued if they intended to cause that person anxiety or fear. The fear requirement is not limited to just fear of bodily harm, but could also be applied to fear of being fired and the anxiety associated with it. Such legislation endangers common forms of political and consumer advocacy. There is also a danger of people being accused of intentionally causing unintended emotional distress just because they were aware that such distress was a possibility, but not necessarily an intended result (ex: collateral damage https://ift.tt/3a4mWZz). We also believe that the following applies: "First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content" United States v. Stevens 130 S.Ct. 1577, 1584 Under Oregon law "No judge of a circuit court shall sit to hear or try any suit, action, matter or proceeding when it is established, as provided in ORS 14.250 (Disqualification of judge) to 14.270 (Time of making motion for change of judge in certain circumstances), that any party or attorney believes that such party or attorney cannot have a fair and impartial trial or hearing before such judge." (see ORS 14.250 https://ift.tt/3BdgI4z). We believe that defendants in a doxxing trial cannot receive a fair trial before a judge whose home address has been posted online on a website under the circumstances. We hope that Judge Wiles will have the good judgment to recuse himself from this case to avoid any possible appearance of bias. Letting a judge whose home address has been posted online preside over a doxxing lawsuit is like having a rape survivor preside over a rape case. Judge Wiles will likely remember what happened to his wife and even if he tries his best not to let it influence his decisions, his subconscious likely lacks such discipline. At worst we fear that Judge Wiles might make a point of staying on this case so that he can make an example out of someone before the law is overturned. We hope that the defendants file a motion for declaratory relief in federal court as soon as possible so that their fate is not left in the hands of any state judge let alone this one. #laddwiles #amandamarshall #newbergschoolboard #facebook
Johnson City Police officer David Smith is the latest cop to bring his violent tendencies home with him and take it out on his significant other. He now faces charges of aggravated domestic assault after allegedly drinking, pinning his girlfriend against a cabinet, holding a gun to her head, and threatening to kill her several times. She then broke free, ran to a bathroom, and started filming with her phone. Smith, like all cops, doesn't like to be filmed, so he took her phone from her, but he didn't stop it from recording (probably because he didn't know how). She eventually got the phone back, ended the recording, and fled to the police department. Washington County Sheriff Elizabeth Denton was quick to condemn Smith by saying he "was determined to be the primary aggressor." Smith was booked into the Washington County Detention Center on Saturday and later released on $25,000 bail. The Johnson City Police Department has not released a statement, so his status with the department remain unknown. Officers are usually placed on administrative leave in situation such as this. Whether that leave includes pay varies from place to place. David E. Smith is a 46 year old resident of Gray, Tennessee. #davidsmith #domesticviolence #assault
Shady Yasin became a DEA informant on 04/27/2007 when the DEA ROCN Task Force raided his sisters home in NE Portland by Glendover Golf course. Agents found fingerprints of Shade Sohail Yasin's on the clip of a .45 pistol. He's sloppy and wanted to play ball. His 1st controlled delivery was for 75,000 MDMA pills that originated from the Triads of China. The DEA Seattle field office knew they had a winning horse and Shady need a source of income since his Fairview, OR Walgreen's pharmacist Dr. William Pierce was unable to fill Vicodin 1000mg scripts. He has helped law enforcement in a number of major investigations including send UFC fighter and former University of Oregon wrestler Chael Sonnen. Shady is now working with DOC in DC as a Patriot Prayer double agent. The Oregon Republican party has a mole but they do not care because Shady has an offshore fishing boat and takes VIPs on his federally sponsored watercraft. Yasin's childhood best friend is Washington County Sheriff's Office Deputy Kevin Howell, a failed real estate agent that can be reached at 503-830-6962, that's his personal cell. Shady can be reached either at his place of business, Wheel Doctor LLC 2663 NW Saint Helens Rd, Portland, OR 97210. His personal cell is 503-890-6555, text is better than voice. Snapchat is best, user name: SHADYYASIN Shady's Facebook https://ift.tt/3nghpVG In 2009, with the feds blessing, Shady and his sister Lara Sohail Yasin Ventimiglia opened the Al Narah Hookah cafe to launder money. Lara had recently been fired from Bank of America for opening accounts without customer approval. This was a fresh start for the young entrepreneurs. Shady and Kevin both like young girls, 15-17 is what they prefer. They raped multiple young ladies in the office of Al Narah Hookah Lounge located at 18345 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97233. This was perfectly acceptable to Shade's two local law enforcement handlers: School Resource Officers John Edwards of PPB, and Detective Ryan Gleason of the East County Major Crimes Team (Gresham PD). Edwards taxed Shady for this instead of arrest him for sexual assault . Shady let any underage girl into to 18+ establishment in return for sexual favors. The OLCC does not enforce ID's at Hookah Lounges in Oregon so it was the perfect opportunity to exploit the teens of Gresham by poisoning their lungs with hookah smoke. #shadeyasin #shadyyasin #wheeldoctor #dustlessblastdoctor #rat
Portland Police Bureau Sgt John Mark Edwards of PPB East Precinct is a former Multnomah County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy that unilaterally transfered to the Portland Police Bureau in 2004. In 2008 he was unable to pay the mortgage on the house and needed cash fast. He started extorting motorist. He would ask for money for a soda, and if you could not afford it he'd order your vehicle towed. Retriever Towing and Sergeants Towing have had Edwards on the payroll since 2004. In August 2007 he purchased this home for $380K. 14 years later the market value is still only $486K. His wife takes care of their disabled daughter in addition to his other 2 children. His base salary is $81.391.07. He made an additional $64,471.26 in overtime and other pay. Total wages $145,862.33 on the W2 books. $12,155 a month is what the City of Portland pays this asshole to violate citizens civil rights. The rest they say is in LEDS/CAD brought to you by Motorola Solutions. #johnedwards #eastprecinct #civilrightsviolator #colorofauthority
Portland's riot cops have been operating with anonymity for the most part until now. Yesterday local lawyer Alan Kessler outed the identities of Portland Police officers assigned to the bureau's Rapid Response Team with a tweet that includes the numbers they wore in an effort to keep their identities a secret. Kessler was also nice enough to respond to our request for a text version of the list on Twitter (https://twitter.com/alankesslr/status/1450959530544680962). The list he provided differs from the one in the images in that in some cases one list was missing names present on the other, so we did our best to combine both lists. These officers have been caught on camera countless times using excessive force against most peaceful Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists during civil rights protests. Those names and numbers are as follows: 1. Nathan Banfi 2. Cameron Smith 3. Justin Damerville 4. Onest Robert 5. John Young 6. Chuck Elam 7. Joey Yoo 8. Rachel McDonald 9. Thomas Bush 10. Brandon Haase 11. Madison Ceaser 12. Brent Taylor 13. Christopher Sathoff 14. Lino Pavon 15. Jeff Baratta 16. Lia Kanable 17. Eli Arnold 18. John Bartlett 19. Franz Schoening 20. James De Anda 21. Royce Curtiss 22. Craig Lehman 23. Mike Pool 24. Brian Galego 25. Joshua Dyk 26. Jade Lowery 27. Brian Wheeler 28. Shay Samora 29. Christina Gericke 30. Shanley Bianca 31. John Oliphant 32. Jarred Abby 33. Brianne Paisley 34. Dave Sanders 35. Mark Kelly 36. Zachary Domka 37. Corey Budworth 38. Ross Scott 39. Cody Kuntz 40. Trevor Middleton 41. {redacted} 42. Spencer Parry 43. {redacted} 44. Ariel Livingston 45. Kristin Morgan 46. Amy Li 47. Tim Giles 48. Jason Wands 49. Dustin Barth 50. 51. Michelle Petty 52. Heidi Kries 53. Brian Chaco 54. Todd Trapp 55. David Browning 56. Michael Terrett 57. Kerri Ottoman 58. Ken Le 59. Derek Harris 60. Alexandra Ross 61. Nikolay Hristov 62. Nathan Jones 63. Kyle Dooley 64. Kyle Green 65. Amelia Flohr 66. Andrew Braun 67. Erik Kammerer 68. Andrew Kofoed 69. 70. Kenneth Bent 71. Nicholas Bianchini 72. Rick Stainbrook 73. DeAndre Amos 74. Ryan Potter 75. Spencer Schaaf 76. Rachel Baer 77. Mark Duarte 78. Casey McLeod 79. London Westerlund 80. Joseph Bernard 81. Daniel 82. David Bryant 83. Adi Ramie 84. Jeff Niiya We don't know why some fields are missing or redacted. We also don't who is responsible for the redactions. We deliberately chose not to include names of people listed as EMTs because we are hesitant to lump them into the same category as the police. If you know of any names missing from this list please post them in the comments section below. If you want to help improve the visibility of this page when people search the internet for the names of these officers please post a link to this page on your website and/or social media pages. #alankessler #twitter #antifa #blacklivesmatter #civilrights
This author has discovered a disturbing trend among expert witnesses which serves as nothing more than a barrier which effectively denies self-represented litigants of their right to present expert testimony in court. For nearly a month I have contacted many companies that claim to work as agents that match people with expert witnesses and many experts directly. They all respond by directing me to have my attorney contact them and when I tell them I am representing myself they say that they only work with attorneys. Today I am fighting back hoping that if I can convince enough people to stop doing business with them that they will start doing business with self-represented parties. I am stopping short at demanding that they take any case from anyone willing to pay them, but I am demanding that they at least agree to review all cases based on their merits for anyone willing to pay them and stop categorically refusing to review cases at all just because the person offering to pay them for their work is not a lawyer. I am a plaintiff in lawsuit against Multnomah County which includes a claim of inadequate medical care following a serious injury I suffered while incarcerated at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC). I held off on looking for an expert until the court ruled on the viability of my claim because I didn't want to waste money on an expert unless the court agreed that it was the type of claim that expert testimony could substantiate. This was done via a bifurcated summary judgment phase in which the parties and court agreed to postpone evaluating claims which require expert testimony until after challenges to all other claims could be resolved. Among the claims to survive that phase are that Multnomah County was deliberately indifferent to my serious medical needs in violation of the federal constitution and negligent under state law. To succeed on such claims I just need an expert to review my medical records and say that "medical staff did not meet the applicable standard of care exercised by a reasonably careful medical professional with like training and expertise in the community" (see https://ift.tt/3nc0lQK) which shouldn't be too hard since it seems their only defense so far relies on excuses for not meeting the applicable standard of care such as security risks associated with meeting that standard. The main reason why experts refuse to work with self represented parties seems to be a believe that if no lawyer will take your case that you have no case. I assume that such logic is usually correct, but at the same time it fails to consider the needs of a class of people that lack access to legal counsel. Those are people who lawyers are unwilling to work with for reasons irrelevant to the merits of their case. I have learned that I belong to this class for financial and personal reasons. Those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars an hour to represent them regardless of outcome are usually unable to pursue a lawsuit unless a lawyer is willing to represent them on a contingency basis. I have learned that I belong to this class because I don't have enough money sitting in a bank account to cover all the expenses of a case up front and my credit stinks due to all my bank accounts being closed automatically after I went to prison due to auto-billing overdrawing them. It is common when people are denied pretrial release for this to happen if they don't have anybody on the outside with the access needed to cancel their bills after they no longer have an income. This did not discourage me at first because most personal injury lawyers only work on contingency, so I figured as long as I have a strong case I could find a lawyer who would only be paid after I won. Unfortunately, I raise certain red flags that discourage lawyers from working with me. There are some people that the legal community considers to be nightmare clients and such people typically can never get a lawyer to represent them on a contingency basis. I am considered to be one such person because I regularly speak out against members of the law enforcement community including the defendants in my lawsuit. Those activities could guarantee that any lawyer who takes the case will be bombarded with discovery by the defense which they will try to admit as evidence of my views against their clients. As evidence of this I was appointed two lawyers to represent me in federal court on relatively minor charges by the CJA Panel because it was determined that one lawyer couldn't handle the workload. That continued to be the case when the guilt phase ended and I was released on supervision. It is practically unheard of for the CJA Panel to appoint co-counsel in the first place let alone allow that to remain the case after supervision has commenced. It is likely that a lawyer who represents me in a civil case against multiple defendants including the named victim from the criminal case would have a hard time serving their other clients. Most lawyers seem incapable of overcoming the context of a criminal defendant that pled guilty to assault suing the named victim. If asked independently if someone can assault someone and sue them for excessive retaliation they always agree that they can, but when asked to actually back up their opinions by helping with a case like that they almost always decline. In my case I threw a handful of spicy chips in the face of a deputy on the 5th floor of MCDC, I was taken to the 4th floor, placed on a mattress face down, and the guy I threw the chips at uncuffed my left arm, twisted it away from my body, and broke my humerus in half. The county of course claims that the arm was broken during the initial encounter on the 5th floor and does all they can to imply that the guilty plea supports their claim even though the record from the plea hearing clearly shows that I only admitted to throwing chips. I made it clear that I never elbowed or otherwise physically struck any deputy, but civil lawyers just say "you pled guilty, can't help you." They stick to their guns even after I point out that an expert already debunked the county's causation theory during the criminal case and agreed to help with the civil one. The county's best shot at winning is to convince a jury that a "pop" that the deputies claim to have heard on the 5th floor was the arm breaking, that I never showed any sign of pain until after they left me in a cell on the 4th floor (which they use to imply that the break must not have been bad even though it is one of the worst breaks possible), and that someone with an injury like that managed to "fight ferociously" the entire time they were being transported from one floor to the other. One would think a civil litigator would jump at the opportunity to take a case in which objectively unreasonable force was so obviously used. Unfortunately, civil litigators often consider the personal characteristics of prospective clients as relevant to their claims. If think they cannot convince an emotionally unstable creature too dumb to get out of jury duty to feel much sympathy for their client then they might not represent that person regardless of the merits of their claim. This is the part that seems to hurt me the most because I do all I can to punish any member of law enforcement that so much as inconveniences me. One lawyer told me that even if he could convince a jury to believe my version of events that they likely would not want to award me much money as if to imply that some jurors might think that I deserved to have my arm broken for threatening to publish home addresses of multiple deputies on this site before they decided to enter my 5th floor cell. That lawyer didn't change his mind after I pointed out that the suit would seek compensation for his fees in addition to whatever the jury decides to award me. Under that scheme I could be awarded just $1 and the defense would still have to pay reasonable attorney's fees on top of that. Civil litigators seem to lump all criminals into the same category unless they are non-violent offenders. I got the impression that they view me no different than a rapist suing his victim for physically retaliating long after the rape was over with because surely no jury would want to award a rapist money even if the victim had no right to use force at the time, they would just say it served him right for raping her earlier and that their sympathies rest with the person provoked by being raped. This is of course not remotely similar, but for bubble people that view most criminals the same way that does not matter. If a person cannot convince any lawyer to take their case on contingency regardless of merit due to their personal characteristics and cannot afford to pay a lawyer to take a case regardless of its outcome then they have no choice but to seek justice on their own. When they seek justice on their own they already have a hard enough time dealing with legal hurdles that exist for anyone regardless of intellect whose never tried a case before. I have a Bachelor Degree and do well on intelligence tests which probably has something to do with why one of my former lawyers called me one of the best pro se brief writers he has ever seen. I am someone perfectly capable of pursuing my case to the end even if it means I might not do as well at a trial as an experienced lawyer might. I say "might" because often I see lawyers take a timid approach that I would never take, so it can be beneficial to be self represented because you know you can say and do stuff no licensed attorney ever would. The biggest hurdle I have it seems isn't my skill, but my status. If I cannot find an expert willing to review my medical records then my case will not survive no matter how good it is. That is why I am fighting back. I am fighting back on behalf of myself as well as every similarly situated self-represented person unable to exercise their right to present expert testimony due solely to their status of not being a lawyer. From now on whenever anyone who advertises expert witness services either as an agency or as an expert themselves refuses to work with me I will add their information to the following list: Expert Institute expertinstitute.com - "At this time, we only support law firms" Round Table Group - The Experts on Experts "We appreciate your interest in Round Table Group. We work exclusively with attorney clients to identify experts and expert resources to assist in litigation matters. Since you are contacting me through a generic email address, I do need to confirm that you are an attorney. If not, please have your attorney contact us." - Cathy Franczyk drkvitne.com -Denial by phone Dr. Gary Ciment cimentgary[at]gmail.com - "I'm afraid that it is my unshakeable policy never to interact directly with clients -- only through their lawyers. And, if a client is representing himself or herself, then I cannot be involved at all as an expert witness." Unfortunately, most experts I have reached out to have not responded at all. I tried moving on to local orthopedic doctors, but they always say that they don't do expert testimony period and recommend looking for people that are retired or advertise expert testimony. I am tired of this, so from now on I will add names to the above list whenever an expert or company that works with experts categorically refuses to work with me just for being self-represented. If they want to be removed from the list all they have to do is start working with self represented litigants. From now on only working for lawyers will no longer be good for these businesses. If you know of an expert witness or a company that matches people with experts that won't work with self represented litigants please post them in the comments section below. #expertwitnesses #expertinstitute #roundtablegroup
A data breach recently outed dozens of current and former law enforcement officers in Oregon as members of the far-right extremist militia group Oath Keepers. One of those officers is former Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputy Philip Farrell whose Facebook friend's list is public (https://ift.tt/3par02W). On that list we discovered the names of many current MCSO deputies including the deputy responsible for breaking this author's arm and others involved in that incident. On June 28, 2017 this author's left humerus bone was broken in half by MCSO deputy Timothy Barker. Barker had me pinned down against a mattress in the disciplinary unit, uncuffed my hands which were behind my back, grabbed my left arm, and twisted it away from my body until it broke. As the image above shows, a search of Farrell's Friend's list for the name "Barker" results in a profile named Tim Barker which was already known to this author as the Facebook profile of Deputy Timothy Barker. Other individuals involved in the arm breaking incident also present on Farrell's friend's list include David Kovachevich (https://ift.tt/2xVwEKB), Uwe Pemberton (https://ift.tt/2YZi0Tb), Philip Hubert (https://ift.tt/30FVbzJ), and Paul Simpson (https://ift.tt/30KcW0Q). Additional current or former MCSO personnel linked to the Oath Keepers by virtue of being Farrell Facebook friends include Bud Karp (https://ift.tt/3vnmvmN) Steve Hartshorn (https://ift.tt/3n0lpJT) Clyde Bagley (https://ift.tt/3vlkGXu) Sharon Vogt Huffstutter (https://ift.tt/30D6uIO) Harold Amidon (https://ift.tt/3AOprKb) Sharon Vogt Huffstutter (https://ift.tt/30D6uIO) Daniel Carrithers (https://ift.tt/3FTNgUT) Linda Satrapa Yankee (https://ift.tt/3aJFC0U) Ed Hagen (https://ift.tt/3pgkQ1l) James Turney (https://ift.tt/3BStMO2) George Siniscal (https://ift.tt/3lO6iDV) Andrew Grundmann (https://ift.tt/2xVwsel) Bruce Bledsoe (https://ift.tt/3DPRUkV) Bruce Giggers (https://ift.tt/3jbMAjI) Scott Fuller (https://ift.tt/3jvzoXt) Jim Hoffert (https://ift.tt/3DPROK5) Bill Rock (https://ift.tt/2xVwumt) Kraig Anspach (https://ift.tt/3vnXdot) Stan Donna Kinzig (https://ift.tt/2YWI9mj) Harold Amidon (https://ift.tt/2YXSA8u) Sean Neely (https://ift.tt/3lPxYbL) Phil Lawrence (https://ift.tt/3aJFuOY) Shibui Swords Tsuba (https://ift.tt/2YUYOpN) Amber Marshall (https://ift.tt/3DPxEQh) Donna Bucar (https://ift.tt/3lR4fPA) Matt Mitchell (https://ift.tt/30KcUpK) Robert Miller (https://ift.tt/30CBhFM) Tim Robinson (https://ift.tt/3vnXfwB) Susan Lambert-Gates (https://ift.tt/3n5IAlZ) Jeffrey Smith (https://ift.tt/3pbUYDL) Bernie Giusto (https://ift.tt/3AKJ6La) Kirk Freiermuth (https://ift.tt/3BQLH7P) Paul Blackburn (https://ift.tt/3DQQs1O) Bud Naten (https://ift.tt/3n1FTCa) Kay Chambliss (https://ift.tt/3FWjZJa) Wendall Jackson (https://ift.tt/3AQqmdg) Richard Hilts (https://ift.tt/3B2ccWJ) Rodger Cross (https://ift.tt/3DUjo99) Val Owen (https://ift.tt/3pfZCAG) Bill Taylor (https://ift.tt/2JKbeGW) Jerry Robertson (https://ift.tt/3vlT3gS) Shawn Seals (https://ift.tt/3BSUGFx) Doug Anderson (https://ift.tt/2Ya1VUD) Dot Hayes-Rathburn (https://ift.tt/3lPgDzB) Dan McEuen (https://ift.tt/3lX7khj) Muhammad Ra'oof (https://ift.tt/3lRGs2c) Jim Knapp (https://ift.tt/3AQqz02) Dave Bejarano (https://ift.tt/3jbVOfT) Jay Sadler (https://ift.tt/3je4Rgt) Kenneth Harris (https://ift.tt/3vjwY2w) Cathy Mcpartland-Lamb (https://ift.tt/2Z5Vqcb) Kathy Kosky-Seals (https://ift.tt/3vjwYzy) Steven Gilliam (https://ift.tt/30HL3X8) Terence Packham (https://ift.tt/3AQqutg) Laur'e Akers (https://ift.tt/3FUI5ny) Larry Domine (https://ift.tt/3FQ1AOd) Stefan Streight (https://ift.tt/3lPgyfh) Jessie Leader (https://ift.tt/3lRIfny) Mike Veley (https://ift.tt/3BTrn5t) Rosemary Morgan-Harris (https://ift.tt/3FWjUoQ) David Kalel (https://ift.tt/3aJOmEe) Gerald Bales (https://ift.tt/3vnifUc) Kari Carrithers (https://ift.tt/3DOmE5D) Rob Ward (https://ift.tt/2Z2wWAw) Jeff Magnuson (https://ift.tt/30KcShC) Timothy D. Strohmeyer (https://ift.tt/3AOI9la) John Plock (https://ift.tt/3lOHDiA) Matthew Dilger (https://ift.tt/3n26mj5) Troy Ness (https://ift.tt/3lQhlwp) Derrick Peterson (https://ift.tt/3aOj66Z) Matt Dilger (https://ift.tt/2YW8v7B) Jesse Luna (https://ift.tt/3FTozI5) Judith Lucke (https://ift.tt/2xVwLG1) Curt Bull (https://ift.tt/2xWtwhJ) Barb Pomazi (https://ift.tt/3ARucmc) Paul Simpson (https://ift.tt/30KcW0Q) Brandon White (https://ift.tt/3lQhmAt) Brett Russell (https://ift.tt/3FSnQa6) Tom Slyter (https://ift.tt/3aMgruF) Enrique Suave (https://ift.tt/3jedrf9) Mike Wroten (https://ift.tt/3FVMuGV) Jerry French (https://ift.tt/3pqUHNF) Marcine Stevens (https://ift.tt/2Z02O8F) Danny Ny (https://ift.tt/3vmidMy) Laverne Thomas Jr. (https://ift.tt/3vo3xg4) Steve Hartshorn (https://ift.tt/3vtGoc4) Gary Glaze (https://ift.tt/30CBfOa) Steve Eastvedt (https://ift.tt/3G6c10e) Molly McDade (https://ift.tt/2YVRzyp) Ross Mac Donald (https://ift.tt/30AED1k) Bobby Caston (https://ift.tt/30KcuQc) Don Smith (https://ift.tt/3DRcC3W) Gretchen Rosa (https://ift.tt/3n03kvH) Jobie Marshall (https://ift.tt/3pbWHcr) Todd Taylor (https://ift.tt/3vmibUW) Philip Hubert (https://ift.tt/30FVbzJ) We suspect several other people on Farrell's friend's list of being current or former MCSO staff members, but cannot confirm for sure because this author does not recall ever meeting them or they failed to overtly identify themselves as law enforcement. One person on Farrell's list is Portland Police Officer Michael N Amy Close (https://ift.tt/2Z1WKNb). Does this mean all those people are actually Oath Keepers members? Not necessarily, but it does show that they are part of a right leaning community that despite being outed as including far-right extremists still have no problem openly associating in this way. We recognized one of the people on Farrell's friends list as recently retired MCSO deputy Sharon Huffstutter whose racist Facebook posts we exposed in 2019 (https://ift.tt/2XTAxz7), that same year we talked about the embarrassing history of former deputy Judith Lucke (https://ift.tt/3dHJfEZ), and have written articles about several others on the list including these: https://ift.tt/3cx0sjP https://ift.tt/33pGoul https://ift.tt/2N9B4Wc https://ift.tt/37J65Yl https://ift.tt/2GkmU46 https://ift.tt/3EzmyQu https://ift.tt/2SbvoP0 https://ift.tt/2k8t9gM https://ift.tt/32Me6eX https://ift.tt/2NUDyKP https://ift.tt/31Nwk04 https://ift.tt/3hRcXJi https://ift.tt/3gTvsLI https://ift.tt/3gNQJqk https://ift.tt/35JMGWg https://ift.tt/35m9XNQ https://ift.tt/2NuWBJ6 https://ift.tt/2Qd2Hzt https://ift.tt/34C7mio https://ift.tt/32tlPNx Is it possible for any of these people to be Oath Keepers in the true meaning of the name? No, it does not because the name Oath Keepers supposedly means that they are a group of people who intend to keep the oath they swore which was to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not possible for someone to keep such an oath and work as a law enforcement officer (LEO) for any significant length of time. The most obvious examples of why that is are 2nd Amendment violations in which police arrest people for unlawfully possessing firearms even thought they are exercising their 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. Correctional officers inevitably enable the detention of the same people. If a LEO wants to truly keep his oath he or she will need to refrain from arresting anyone based on any law that prohibits them from possessing firearms or is otherwise unconstitutional and will ultimately lose his or her job. If that person is a correctional officer the only way they can keep their oath is by refusing to book anyone on a firearms related charge and free all that were booked by other staff members or before they started working at the correctional facility. For those reasons it is not possible for any group called Oath Keepers in relation to an oath to protect and defend the Constitution to allow LEOs in their ranks without admitting through such actions that they are not Oath Keepers at all and their name is a fraud. Besides the 2nd Amendment there are many other Constitutional violations committed by LEOs either directly (ex: arresting someone for free speech on violation of the 1st Amdendment) or tangentially (assisting with the detention of a person held on excessive bail in violation of the 8th Amendment). #oathkeepers #philipfarrell #timothybarker #facebook
She is into sex trafficking and setting dudes up when she doesn't get her way but don't let her rich bitch cover fool ya she just a puddle #shelikestopartyherandzoeythisisdaniellebutler
Watch out for this lady she set a guy named j.c. and is not only in to sex trafficking and setting people up but loves the fast life and likes to jump from guy to guy so be careful out there #lookoutthischickisnutsandseemsinnocentbutisclearlynot
Celebrity snitch if Ventura, CA - Alberto 'Tiger' Martinez Claims to be ex-marine but was never enlisted Uses threats to force non-snitches to conform and if they don't comply they get incessantly attacked and harassed #ci #drugdealer #drugaddict #homeless #predator
A Brookline Probation Officer whose also a Parkway Little League umpire has been arrested for child pornography. Michael O'Reilly (MO) was arraigned today on charges of posing a child in a state of nudity, dissemination of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography. He posted just $5,000 bail and was released. His status with the Brookline District Court is not know at this time, but given the nature of the charges we suspect that he will be placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the case if he hasn't already. According to a press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, MO is a probation officer for the Brookline District Court (https://ift.tt/3jr7P1t) and an umpire for Parkway Little League in West Roxbury where he lives. They have not said if any of MO's victims are associated with Parkway Little League. Before releasing O'Reilly on just $5,000 bail Judge Kathleen Coffey ordered that MO stay away from and have no contact with any child under 18 and have GPS monitoring. We are not sure why the bail was so low, but we think his status as a probation officer probably had something to do with it. As a P.O. he knows better than most what child predators and former law enforcement face behind bars. The threat of doing time as a sexer and a cop should be enough to scare anyone out of skipping court or violating the terms of their release. The press release (see PDF link above map) went on to say that the Boston Police Department had received a tip about an individual sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Their investigation led them to officer MO. Officers executed a search warrant on MO's house last week and seized items containing CSAM. The release concluded with boiler plate statements about how disgusting this is, how people like MO rely on their victims remaining silent, and urging anyone with any information to contact law enforcement. According to public records, Michael Joseph O'Reilly is a 43 year old resident of West Roxbury, Massachusetts. His last known address is 7 Glenhaven Road. The DA's office and the news media have yet to publicly print MO's middle name so we did a public records search for people named Michael O'Reilly in West Roxbury where reports say this MO lives. We found three results for men named Michael O'Reilly currently living in West Roxbury. One of those is a 67 year old attorney also named Michael J. O'Reilly whose obviously not the same person since he is clearly not a probation officer and too old to be a little league umpire. We extend out sympathies to him since it must really suck to share your full name with a guy who just got arrested for sex crimes against children. That lawyer however appears to be listed as a possible first generation relative of the MO whose information we are posting here, so we suspect them of being father and son. The third entry appears to be duplicitous of the second entry. The only other MO whose name came up is someone whose middle name is Michael and has a more recent address outside or West Roxbury. Unless MO had his information removed from our background check service or the service missed a MO that recently moved to West Roxbury then we are pretty sure we have the right guy. We are exempting the address from our usual courtesy of censoring home addresses of law enforcement personnel because this cases involves formal charges being filed involving sex crimes against minors. We share the address to warn parents where not to let their kids go. Please do not use that information for any unlawful purpose. If you have a picture of MO or more information about MO please contact us. #michaeloreilly #childpornography #parkwaylittleleague
Correctional Officer Tyrell Harris-McLaughlin was arrested today for sexually assaulting an inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey. He faces charges of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault and Official Misconduct. This is just the latest of many recent scandals to rock that prison. The abuse is reported to involve vaginal penetration with ejaculation and an invasive medical procedure. That last one was conducted by medical staff for the purpose of getting a DNA sample which was later matched to Harris-McLaughlin. We are not sure if Harris-McLaughlin physically forced himself on the victim at this time. In New Jersey someone can commit 2nd Degree Sexual Assault if "The victim is on probation or parole, or is detained in a hospital, prison or other institution and the actor has supervisory or disciplinary power over the victim by virtue of the actor's legal, professional or occupational status;" (https://ift.tt/3BExI4B). The statutory scheme suggests that had physical force or coercion been used that Harris-McLaughlin's conduct would have constituted aggravated sexual assault which is a crime in the first degree. It is all too common for correctional officers to have sexual relationships with inmates, but even though such relationships would be considered consensual in society, an inmate is considered legally incapable of giving consent due to disability of incarceration. Disability of incarceration is often put in the same category as other forms of disability such as being unconscious, under age, or mentally disabled. Most cases of guard/prisoner relations take place in men's prisons with female officers and are largely unreported because the men are the suitors, do their best to seduce the women, and are quite happy when they submit. That is not to say that there are not cases of female guards coercing sex from male inmates, but they are extremely rare. By virtue of being incarcerated even the fugliest of females become more desirable over time. Women incapable of attracting a man in the world become viable options for incarcerated men whose only alternatives are their hands and other men. When this author was incarcerated in the Columbia County Jail in St. Helens, Oregon the top female cook suddenly stopped coming to work. It turned out she was caught having a good time with some of the guys working in the kitchen. One look at her was all it took to see why she would set her standards so low. Everyone missed her cookies. Earlier this year 10 officers were arrested after a video (embedded below) surfaced showing them using excessive force including brutal beatings to conduct unnecessary cell extractions (https://ift.tt/3BExIBD). Those officers are Jose Irizarry, Courey James, Gustavo Sarmiento Jr., Tara Wallace, Lt. Eddie Molina, Luis Garcia, and Sergeants Amir Bethea, Anthony Valvano, Matthew Faschan and Andraia Bridges. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has pledged to close the prison, but he has a problem, Edna Mahan is the state's only women's prison. The state will have to build a new prison or convert a men's prison either of which takes time. According to public records, Tyrell Harris-McLaughlin is a 28 year old resident of Brooklyn, New York. He is a registered Democrat with no prior criminal record. #tyrellharrismclaughlin #ednamahancorrectionalfacility
Troy The Snitch ass farm boy meth mouth, came to my bachelor party 9/8/2021. The little rat came drunk started shit with ALL of my grooms men. When confronted for talking shit Troy runs in the woods trying to leave drunk off 2 hf gallons of long islands. He gets scared and calls the cops to a bachelor party in the Huron forest in baldwin michigan. He told the cops he was in fear for his life! Lmfao. Then the rat tried to tell my ol lady we were looking for whores in the middle of the fuckin forest to get out of his own trouble with his girl. Troy Adkins your a disgrace. Stay clear of the Bachelor Party Rat before he rats on you next! #theratiestratofthemall
Rochester Police officer Steven Kovacic was discovered passed out drunk behind the wheel in Wayne County on Monday. He was arrested for drunk driving, driving to the left of pavement markings, and illegal parking. Deputies say that Kovacic was partially blocking traffic on State Route 441 East of Canandaigua Road in Walworth with his vehicle and they were able to determine that Kovacic was drunk despite his refusal to take a breathalyzer test. He was booked and released with orders to appear in court in the near future. The RPD has re-assigned Kovacic to administrative duty. We have noticed this past year that the RPD is one of the worst police departments in America when it comes to holding their own accountable. The fact that their officers are allowed to keep their jobs when found passed out drunk behind the wheel blocking traffic is just one example of something foul at the RPD. Last year we exposed every piece of personal information we could find belonging to 7 RPD officers responsible for the in custody murder of an unarmed black man experiencing a mental health crisis (https://ift.tt/3jTmKPM). Earlier this year we exposed the identities of several officers responsible for pepper spraying a 9 year old black girl (https://ift.tt/3jTmKPM). Several officers involved in the pepper spraying incident were allowed to remain on active duty and two of them participated in the assault of a black mother while she held the hand of her young daughter (https://ift.tt/3v7Lz0B). According to public records, Steven J. Kovacic is a 53 year old resident of Rochester, New York. He is a registered Republican with no prior criminal record. #stevenkovacic #drunkdriving #dui
Frances Bordwell Haugen is a former Facebook executive now making a making headlines for ratting out her former employer to the federal government. This week she testified before the Senate Consumer Protection Committee in an effort to get the government to censor social media more. People like her are the reason why you can hardly say anything on Facebook anymore and its almost impossible to operate an account using any name other than your real one. She thinks that Facebook is a threat to democracy because they still allow too many people to be heard on their platform. She fails to realize that shutting people up is the real threat to democracy. Like a lot of snitches she likes to try to make her squealing look courageous. The truth is she is just a bitter bitch who couldn't make it at Facebook and now wants to make up for it by making herself a hero to those that seek to undermine democracy by shutting people up. They call those being silenced by Facebook extremists and their words misinformation, but who is Facebook to decide what is true or false? The real threat to democracy is a government that keeps finding ways to silence those that disagree with them. It is bad enough that Facebook has voluntarily censored just about anyone most people find offensive, but now the government itself threatens to force Facebook to silence the rest. The only good thing that can come of this is an opportunity for new platforms willing to defy the government should they take action. Platforms run using offshore servers and that create policies against complying with American courts. Platforms like PostAlmostAnything.com which is currently being developed to allow users to post almost anything with little oversight. We conducted a background check on Haugen resulting in the above mapped address as well as the email address frances.haugen[at]gmail.com. We are not sure if the address we have is current because it shows up online some places as the location of a business. The rest of her address history is listed as follows: 1777 9TH ST OAKLAND, CA 94607 2010 - 2020 1483 GRAND AVE IOWA CITY, IA 52246 2001 - 2018 3356 24TH ST SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 2017 - 2018 6399 CHRISTIE AVE APT 409 EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 2016 - 2018 As always we ask that nobody use this information for any illegal purpose. We post addresses of people like her to help people make their voices heard peacefully. #franceshaugen #facebook #censorship #freespeech #famoussnitches
The trial of self-proclaimed Proud Boy Alan Swinney threatens to expand the scope of mandatory minimums in the state of Oregon to include every idiot with a paintball gun dumb enough to shoot anyone with a paintball. That is because Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez is arguing that a paintball gun loaded with traditional paintballs constitutes a dangerous weapon under Oregon's second degree assault statute (Assault II). Assault II is a Measure 11 crime punishable by a mandatory minimum of 5 years in state prison. Alan Swinney is not an innocent man. He assaulted several people with paintballs and mace before menacing a giant crowd with a loaded pistol. For those things he will likely spend 2-5 years in state prison. We have not had time to do enough research to figure out exactly how much time Swinney faces without being charged with a Measure 11 offense and we probably won't find the time either because we don't have an issue with most of his other charges. We don't care much for Alan Swinney the man, but we are extremely worried about what the effort to lock him up might mean for the rest of us or at least those of use that don't always have the sense not to shoot people with paintballs. Shooting people with paintballs is not legal, but unless someone gets shot directly in the eye the worst anyone has to fear from a paintball is a nasty bruise. That is why we thought at first that the Assault II charges against Swinney must be based on the injuries allegedly inflicted on two people. Vasquez made mention of the alleged injuries during the opening statement in such a way that a lot of reasonable people would come away thinking that was probably the theory he was pursing. The same is true of anyone familiar with the Assault II statue. A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if the person: (a) Intentionally or knowingly causes serious physical injury to another; (b) Intentionally or knowingly causes physical injury to another by means of a deadly or dangerous weapon; or (c) Recklessly causes serious physical injury to another by means of a deadly or dangerous weapon under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. (see https://ift.tt/3uFd3Lp) For someone to be charged with Assault II in Oregon due to their use of a paintball gun one would logically conclude that it probably requires a freak accident resulting in "serious physical injury" to someone's eye. We were under this impression when we first wrote about the Swinney trial. We even got into a lengthy argument via email with alleged victim Jason Britton and a brief exchange of Tweets with alleged victim Megan Steward. We were convinced that the reason Vasquez didn't call a single expert witness to back up Britton's claim of long term eye injury must have been that Vasquez thought exposing Britton to eye examinations by a credible expert wouldn't substantiate his claims. We still think that had Vasquez thought an expert could prove that Britton suffered serious injury that he would have used one, but instead Vasquez is rolling with the theory that a paintball gun itself constitutes a dangerous weapon under the second prong of the statute. If Vasquez can convince a jury that a paintball gun is a dangerous weapon then the visible bruises suffered by Britton and Steward are all he needs to show that Swinney caused two people injury with a dangerous weapon. That might sound great at first to Antifa or anyone else that would love nothing more than to lock Swinney up and throw away the key. Unfortunately, when people become so dedicated to nail one guy that they don't care how, the state historically takes advantage of that in ways that have catastrophic long term consequences for the community. If Vasquez obtains an Assault II conviction in this case and that conviction is upheld by the court of appeals then all any prosecutor will need to charge someone with a Measure 11 assault in the future is a single bruise caused by a paintball. Other cases involving paintballs in Oregon in recent years suggest that Vasquez's fellow prosecutors including some in his own office lack his ambition or just don't think that paintballs are dangerous weapons. Earlier this year a man was charged with Assault IV for shooting someone with a paintball in downtown Portland (https://ift.tt/3FfqRRG). Three years ago a teenager was charged with 25 counts including several counts of physical harassment, but no assault charges for going on a shooting spree with a paintball gun in Bend (https://ift.tt/3Fd1uQh). Had someone been convicted of Assault II just for inflicting bruises with a paintball gun before those incidents then the defendants would have likely been charged with Assault II and both of them would have faced a mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison upon conviction. If Vasquez has his way with Swinney then the next stupid kid to go around shooting people with paintballs will spend his college years in prison. Before long those that would be contributing to society with their master's degrees will be recent parolees living in halfway houses struggling to find work. That might sound like just some stupid elitist frat boys losing their white privilege to some, but it will have a disproportional impact on minority communities as well even though paintball is typically thought of as pastime of young white people. Studies over the years have consistently shown a heavily disproportional number of minorities serving mandatory minimums in state prisons due to Measure 11. A report released by the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission earlier this year showed that white men account for 65% of all Measure 11 indictments and black men account for 11% even though just 3% of the state's population is African American (see PDF link above). A black man in Oregon if four times more likely than a white man to be charged with a Measure 11 offense (https://ift.tt/3quLOiX). Assault II accounts for most Measure 11 convictions (28.8%) at more than double the rate of the next most common offense (11%). Expanding the scope of Measure 11 just to lock up one guy who might be a white supremacist is no way to protect or improve black lives. The best way for anyone with Antifa associated with the Swinney prosecution to show they really mean it when they say "Black Lives Matter" is to ask Nathan Vasquez to back off on the Assault II charges. If he won't then they need to find some way to tell the jury what an Assault II conviction really means for Oregonians. #nathanvasquez #alanswinney #proudboys #antifa #blacklivesmatter