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It’s said: Live by the sword die by the sword. Did Law enforcement and politicians create this environment by giving officers enormous powers without holding them accountable for police brutality? In order for civil society to work there needs to be trust between civilians and government. When that trust is broken–horrible things will happen.

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by Zak Cheney-Rice

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Much of the recent debate about policing’s excesses involves a clash of two viewpoints: one claiming that there is something structurally and culturally wrong with American law enforcement that encourages immoral behavior, and another that attributes their worst conduct to “bad apples,” rogue individuals whose actions speak for them alone and do not indict their fellow officers or their profession as a whole. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provides a helpful literalization of the former point: an entire law-enforcement entity whose members regularly join criminal gangs, earn clout by harassing, assaulting, and killing county residents, and retaliate against their colleagues who dare to oppose them.

[Don’t forget the Rampart Division of the LA Sheriff scandal some years ago where an entire contingent was engaged in planting evidence, perjury, false arrests, robbing drug dealers, and murder!]

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Sworn testimony made in June by a whistleblower, Deputy Art Gonzalez, details a pattern of such behavior inside the Compton sheriff’s station, which exists as part of the Southern California city’s partnership with the county sheriff to provide local law enforcement. Gonzalez claimed that Deputy Miguel Vega, who shot 18-year-old Andres Guardado during a June incident that sparked protests, was a prospective member of the Executioners, a dozen or so deputies who allegedly operate as a gang — setting illegal arrest quotas, threatening work slowdowns if they don’t get their desired shift assignments, assaulting their fellow deputies, and holding parties to celebrate when their members shoot or kill someone in the line of duty, the Los Angeles Times reports. The existence of the Executioners is “common knowledge” within the department, Gonzalez said, according to Spectrum News 1, which obtained a transcript of his testimony this week. Decades of harassment and violence at the hands of the Compton office — including one 2019 incident where the city’s mayor, Aja Brown, claims to have been ordered out of her car by more than half a dozen deputies and searched for drugs that she did not possess — have led the city to propose severing ties with the department altogether, a proposal that the Executioners revelations stand to accelerate. According to the whistleblower complaint, Deputy Vega, who shot Guardado six times in the back, was “chasing ink” — a term used to describe efforts to impress the Executioners in order to be drafted into their ranks and obtain their signature tattoo: a skeleton backed by flames, brandishing a rifle and wearing a Nazi-style helmet.

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Part of what makes this dynamic notable is how ordinary it is. Though the central allegation is that the Executioners “dominate” the Compton sheriff’s office, at least nine other such gangs are known to operate across the department, and have done so for decades. “Vikings, Reapers, Regulators, Little Devils, Cowboys, 2000 Boys and 3000 Boys, Jump Out Boys, and most recently the Banditos and the Executioners,” Matthew Burson, chief of the department’s professional standard division, told KABC last month of the LASD’s gang problem. “I am absolutely sickened by the mere allegation of any deputy hiding behind their badges to hurt anyone.” Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said he intends to fire or suspend more than two dozen deputies involved in a widely covered assault on four non-gang members at an off-duty party in 2018. Villanueva was elected under immense pressure to clean up the department, whose former heads — Lee Baca and his undersheriff, Paul Tanaka — were convicted of obstructing a federal probe of abuses in the county’s jail. Tanaka was an alleged member of the Lynwood Vikings, a white supremacist sheriff’s gang. Villanueva has also said that he will implement measures to discourage deputies from joining these cliques at all, but county Inspector General Max Huntsman said last month that he’d seen no evidence of this actually happening. The fallout has been costly on several fronts. Since 2010, misconduct claims linked to these sheriff’s gangs have cost the county $21 million in settlements and associated legal costs, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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It’s hard to make sense of this phenomenon without acknowledging that discrete individual malfeasance is insufficient for explaining its scope and longevity. The existence of ten or more gangs operating within the law-enforcement agency that patrols America’s most populous county, and whose members have occupied its highest ranks, indicates a level of tolerance and normalization that cannot be isolated to any one person, and a scale of public danger that cannot be calculated in mere dollar amounts or police shooting statistics. These gangs have been implicated in sustaining an environment of terror, and are regularly celebrated and rewarded for it. Their existence, and seeming intractability, are stark manifestations of the ways that American law-enforcement agencies operate as fraternities the nation over, with less regard for public partnership than for capitalizing upon their own impunity. This is perhaps most evident in the conduct of police unions. But survey any heavily patrolled community and it becomes clear that the existence of police gangs are not necessary to promote illegal arrest quotas, work slowdowns, or internal plaudits for acts of brutality — though gangs are an especially brazen way of formalizing them. This is simply the reality of policing.

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It is also incompatible with the arguments made by champions of “bad apple” theory — chief among them President Trump, who this week equated killings by police to having a bad golf game. “The police are under siege,” he said during a Monday interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. He continued:

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They can do 10,000 great acts — which is what they do — and one bad apple. Or, you know, a choker. They choke. Shooting a guy in the back many times — I mean, couldn’t you have done something different, couldn’t you have wrestled him, you know? I mean, in the meantime, he might’ve been going for a weapon, there’s a whole big thing there. But they choke. Just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot put —

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“You’re not comparing it to golf,” Ingraham interrupted, denying what Trump was literally doing. “I’m saying, people choke,” he replied. “People choke.”

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Framed in this way — which, despite its trivialization of homicide, is an apt distillation of what is commonly being asserted when people argue that police abuse is aberrant and discrete — the inadequacy of this explanation is made obvious. It’s also cynical. Trump has pegged much of his reelection campaign’s success to a performative support of the police, lying that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, wants to defund them, and characterizing calls to rein in officer misconduct as unduly prohibitive, even as he’s promoted better credentialing and data-keeping practices. Officers have reveled in these lies and rewarded him with their fealty. “New York’s finest I love,” he remarked on August 14, accepting the endorsement of the Police Benevolent Association in New Jersey. “And you’re the finest, they just don’t let you do your job. They won’t let you do your job.” Thunderous applause greeted him. In fact, the NYPD — whose members the PBA represents — have spent years subjecting Black and Latino New Yorkers to a law-enforcement regime marked by routine violence and harassment, such that the mere act of walking down the street was functionally criminalized. Few professions enjoy such broad discretion and unaccountability. Fewer still enjoy the benefit of having their deadly fecklessness waved off as a bad round of golf. The particular incentive structure that governs gangs like the Executioners may be eye-catching in its boldness. But it also typifies policing in places where they do not proliferate so literally, where the apples rot in bunches but are rarely deemed so bad they can’t be fed to the public.

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THREE DOZEN CHICAGO GANGS VOW TO ‘SHOOT ON-SITE’ ANY ARMED POLICE OFFICER

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BY JEREMY PORTER — 02 SEPTEMBER, 2020

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Last weekend alone, over 50 people were shot in Chicago as riots and protests continued to push through the Windy City. With another two police officers being among those shot, the Chicago Police Department is on high alert as new reports indicate 36 gangs hunting for police officers with a vow to “shoot on-site!”

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First obtained by WLS-TV, the report written by the Chicago FBI office states “members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties.”

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According to officials, the reasoning for the surveillance is to “catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent ‘shoot on-site’ of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.”

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Included in the report was a list of gang factions believed to be participating. The list contained Black P Stones, El Rukns, Vice Lords, and Latin Kings. The police were informed that members of the gang factions made a pact to slay any police officer whose weapon is exposed during performance of duty.

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While the source of this information is unclear, the FBI released a potential activity alert in response to receiving threats to harm or kill members of local law enforcement. For Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown, the violence happening to his officers is more than a threat, “I think 51 officers being shot at or shot in one year, I think that quadruples any previous year in Chicago’s history. So I think it’s more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops.”

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Surpassing 500 murders, Chicago is currently on track to have its deadliest year in decades. Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot appeared more worried about gaining federal aid for the $1.2 billion budget hole than protecting the city or its officers.

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Just a week ago, leaked reports indicated Mayor Lightfoot pledged $10 million to rebuild businesses damaged from looting, but only $232,760 has been granted to 77 Chicago business owners.

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As many are seeing the incompetence of the Democrats, Chief Brown had a simple solution to controlling the riots in Chicago: “We need police officers, and as community members, we need to push back fervently against lawlessness.” As we’ve seen in several Democrat-controlled, that kind of reasoned and applicable statement often concludes the tenure of a police chief. We shall see…

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We’ve barely recovered from the snake-eats-croc photos, and now this: Photos reveal a river otter in Florida attacking a young alligator, which it then ripped into for lunch.

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The photos, shot in 2011 in Florida’s Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge by a visitor named Geoff Walsh, were posted this week on the refuge’s Facebook page. Our favorite reptile expert, Terry Phillip, had this initial reaction: “Man, that’s a bold and hungry otter! Very cool.”

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We asked Phillip, of Reptile Gardens in South Dakota and Black Hills Pythons, to tell us more about how such a battle might go down.

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A cute-faced mammal killing a powerful gator? Wildlife is full of surprises. How common might it be for a river otter to take on such an animal?

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Otters are voracious predators, close to being apex [top predator] in most places where they live. So anywhere they overlap with gators this would be a pretty common occurrence. Still, this is impressive: That’s not a small alligator, probably three or four years old and five feet [1.5 meters] long. If that’s a male otter it might be 30 pounds. That’s a very bold animal!

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How does the otter know to bite the gator behind the head?

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It’s actually a learned behavior. That otter has probably tried attacking smaller ones and got some bites to learn from. Remember that crocs swing their heads side to side when they fight, so the otter wants to be entirely out of the reptile’s strike zone. Mounted on the gator’s back with teeth into the neck, that’s a smart strategy.

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How does the otter actually kill the gator?

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It doesn’t, not directly. First, that’s a pretty hard animal to bite through. The armor on the back is made to deflect bites from other alligators, so it’s very tough. Where the otter wins is in energy: The otter has sustainable energy, whereas the gator is like a grenade, with explosive energy that doesn’t last long. So the best tactic is to wear the gator out, which only takes a few minutes of thrashing and rolling around. Quite quickly it will be very tired, its muscles filled with lactic acid and no longer functioning. At that point it’s almost like it’s intoxicated, and the otter can then get it up on shore. The gator dies of lactic acid buildup, not from being eaten. It would take a long time to kill it that way.

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So the otter eats its prey alive?

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Yeah, once on shore it will rip off pieces of the hide—otters have very sharp teeth—to get to the guts and meat, the good stuff, inside. A lot of parts will end up scattered around. It’s like a lion’s kill as opposed to a snake’s. If there’s a mated pair or young otters, they’ll get a piece of it, too. It’s a good education for otter pups.

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What other big animals might an otter eat?

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Whatever they can catch and overpower. They are smart, agile, and strong predators. They do eat a lot of amphibians and fish, but they’ll also take out sizeable beavers, raccoons, plus snapping turtles, snakes, and small gators. Of course, gators can also eat otters, so it goes both ways!

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And what else might go for a gator?

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When they’re hatchlings, everything eats them. Large fish, snapping turtles, bird of prey. Bobcats and panthers and black bears can certainly eat young ones. (See video: jaguar attacks caiman.) But once the gators are good-sized, the only predator that will typically beat one is another gator. And, apparently, an otter if it’s hungry enough!

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by Natalie Escobar 8-27-20

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In the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting. Whether it was New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying that stealing purses and sneakers from high-end stores in Manhattan was “inexcusable,” or St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter saying looters were “destroy[ing] our community,” police officers, government officials and pundits alike have bemoaned the property damage and demanded an end to the riots. And just this week, rioters have burned buildings and looted stores in Kenosha, Wis., following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, to which Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has said: “Peaceful protesting is a constitutionally protected form of free speech. Rioting is not.”

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Writer Vicky Osterweil’s book, In Defense of Looting, came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently) that “a new energy of resistance is building across the country.” Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of “law and order,” and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.

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I spoke with Osterweil about this summer’s riots, the common narratives surrounding looting, and why “nonviolence” can be a misleading term. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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For people who haven’t read your book, how do you define looting?

When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That’s the thing I’m defending. I’m not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. It’s not a home invasion, either. It’s about a certain kind of action that’s taken during protests and riots.

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Is Looting a Loaded Word?

WWIII Talking Blues

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Looting is a highly racialized word from its very inception in the English language. It’s taken from Hindi, lút, which means “goods” or “spoils,” and it appears in an English colonial officer’s handbook [on “Indian Vocabulary”] in the 19th century.

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During the uprisings of this past summer, rioting and looting have often gone hand in hand. Can you talk about the distinction you see between the two?

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“Rioting” generally refers to any moment of mass unrest or upheaval.Riots are a space in which a mass of people has produced a situation in which the general laws that govern society no longer function, and people can act in different ways in the street and in public. I’d say that rioting is a broader category, in which looting appears as a tactic.

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Often, looting is more common among movements that are coming from below. It tends to be an attack on a business, a commercial space, maybe a government building—taking those things that would otherwise be commodified and controlled and sharing them for free.

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Can you talk about rioting as a tactic? What are the reasons people deploy it as a strategy?

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It does a number of important things. It gets people what they need for free immediately, which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage—which, during COVID times, is widely unreliable or, particularly in these communities is often not available, or it comes at great risk. That’s looting’s most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.

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It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that’s unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free. [Until ‘we’ run out of other people’s money? Apparently, Ayn Rand was right–there’s 2 kinds of people in the world.]

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A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap

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Importantly, I think especially when it’s in the context of a Black uprising like the one we’re living through now, it also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy. The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.

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What are some of the most common myths and tropes that you hear about looting?

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One of the ones that’s been very powerful, that’s both been used by Donald Trump and Democrats, has been the outside agitator myth, that the people doing the riots are coming from the outside. This is a classic. This one goes back to slavery, when plantation owners would claim that it was Freedmen and Yankees coming South and giving the enslaved these crazy ideas—that they were real human beings—and that’s why they revolted.

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Another trope that’s very common is that looters and rioters are not part of the protest, and they’re not part of the movement. That has to do with the history of protesters trying to appear respectable and politically legible as a movement, and not wanting to be too frightening or threatening.

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Another one is that looters are just acting as consumers: Why are they taking flat screen TVs instead of rice and beans? Like, if they were just surviving, it’d be one thing, but they’re taking liquor. All these tropes come down to claiming that the rioters and the looters don’t know what they’re doing. They’re acting, you know, in a disorganized way, maybe an “animalistic” way. But the history of the movement for liberation in America is full of looters and rioters. They’ve always been a part of our movement.

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In your book, you note that a lot of people who consider themselves radical or progressive criticize looting. Why is this common?

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I think a lot of that comes out of the civil rights movement. The popular understanding of the civil rights movement is that it was successful when it was nonviolent, and less successful when it was focused on Black power. It’s a myth that we get taught over and over again from the first moment we learn about the civil rights movement: that it was a nonviolent movement, and that that’s what matters about it. And it’s just not true.

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‘Guns Kept People Alive’ During The Civil Rights Movement

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Nonviolence emerged in the ’50s and ’60s during the civil rights movement, [in part] as a way to appeal to Northern liberals. When it did work, like with the lunch counter sit-ins, it worked because Northern liberals could flatter themselves that racism was a Southern condition. This was also in the context of the Cold War and a mass anticolonial revolt going on all over Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Suddenly all these new independent nations had just won liberation from Europe, and the U.S. had to compete with the Soviet Union for influence over them. So it was really in the U.S.’s interests to not be the country of Jim Crow, segregation and fascism, because they had to appeal to all these new Black and Brown nations all over the world.

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Those two things combined to make nonviolence a relatively effective tactic. Even under those conditions, Freedom Riders and student protesters were often protected by armed guards. We remember the Birmingham struggle of ’63, with the famous photos of Bull Connor releasing the police dogs and fire hoses on teenagers, as nonviolent. But that actually turned into the first urban riot in the movement. Kids got up, threw rocks and smashed police cars and storefront windows in that combat. There was fear that that kind of rioting would spread. That created the pressure for Robert F. Kennedy to write the Civil Rights bill and force JFK to sign it.

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But there’s also another factor, which is anti-Blackness and contempt for poor people who want to live a better life, which looting immediately provides. One thing about looting is it freaks people out. But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it’s basically nonviolent. You’re mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it’s just hurting insurance companies on some level. It’s just money. It’s just property. It’s not actually hurting any people. [!?!?!?!?!!]

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During recent riots, a sentiment I heard a lot was that looters in cities like Minneapolis were hurting their own cause by destroying small businesses in their own neighborhoods, stores owned by immigrants and people of color. What would you say to people who make that argument?

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People who made that argument for Minneapolis weren’t suddenly celebrating the looters in Chicago, who drove down to the richest part of Chicago, the Magnificent Mile, and attacked places like Tesla and Gucci—because It’s not really about that. It’s a convenient way of positioning yourself as though you are sympathetic.

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But looters and rioters don’t attack private homes. They don’t attack community centers. In Minneapolis, there was a small independent bookstore that was untouched. All the blocks around it were basically looted or even leveled, burned down. And that store just remained untouched through weeks of rioting. [Uhh…yeah they do! Your book, completed in April, is dated as these outliers have already come to pass including the vandalizing of churches and people’s homes–home invasions in quest of ‘reparations’ anticipated soon!]

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The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’

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To say you’re attacking your own community is to say to rioters, you don’t know what you’re doing. But I disagree. I think people know. They might have worked in those shops. They might have shopped and been followed around by security guards or by the owner. You know, one of the causes of the L.A. riots was a Korean small-business owner murdering 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, who had come in to buy orange juice. And that was a family-owned, immigrant-owned business where anti-Blackness and white supremacist violence was being perpetrated.

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What would you say to people who are concerned about essential places like grocery stores or pharmacies being attacked in those communities?

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When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses. It’s actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that’s actually a right-wing myth.

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A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you’re in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation. There’s this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that’s already been formed by the time that they’re fighting.

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I have heard a lot of talk about white anarchists who weren’t part of the movement, but they just came in to smash windows and make a ruckus.

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It’s a classic trope, because it jams up people who might otherwise be sort of sympathetic to looters. There’s a reason that Trump has embraced the “white anarchist” line so intensely. It does a double service: It both creates a boogeyman around which you can stir up fear and potential repression, and it also totally erases the Black folks who are at the core of the protests. It makes invisible the Black people who are rising up and who are initiating this movement, who are at its core and its center, and who are doing its most important and valuable organizing and its most dangerous fighting.

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One thing that you’re really careful about in your book is how you talk about violence at riots. You make the distinction between violence against property, like smashing a window or stealing something, versus violence against a human body. And I’m wondering if you can talk a little bit about why making that distinction is important to you.

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Obviously, we object to violence on some level. But it’s an incredibly broad category. As you pointed out, it can mean both breaking a window, lighting a dumpster on fire, or it can mean the police murdering Tamir Rice. That word is not strategically helpful. The word that can mean both those things cannot be guiding me morally.

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American Police

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There’s actually a police tactic for this, called controlled management. Police say, “We support peaceful, nonviolent protesters. We are out here to protect them and to protect them from the people who are being violent.” That’s a police strategy to divide the movement. So a nonviolent protest organizer will tell the police their march route. Police will stop traffic for them. So you’ve got a dozen heavily armed men standing here watching you march. That doesn’t make me feel safe. What about that is nonviolent? Activists themselves are doing no violence, but there is so much potential violence all around them.

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Ultimately, what nonviolence ends up meaning is that the activist doesn’t do anything that makes them feel violent. And I think getting free is messier than that. We have to be willing to do things that scare us and that we wouldn’t do in normal, “peaceful” times, because we need to get free.

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C Davis attempts to defend against allegations of voter fraud filed by Andrew Saturn, a previously failed Socialist candidate. Mr. Davis is a fiscal conservative and heated opponent of Communism and socialist policies in government. In his election campaign for Thurston County Commissioner, he’s promised to nix the giant boondoggle of moving the County Courthouse (a massive project certain to bankrupt the County’s taxpayers for a generation) to downtown Olympia on Plum Street if elected and to boost the budget of the Sheriff’s department.

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***CENSORSHIP ALERT***

Saturn posted the following description and recording of a voter calling him very late at night to challenge the dirty tricks unsuccessfully utilized against a Democratic primary candidate running for the same office Saturn sought:

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Kento Azegami of the Thurston County Young Democrats and Olympia Planning Commission calls me to harass me while intoxicated after midnight, after over 100 ignored calls and texts. After this call, he called me over 300 more times from 4 different phone numbers, and continued to send texts as well as blank e-mails. Olympia Police were called and were able to make contact with Kento around 4am, when he finally stopped. The other unidentified people helping him were never contacted. These people were supporting my corporate-funded opponent in the Public Utilities Commissioner race.

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Things that go bump in the night: Kento Azegami

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Andrew Saturn, a public figure and recently failed political candidate running on the Socialist ticket, filed a fraudulent DMCA request with GoDaddy by misrepresenting his public domain images used to promote his failed candidacy were private or not subject to fair use. Saturn/Pluto also threatened this reporter with publishing the journalist’s address if the 3 images of Saturn’s face (which Andrew cunningly omitted under Mary Hall’s incompetent oversight during the OPEN Zoom teleconference administrative hearing he orchestrated challenging Mr. C Davis’ voter registration, alleging it was fraudulent) were not removed. Since Mr. Saturn apparently believes in such transparency, his registered voter address follows, the images of his face will soon reappear after linking to an offshore repository w/o weak attempts at DMCA censorship:

Andrew G. Saturn (not a Thurston County voter), dob:1-12-85, 4819 42nd St, N, Tacoma, WA 98407 — stay tuned

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–>NOTE: Lunatic Saturn sought to remove readers’ access to his extensively published mugshots as a failed Socialist candidate via false DMCA complaints. Thus, successfully gulling the incompetent administrators at SYNC.COM. i.e. Don’t entrust your files or links to these losers.

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SOooo–a personal treat for Mr. Saturn: Downsize THIS LINK with your mugshots plastered all over it, DIPSTICK!

(Please note: Your reply to this article/post, including your correct e-mail, name, and bonafides to receive the password to access Mr. Saturn’s public face due to his ham handed attempt at throttling the press here by filing fraudulent DMCA claims, although, admittedly, he’s not much to look at…snail bait, mostly, is no longer applicable to the following 3 links. Currently the 3 links below do not function as a result of Saturn’s effort to quash the public’s 1st Amendment rights–to hide his identity as a failed public figure. But, see the above link for a remedy and the photographic identity of Andrew Saturn, no password required). P.S. Stick it where the sun don’t shine toy boy. Bon Appetit.

1st Public Domain fair use image of public figure Andrew G. Saturn:

https://ln2.sync.com/dl/2e1e5c8e0/cvqq2muw-k4ws69tn-gb8ykg85-zur2dy28

2nd Public Domain fair use image of public figure Andrew G. Saturn:

https://ln2.sync.com/dl/987044c50/k345nnhe-6da7qjnf-3bqg6chc-n5m9fa3c

3rd Public Domain fair use image of public figure Andrew G. Saturn:

https://ln2.sync.com/dl/a064aeea0/pxespj43-xg33pjjj-89hpmutq-ksstdzhp

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And HERE is a link to Andrew Saturn’s mugshot furnished to the Olympian with an eye to promote his political candidacy, followed by a link to the article in which it is embedded discusssing political dirty tricks conducted by Saturn’s campaign:

https://www.theolympian.com/latest-news/jes1oz/picture220211650/alternates/FREE_768/Andrew%20Saturn.jpg

https://keywiki.org/Andrew_Saturn

https://keywiki.org/File:Andrewsattocccccc.PNG

https://keywiki.org/images/e/e9/Andrewsatto.PNG

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article220194240.html

Mr. Saturn lost the case brought against him seeking damages and attorney fees:

More (much!) by Socialist candidate Mr. Andrew Saturn’s own hand:

Andrew Saturn’s Agenda as a SOCIALIST candidate

Details of Complaint filed Against Andrew Saturn for Dirty Tricks:

Use Above PASSCODE when clicking the ZOOM link to the Auditor’s Hearing

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Saturn’s specious complaint to smear Davis

Auditor Mary Hall takes the bait letter to Davis

Mary Hall’s witless ill advised conclusion/ruling

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However, this video reveals a candidate (C) reacting like a cornered badger, or a driver with a body in the trunk when pulled over for a speeding ticket to questions posed by the hearing officer, Mary Hall, or interlocutor/accuser Andrew Saturn. It was tantamount to watching a train wreck…or an execution–self administered.

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While the urgency of this hearing will quickly fade along with the candidacy of C Davis, it will remain a classical example of what NOT to do and how NOT to behave as either a political candidate or a litigant (criminal OR civil) in court/administrative hearings/proceedings. C, in fact, DOES reside and is domiciled at the residential property he owns (and rents out) on Bigelow across the street from the Olympia Park by the same name. He could have simply said/admitted as much as it was in the same precinct perhaps only a couple of hundred feet from where the Auditor’s office had erroneously listed his residence. C could even have said, “I don’t want to tell you because of genuine fears my political enemies will harm/kill me.”

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But C didn’t do that. Instead, he was pugnacious, evasive (refusing to answer Ms. Hall’s simple query of where he resided about six times in succession), exploded out of turn, NEVER smiled (not once), was hostile, suspicious, slippery, and resentful in his demeanor throughout the hearing. C could have brought witnesses (at least one offered), as his accuser did. He could have offered his driver’s license or vehicle registration as proof of his dwelling. But, C would have none of it.

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C is not a fish, but you wouldn’t know it after watching this video. He foolishly attempts to infer he’s as migratory as the denizens of the deep. He ends up being the strongest witness against his own theory of the case. He could have refused to testify at all given voter fraud is a class C (no pun intended) felony.

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C could have had an attorney, or even an adroit friend, present his case without ever opening his mouth for which his supporters would (as it turns out) have been grateful.. He ignored all the best pre-hearing advice, waited until the date of the hearing to prepare for it, and wasted all the sweat, blood and tears of his supporters. In short, C blew it.

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C could have moved to dismiss the investigator’s testimony as moot by simply admitting the obvious truth, that he resided on Bigelow a few feet from the address the auditor erroneously listed on his voter registration. Instead, he allowed (without objection) the investigator to drag up innuendos about a stolen drum set C had for sale, dozens of aliases and imposter identities (including their social security numbers) C had assumed over the years, painting a picture of a shady character with a checkered/mysterious past and plenty to hide.

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In short, C ignored the cardinal rule for politicians and litigants–to give the appearance (at least) of transparency and let a smile be your umbrella. As it is, this public pillorying will follow C long after his political ambitions have faded. The fact Mary Hall may not be a notary public or authorized in law to administer an oath to anybody regarding their testimony is beside the point. The fact C could have raised an objection based on equitable estoppel (acting in good faith on the department’s assurances heretofore), failure to state a claim (no harm, no foul), or prevail upon appeal for a host of other procedural errors is politically moot.

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In the electorate’s eyes, C is a dead man walking. C has lost all credibility where it counts most. The self administered cut runs deepest–all for want of transparency…a C-section in all but name only!

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Addendum

w/respect to the pedophile smear campaign & witch hunt against Davis:

C Davis is a lot of things, not all attractive, and he’s as ugly as sin…so much so he scares my wife just looking at him. But he is not a pedophile. It isn’t even alleged 20 years after the fact that he is/was or he broke the law in any fashion. No, instead, rumor and innuendo are employed to politically smear Davis with the eager support of The Olympian’s front page article complete with thinly veiled innuendo. It could as easily be a chapter straight out of Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE.

Arthur Miller

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Sometimes I believe Davis could place on the Asperger’s spectrum. A review of the hearing makes this apparent. But the fact some teenage girls felt uncomfortable talking to him 20 years ago? So WHAT? Even his closest acquaintances feel uncomfortable talking to C and he feels un comfortable talking to them. Andrew Saturn cunningly exploited that flaw in Mr. Davis personality to resounding effect in his specious voter registration complaint.

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The concerted political smear campaign against Davis (especially the yellow journalism evidenced in The Olympian) is nothing less than a contemporary witch hunt and virtual lynching. The oafish nature of Mr. Davis’ approach to social engagement is undeniable and apparent. He is not cool under fire or poised. He’s ugly with a funeral pallor and long unkempt stringy white hair. He’s morbidly obese, ugly as sin. So if you’re simply looking for a pretty face or another suave politician, don’t vote for him. But you’ll pay through the nose for it and get what you deserve. C is a fiscal arch conservative who believes in law and order as well as a clean environment & community. He is NO fan of state sponsored terrorism or police abuse. But you’ll have difficulty finding these facts in the local news rag (The Olympian) because witch hunts and virtual lynchings appease the mob as well as sell more newspapers.

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Mobs, street violence, obsequious politicians, excessive taxes, and pork barrel boondoggles are why we can’t have nice things anymore. The mob, those who stoop to the most vile personal attacks on those with the courage to run for public office get the government they deserve. Vote your conscience and don’t be manipulated by slanderous innuendo and political smear campaigns such as The Olympian promotes. The hype surrounding these thinly veiled innuendos is much ado about nothing, bare assertions full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

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This alleged 17-year-old shooter (Kyle Rittenhouse) spoke with the Daily Caller moments before an incident occurred that left one man dead. He was taken into custody pending an investigation. You’ll never see this on MSM and FB will likely censor it because they don’t want the American people to know there is an active civil war occurring in our streets right now! Stay tuned–developing. (Kyle was later arrested in Antioch, Il, & charged with 1st degree intentional homicide.)

A curfew has been imposed.

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Given the obvious self defense, a conviction for any degree of homicide may prove impossible. Illegal possession of a firearm by a minor is more likely.

What 17yo Rittenhouse’s legal defense will look like:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3291822547565212&ref=notif&notif_id=1598728536275695&notif_t=live_video

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Video of 17yo Kenosha, WI boy w/rifle FB won’t let you see:

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https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/082629KenoshaWIshotSD.m4v

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RAW video of 17-year-old boy (Kyle Rittenhouse) shooting his armed assailants:

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Wilmington Police have arrested a 21-year-old woman they said assisted in the theft of a 7-year-old child’s MAGA hat outside the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington.

Police arrested Camryn Amy on August 22, 2020, a day after Olivia M. Winslow was arrested and charged in connection to the same incident, which occurred in the 600 block of Justison Street and went viral after a video of the exchange was posted on social media.

Video circulated on social media by Students for Trump shows two women, alleged by authorities to be Amy and Winslow, tearing up Trump signs and stealing a red “Make America Great Again” hat sitting on the ground next to a young boy. The video shows the boy crying, and his mother egging the child on to “get your hat back.”

Court records obtained by WDEL report the victim telling police Amy “forcefully” snatched a political sign from her hand while Winslow stole the MAGA hat and handed it to her alleged accomplice. Winslow is also accused of knocking a hat off an adult woman’s head. As the victim’s 7-year-old son went to retrieve the hat off the ground, Amy allegedly attempted to stomp on the hat, but stomped on the boy’s hand, according to statements in court records. The little boy wasn’t hurt, but did begin to cry, police said.

Amy was accused of punching a third victim, a man, in the face, resulting in a small laceration to his lip which caused him “substantial pain” the victim told police in court records. Amy then allegedly threw the MAGA hat over a fence and struck the adult woman in the face with a closed fist, which did not result in injury, court records said.

Amy is facing the same charges as Winslow–first-degree robbery, second-degree conspiracy, and endangering the welfare of a child–along with an additional two counts of offensive touching. She was committed to the Delores J. Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution in lieu of $45,000 secured bond.

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YouTube CENSORED the above video by removing it from all who posted it on their site. For that reason, be certain to backup any upload to YouTube.

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Not to worry–the mainstream and corporate media, social or retail, has never been trusted here or by the public. You can view the video below that YouTube and other corporate/mainstream media doesn’t want you to see–2 ardent Biden supporters accosting and robbing a 7 year old boy of his MAGA hast. They have been arrested and are being prosecuted for the crime, a felony. It’s unknown if Joe Biden has commented on the incident or condemned it. The President has sent the boy a new MAGA hat which will, no doubt, be cherished. If Joe Biden had 2 functioning brain cells, he would have beat President Trump to the punch by sending the boy a new MAGA hat himself along with a letter of apology and congratulations,

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Karens Pirate 7yo Boy’s MAGA Hat

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YouTube, in an effort to repress knowledge of this racist attack, censored this video of an unarmed non-threatening Black Good Samaritan being shot 7 times in the back in front of children by a white Kenosha, WI cop. Nevertheless. In an effort to resist this kind of repression, the following link has been provided for your illumination and right to know what is really going on in our streets despite mainstream media’s and YouTube’sattempt to hide it from the public: (Please download and share it.)

https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/082320KenoshaWI-HD-720p.mov

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KENOSHA, WISCONSIN (8-23-20) —

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WHITE COP SHOOTS UNARMED BLACK MAN … Seven Times, Point-Blank

A white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin opened fire on an unarmed Black man who was simply walking away from him — shooting him point-blank seven times … and it’s all on video.

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The officer-involved shooting went down Sunday near 40th and 28th Avenue — where witnesses say the victim was simply breaking up a fight when cops were called to the scene. It’s unclear what unfolded from there, but this video captures the crucial 20 seconds.

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You see the man walking away from a few officers … who appear to be telling him to stop, with guns drawn. He makes his away around a car in a nonthreatening manner, he opens the door and attempts to get inside. One of the cops grabs hold of his shirt, and for some inexplicable reason, he unloads seven rounds at arm’s length. The victim was flown to a hospital and has been listed as being in serious condition.

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Protests are now growing by the minute. Many are demanding the swift arrest of the officer who fired the shots.

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While the situation is still very fluid, it seems an outright inexcusable act of police brutality. Even if the man was disobeying orders, he was nonviolent, nonthreatening, unarmed and there was no attempt to subdue him in the vehicle.

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According to reports on the ground, the state Department of Justice is already taking over the investigation. Kenosha PD, for its part, says officers on the scene provided immediate aid — but also note that they instantly transferred the case to outside agencies.SHOW LESS

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https://www.kptv.com/news/man-wanted-for-assaulting-driver-near-downtown-portland-protest-arrested/article_484023d2-e3ca-11ea-ae0b-67b446cba053.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_FOX_12_Oregon

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This viciously violent parasitic waste pf oxygen has been taken into custody!

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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – The 25-year-old man accused of a violent assault in downtown Portland Sunday night has been arrested.

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Portland police say Marquise Lee Love turned himself in Friday morning after detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office coordinated with his attorney.

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Love was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of second-degree assault, coercion, and riot. His bail is set at $260,000.

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Police identified Love as a suspect in an assault that was caught on camera and went viral on social media after it was posted Sunday. The attack took place during a protest in downtown Portland.

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According to police, the string of events may have started around Southeast 4th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street, when the victim, identified as Adam Haner, was helping a woman who had some of her things stolen. Haner’s girlfriend, Tammie Martin, got out of Haner’s truck and was tackled to the ground.

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Then, around 10:30 p.m., police said they responded to a call near Southwest Taylor Street and Southwest Broadway, just a few blocks from the initial altercation. Witnesses told police that people chased a white Ford truck, which crashed at the intersection.

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Video from social media then shows Haner out of the truck and pushed to the ground.

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According to police, a man caught on video hitting Haner in the street is Love. In some footage, Haner is seen bloodied and unconscious.

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Haner was taken to an area hospital for treatment to his serious injuries. After Haner was released from the hospital, both Haner and Martin spoke to FOX 12 about what they experienced.

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On Thursday, police asked for help locating a possible witness to the assault. Police say investigators Investigators have identified the witness.

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“I am pleased the suspect in this case turned himself in and appreciate all of the efforts to facilitate this safe resolution,” said Chief Chuck Lovell. “Thank you to all of the members of the public who have provided information and tips to our investigators. Your assistance is very much appreciated.”

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Love is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday afternoon.

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by George Musser (8-17-20)

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Nearly 60 years ago, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner captured one of the many oddities of quantum mechanics in a thought experiment. He imagined a friend of his, sealed in a lab, measuring a particle such as an atom while Wigner stood outside. Quantum mechanics famously allows particles to occupy many locations at once—a so-called superposition—but the friend’s observation “collapses” the particle to just one spot. Yet for Wigner, the superposition remains: The collapse occurs only when he makes a measurement sometime later. Worse, Wigner also sees the friend in a superposition. Their experiences directly conflict.

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Now, researchers in Australia and Taiwan offer perhaps the sharpest demonstration that Wigner’s paradox is real. In a study published this week in Nature Physics, they transform the thought experiment into a mathematical theorem that confirms the irreconcilable contradiction at the heart of the scenario. The team also tests the theorem with an experiment, using photons as proxies for the humans. Whereas Wigner believed resolving the paradox requires quantum mechanics to break down for large systems such as human observers, some of the new study’s authors believe something just as fundamental is on thin ice: objectivity. It could mean there is no such thing as an absolute fact, one that is as true for me as it is for you.

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 “It’s a bit disconcerting,” says co-author Nora Tischler of Griffith University. “A measurement outcome is what science is based on. If somehow that’s not absolute, it’s hard to imagine.”

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For physicists who have dismissed thought experiments like Wigner’s as interpretive navel gazing, the study shows the contradictions can emerge in actual experiments, says Dustin Lazarovici, a physicist and philosopher at the University of Lausanne who was not part of the team. “The paper goes to great lengths to speak the language of those who have tried to merely discuss foundational issues away and may thus compel at least some to face up to them,” he says.

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Wigner’s thought experiment has seen renewed attention in recent years. In 2015, Časlav Brukner of the University of Vienna tested the most intuitive way around the paradox: that the friend inside the lab has, in fact, seen the particle in one place or another, and Wigner just doesn’t know what it is yet. In the jargon of quantum theory, the friend’s result is a hidden variable.

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Brukner ruled out that conclusion in a thought experiment of his own, using a trick—based on quantum entanglement—to bring the hidden variable out into the open. He imagined setting up two friend-Wigner pairs and giving each a particle, entangled with its partner in such a way that their attributes, upon measurement, are correlated. Each friend measures the particle, each Wigner measures the friend measuring the particle, and the two Wigners compare notes. The process repeats. If the friends saw definite results—as you might suspect—the Wigners’ own findings would show only weak correlations. But instead, they find a pattern of strong correlations. “You run into contradictions,” Brukner says. His experiment and a similar one in 2016 by Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner of ETH Zürich led to an outpouring of papers and heated discussion at conferences.

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But in 2018, Richard Healey, a philosopher of physics at the University of Arizona, pointed out a loophole in Brukner’s thought experiment, which Tischler and her colleagues have now closed. In their new scenario they make four assumptions. One is that the results the friends obtain are real: They can be combined with other measurements to form a shared corpus of knowledge. They also assume quantum mechanics is universal, and as valid for observers as for particles; that the choices the observers make are free of peculiar biases induced by a godlike superdeterminism; and that physics is local, free of all but the most limited form of “spooky action” at a distance.

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Yet their analysis shows the contradictions of Wigner’s paradox persist. The team’s tabletop experiment, in which they created entangled photons, also backs up the paradox. Optical elements steered each photon onto a path that depended on its polarization: the equivalent of the friends’ observations. The photon then entered a second set of elements and detectors that played the role of the Wigners. The team found, again, an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners. What is more, they varied exactly how entangled the particles were and showed that the mismatch occurs for different conditions than in Brukner’s scenario. “That shows that we really have something new here,” Tischler says.

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It also indicates that one of the four assumptions has to give. Few physicists believe superdeterminism could be to blame. Some see locality as the weak point, but its failure would be stark: One observer’s actions would affect another’s results even across great distances—a stronger kind of nonlocality than the type quantum theorists often consider. So some are questioning the tenet that observers can pool their measurements empirically. “It could be that there are facts for one observer, and facts for another; they need not mesh,” says study co-author and Griffith physicist Howard Wiseman. It is a radical relativism, still jarring to many. “From a classical perspective, what everyone sees is considered objective, independent of what anyone else sees,” says Olimpia Lombardi, a philosopher of physics at the University of Buenos Aires.

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And then there is Wigner’s conclusion that quantum mechanics itself breaks down. Of the assumptions, it is the most directly testable, by experiments that are probing quantum mechanics on ever larger scales. But the one position that doesn’t survive the analysis is to have no position, says another co-author at Griffith, Eric Cavalcanti. “Most physicists, they think: ‘That’s just philosophical mumbo-jumbo,’” he says. “They will have a hard time.”

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https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Uprooting_the_Pruneyard.pdf