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Meanwhile while everyone is distracted by Carona.
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Lawyer: Man killed by officer was asleep when police fired
An attorney says a Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house
Lawyer: Man killed by officer was asleep when police fired - ABC News
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Ew, you're spreating alt-right propoganda, sweaty. This is an anomaly, this would only happen, like, 1 out of 3 million red flag ERPO's. Come on. Educate urself.Meanwhile while everyone is distracted by Carona.
Lawyer: Man killed by officer was asleep when police fired
An attorney says a Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house
Lawyer: Man killed by officer was asleep when police fired - ABC News
archived 21 Apr 2020 00:58:21 UTC
Thanks for posting that. I've been trying to stay up on the case, was thinking it was on the backburner for now/
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Doesn't even say what game it was. Media never asks the right questions.
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Over 94% of Covid test kits India bought from China are defective
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Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
“You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We’ve had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten,” Kinshasa’s police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
“I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke,” Oleko said.
“But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it’,” he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
“It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny,” said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
“You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We’ve had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten,” Kinshasa’s police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
“I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke,” Oleko said.
“But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it’,” he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
“It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny,” said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
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AKA Ivory Tower elites tell SCOTUS that certain demographics already in violation of the law and notorious in the healthcare industry for patient neglect and abuse shouldn't have to go back to their wonderful, cultured countries because muh heroes.
Supreme Court lets DACA proponents cite recipients' work fighting coronavirus
WASHINGTON – The contributions of young, undocumented immigrants in the battle against the novel coronavirus will become part of the Supreme Court record in time for the justices' upcoming decision on their fate.
The high court agreed Monday to consider a new filing from a legal services organization at Yale Law School, as well as the National Immigration Law Center, that argues the Trump administration's decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Admissions (DACA) program should be blocked in light of the pandemic.
"Health care providers on the front lines of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 rely significantly upon DACA recipients to perform essential work," the group wrote in a letter to the court late last month. "Termination of DACA during this national emergency would be catastrophic."
The effort took on political overtones days later when Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, warned that such a decision "will leave a gaping hole in our health care system that is liable to cost American lives."
About 27,000 DACA recipients work in the health care field, out of nearly 700,000 brought to the USA without legal papers as children. They rely on the program for temporary protection from deportation and work authorization.
Supreme Court lets DACA proponents cite recipients' work fighting coronavirus
WASHINGTON – The contributions of young, undocumented immigrants in the battle against the novel coronavirus will become part of the Supreme Court record in time for the justices' upcoming decision on their fate.
The high court agreed Monday to consider a new filing from a legal services organization at Yale Law School, as well as the National Immigration Law Center, that argues the Trump administration's decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Admissions (DACA) program should be blocked in light of the pandemic.
"Health care providers on the front lines of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 rely significantly upon DACA recipients to perform essential work," the group wrote in a letter to the court late last month. "Termination of DACA during this national emergency would be catastrophic."
The effort took on political overtones days later when Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, warned that such a decision "will leave a gaping hole in our health care system that is liable to cost American lives."
About 27,000 DACA recipients work in the health care field, out of nearly 700,000 brought to the USA without legal papers as children. They rely on the program for temporary protection from deportation and work authorization.
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27k out of 300k is only 3.8%. And most of those 27k are probably working in a hospital cafeteria or custodial staff. Let's not pretend that any appreciable percentage of that 27k is MDs and RNs.
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https://eonline.com/ap/amp/news/113...ls-of-her-past-rape-and-kidnapping-experience
I know I am two weeks late, but you see, I just read this for the first time. I read her initial account of rape from two months ago and assumed she didn't make a follow-up. I am curious about one thing: how could one get past airport security all drugged up and unconscious? Part of her story was that she was flown to a different country and that she didn't remember getting there.Duffy Shares Heartbreaking Details of Her Past Rape and Kidnapping Experience
By: ALYSSA MORIN, PAMELA AVILA
Sun., Apr. 5, 2020 5:22 PM
The Grammy winning "Mercy" singer explains why she's been absence from the spotlight for nearly a decade.
Note: The following story contains sensitive information that may not be suitable to all readers.
Duffy is speaking her truth.
Back in February, the 35-year-old songstress shared the heartbreaking news that she had been drugged, kidnapped and raped. At the time, Duffy didn't explain when those events occurred, but she expressed that she was ready to open up about her experience.
On Sunday, she wrote a detailed blog post about her survivor story. "It troubles me that this story contains sorrow, when so many need the opposite of that at this time. I can only hope that my words serve as a momentary distraction or maybe even some comfort that one can come out of darkness," she began her essay.
"If you are reading this, I must warn you it contains information some may find upsetting," she continued, while also noting the current climate surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic. "If you are not able to take on someone else's suffering or the recounting of such, I recommend you do not read on."
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Singer Duffy Says She Was Raped, Drugged and Held Captive
Earlier this year, Duffy took to social media to reveal that she recused herself from her career and the limelight as the result of trauma from being kidnapped and raped. The U.K. singer had been inactive for the better part of a decade — in the late 2000s, she seemed poised for the kind of massive neo-soul career that Adele has enjoyed in her wake.
Now the singer reveals in a 3,600-word post on her website the horrific details of the assault and of the long road to recovery from the trauma. She also explains her absence from music and estrangement from friends and family which caused her to isolate out of fear and mental torment.
She writes, "I posted the words I wrote, a few weeks ago, because I was tired of hiding. Never feeling free or burden free. I had become enmeshed with my story like a dark secret. It made me alone and feel alone. What is also hard to explain is that, in hiding, in not talking, I was allowing the rape to become a companion. Me and it living in my being, I no longer wanted to feel that intimacy with it, a decade of that intimacy has been destructive. I had to set myself free. I have been hurt and it would have been dangerous to talk from that hurt place in the past, prior to feeling ready."
Duffy explained that after her kidnapping and rape occurred, she considered exploring human rights laws to change her name and "disappear to another country" in order to put the past behind her and "not trouble anyone else with it."
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Although she cites that talking openly about her traumatic experience seemed "frightening" and that it made her worry about what would follow once she decided to speak her truth. "I would also worry about coming back to music and the risk of constantly facing the question of 'what happened,' 'where did you disappear to,' 'why did you vanish,' 'what have you been up to for so many years,'" she continued.
Ultimately, she admits she could not imagine "fabricating some story" even though she felt the "public disclosure of my story would utterly destroy my life, emotionally, while hiding my story was destroying my life so much more." So, she realized that she had to have "faith in the outcome" of opening up about her experience.
While recounting her rape, Duffy writes, "Rape stripped me of my human rights, to experience a life with autonomy from fear. It has already stolen one third of my life."
The singer then went on to recount the details of her kidnapping that happened on her birthday after she was drugged at a restaurant.
"I was drugged then for four weeks and traveled to a foreign country," she wrote. "I can't remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a travelling vehicle. I was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened. I was stuck with him for another day, he didn't look at me."
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Duffy also wrote that she contemplated running away but was afraid her abuser "would call the police on me, for running away, and maybe they would track me down as a missing person." She also detailed that the drugging and abuse continued in her "own home in the four weeks."
She went on to write that the first person she ever told of her kidnapping and rape was a psychologist months after it happened.
"I have no idea how I was so lucky to find her all those years ago, her beautiful blue eyes, pink sofa, huge library, amazing brain and skill. Without her I may not have made it through. I was high risk of suicide in the aftermath. She got to know me, saw me as a person, learned about me and navigated me," she explained. "She did it very gently. I could not look her in the eyes for the first eight or so sessions, eye contact was something I struggled with. The thought of recovering was almost impossible."
She concluded her essay, writing, "I really don't know what's next for me. I would like to experience me being who I really am, for the first time, privately. To feel a peace that I have been, until now, only half feeling [...] I can now leave this decade behind. Where the past belongs. Hopefully no more 'what happened to Duffy questions,' now you know ... and I am free."
To read Duffy's full post, go here.
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I gotta wonder too. How the fuck would you get a roofied person on a plane without looking like a human trafficker? If she couldn't stand up, she'd have to be carried. Carried and unconscious, hella suspicious. Even if she were able to stand and walk with help and they told flight attendants "she's just drunk" I'm sure that's grounds to not let you on. What, did they contort he into a carry on or something?
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I foresee “false positive” as buzz words for the next spin cycle. This week or next.
Just like “fake news,” just like “Russian propaganda,” the MSM will need something to explain the fact that they were totally wrong.
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Or they just fucked up administering the test and cross contaminated the samples.
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Her Colleagues Watched Her OnlyFans Account At Work. When Bosses Found Out, They Fired Her.
In a recording, the young mechanic's boss can be heard telling her the OnlyFans account "might encourage [her coworkers] to approach you with unwanted sexual conduct or comments."
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Some girl decided to moonlight as a sex worker(for some reason) and got fired from her normie job for it. It doesn't say exactly why she was fired but she apparently shared some photos of her in her uniform and in the company's bathroom which might be the reason. Girl wasn't even living in a liberal state so idk why she thought it was a good idea to do this. We'll likely see more of this in the future because these girls don't learn from what other porn stars/sex workers have been saying.
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Perhaps in one lab/study. But in every study? Not likely. FWIW, it appears the tests are far more likely to be falsely negative that vice versa.
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So it's basically a really shit test for the purposes of coping with a global pandemic.
Also this story was about one homeless shelter specifically.
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Are you citing naturalnews sincerely or are you citing it to make fun of it?
This is important because I want to know if I should call you a dumbass or not.
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I wouldn’t stake the world on it, but it corroborates what they’ve found in similar samples of the general population in NY and CA. The part that stood out to me is this business about “too many false positives,” because at this point they really don’t know if the tests are actually false positive. While that’s something that should be investigated, the antibody tests here are said to be 99% accurate. The specific antibodies tested don’t occur in the absence of current or past COVID-19 exposure. As I stated, if the tests were inaccurate, it’s more likely they’d be false negative.
Relax. Here’s a CNN article that discusses the same study.
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CNN isn't much better but ok you get a pass. No mockery this time.
This was discussed in the Wuflu general thread a couple days ago. The consensus of the kf internet doctor brain trust was that the high rate of asymptomatics might also be influenced by homeless people actually having kickass immune systems.