Democrats who refused to even consider a police reform bill introduced last summer by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are now calling for a police reform bill.
The latest example is Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who tweeted on Friday:
<blockquote>Open your eyes and unplug your ears, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateGOP">@SenateGOP</a>. We need to finally pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. And we need to finally pass common-sense gun safety legislation. How many more people need to die while you sit on your hands and do nothing?</blockquote>
Fox News contributor Guy Benson pointed out that Warren and her party ignored Scott’s bill, writing, “Open your eyes and look at the Senator whose police reform bill you filibustered just a few months ago, refusing to even debate his reasonable opening proposal.” Benson included a photo of Scott with his tweet.
As The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reported last June, Democrats blocked Scott’s police reform bill.
“The bill failed before its text ever made it to the floor. Democrats were able to marshal their caucus to defeat a vote designed to bring the issue to the floor for debate and killed the bill 55-45. A total of 60 votes would have been necessary to move the bill forward,” Zanotti wrote.
Three Democrat senators – Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Angus King of Maine (who identifies as an Independent yet caucuses with Democrats) – voted with Republicans to bring the bill to the senate floor for debate.
“The bill did not ban the use of chokeholds outright, preferring instead to warn departments to craft their own policies against the practice or risk losing federal funds. The bill also shied away from outlawing so-called “no-knock” warrants, preferring instead to establish a national database to track those warrants’ use and abuse,” Zanotti reported.
Then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer trashed Scott’s bill, The Daily Wire’s Eric Quintanar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-trashes-tim-scotts-policing-bill-deeply-flawed-and-not-salvageable">reported</a> at the time. Schumer called the bill “deeply flawed and not salvageable” in a joint letter with then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). The trio claimed the bill was “so threadbare and lacking in substance that it does not even provide a proper baseline for negotiations.”
The refusal by Democrats to even consider the Scott bill prevented any reforms from being passed, something Democrats indicated was perfectly fine, wishing instead to wait until after the election. The statements from Democrats last summer indicated police reforms – which they said were urgently needed – could wait until after the presidential election.
“Instead of accepting Republican reforms that Democrats also want but they say don’t go far enough, the Left would rather wait until they may get everything they want, assuming that not only does former Vice President Joe Biden win the election, but Democrats regain control of the Senate by enough of a majority that they can push through whatever bills they want, as they could during the first two years of the Obama administration,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-reforms-so-important-democrats-prepared-to-wait-until-next-year-to-enact-them">reported</a> at the time.
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald again skewered the media for rushing to present a particular narrative without evidence that has since been proven to be false.
The latest example involves a claim from last year that Russia had placed bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The original claim was reported by The New York Times citing anonymous intelligence officials, which have since been identified as CIA operatives. There was never any evidence to back up the story, but that didn’t stop media outlets from using it to attack Trump and claim he was not only weak on Russia (an allegation made against him throughout his 2016 campaign and presidency) but also putting U.S. troops in danger.
As Greenwald <a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-spread">explained</a> on Substack the initial story appeared “just weeks after President Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-election-day.html">announced his plan</a> to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2020.” Thanks to extensive media coverage of the story – with news outlets assuming the anonymous, unverified, and evidence-free claims were true – Congress passed a defense spending bill that didn’t allow for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan or Germany.
“Predictably, now that this CIA tale has served its purpose (namely, preventing Trump from leaving Afghanistan), and now that its enduring effects are impeding the Biden administration (which wants to leave Afghanistan and so needs to get rid of this story), the U.S. Government is now admitting that — surprise! — they had no convincing evidence for this story all along,” Greenwald wrote.
Greenwald also noted that the Biden administration has used the discredited “bounty” story as recently as Thursday of last week.
“When announcing new sanctions aimed at Moscow and diplomatic expulsions of Russian diplomats — primarily in response to allegations of Russian hacking — the White House <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-us-biden-plans/">said</a> ‘it was responding to reports that Russia encouraged Taliban fighters to injure or kill coalition forces in Afghanistan.’ The official White House announcement of the retaliation <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/15/fact-sheet-imposing-costs-for-harmful-foreign-activities-by-the-russian-government/">said explicitly</a> that ‘the Administration is responding to the reports that Russia encouraged Taliban attacks against U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan based on the best assessments from the Intelligence Community (IC)’ — a claim for which the IC itself admits it has only “low to moderate confidence” is even true,” Greenwald wrote.
When asked about the contradiction, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to claim that assessment puts the onus on Russia to respond, something that has a next-to-zero chance of happening.
As The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intels-claim-that-russia-put-bounties-on-u-s-troops-softens-biden-harris-used-it-to-attack-trump">reported</a> Friday, U.S. intelligence officials revealed that they have “low to moderate” confidence in the claim that Russia put bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The problem with the story has been apparent for most of the last year, with intelligence officials saying in September 2020 that they could not find enough evidence to prove the claim. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/still-not-enough-evidence-to-suggest-russia-paid-taliban-bounties-to-kill-american-troops-top-u-s-commander-says">reported</a> at the time that Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said the story “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me.”
“We continue to look for that evidence,” he added. “I just haven’t seen it yet. But … it’s not a closed issue.”
Reporting now suggests it is a closed issue.
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The U.S. Women’s Soccer team is appealing a court decision to throw out their pay discrimination claim, arguing that a “pervasive atmosphere of sexism” was the reason the women’s team is paid less than the men’s team.
In reality, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-womens-soccer-team-wants-to-appeal-pay-discrimination-ruling-that-determined-they-rejected-equal-pay">reported</a>, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner dismissed the women’s pay discrimination claim because they had rejected to be paid using the same structure as the men’s team.
“The WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players,” Klausner wrote in his ruling. “Accordingly, plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA (collective bargaining agreement) worse than the MNT (men’s national team) CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT’s pay-to-play terms structure when they themselves rejected such a structure.”
At the same time Klausner rejected the pay discrimination claim, he allowed the women’s team’s claims about discriminatory work conditions to continue. At the time the ruling was handed down, the women’s soccer team vowed to appeal.
“Equal pay means paying women players the same rate for winning a game as men get paid. The argument that women are paid enough if they make close to the same amount as men while winning more than twice as often is not equal pay,” USWNT spokeswoman Molly Levinson said in a statement at the time.
KGW8 <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/us-women-soccer-equal-pay-appeal/507-4a370ffe-8879-4dca-8173-c101f57cb588">reported</a> last week that the players have appealed Klausner’s decision to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“For each win, loss and tie that women players secure, they are paid less than men who play the same sport and who do the same work; that is gender discrimination,” Levinson said in a statement last week. “A pervasive atmosphere of sexism drove this pay discrimination.”
The women sued the U.S. Soccer Federation, which doesn’t control every game. The USSF said that for the matches it does control, it pays the men’s and women’s teams equally, but tournaments are organized by FIFA, which pays according to the money the teams bring in.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-womens-soccer-team-isnt-paid-much-mens-ashe-schow">reported</a>, the women’s soccer team brings in less money because it has fewer viewers than men’s soccer. The only time this changes is when the women’s team makes it to the World Cup, something the U.S. Men’s team hasn’t done.
The women’s team also receives a higher percentage of revenue than the men’s team, though the revenue is lower. CBS <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/questions-of-equal-pay-brought-to-light-after-womens-world-cup-win/">reported</a> four years ago that the men’s team received 9% of the revenue generated by the 2010 World Cup — which amounted to $348 million. The women’s team received 13% of the 2015 World Cup revenue, but because the women’s team brought in less revenue, they only received $10 million.
The women’s team also receives a base salary and benefits, which the men’s team does not.
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Players Refused The Same Pay Structure As Men. Now They’re Claiming ‘Sexism’ Led To Difference.

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Anticipating unrest after the jury delivers a verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial for allegedly killing Minneapolis man George Floyd, Minneapolis Public Schools have announced that schools will return to remove learning at the end of next week.
In <a href="https://b2s.mpls.k12.mn.us/Home">an announcement</a> on Friday, MPS Superintendent Ed Graff said that even though next week marks the first time in a year that in-person learning will be made available for middle-school students, schools would return to remote learning on Wednesday in preparation for the verdict.
“Peaceful protests are one of the foundations of our democracy. Some students may feel called to participate in collective actions being organized around the city, but MPS also recognizes our primary need and your primary desire to keep students safe. We cannot deny the fact that people with ill intentions sometimes take advantage of communities in crisis,” Graff wrote.
The jury begins deliberation on Monday, and MPS will be open for in-person learning through Tuesday, closing again for the remainder of the week. From the announcement:
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<li>On Monday and Tuesday (April 19-20), in-person learning will continue for all grades with corresponding transportation to and from school. Sixth graders in most schools will be welcomed on Monday, and grades 7 and 8 in most will follow on Tuesday. A few schools in hybrid learning with start dates scheduled later in the week will provide updated start dates for their students. Please check with your school with any questions. Families who believe a different choice makes sense for their child are welcome to make that decision using your school’s approved absence process.</li>
<li>From Wednesday through Friday next week (April 21-23), all in-person learning students in all grades will return home for distance learning. Students will not be required to leave their homes to attend school for the remainder of the week, though school buildings will be open. Over these three days, no athletic events or Minneapolis Kids before- and after-school childcare will be held. <a href="https://cws.mpls.k12.mn.us/food_boxes.html">Meal box pick-ups will continue as currently available</a>. </li>
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Graff added that “Leaving the school campus should be a family and caregiver decision done while carefully weighing the potential dangers and concerns in the broader community.” He linked to another MPS website with information about “student walkouts.”
“MPS respects students’ First Amendment right to peacefully assemble. We will not discipline students for the act of protesting as long as the protest remains peaceful. However, according to MPS policy, if students walk out of school unexcused, they will not be able to return to the school for the remainder of the day or participate in after-school activities,” the website says.”
Further, Graff wrote that conversations about race may be brought up in class.
“The racism and violence that has been highlighted in these tragic incidents may be widely discussed among some students in our schools. As appropriate and as they are comfortable, teachers will give students the opportunity to process their feelings, how this feels to them personally and how they are impacted by having the eyes of the world on Minneapolis. Understanding that every educator will approach this differently, MPS has provided all educators with resources that are appropriate both to the age of the students being taught and the background and experience of the educator,” Graff wrote. “These plans are made based on what we know today. Should trial activities change, we will reevaluate, adjust plans and let families and students know as soon as possible.”
Chauvin was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter for Floyd’s death, which occurred on May 25, 2020. Video of the incident appears to show Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Will Return To Remote Learning For Derek Chauvin Verdict Out Of ‘Desire To Keep Students Safe’

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Friday pushed back against Democrat and media claims that Americans still needed to follow coronavirus restrictions even after getting vaccinated, even though the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have shown to be 95% and 94.1% effective, respectively, at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 after two doses.
At a press conference in Lakeland, Florida, DeSantis said people who have received the vaccine should not have to continue wearing face masks.
&#8220;I also think it&#8217;s a problem that people, where, you&#8217;re telling people to get a vaccine and yet people who have been vaccinated for months are wearing two masks,&#8221; DeSantis said, <a href="https://www.wesh.com/article/desantis-florida-masks-vaccines-misinformation/36149714">according to WESH</a>.
DeSantis also said multiple times at the press conference that people who have been vaccinated should not be worried about wearing masks, especially multiple masks.
&#8220;If the vaccine is effective, why would you be wearing two masks? Like some of these folks are doing. It doesn&#8217;t make sense,&#8221; he said.
Also at the press conference, DeSantis told people to consider themselves immune once they have received the vaccine.
“So, you know, my view is, if you get a vaccine, the vaccines are effective, you’re immune. And so act immune. If you tell people the opposite then, gee, if it’s not effective for them and it’s not gonna change anything, then what’s the point of going through it?” the governor asked.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has suggested that even fully vaccinated people should continue to wear masks and social distance, saying they can still spread the disease to others.
&#8220;Once you start pulling back, the thing you don&#8217;t want to have is to start having a plateauing that is so high, that inevitably things are going to go back up,&#8221; Fauci said recently. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get that baseline down lower than it is now particularly in light of the fact that we have some worrisome variants.&#8221;
Florida has fared better than most states with strict lockdowns during the pandemic, including New York and Michigan, despite the Sunshine State’s high percentage of elderly residents. On Monday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-reports-mere-single-digit-increase-in-virus-deaths-for-first-time-in-almost-7-months">reported</a> that “Florida state health officials revealed that the state recorded a single-digit increase in COVID-19-related deaths for the first time in almost seven months.”
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<blockquote>Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who refused to institute harsh lockdowns in his state, recently conducted a roundtable discussion with a group of physicians and scientists who were, as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtubes-assault-on-covid-accountability-11617921149">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported last week, “critical of strict lockdowns to fight the coronavirus.” During the video, DeSantis and the experts criticized some responses in the U.S. as too strict and ultimately ineffective, citing the damage done on a public-health level by locking down schools and businesses. </blockquote>
YouTube removed the video, claiming it spread misinformation. On Monday, DeSantis criticized the decision.
“The biggest media conglomerates, who claim to be avatars of the First Amendment and free exchange of ideas, they’ve really become cheerleaders for censorship. If something doesn’t fit the overriding narrative, then in their view it’s better that it gets left on the cutting-room floor. It’s best that you edit it out of existence rather than tell people the truth. So I think what we’re really witnessing is Orwellian; it’s a Big Tech, corporate collusion and the end result is that the narrative is always right. Well, I don’t think that’s what the American people want; certainly people here in Florida,” DeSantis said.
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In August 2019, Kali Watkins was found not guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl in a locker room. Now Watkins, a former Webster Central School District girl’s basketball coach, is suing the city and police department that investigated, alleging the entire event was a coordinated attack against him by critics.
WHAM <a href="https://13wham.com/news/local/former-webster-coach-acquitted-of-rape-files-lawsuit-against-police-school-district">reported</a> that Watkins alleges in his lawsuit that he was “the target of an investigation driven by personal animosity by those in the Webster Police Department and the school district for which he worked, alleging his coaching style, grudges over personal relationships and racism may all have played roles in what unfolded.”
“From its inception, the ‘investigation’ that dragged Kali Watkins through the mud was biased and tainted with animus,” Watkins says in the lawsuit. “It was spearheaded by a conflicted police department and corrupted by a school district whose own superintendent had a malicious personal vendetta against Watkins.”
The lawsuit alleges that police didn’t interview witnesses who could defend Watkins, specifically, other girls on the JV girl’s basketball coach.
“No other players were questioned by (police). This, despite the fact that these girls spent every single game with (Watkins) and the Accuser,” the lawsuit says. “These girls would have been in the best position to provide detailed facts concerning the alleged timeframe, the daily routine of players on game days, the behavior of the Accuser and Plaintiff and the use and access to the locker room.”
Instead, Watkins alleges, police only interviewed the girl who accused Watkins, who happened to be the daughter of the former Webster police chief, whom Watkins claims “were among the parents and teammates who intensely disliked” him.
Police also focused on Watkins consensual and legal relationships with faculty members in the WCSD. Watkins says in his lawsuit that these exes “told salacious tales and unverified lies to police out of spite.”
Watkins also alleges that the school district “attempted to bully” fellow faculty members to keep them from speaking out on Watkins’ behalf. Watkins gives an example of one colleague, who was allegedly told to “lose” his number and had his job threatened so that he would not support Watkins.
“If the police department and school district did not willfully ignore the exculpatory evidence or obstruct the investigation, there would have been no probable cause to arrest and charge Watkins,” Watkins says in his lawsuit. “Instead, an innocent Black man was forced to hire a criminal defense attorney and incur thousands of dollars in legal fees to reconstruct a timeline from the same evidence the police department already had in its possession but willfully ignored. Had the police department performed its duties and the school district protected his due process rights, they would have discovered that it was impossible for the alleged crime to have occurred in the time, place and manner alleged. It was an injustice. An innocent subjected to public humiliation and financial ruin all because of personal animosity and a reckless and malicious investigation. This lawsuit is a step towards justice.”
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A group of parents in New York City have filed <a href="https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=mr/QKkOTIcRn5h1MJ2XfrQ==">a lawsuit</a> against Mayor Bill de Blasio and schools chancellor Meisha Porter in order to try and get public schools to return to in-person learning.
The Gothamist <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-parents-sue-mayor-full-reopening-schools">reported</a> that a group of nearly two dozen parents with children in New York City public schools filed the lawsuit in State Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing the city’s coronavirus restrictions are keeping their children from receiving a proper education and leading to depression and suicidal thoughts.
Natalya Murakhver, the woman leading the group of Upper West Side mothers who filed the lawsuit, told the Gothamist that her children, aged 7 and 10, were struggling without in-person learning.
“On the days they’re in person they’re thriving, they look energized and inspired,” Murakhver, told the outlet. “On days they’re doing remote they look glazed, like zombies.”
The mothers wrote in their lawsuit that New York City’s refusal to provide in-person teaching five days a week violates the state’s Constitution “because it does not amount to a sound, basic education for the children.”
The parents point out that returning to full in-person learning “poses no risk of increased COVID-19 transmission, nor has there been any credible proof or data offered of any such claim, whether in the State of New York or elsewhere.” They add that, conversely, New York City’s refusal to fully reopen schools “put at risk the futures of an entire generation of New York City children and have long term implications for economic stability in the city.”
The Gothamist reported that more than half of New York City schools are open for five-day in-person learning, adding that it is “unclear how many students are actually attending school on a full-time basis.”
“Around 315,000 students are learning in school buildings at least some of the week, with another 51,000 kids set to return on April 26th,” the outlet added.”
The parents suing the mayor and school chancellor, however, say that the claim that more than half the city’s students have returned to five-day-a-week class instruction is misleading, since many of the students are in the classroom without a teacher, who appears virtually on a screen. The parents contend that de Blasio is ignoring the science because he is beholden to the United Federation of Teachers.
“There was a social contract when we made teachers essential workers,” Murakhver said last week at a press conference. “When they accepted that status, that meant that once they got vaccinated, they were needed back in the classroom.”
In response to the lawsuit, mayoral spokesperson Avery Cohen called the state’s reopening plan the “gold standard.”
“We have more students in classrooms than any other city in America, and all of our schools are open for in-person learning, with the majority offering in-person learning 5 days a week,” Cohen said, according to the Gothamist. “It’s clear that New York City has set the reopening gold standard for districts across the country, and we will review this suit when it’s filed.”
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A story that won’t receive as much media attention as one involving a male Republican governor, the female Democratic governor of New Mexico’s 2018 campaign recently reached a settlement with a former male aide who accused her of sexual misconduct.
The Albuquerque Journal <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/2379452/gov-s-campaign-settles-with-ex-spokesman.html">reported</a> that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)’s campaign reached a settlement with James Hallinan, who worked as a spokesperson for her 2018 gubernatorial campaign.
Hallinan claimed in late 2019 &#8212; a year after leaving the campaign &#8212; that during the campaign, Lujan Grisham had poured a bottle of water on his crotch and then grabbed his crotch through his clothing while laughing. Hallinan claimed other staffers witnessed this event.
The Journal reported that Hallinan claimed he “was talked out of reporting the incident by Lujan Grisham campaign manager Dominic Gabello, who is now a senior adviser in the Governor’s Office.”
Hallinan made the allegation in a tweet on December 25, 2019, adding that he would provide more information when he returned to the U.S.
“A governor … is not above the law for her sexual and physical abuse of employees including (me!!!) I’ll talk more when I return to the country,” he wrote.
Following the tweet, a spokeswoman for Lujan Grisham said the allegations were odd and false, adding that the staffers who allegedly witnessed the water bottle incident said it didn’t happen.
Lujan Grisham’s campaign spokesman Jared Leopold said in a statement Monday that the payment to Hallinan &#8212; which amounts to at least $62,500 paid out over five months &#8212; was part of a settlement that resolved “numerous dubious and disputed potential claims made by Mr. Hallinan arising from his employment in 2018 with the campaign organization and his subsequent search for employment.”
Leopold added that the settlement was agreed to in order to avoid an ongoing distraction, adding that the governor, Gabello, and the campaign “strenuously deny that there is any merit or truth to Mr. Hallinan’s claims, including his claims about difficulty finding or keeping work after the campaign.”
“They reached a settlement in order to avoid the continuing distraction and significant expense of possible litigation and allow them to concentrate on working for the people of New Mexico during this pandemic,” Leopold added.
More from the Journal:
<blockquote>Settlement payments were made to the Buckley Beal law firm in Atlanta, where Rachel Berlin Benjamin, an attorney for Hallinan, is senior partner.
She said Monday that the governor and Hallinan “have resolved any differences or issues to their satisfaction.”
“I am not able to provide any further information,” she said.</blockquote>
A settlement usually carries the impression of guilt, though it is not always the case. The way the media treats different cases, however, is far different. The allegations against Lujan Grisham are couched with wording meant to sow doubt on the accusations. This is not the case when a Republican is accused, nor would the story be covered as little as this one has been, with each outlet publishing just one article about it and moving on, with little to no TV coverage and no opinion articles about what this says about the Party or one particular gender.
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New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Just Settled A Sexual Misconduct Case With A Former Aide

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Cornell University may have its work cut out for it should it ever find itself in a position similar to the one Oberlin College faced after students accused a local bakery of racism for trying to stop a shoplifter.
That’s because Cornell’s recently appointed general counsel Donica Thomas Varner is Oberlin’s current general counsel and was responsible for defending the college during the disastrous Gibson Bakery scandal, which resulted in a $44 million libel verdict against Oberlin. Legal Insurrection’s William A. Jacobson, a clinical professor of law and director of Cornell’s Securities Law Clinic, <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/cornells-new-general-counsel-is-oberlin-college-in-house-lawyer-responsible-for-gibsons-bakery-case/">reported</a> last week that Varner was named Cornell’s new general counsel, even though she is currently best known for sending an inflammatory email criticizing the jury’s decision to award Gibson’s Bakery $11.2 million in compensatory damages. The email was sent after this decision but before a separate trial awarded the bakery an additional $33 million.
“We are disappointed with the verdict and regret that the jury did not agree with the clear evidence our team presented. Neither Oberlin College nor Dean Meredith Raimondo defamed a local business or its owners, and they never endorsed statements made by others. Rather, the College and Dr. Raimondo worked to ensure that students’ freedom of speech was protected and that the student demonstrations were safe and lawful, and they attempted to help the plaintiffs repair any harm caused by the student protests,” Varner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oberlin-college-may-end-paying-bakery-much-more-11-ashe-schow">wrote</a>. “As we have stated, colleges cannot be held liable for the independent actions of their students. Institutions of higher education are obligated to protect freedom of speech on their campuses and respect their students’ decision to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights. Oberlin College acted in accordance with these obligations.”
Jacobson wrote at the time that Varner’s attack on the jury, insisting the complete opposite of what the evidence showed, would end up hurting Oberlin – and he was right.
The email so inflamed the court it became an issue, Jacobson reported, with Varner being asked questions about her statements.
Oberlin is still appealing the verdict.
“As Oberlin College General Counsel, Varner was the key legal person overseeing the Gibson’s Bakery litigation. That is hardly a positive considering how the case was mishandled (regardless of what happens on the appeal),” Jacobson wrote.
The Daily Wire previously reported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worse-you-think-theres-more-oberlin-story-ashe-schow">extensively</a> on the Oberlin case. Several non-white Oberlin students attempted to steal alcohol from Gibson’s, a local bakery with a long history of serving the Oberlin community. A Gibson family member who was working at the bakery that day chased the students out of the store, where they attacked him. He called the police and the students were arrested, pleading guilty and admitting race had nothing to do with the incident.
But other students and faculty accused the bakery of racism and staged protests outside, with Oberlin officials fully endorsing and supporting the protesters’ (false) narrative. Further, while Oberlin claimed in court the protests were peaceful, some demonstrators actually entered the bakery and harassed customers, taking pictures of them and making disparaging comments to them. They also blocked customers from moving down the aisles and slashed the tires of a store employee.
Behind the scenes, Oberlin administrators trashed the bakery and anyone who defended them, calling defenders “idiots” and saying “F***” them.
The Gibson’s home was broken into months after the protests (though it is unclear whether it was related), with the elderly patriarch breaking bones in his neck. Business dropped and employees were laid-off. The family was threatened.
Evidence and testimony at trial backed up Gibson’s plight, yet Varner still sent that email, beyond what losing attorneys typically say after losing. Varner’s email may well have cost the college another $30 million, yet she was rewarded with a new job at Cornell.
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The Oberlin College Lawyer Responsible For The Gibson Bakery Debacle Is Now At Cornell

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A Virginia public school teacher forced to take training based on critical race theory has written about her experience, describing it as a form of “trickle-down indoctrination.”
Monica Gill, an American history, government, and comparative politics teacher with 25 years of experience, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/15/a-loudon-county-teacher-explains-how-leftist-institutional-racism-is-devastating-public-schools/">wrote</a> at The Federalist that the training she was forced to take recently accepts as fact systemic racism and universal “white privilege,” and any suggestion to the contrary is dismissed.
Gill described one specific training exercise where a Vogue cover photo was shown featuring NBA star LeBron James and model Gisele Bundchen. They have their arms around each other, with Bundchen smiling and James looking like he’s yelling while dribbling a basketball. Gill said that she and her colleagues were asked “What do you see?” and were told by their “trainers” that seeing the two people was “an example of a subconscious implicit bias,” because what they should have seen, was a modern-day depiction of King Kong and his female victim.
“They claimed I was really seeing a black man portrayed as an aggressive ape. The purpose of this training was not just to reveal implicit bias, but also to accuse our community of systemic racism that needed to be disrupted and dismantled to root out this type of white supremacist thinking,” Gill wrote.
She said that parents became concerned about the training and curricula in the schools, prompting Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler to insist that Loudoun County Public Schools “has not adopted Critical Race Theory as a framework for staff to adhere to” and that the school district’s attempt to train students and staff on “equity” was “not an effort to indoctrinate students and staff into a particular philosophy or theory.”
Gill, however, says that while the training they receive may not say it&#8217;s CRT, it uses the same buzzwords and assumes that systemic racism, white supremacy, white privilege, and implicit bias are not only real, but prevalent.
Gill wrote that she tried to bring her concerns to her superior, the school board, and then-Superintendent Eric Williams, as well as others, but received no response. She questioned why students and faculty were only hearing from critical race theorists and not Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, or even Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I thought our job was to be life-long learners and examine different perspectives. But our ‘conversations’ are based on the assumption that the ‘equity’ narrative is true and unimpeachable. We are specifically told at our meetings not to direct the conversation to other factors that may inhibit student achievement like ‘economics’ or ‘family structure,’” Gill wrote. “Why shouldn’t we, particularly if those are the roots of challenges faced by minority students, as presented by thinkers like Sowell? Sowell gives empirical data rather than made up esoteric terms that only the ‘experts’ can reveal to us. None of this appears to matter to many district officials.”
Further, Gill wrote, those who question the dogma of the CRT teachings are punished:
<blockquote>It all began with a one-sided conversation and continued with the school board’s attempt to silence teachers’ free speech in opposition to the “equity” initiative. The tensions heightened with the LCPS Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee’s social media posting to silence the opposition, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking">Anti-Racist Facebook group</a> creating “lists” of parents to be doxed, hacked, and bullied for questioning the “Equity” initiative.
My colleagues call parents who disagree with them “racist,” full of “evil rhetoric,” “Beetle douche,” and “people who Harriet Tubman would have shot.” I bet these same people have “Hate does not live here” signs in their front yards.
The willingness of teachers with different views to speak up is further suppressed by those in leadership hurling the very powerful false narrative that if we disagree then somehow we do not have the right heart to be teaching children and ought be dismissed. </blockquote>
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Virginia Public School Teacher Describes Critical Race Theory Training: ‘Trickle-Down Indoctrination’

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A Virginia public school teacher forced to take training based on critical race theory has written about her experience, describing it as a form of

Virginia Public School Teacher Describes Critical Race Theory Training: &#039;Trickle-Down Indoctrination&#039;

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A Michigan State University spring conference on “teaching, learning, and student success” will include woke breakout sessions as well as discussions segregated by race.
The conference, scheduled for early May, includes <a href="https://aan.msu.edu/teaching-learning/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success-schedule-last-updated-04-08-21/">progressively named presentations</a> like “Crip Methodologies in Feminist Theory as Anti-Racist Pedagogy” and “Trauma Informed Teaching Strategies.”
The <a href="https://aan.msu.edu/teaching-learning/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success/#Affinity_Group_Invitation">website</a> for the event currently shows no mention of the segregated sessions, but an <a href="https://archive.is/kDCm8">archived version</a> of the website shows the segregation was a key selling point of the conference.
The website contains a section of what’s new to the conference this year. Previously, the first bullet point on the list was for “Affinity Groups for conversation within identity groups.” Just below the list was a description of the affinity groups, which read:
<blockquote>We invite attendees to participate in an affinity group during the Student Success Spring Conference. Affinity (or caucus) groups provide spaces for people to work within their own identity groups. To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together. For white people, an affinity group provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one’s critical analysis around these concepts. For people of color, a caucus is a place to work with peers to address the impact of racism, to interrupt experiences of internalized racism, and to create a space for healing and working for individual and collective liberation.
There will be an affinity group for white folx [sic] and an affinity group for people of color. The focus of the affinity groups will align with the theme of our featured keynote speakers listed below. Each group will be led by trained facilitators to engage in dialogue utilizing a set of prompts.</blockquote>
As written, the affinity groups do not appear to be mandatory, but their inclusion is the latest example of segregation in higher education, where white people are explicitly told they must accept their inherent racism while people of color are allowed to discuss their own alleged victimization.
Event organizers did not respond to a Daily Wire request for information prior to press time.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-in-portland-segregated-first-year-students-by-race-for-mandatory-orientation-sessions">reported</a>, Lewis &amp; Clark College in Portland, Oregon, segregated first-year students by race and provided them different orientation sessions accordingly. Just as with Michigan State University, Lewis &amp; Clark used affinity groups to segregate students by identity.
As the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education <a href="https://www.thefire.org/investigation-portlands-lewis-clark-college-mandates-racial-segregation-in-orientation-programming/">reported</a>, the college partnered with Race Talks, a “social justice activism” group, to run a mandatory orientation workshop on race <a href="https://www.thefire.org/lewis-clark-segregated-zoom-orientation-page/">titled</a> “Engage for Racial Justice.” The workshop used “affinity groups as a way to create safe spaces for people to speak openly and honestly about race and racism.” Students were required to identify themselves by race and were given three options: black, Indigenous/people of color, and white. They were then separated into different Zoom sessions for what FIRE described as “separate educational experiences,” which unlawfully limited “their ability within the program to engage with students of different races.”
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Michigan State University Teaching Conference Includes Discussions Segregated By Race, With White People Forced To Accept Their ‘White Privilege’

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Michigan State University

Segregation

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A Black Lives Matter activist who posted numerous messages online against “hate” and allegedly stood in solidarity with Asian-Americans after a gunman killed six Asian women in Alabama has been charged with a hate crime against three Asian-American women.
KTTH’s Jason Rantz <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2779966/rantz-progressive-blm-activist-accused-in-violent-anti-asian-hate-crimes/">reported</a> that police have charged Christopher Hamner of Seattle with a hate crime stemming from two incidents in mid-March:
<blockquote>On March 16, Seattle police say Hamner approached a mother as she was driving with her two young children. The police incident report says an unprovoked but angry Hamner stalked toward her car while shouting expletives including “Asian b—-.” He was allegedly seen “punching his fists together” while shouting for the victim to get out of the car. Before escaping, she was able to take <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pammiegoh/posts/10223638306762782">photos of the suspect</a>.
Three days later, on March 19, Hamner is accused in a similar incident.
According to the incident report, two females were driving behind Hamner when he stopped his car at random. When the victims tried to drive past him, he cut them off, opened his door, and started to yell at them, “F— you, Asian!”
Police say Hamner then got out of his car and started to charge at them while yelling. He threw some plastic object at their vehicle and then they drove off to escape what they thought was the threat of an imminent assault.
The victim’s car was equipped with a dashboard camera. Police were able to positively identify Hamner.</blockquote>
The King County Prosecutor’s Office reportedly said Hamner verbally accosted the women while they were in their vehicles and “demonstrated violent, anti-Asian behavior.”
Hamner pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled for June 3.
Online, Hamner presented himself as a typical Black Lives Matter activist, Rantz reported. He posted positive messages about President Joe Biden and made disparaging remarks against former President Donald Trump. He also posted on Facebook following the Atlanta, Georgia spa shooting that everyone has “had bad days but it never justifies hate crimes against [Asian Americans].”
He also posted a link to a YouTube video including Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ condemnation of the shooting, with the caption: “Thank God for a President &amp; VP who can comfort a nation after the Atlanta shooting.”
Rantz described Hamner’s Facebook page as “full of progressive virtue signaling,” noting that he repeatedly praised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (D-NY) as the “Angel of Congress” and posted videos from progressive news sources about alleged racism against Asian-Americans, writing, “We Stand UNITED against racism &amp; white supremacy.”
Rantz reported that Hamner was “active within the BLM movement in Seattle,” posting photos of himself online attending rallies and holding up signs that said “There are no good cops” and “Being black is not a crime.”
Hamner also appeared to be a fan of Seattle’s short-lived Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, claiming it was peaceful despite numerous videos to support the contrary.
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Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime After Posting Online Against ‘Hate’

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Hate Crime

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A Black Lives Matter activist who posted numerous messages online against “hate” and allegedly stood in solidarity with Asian-Americans after a gunman

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