FBI agents who knelt with Black Lives Matter protesters following George Floyd&#8217;s death have been reassigned to less coveted positions, according to insiders briefed on the matter.
The agents were photographed kneeling with Black Lives Matter protestors during the 2020 protests in Washington D.C. following George Floyd&#8217;s death.
The agency was deployed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr in June 2020 to protect federal buildings and aid in crowd control efforts in the streets as local law enforcement were being <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/federal-authorities-washington-dc/index.html">overwhelmed</a> by BLM protestors.
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FBI officials declined to explain the reassignments, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/fbi-agents-2020-protests.html?smid=url-share">stating</a> to the New York Times, “it is our standard practice to decline to comment on personnel matters,” with many inside the bureau viewing them as demotions.
This action, first <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/fbi-agents-blm-protest/index.html">reported</a> by CNN, aligns with President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign promise to root out what he has called &#8220;woke&#8221; and politicized elements within law enforcement.
The kneeling incident occurred when agents assigned to protect federal monuments were confronted by protesters, with the agents claiming that their tactic prevented potential violence.
Photos of the incident sparked fierce internal backlash inside the FBI, with some agents being ostracized by colleagues who viewed the gesture as politically charged, and put the agents at a tactical disadvantage if confrontation did occur.
While former bureau leadership determined the agents hadn&#8217;t violated policy, the incident became a focal point for Trump and the GOP, who cited it as evidence of politicization within the law enforcement agency.
Legal experts note that while the FBI can transfer employees at will so long as they maintain the same pay and position, the agents could potentially pursue legal options if their reassignments were motivated by reprisal or discrimination.
Many Americans expressed frustration in 2020 when various police departments and federal agencies appeared to take political stances during nationwide protests that caused an <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/09/16/abc-nbc-spike-mostly-peaceful-protests-leaving-2-billion?utm_source=chatgpt.com">estimated</a> $1-2 billion in property damage and resulted in dozens of deaths.

Police Shooting Death Of Young Black Man Near Minneapolis Sparks Protests

FBI Pushes Out Agents Who Knelt With BLM Protestors In 2020

Black Lives Matter

George Floyd

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Trump Administration

In the third episode of his groundbreaking series “The Case for Derek Chauvin,” Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed how the politically-connected former Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., dramatically influenced the Hennepin County Medical Examiner to add &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to George Floyd&#8217;s autopsy report despite initial findings that showed &#8220;no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.&#8221;
“The facts are straightforward: Baker’s initial <a href="https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/medical-examiner/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf">autopsy</a> was conducted on May 26th, 2020, and his subsequent draft autopsy report found ‘no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation’ and ‘no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,’” Shapiro said.
“Then, Roger Mitchell enters the picture.”
Mitchell, a Democrat activist who also served as a D.C. deputy mayor, <a href="https://spectator.org/chauvin-did-not-murder-george-floyd/">called</a> Baker twice following the initial autopsy findings, according to <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/Exhibit105122021.pdf">documents</a> filed in the case of Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer and Chauvin&#8217;s colleague.
During these calls, Mitchell allegedly told Baker, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn&#8217;t see what they saw. You don&#8217;t want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong.&#8221;
The pressure campaign intensified when Mitchell threatened to publish an op-ed in The Washington Post critical of Baker&#8217;s findings.
&#8220;[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis,&#8221; the memorandum states.
By June 1, 2020, Baker had added &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to his official diagnosis, transforming the case against the officers. This revised finding enabled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, assigned to the case by Governor Tim Walz just one day earlier, to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
Dr. Baker&#8217;s private concerns about external pressure were revealed in former prosecutor Amy Sweasy&#8217;s sexual harassment <a href="https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/TT-SweasyDiscriminationCharge.pdf">lawsuit</a> deposition, where she detailed conversations with Baker in which he expressed anxiety about the case. According to Shapiro, this information further confirms the political nature of the prosecution.
As Shapiro notes, “Dr. Baker confided to Hennepin prosecutor Amy Sweasy, ‘What happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
The appearance of blackmail aside, Shapiro continues, “Worse yet, the Hennepin County prosecutors met with Dr. Baker to review his draft autopsy report without detectives or special agents present, violating protocol.”
“After being assigned to Chauvin&#8217;s case by Governor Tim Walz one day prior, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison utilized the revised autopsy report to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin,&#8221; Shapiro adds. &#8220;All of these revelations, despite qualifying as Brady material, were buried at trial and were never properly disclosed to Chauvin’s defense.”
In the episode, Shapiro explores how “the detailed autopsy findings provide significant reasons to determine that Derek Chauvin did not receive a fair trial, and his conviction for murder was not supported by the medical evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/4KrY4XR88Ws?si=eiI7O3suA_jFK5n7">here.</a>

TCFDC

The Chauvin Trial’s Dirty Secret: Shapiro Exposes D.C. Influence On Floyd Autopsy

Ben Shapiro

Derek Chauvin

Minneapolis

Police Brutality

Riots

Earlier this month, road crews in Washington, D.C., dismantled “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” a stretch of 16th Street that had been renamed in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.
The riots that followed Floyd’s death caused over $2 billion in property damage as protesters nationwide engaged in what Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-charlie-kirk-praises-ben-shapiros-efforts-to-pardon-derek-chauvin">recently called</a> “a sort of racial cleansing process.”
The BLM grift that plagued American culture for years culminated in the exposure of the organization’s lavish spending, from purchasing multiple mansions to the graffiti artist brother of BLM co-founder and self-proclaimed Marxist Patrisse Cullors who received $840,000 from the “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation” (BLMGNF) for security and consulting.
The sight of workers jackhammering up the massive yellow letters leading right up to the White House is the perfect metaphor for the current political moment. President Donald Trump is back, Republicans control both houses of Congress, and corporate America can’t abandon their woke, “anti-racist” policies fast enough.
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HAPPENING NOW: Workers are dismantling the “Black Lives Matter Plaza” near the White House
The world is healing <a href="https://t.co/sPPcwtDzlW">pic.twitter.com/sPPcwtDzlW</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1899087129453776945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The wounds of this time are still wide open in many communities across the country, all while those that participated look the other way, hoping everyone forgets the carnage left in their wake. And yet, the guilty leftists in control of many of these cultural institutions are silently screaming as Trump’s new mandate literally repaves the way to American greatness.
What better way to celebrate this cultural spring cleaning than with Jeremy’s all new Noble Waters Hand Soap?
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Leftist-led companies want you to lather up with DEI so they can spend your money on woke causes. But because of companies like Jeremy’s, this movement is getting cleaned out! Jeremy’s is made by people who share your values and are committed to making even better products than those that fight against your beliefs, products that will never support, foment, or fund the destruction of great American cities.
Washing your hands is an everyday thing — and an almost hourly act for some. Don’t let brands that are progressive to their roots wear away your values. A switch as simple as your hand soap is a step towards washing away the stains of the dark era of BLM, DEI, and Marxist ideology.
Jeremy’s Razors shares common ownership with The Daily Wire.

House Minority Leader McCarthy Hosts Back The Blue Bike Tour

America Is Washing Its Hands Of DEI And BLM

Dove

Jeremy's

Jeremy's Razors

Road crews got to work on Monday destroying a massive street mural with painted lettering that read, “Black Lives Matter,” leading directly to the White House in Washington, D.C.
In videos and pictures that surfaced on X, construction workers with large construction equipment such as skip loaders started jack-hammering the 35-foot bright yellow letters of Black Lives Matter Plaza, which were initially constructed along 16th Street NW, just down the street from the White House, following the death of George Floyd in 2020.
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Fox News’s <a href="https://x.com/KatiePavlich/status/1899132556101976200">Katie Pavlich</a> wrote on X, “Black Lives Matter Plaza is being dismantled in Washington D.C.” Her post included videos of a machine tearing into the brick road and breaking up the bright yellow mural with the words “Black Lives Matter” painted on the strip of road that went for blocks. 
In another shot, a construction worker uses some kind of tool to continue breaking up the road.
<a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1899112407647076638">Libs of TikTok wrote</a>, “After Trump demanded action and threatened to withhold funding:
– DC cleared out homeless encampments last week
– Black Lives Matter Plaza torn down today
Trump is making our Nation’s capital safe and beautiful again!”
One <a href="https://x.com/FordFischer/status/1899081363589911022">viral post</a> shared on social media read, “Right now: work crews just North of the White House to dismantle Black Lives Matter Plaza, 4.5 years since receiving this designation by DC local government. DC Mayor Bowser agreed to retire BLM Plaza following threats to federal funding from Congress.”
Several accounts noted that “America is Healing,” with one post that <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1899085434313113823">read</a>, “NOW: Crews have been deployed to Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White House to DISMANTLE it. America is FINALLY healing!”
<a href="https://x.com/Huberton/status/1899133777143800197">One video</a> captured the machines ripping out the numerous <a href="https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1899139742752559590">black poles</a> in the road that lined both sides of the pathway.
The dismantling of the BLM Plaza comes after Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) proposed the city would lose federal funds from the government if it was not renamed to &#8220;Liberty Plaza,&#8221; as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanity-is-making-a-comeback" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. Following the comments, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser agreed to take apart the two-block-long plaza.
Bowser later shared a post on <a href="https://x.com/MayorBowser/status/1897039109434364388">X</a> that read, “The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a very painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference.”
Work will soon get underway to reconstruct the area with a project dedicated to celebrating the country’s 250th Anniversary next year, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/watch-dc-crew-begins-dismantling-black-lives-matter-plaza/">Free Beacon</a> noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanity-is-making-a-comeback" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sanity Is Making A Comeback</a>

WATCH: Black Lives Matter Plaza In D.C. Being Completely Demolished

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Entertainment

Politics

Washington

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Just a few days after BLM and Antifa set fire to a church outside the White House in the summer of 2020, the mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser, issued an emergency order. This wasn&#8217;t an order about restoring law and order to the streets of the nation&#8217;s capital, or punishing the vandals who had just destroyed property and assaulted Secret Service agents, or anything like that. Instead, Bowser made the decision to hire an elite team of eight artists — yes, eight artists — to meet up at around 3:30 a.m. in the morning. These artists&#8217; mission, if they chose to accept it, was to paint the words &#8220;BLACK LIVES MATTER&#8221; on two blocks of road, in giant fifty-foot-tall letters, just a few blocks from the White House. This street painting would be referred to as a &#8220;mural,&#8221; to give it some sense of grandeur, even though it&#8217;s really graffiti. Nobody knows why it required eight artists to paint three words in Times New Roman font. Maybe they needed one to do the painting and the other seven for spell check. It’s not clear.
But it was clearly a very deliberate decision to have this graffiti painted in secrecy, under the cover of darkness, like they were planning the Bin Laden raid. Apparently the reasoning was that white supremacists would be less likely to jump out of the bushes on 16th street and mess up the paint at 3:00 a.m., because as we all know, at that hour the white supremacists are too busy hunting for the cast of &#8220;Empire&#8221; in Chicago. So the BLM graffiti could be painted in peace. And then, by morning, everyone would awaken to see &#8220;BLACK LIVES MATTER&#8221; on the ground, and racism would be defeated. All of the klan members in Washington D.C. would see the words on the street and say to each other, “Geez, you know what, black lives really do matter.” And then they would throw off their pointy hat hats and go get jobs at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Of course, the actual plan was a lot more modest than that. The real goal was simply to annoy Donald Trump and impress &#8220;The Resistance,&#8221; which applauded any effort — no matter how petty — to advance the BLM scam. To that end, Muriel Bowser renamed the area with the alleged &#8220;mural&#8221; as &#8220;Black Lives Matter Plaza.&#8221; And then she <a href="https://x.com/MurielBowser/status/1269090846160412672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted this message</a> on social media: &#8220;We turned on the night light for him so he dreams about #BlackLivesMatter Plaza.&#8221; Yes, according to Muriel Bowser, the plan was to have Donald Trump &#8220;dream about&#8221; some words they painted on the ground. And people loved it. This is the kind of tweet that, on Old Twitter, got tens of thousands of &#8220;likes&#8221; and non-stop praise in the replies. Anyone who disagreed was banned for hate speech.
Given that recent history, it&#8217;s actually kind of astonishing to see how Muriel Bowser and Democrat activists have reacted to Republicans&#8217; latest effort to get rid of BLM Plaza and the street graffiti. Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia recently introduced legislation that would strip D.C. of most of its federal funding unless they eliminate BLM plaza, rename it &#8220;Liberty Plaza,&#8221; and get rid of the graffiti. And instead of fighting back in any way, Democrats are rolling over. Muriel Bowser has already announced that the BLM writing is going to be removed from the street. Apparently the current plan is to replace it with artwork commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which is coming up next summer. And as various local news outlets are reporting, it&#8217;s not just the mayor who&#8217;s fine with this. One of the artists involved in creating the so-called &#8220;mural&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really seem to care either. Watch:
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At this point, you have to go out of your way to find anyone in D.C. who cares about this graffiti being wiped away. The people who created it are now distancing themselves from the whole idea. So are a lot of local activists. We went from Mitt Romney saying &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; as he marches along with Left-wing activists, to watching Left-wing activists pretty much disavow the whole thing. And it only took a few years.
To be fair, I did find at least one woman who seemed upset that this beautiful mural is being erased. Here&#8217;s what she told a local news station. As you&#8217;ll see, this woman is wearing a shirt about D.C. statehood, and she begins by talking about DEI, so it&#8217;s safe to say that the BLM mural isn&#8217;t exactly her primary focus. But she eventually gets around to implying that erasing the big yellow words on the street is a really bad idea. Watch:
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It&#8217;d be interesting to get this woman&#8217;s take on all the statues that Democrats have torn down over the years. That&#8217;s the kind of history she wants to see &#8220;erased.&#8221; But some words painted on a street five years ago — a monument to the total disaster of the BLM movement — is something that we supposedly need to preserve at all costs.
Of course, most people in the Democrat Party don&#8217;t think that way. They&#8217;re trying to distance themselves from this &#8220;mural&#8221; as quickly as they can. BLM — which was once a core, unifying pillar of the Democrat Party — has suddenly become a major political liability for Democrats. They can&#8217;t run away from it fast enough. This is progress, of course, in one sense. It&#8217;s a sign that Democrats are abandoning a movement that caused more than a billion dollars in property damage, resulted in multiple murders, suspended the right of self-defense in parts of the country, and kickstarted a nationwide de-policing effort that made this country far more dangerous.
At the same time, Democrats are not abandoning BLM because they&#8217;ve adopted a new, coherent ideology to replace it. They&#8217;re not committing themselves to a more responsible platform or anything like that. Instead, they’re flailing around in a state of total disarray, without any guiding principles whatsoever. They have no leadership and no direction of any kind. We are witnessing anarchy in the Democrat Party, after years of lockstep, disciplined messaging. And it&#8217;s not just the downfall of BLM Plaza that illustrates the chaos that&#8217;s unfolding.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1550-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
Last night the Left-wing outlet Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/democrats-disrupt-trump-speech-reaction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, in the wake of Donald Trump&#8217;s address to Congress, Democrats in Washington are now fighting among themselves about how terribly they came across. Apparently Democrats&#8217; leadership in Congress didn&#8217;t want any kind of props to be used, nor did they call for any kind of interruptions or heckling. And of course, all throughout Trump&#8217;s speech, Democrats were waving their little paddles around, making noise, turning their backs to Trump, rushing out of the chamber, and so on. So there was a complete breakdown of leadership, by all accounts. Axios quotes several Democrat congressmen, including Jared Golden and Tom Suozzi, as saying the outbursts were a major mistake. One Democrat put it this way: &#8220;Not standing for Trump would have been a fine strategy, but you need to separate him from the kid with cancer.&#8221;
But that’s the way it played out, because the Democrats are totally beholden to the most radical elements of their party. This is &#8220;ideological capture,&#8221; and the consequences are a lot more far-reaching than Democrats might like to admit. The issue for them is not simply that voters find their party to be completely unappealing, even though that&#8217;s obviously a serious problem. The bigger issue for Democrats is that voters are now going back and re-assessing how Democrats got to this point. Voters are thinking about everything else Democrats have said over the past decade or so. They&#8217;re wondering what other scams the party has been running.
That might explain why, according to a <a href="https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_uHE5Cxl.pdf#page36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> from The Economist and YouGov, only 48% of Americans support the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage. 38% of Americans oppose it, and the rest are unsure. To restate: Less than half of adult Americans want same-sex marriage to be recognized nationwide. Among political &#8220;moderates,&#8221; support for the nationwide legalization of gay marriage sits at just 51%. Among conservatives, it&#8217;s down to 20%. This is from a poll that was conducted just a few days ago, in the first days of March. Even among self-described liberals, support for gay marriage isn&#8217;t unanimous. It sits at around 84% in that demographic.
Just three years ago, YouGov <a href="https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/43775-51-34-americans-would-back-congress-passing-law-le" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measured</a> much stronger support for gay marriage, when people were asked the same question. A majority of Americans backed it. In other words, things are now so bad that Democrats are even losing ground on an issue that they thought was settled. They viewed gay marriage as a stepping stone to gender ideology, without realizing that the insanity of gender ideology would eventually make people take a closer look at gay marriage. And that was a major tactical error, because when it comes to the culture war, no argument is ever really settled. People on our side have said for years that the marriage debate is over. We lost. There’s nothing we can do. But that’s not true. It’s never over. After all, the “traditional” definition of marriage — which is to say the actual definition — was settled for thousands of years. Until it wasn’t.
The reality is that, just as quickly as America was overtaken by the moral panic of BLM and the emotional blackmail of trans activists, we can return to some semblance of sanity. It doesn&#8217;t take much. What conservatives need to do, as quickly as possible, is to capitalize on Democrats&#8217; weakness and start passing laws that reverse the derangement that&#8217;s been so dominant for so long. If conservatives do that, they might be able to drag more concessions out of Democrats than we ever thought possible. After all, no one thought they&#8217;d cave on the BLM movement as quickly as they have. But they did. And it stands to reason that they can be beaten on gender insanity and voter ID and open borders and all of their other &#8220;must-have agenda items&#8221; just as thoroughly. All Republicans have to do now is take advantage of their position of power and apply pressure, just like the congressman from Georgia did. In response, Democrats might howl and stomp their feet and wave paddles around. But in the end, they will lose.

Sanity Is Making A Comeback

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Hollywood star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/julia-roberts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Roberts</a> got torched on Tuesday when she slammed those looting during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wildfires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles fires</a> after she has overwhelmingly supported Democratic weak-on-crime policies.
On Monday, the 57-year-old actress posted a message on her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DExvYb-xdRF/">Instagram</a> about a SoCal Fire fund set up to “assist in providing Immediate and Long Term support for all those impacted” by the multiple wildfires burning in southern California.
“There is so much healing and help needed,” Roberts wrote. “We will get through this. #F.U.Looters. To donate and have a direct impact, please visit the link in my bio.” Her post follows reports that $10 million dollar homes were being looted after families have been forced to evacuate their mansions due to the fires raging in the area, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14280151/Julia-Roberts-says-f-looters-10M-homes-continue-robbed-LA-fires.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline">Daily Mail</a> noted.
It was the line about “F.U. looters” that seemed to get everyone’s attention, with many on social media pointing out that the movie star has fundraised for Democrats who have supported things like Defund the Police and soft on crime DAs who refused to punish looters of Black Lives Matter riots and more.
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Julia is a big supporter of CA Democrats and recently urged wives of male Trump voters to secretly vote for Kamala Harris. The same CA Dems she supported are the ones who made looting so easy for so long. At some point she needs to direct her comments to her mirror. 👀 <a href="https://t.co/uOhl2rhhja">https://t.co/uOhl2rhhja</a>
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1879023108650319990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
“Julia is a big supporter of CA Democrats and recently urged wives of male [Donald] Trump voters to secretly vote for Kamala Harris,” one person <a href="https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1879023108650319990">wrote</a>. “The same CA Dems she supported are the ones who made looting so easy for so long. At some point she needs to direct her comments to her mirror.”
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Another person <a href="https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1878981007770374593">added</a>, “No one&#8217;s home should be looted. Also, people like Julia Roberts supported the policies that created this mess. Only getting mad when it starts to affect them instead of an inner-city Walgreens is pretty scummy.”
A third person <a href="https://x.com/TexasBelle/status/1878921618971578875">wrote</a>, “She voted for all of it. The thieves, the fires, the destruction. Her signature is on all of it. I&#8217;m finding it difficult to sympathize.&#8221;
While a <a href="https://x.com/TomiLahren/status/1879215187875512485">fourth person noted</a>, “Julia Roberts says &#8216;f*** you&#8217; to looters as $10M homes continue to be robbed during LA fires. Question, Julia, why is looting unacceptable now BUT in the name of George Floyd y’all were cool with it…”
During the 2024 election, Roberts made headlines when she narrated a cringe ad for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Harris</a> targeting the wives of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Trump</a> supporters, encouraging them to secretly vote for the Democratic candidate without telling their spouses, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/julia-roberts-tells-wives-of-trump-supporters-to-secretly-vote-for-kamala-in-cringe-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>.
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Julia Roberts Torched For Slamming Looters Of LA Fires After Supporting Dem Policies

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With the acquittal of Daniel Penny in Manhattan, it&#8217;s clear that Democrats are going to have some difficulty rounding up political prisoners for the next few years. As that trial demonstrated, they can&#8217;t even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women (and a guy wearing a COVID mask). People are more skeptical of race hysteria now, across party lines. They understand when they&#8217;re being manipulated. They care more about facts, instead of whatever the corporate press is saying. And that&#8217;s all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp.
But this development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison, after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is a man named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons — people like George Floyd. He&#8217;s been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl.
The issue of &#8220;causation&#8221; was the single most important issue of the trial — that is, the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin&#8217;s actions weren&#8217;t a &#8220;substantial factor&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death, then under Minnesota law, he&#8217;s innocent. That pretty much sums up the entire case.
But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn&#8217;t really care about this issue at all. &#8220;Causation&#8221; just didn&#8217;t matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin&#8217;s actions didn&#8217;t matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn&#8217;t do. They didn&#8217;t convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn&#8217;t convict him because his actions caused Floyd&#8217;s death. Instead, they convicted him for failing to &#8220;care&#8221; for George Floyd in some unspecified way.
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It&#8217;s an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there&#8217;s no reason for a jury to be looking for a &#8220;light bulb moment&#8221; which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict — unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin (which they obviously were). The jury shouldn&#8217;t be trying to find a way to get a conviction. They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting that the prosecution proved its case, they don&#8217;t get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out.
But in this case, that&#8217;s exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t respond compassionately enough to George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, or live up to the police department&#8217;s motto, I guess — even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer. The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can&#8217;t breathe — even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn&#8217;t breathe just a few minutes earlier, when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car. And if police officers don&#8217;t administer CPR, and someone dies, then we&#8217;ll just assume that the officer killed them. We&#8217;ll just make that leap of logic, because why not?
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But just because the jury didn&#8217;t consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not relevant. From a legal perspective, on appeal, it&#8217;s still very important. And that&#8217;s why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that&#8217;s worth dissecting at length, because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was. No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than that.
The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin&#8217;s new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin&#8217;s legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned, in part, because his previous lawyer was ineffective — to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial. There are other objections too — including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob, so Chauvin couldn&#8217;t get a fair trial.  
But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel.&#8221; The first is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer, during the trial, failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure, resulting in pulmonary edema and death. There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could&#8217;ve caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about it — nor was it brought up at trial. 
The second claim is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer should have listened to the doctor, and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd&#8217;s body. Those tests could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis, or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin&#8217;s new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution&#8217;s argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd. And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out — and potentially a new trial, if prosecutors decide to pursue it.
One of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that, in Chauvin&#8217;s trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd&#8217;s system when he died. And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that, in the initial autopsy report, the medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation, and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed.
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The threats and the political pressure, we&#8217;re supposed to conclude, didn&#8217;t influence the medical examiner. We&#8217;re supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn&#8217;t bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
We&#8217;re also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn&#8217;t exert any political pressure at all. But as the reporter Liz Collin found, there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. 
One <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVdBFkjXkAAb3TA?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time says that on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiner Andrew Baker to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd&#8217;s death was a homicide caused by neck compression — and that fentanyl wasn&#8217;t the cause.
A new trial would offer Chauvin&#8217;s new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. This is an opportunity that Chauvin&#8217;s first legal team missed completely, during the first trial. Outside of a few accounts on social media — people like &#8220;Data Hazard&#8221; for example — no one has talked about this. But it&#8217;s an incredible oversight by the defense team, and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it&#8217;s this.
Here&#8217;s the moment in the trial that I&#8217;m talking about. This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd&#8217;s blood.
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It&#8217;s a lot to process, with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected post-mortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims, and DUI suspects, after their deaths. And Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were well below both of those groups, at the post-mortem stage. The conclusion was that Floyd didn&#8217;t overdose on fentanyl.
The fundamental problem here is that Floyd&#8217;s samples, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s records, were not actually conducted post-mortem, or &#8220;after death.&#8221; They&#8217;re comparing Floyd&#8217;s pre-death samples with other people&#8217;s post-death samples.
To restate: There were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government&#8217;s own documents. He wasn&#8217;t actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin, when he was in the hospital. And while he was in the hospital, his blood was drawn. As the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, &#8220;the autopsy report shows that ante-mortem blood was collected.&#8221;  And the prosecutors&#8217; own statements from 2020 confirm that. Another <a href="https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298403284416249856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> shows what they said at the time. 
 &#8220;Dr. Andrew Baker &#8230; said he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd&#8217;s samples &#8230; Those samples are from Mr. Floyd&#8217;s hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. [Baker] said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy,&#8221; the memo said. &#8220;Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone &#8216;post mortem distribution.'&#8221; 
So here we have &#8220;ante-mortem&#8221; samples, or pre-death samples of Floyd&#8217;s blood. That means they were taken before the effects of Floyd&#8217;s death could impact the samples.
And the <a href="https://x.com/fentasyl/status/1825656873019650417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autopsy report</a> also confirms that Floyd&#8217;s samples are &#8220;ante-mortem.&#8221; 
It reads, &#8220;testing performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at 9:00 p.m. &#8230; Fentanyl 11 nanograms per milliliter.&#8221; This couldn&#8217;t be any more clear. These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution&#8217;s own records.
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Now, you might be asking what&#8217;s the big deal — who cares if Floyd&#8217;s blood was collected before his death, or after it? As it turns out, the distinction is extremely significant. After death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It&#8217;s a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. That&#8217;s because when you die, blood stops pumping, so blood concentrations change.
So what the prosecution did, in effect, was compare Floyd&#8217;s fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd&#8217;s levels were lower. And based on this apples-to-oranges comparison, the prosecutors convinced the jury that Floyd&#8217;s death had nothing to do with fentanyl. 
In other words, when he arrived at the hospital Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim, when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But the prosecution hid this fact from the jury, by presenting these blood samples as &#8220;post-mortem.&#8221; They compared Floyd&#8217;s numbers with other people who had been dead for several hours. 
It&#8217;s impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution&#8217;s entire argument. They hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. 
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Again, he&#8217;s showing the chart with the false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd had built up a &#8220;tolerance&#8221; to fentanyl — implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug.
But that was never proven at trial, either. We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before. He even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that&#8217;s very different from saying that Floyd was somehow immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it&#8217;s impossible. 
The other major problem here is that the prosecution&#8217;s witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital
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This whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd&#8217;s suspected drug dealer wasn&#8217;t prosecuted, which allowed him to take the Fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd&#8217;s possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/appeals-court-revises-lawsuit-of-prosecutor-who-objected-to-charging-decisions-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin. There was testimony from Andrew Baker, who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin&#8217;s knee did not cut off Floyd&#8217;s airway. There was that <a href="https://x.com/gregg_re/status/1715582463915733334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the judge in the case, saying every case is about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; when he was still in the squad car — and Chauvin&#8217;s knee was nowhere near his neck.
In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption, and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial. The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. 
None of that&#8217;s true anymore. That&#8217;s why Daniel Penny was just acquitted. And it&#8217;s why, if he&#8217;s granted the new trial he clearly deserves, Derek Chauvin will be acquitted too.

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Why Derek Chauvin Deserves A New Trial (And Will Win It)

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice stepped in this week to try to stop former Minneapolis police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin</a>&#8216;s legal team from an appeal effort.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chauvins-legal-team-allowed-avenue-for-appeal-will-examine-george-floyds-heart-tissue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson on Monday approved the examination of George Floyd’s heart tissue and bodily fluids, paving a way for an appeal from Chauvin, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-attorney-talks-u-s-supreme-court-appeal-every-juror-had-a-stake-in-outcome-of-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> in the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning Floyd&#8217;s death.
Now, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the District of Minnesota are trying to reverse that ruling, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-doj-opposes-court-decision-allowing-derek-chauvin-chance-examine-george-floyds-heart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In a motion filed Tuesday, the state is arguing that Chauvin has &#8220;no legal basis for [his] discovery requests, all of which stem solely from an email he received from an unvetted doctor offering a weaker version of the medical defense than the version that the jury had previously rejected at his state trial.&#8221;
A day earlier, a motion filed by Chauvin’s new defense attorney, Robert Meyers, asked Judge Magnuson to explore samples taken during Floyd’s autopsy on the basis that Chauvin was given “ineffective assistance of counsel” under his last attorney, Eric Nelson.
Meyers noted that Dr. William Schaetzel, a Kansas-based forensic pathologist, told Nelson before conviction that he believed Floyd died from heart failure due to an excessive release of catecholamines, not from Chauvin’s actions, ABC5 <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/chauvin-appeal-judge-oks-analysis-of-george-floyds-heart-tissue-fluids-in-federal-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. However, Nelson never discussed this with Chauvin.
Judge Magnuson agreed, writing in his order, “Nelson provided ineffective assistance of counsel to Mr. Chauvin by failing to consult with him on this issue.&#8221;
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<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7738970/george-floyd-doctor-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Floyd</a>, who suffered from heart disease and hypertension and had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death, did not die until he was at a nearby hospital.
Chauvin, who has already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbed</a> in prison, has been trying to appeal the conviction.
In 2023, attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing, in part, that Chauvin was denied the right to a fair trial. However, the high court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to hear the appeal.
“Under the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, every criminal defendant is guaranteed a right to a fair trial,” Mohrman told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> at the time. “And part of that fair trial right is not to be tried in a location where the jurors have either been exposed to extensive pre-trial publicity, or there has been such community outrage and the like that the jurors, before they even were impaneled before the trial, would have concluded the defendant’s guilty, or would have been pressured into rendering a guilty verdict.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chauvins-legal-team-allowed-avenue-for-appeal-will-examine-george-floyds-heart-tissue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chauvin’s Legal Team Allowed Avenue For Appeal, Will Examine George Floyd’s Heart Tissue</a>

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The Daniel Penny verdict has been met with threats by at least one high-profile activist hoping he would be convicted of killing Jordan Neely, who was threatening people on a New York City subway train last year.
After Penny was found not guilty of the criminally negligent homicide of Neely, the founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, called on black people to attack white people in the city.
&#8220;We need some black vigilantes,” Newsome said during a press conference. “People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us.”
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The trial has also inspired vandalism.
Last week, law enforcement said that nine suspects who boarded the northbound F train at the Neptune Avenue station around 4:24 a.m. allegedly plastered the interior of the car with messages that said: “A man was lynched here,” <a href="https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/brooklyn-f-train-protest-daniel-penny-trial/">according to AMNY</a>. The statements are believed to be a reference to Neely, who died after Penny subdued him in a chokehold to keep him from hurting other passengers.
While Neely’s official cause of death is asphyxiation, Dr. Satish Chundru, a forensic pathologist, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chokehold-did-not-kill-jordan-neely-forensic-expert-testifies-in-daniel-pennys-defense">testified</a> for the defense that Penny’s chokehold did not result in Neely’s death.
“In your opinion, did Mr. Penny choke Mr. Neely to death?” Steven Raiser, one of Penny’s defense attorneys, asked Chundru on the stand.
“No,” Chundru replied, “The chokehold did not cause death.”
Chundru also testified that Neely’s death was the result of “the combined effects of sickle cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/daniel-penny-defense-calls-forensic-pathologist-witness-stand-chokehold-did-not-cause-death">reported</a>. He said that someone high on synthetic marijuana with schizophrenia can die while involved in a struggle, even without a chokehold being used. Chundru went on to say that even if Neely hadn’t had those other health factors, he still would not have died from Penny’s chokehold.
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Chundru said he ruled the chokehold out as the cause of death because there were other factors, and he pointed out discrepancies in Neely’s records. He said that Neely’s medical records were inconsistent when it came to bruising on his neck and stated there were “almost negligible” tiny bleeding spots on his eyelids. Chundru said these discrepancies were not consistent with a fatal chokehold, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/jordan-neelys-cause-of-death-wasnt-daniel-penny-chokehold-but-combined-effects-of-drugs-struggle-and-schizophrenia-defense-expert/">reported</a> at the time.
Jurors deliberated most of last week on whether Penny was responsible for “recklessly” causing the death of Neely as part of a charge of manslaughter in the second degree. On Friday, they told Judge Maxwell Wiley that they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-in-daniel-penny-trial-says-theyre-deadlocked-over-manslaughter-charge">could not</a> come to a unanimous decision on that count of the indictment, so Wiley allowed Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manslaughter-charge-against-daniel-penny-dismissed-lesser-charge-still-looms">drop the charge</a> and allow the jury to deliberate on a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.
When the jury returned on Monday to deliberate the lesser charge, it took them less than an hour to find Penny not guilty.

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BLM Leader Calls For ‘Black Vigilantes’ Following Daniel Penny Verdict

Jordan Neely

New York

New York City

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Perry</a>, a former Army Sergeant who was granted a full pardon by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, is speaking out for the first time since he fatally shot an armed BLM protester during the summer of 2020.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, Perry details what happened that fateful night and explains some of the controversies of the case, including the shocking actions of <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/11/us-news/crime-victims-target-woke-soros-das-in-california-texas/">George Soros-funded</a> District Attorney Jose Garza, whom Perry says is victimizing others in Austin.
For the uninitiated, Perry, then 30 years old, was stationed with the U.S. Army outside of Austin, Texas, in 2020, and was working as an Uber driver as a side hustle. On July 25, after dropping off a passenger, he found himself in the midst of a Black Lives Matter protest, where at least two protesters were armed. Perry ended up fatally shooting Garrett Foster, 28, who approached Perry’s car window while open-carrying a loaded AK-47. Both Foster and Perry are white and military veterans.
Perry was later charged with murder by Garza. Perry was convicted of murder in April of 2023, and a year later, in May of 2024, Gov. Abbott issued a full pardon to Perry and called out Garza for politically motivated actions.
Recalling the night of the incident, Perry told The Daily Wire that he had no intention of ending up near a BLM protest, and when he realized he was approaching a crowd of people, he stopped his vehicle.
“A guy jumped in front of my vehicle so I couldn&#8217;t drive any further and somebody threw a water bottle,” Perry said. “That&#8217;s when I honked my horn.”
“They start rocking and shaking my car and banging on it with their fists and kicking it,” he continued. “And the guy approached me with an AK-47 and he motioned [for] me to roll my windows. And at this point in time, I&#8217;m kind of in a state of shock and I complied with him – I don&#8217;t know why I complied with him … I rolled my windows down.”
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The man, later identified as Foster, said something to Perry that was “completely muffled.”
“I had no idea what he was saying, and then he takes two steps back and he points – starts raising the barrel of his AK-47 at me. And my body reacted on its own. I grabbed my revolver and I shot him.”
Perry said he sped away to try to get to safety and heard gunshots going off behind him. There was a second shooter in the crowd, but Perry thought he had missed Foster and believed Foster was now trying to kill him.
The second shooter left three bullet holes in Perry’s vehicle and has since been identified by authorities, who have determined that the person acted criminally. However, Perry said the DA’s office has refused to prosecute the shooter – another suspect decision from Garza.
“I honestly thought I wasn’t going to make it out of there alive,” Perry said. “A thought that went through me was that I hadn&#8217;t been the most right, righteous Jew in the world, and that I wouldn’t see my parents again and make amends for not talking to them as much as I should.”
Perry said that following the incident, he was seeking help to cope with the trauma he experienced and was trying to move on with his life. He never thought he would be charged with murder, since he said he clearly acted in self-defense.
But all that changed.
Perry started to receive death threats over the incident and said the U.S. Army stationed him in Alaska to protect his safety. At the same time, Perry said Garza was campaigning for District Attorney on a platform that included getting “justice” for Foster.
As Perry feared, Garza was elected and secured an indictment against him. At the time, Perry’s defense <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/us-army-sergeant-indicted-on-murder-charge-in-austin-protester-garrett-fosters-death/269-ba224d9e-d40c-48b9-b728-e26234a76c74">said</a> that the indictment was politically motivated and “unusual,” since they were unable to present a written presentation to the Grand Jury.
“Honestly, I felt like the justice system was going to work in my favor because I believe I did nothing wrong,” Perry described his feelings heading into the trial. “But at the back of my mind, I believed that the DA was going to tip the scales and put me at a slight disadvantage.”
The trial was controversial. For example, one of the jurors printed outside research and presented it to fellow jurors. The defense sought a new trial over the issue, but the judge agreed with prosecution that such action from the juror was okay.
In another controversy, the lead investigator on the case, David Fugitt, testified that Garza’s office tampered with him as a witness. Fugitt said he was ordered to remove almost all exculpatory evidence that would have helped Perry.
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“I had no idea that the jury instruction was going to be as complicated as they were going to be,” Perry said. “And I had no idea that there was a jury member bringing in outside information to the trial to use it to change the mind of the other members of the jury. I also had no idea about the witness tampering. [The DA’s office] also did not allow the police support in my trial, and they did not allow the lead detective to give his professional opinion about my case.”
Perry was convicted on April 8, 2023, for the murder of Foster, and was later sentenced to 25 years behind bars.
“I felt like I was betrayed by the American people, even though that&#8217;s not really true,” Perry told The Daily Wire. “It was just the city of Austin.”
“My entire belief system of the justice system was destroyed, because I felt like it was weaponized against me. I felt that I was never going to see my parents again alive,” he continued. “I broke up with my fiancée, because I thought I was never going to see her again. I told her that I cannot provide her the family that she deserves, so she needed to move on and find a husband who can help her raise a family. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.”
After Perry was convicted, Gov. Abbott announced that he would be asking the Texas Parole Board to review Perry&#8217;s case, and if a recommendation was made, he would move swiftly to give Perry a full pardon. “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” the governor <a href="https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1791209488747307192">said</a>.
Perry spent 13 months behind bars before Abbott received the go-ahead from the board to grant the full pardon. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reacted to the pardon, saying online, “Soros-backed prosecutors like Jose Garza do not get to pick and choose the rights we have as Americans, and I am relieved that justice has prevailed.”
Perry, who is Jewish, said it was his faith in God that got him through.
“I felt that God had answered my prayers,” he said. “I don&#8217;t know many prayers by heart, but I did the Shema three times a day. And then a few days later, I found out that the governor actually said that about me and actually brought me hope. I felt like I was blessed, to be honest.”
Perry also noted how Garza and his office have taken actions against him that he feels are both politically motivated and personal. In one instance, Perry believes Garza’s office was behind the push to get him a less-than-honorable discharge from the military.
“The district attorney got involved with my discharge process to ensure that I wouldn&#8217;t get an honorable discharge,” he said. “I wish I still had a copy of my discharge packet. There was a letter with the official ‘District Attorney of Travis County’ letterhead on it stating that the government&#8217;s statements about me being innocent were just political and that I am, in fact, a convicted murderer.”
Perry’s attorney, Doug O’Connell, said that the move to discharge Perry after the conviction was “wildly premature,” noting that there was still a motion for a new trial pending and there was no formal paperwork labeling Perry as guilty, Military Times <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/04/26/army-to-discharge-sergeant-convicted-of-murdering-air-force-veteran/">reported</a>. Moreover, the initial police report labeled Foster’s death a “justified homicide.”
“He won the conviction,” Perry said of Garza. “He didn&#8217;t have to take the extra step to make sure that all my military benefits would be stripped away from me. My unit, they tried their hardest to make sure that I would stay in so there&#8217;s a place for me to return, but the Army legal office got involved and took it out of their hands.”
Garza also released some of Perry’s private messages after Gov. Abbott said he was looking to issue a pardon. Perry says the messages were mostly with his military buddies and were taken out of context, and believes they were released as “retaliation.”
Some of the <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/daniel-perry-document-dozens-of-messages-about-guns-killing-protesters/">private messages</a> discussed guns and shooting protesters if they were to attack him, and other messages were racial in nature and offensive. The messages soon became the prevailing narrative around the case.
At the time, Perry’s defense <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/daniel-perry-document-dozens-of-messages-about-guns-killing-protesters/">issued</a> statements from two black males, Sgt. Traveon Napper and former Army member Ronald Wilson, who defended Perry.
“I can confidently say that Daniel Perry is not a racist. I have known Daniel for over five years as a colleague and a friend. I have known him to be nothing but a professional, hard-working soldier whose statements are being taken out of context. I know Daniel Perry would take a bullet for me,” Sgt. Napper said.
Wilson said in a statement, “While in the Army, I witnessed Daniel interact with people of many different races and he treated everyone the same. Anyone who knows Daniel will tell you that he’s the definition of the Army values: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. I know Daniel would do anything for me and I would do anything for him.”
Perry told The Daily Wire that there were racial memes sent and received to and from his black military buddies, and emphasized how guys in the military like offensive humor.
“We don&#8217;t see race in the military,” Perry said. “We see something funny – doesn&#8217;t matter how bad it is, we share it with each other. If you were ever able to sit in a room full of active duty soldiers, and you hear the conversations they have when they&#8217;re bored, a lot of people will be offended. It&#8217;s like for other soldiers or veterans, we like dirty jokes in the military. We like offensive jokes in the military.”
Perry also said he shouldn&#8217;t have “advocated for violence” in private messages about riots, but said he believes that violence is necessary for self-defense and to protect your family.
The 37-year-old has not spoken to any media about the incident or the pardon, until now. Perry said he’s only speaking to The Daily Wire because he thinks Garza is unjustly prosecuting others for political reasons, specifically police officers. Notably, Garza has indicted more than 20 Austin police officers for their actions during the violent 2020 BLM riots.
“I am completely terrified and I&#8217;m worried that they might retaliate, just because I&#8217;m talking to you guys,” Perry said. “But if nobody speaks up against the injustice that he&#8217;s bringing, nobody&#8217;s going to hear my story and more officers and more law-abiding citizens will face his wrath. I’m not his only victim.”
Perry specifically brought up the prosecution of Austin police <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-police-officer-whose-murder-trial-ended-in-a-hung-jury-will-not-face-new-charges">officer Christopher Taylor</a>. “He got three hung [grand] juries and then they didn&#8217;t indict him a fourth time, so they decided to pursue another shooting he was involved in that happened a year prior with an armed man who was armed with a knife,” Perry said.
Taylor’s defense attorney said online that he&#8217;s never seen a more “clear cut self defense case involving an officer,” and <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/christopher-taylor-deadly-conduct-trial-guilty-verdict">posted</a> during jury deliberations, “The jury must be improperly considering the other-unproven allegations made by this same anti-police DA.&#8221;
Perry is still facing one misdemeanor charge &#8212; a <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/daniel-perry-misdemeanor-deadly-conduct-charge-austin-texas">deadly conduct charge</a> punishable by up to one year behind bars &#8212; in connection to Foster’s death. He closed the interview by telling The Daily Wire that he feels like he has nothing to lose by speaking out about Garza.
“My reputation is already ruined. My career is already ruined. The only thing they could take away from me is, maximum, some jail time,” Perry said. “But I don&#8217;t see they could take any more away from me.”
Perry’s next hearing is set for December.
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Daniel Perry

Texas Pardoned Daniel Perry For Murder Conviction Of Armed BLM Protester. Perry’s Finally Speaking Out.

TX Pardoned Daniel Perry For Murder Conviction Of Armed BLM Protester. Perry’s Finally Speaking Out.

Greg Abbott

Law Enforcement

Texas

Early in the afternoon of May 1st of 2023, several passengers on board a New York City subway car thought their lives were about to end. A 30-year-old career criminal named Jordan Neely — who had been arrested more than 40 times, including for punching a 67-year-old woman on the subway and breaking her nose — had just boarded the train. And as soon as the doors closed, he began threatening the passengers. Multiple eyewitnesses said that Neely threw his jacket across the train, adopted a fighting stance, and yelled, &#8220;Someone is going to die today.&#8221; Neely added that he would happily &#8220;kill anyone&#8221; and &#8220;take a bullet,&#8221; saying he was &#8220;ready to go to Rikers&#8221; and &#8220;ready to do life&#8221; because he wanted to &#8220;hurt people.&#8221;
One passenger on the train later told a New York grand jury that Neely&#8217;s behavior was &#8220;sickening&#8221; and &#8220;satanic.&#8221; Another passenger testified that what he experienced was &#8220;absolutely traumatizing,&#8221; above and beyond anything he had previously experienced in more than six years riding the subway. He recounted the moment when Neely approached him, saying he thought he was, &#8220;going to die.&#8221; A mother and her son hid behind a stroller as Neely began lunging towards them, coming within a half a foot of some passengers. A student commuting to high school said she prayed that the doors would open so that she could escape. One retiree who rode the subway every day for more than 30 years told the Grand Jury: &#8220;I have been riding the subway for many years. I have encountered many things, but nothing that put fear into me like that.&#8221;
What happened next is documented on video. This is a report from shortly after the incident. Watch:
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As you heard, the witnesses didn&#8217;t think Jordan Neely was in serious danger. He was fighting back the whole time. Instead, the people on the train justifiably thought their lives were at risk. And so they joined in to help 25-year-old Daniel Penny, a former Marine, subdue the threat.
Police who responded didn&#8217;t arrest Penny. That didn&#8217;t happen until more than 10 days later, after politicians like AOC and Julie Salazar charged that Neely&#8217;s death was a public lynching. 
Pretty much the only prominent politician in New York who didn&#8217;t go to that extreme was the mayor, Eric Adams. He <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/eric-adams-neely-death-forced-hospitalizations-00096231" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Neely&#8217;s death made him realize that it&#8217;s really important to institutionalize a lot of mentally ill vagrants, which is true. And now they&#8217;ve charged Eric Adams with a bunch of crimes, because he kept going off script. Just in case you were wondering how New York works.
Meanwhile, Left-wing activists also began <a href="https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1655311097686106113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terrorizing</a> the subway system, saying they wouldn&#8217;t stop until the D.A., Alvin Bragg, brought charges against Penny.
So they kneel on the tracks. They prevent a bunch of people from getting to where they want to go. And yet, none of these BLM activists are going on trial this week. The mob always gets what it wants in New York. So instead, this week, jury selection began in the trial of Daniel Penny. Alvin Bragg has charged him with criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter, which could put Penny in prison for up to 15 years. On Monday, BLM was outside the courthouse, and again they were chanting, &#8220;No justice, no peace.&#8221;
When I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1158-the-left-anoints-the-new-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked</a> about this case last year, I went into some detail about the media&#8217;s attempts to paper over Jordan Neely&#8217;s record. They kept calling him a &#8220;Michael Jackson impersonator,&#8221; as if that&#8217;s why the passengers had to subdue him. The implication is that he was moonwalking too much, or doing a really bad rendition of “Man in the Mirror.” I also discussed how this episode is being manufactured to create as much racial tension as possible. If Daniel Penny had been black, then no one would be talking about this case at all.
What I didn&#8217;t talk about, because we didn&#8217;t have all the details at the time, is what the inevitable prosecution of Daniel Penny was going to look like. And now that we have that information, it&#8217;s safe to say this is easily the most egregious criminal prosecution in a case of self-defense since the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. In fact, it’s significantly worse than the Rittenhouse trial, in my opinion. We all knew this would be a political show trial. What we didn&#8217;t know is how flagrant the show trial would be.
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I&#8217;ll start with the prosecution&#8217;s theory of the case. This is from the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/20/us-news/daniel-penny-trial-begins-jurors-to-be-asked-what-would-you-do/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>: 
<blockquote>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has argued that Penny knew during the encounter that he might kill Neely, even if that was not his intention. They’ve cited testimony from a Marine trainer, who told the grand jury that Marines are taught that chokeholds — which are meant to be a non-lethal restraint — can sometimes be fatal.</blockquote>
Before we get into the the testimony they&#8217;re talking about, let&#8217;s be very clear about what&#8217;s happening here. The prosecution is effectively conceding that, when Daniel Penny restrained Jordan Neely, he wasn&#8217;t trying to kill him. So they&#8217;ve downgraded this to an accidental lynching. The prosecution is saying Daniel Penny should spend 15 years in prison because he supposedly disregarded a risk that chokeholds can sometimes be fatal. And to make that argument, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Penny and his fellow passengers weren&#8217;t experiencing a reasonable fear for their lives during this incident. That&#8217;s the needle they plan to thread here.
To put this in context, the typical manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide case in New York looks nothing like this. The textbook <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/court-of-appeals/2013/158.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">example</a> would be that someone gets intoxicated, drives well over the speed limit, crosses the double-yellow line and kills someone. That&#8217;s the kind of clearly reckless behavior the law normally applies to.
But in this case, Alvin Bragg wants to imprison Daniel Penny because, in direct response to a dangerous vagrant making threats of violence, he performed a defensive maneuver that could, potentially, be lethal.
Of course, literally any kind of physical altercation could be lethal. A punch or a shove could be lethal. If everyone acknowledges that Penny wasn&#8217;t trying to kill Neely, and was just trying to restrain him so that he didn&#8217;t hurt any of the passengers, then what exactly are we doing here? What are they saying about this particular chokehold that makes it so reckless, and so inappropriate, that it&#8217;s criminal?
I went and pulled up some of the testimony from the government&#8217;s expert witness on chokeholds. It&#8217;s contained in the defense&#8217;s motion to dismiss the case, which a judge rejected. The expert&#8217;s name is Sergeant Caballer. Again, this is the government&#8217;s witness, not the defense witness. And this is what he told the grand jury in this case. The sergeant <a href="https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/daniel-penny-motion-to-dismiss.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that, in the Marines, the chokehold technique that Penny learned is a non-lethal maneuver intended to subdue an aggressor. The sergeant did say a chokehold can be fatal when it&#8217;s applied &#8220;to the full extent.&#8221; But as the defense&#8217;s motion outlines, the expert clarified that Penny didn&#8217;t apply the chokehold to the &#8220;full extent.&#8221;
According to the sergeant, if you want to kill someone in a chokehold, then your best bet is to place more pressure on the arteries by pushing the head forward. You&#8217;d also want to apply pressure to the carotid arteries using a specific placement of the arm and elbow. But Penny didn&#8217;t do either of those things. The sergeant testified that Penny&#8217;s arm did not allow him to, &#8220;apply a lot of pressure to those carotid arteries.&#8221; Instead, Penny placed pressure primarily on the, &#8220;upper part of the jaw.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the key: &#8220;All things considered of where his hand placement is and arm placement, it looks as though he&#8217;s just holding him.&#8221;
Additionally, several eyewitnesses testified that they never heard Neely &#8220;gasping, gagging, or saying he could not breathe.&#8221;
In other words, Daniel Penny performed a maneuver that he was trained to perform as a non-lethal way of subduing threats. It took him several minutes longer than he probably thought it would, because Jordan Neely was fighting back and because he had a coat on. But that&#8217;s what happened here. 
By the way, this is the kind of maneuver that&#8217;s so common in the military that you can pull up hundreds of videos of chokehold training. Here&#8217;s one of them:
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So they&#8217;re making light of the whole thing. They probably shouldn&#8217;t, but that gives you some idea how widely taught the technique is. The expected result is the person who&#8217;s subdued will quickly recover. 
That obviously didn&#8217;t happen in this case. And from the testimony of the medical examiner so far, we don&#8217;t know exactly why. The medical examiner indicated that asphyxiation was the cause of death. But from the defense&#8217;s motion, we don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s actually supported by the evidence. Causation is going to be a big issue in this trial — as in, did Daniel Penny actually cause the death of Jordan Neely. We don&#8217;t know if Jordan Neely died because of pressure that was applied to the carotid artery, or to the windpipe, or for some other reason.
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What we do know is that, when someone has to be forcibly restrained by several people for their own protection, there&#8217;s a risk something can go wrong. People die suddenly when they get hit with a Taser. Sometimes people die suddenly when they go for a run. Stress is inherently dangerous, and physical altercations only compound the risk of someone dying. It happens all the time. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a bad idea to pick fights with people on the train and threaten to kill them. Even when they&#8217;re trying to subdue you using a non-violent technique, things can go wrong. That&#8217;s a risk the aggressor assumes — not his victims.
What this testimony from the government&#8217;s witness underscores, once again, is that this case never should have been brought. No matter what happens — even if Daniel Penny is acquitted — it&#8217;s still a grotesque miscarriage of justice. A healthy society would have given Penny an award and thanked him for his service to the community. Instead, the same prosecutors who tried to jail the leading presidential candidate are now trying to imprison a man who defended a subway car full of passengers from a raving lunatic. 
And this isn&#8217;t just happening in New York. In Chicago, the police board just recommended firing a police officer because he shot someone who drew a gun on him. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration. They want to fire a police officer because he defended himself against an armed man, on camera. Watch:
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Chicago, IL🚔
•Reginald Clay pulled a gun on a cop during a foot chase. •The Police Board recommended termination. •The Police Superintendent disagreed but was overruled. 
•Alleged Policy Violations. 1. Foot chase policy. 2. De-escalation policy.
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&mdash; police.law.news (@policelawnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/policelawnews/status/1847673162051260599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is what the destruction of Americans&#8217; constitutional rights looks like. For the millions of people living in places like Chicago and New York, it&#8217;s happening in real-time. The only choice they&#8217;re offered is to submit to the mob, or get crushed by it. This is what Soros-backed prosecutors like Alvin Bragg are doing all over the country. They&#8217;re implementing mob rule. That&#8217;s been their goal for several years now. And with the trial of Daniel Penny, we&#8217;re about to see just how powerful the mob has become.

Jury Selection Begins In Daniel Penny Trial For Death Of Jordan Neely

How The Daniel Penny Trial Proves Self-Defense Is Under Attack In Our Country

Alvin Bragg

Anti-Racism

Subway

A “social justice academy” run by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> school district teaches elementary school kids to disavow “whiteness” and embrace transgender ideology, lesson plans shared with The Daily Wire show.
Every summer since 2021, the New Haven Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay area has trained rising 3rd-6th graders in leftist gender and racial politics during its annual &#8220;social justice academy.&#8221; Specific details about the academy’s curriculum were revealed in documents recently obtained from the school by Parents Defending Education through a public records request. 
“Scholars will define and critically think about Social Justice, identify social injustices in the community, and create opportunities for activism through writing, action, art,” <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/Copy-of-SJA-Proposal-Summer-2023_143fE3LTG_UM7Lks8vizgeUbDVVRlydGrWh4rPUVufU8.docx.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a plan from 2023 for the academy, which operates in deep blue Alameda County. 
The three-week academy, which costs the district around $20,000, was formed, in part, due to an Alameda County resolution that instructs educators to “help our children understand and react to racial differences, and to teach our youth how to speak up against injustice, racism and inequality.” 
Throughout the three-week course, students are taught the full gambit of leftist positions from “womxn rights” to Black Lives Matter and transgender ideology. The course comes as <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/california/districts/new-haven-unified-100683#:~:text=Test%20Scores%20at%20New%20Haven,above%20that%20level%20for%20math." target="_blank" rel="noopener">test scores</a> show that under half of elementary students in the district are proficient in math while only half are proficient in reading. 
A <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Copy-of-SJA-Proposal-Summer-2023_143fE3LTG_UM7Lks8vizgeUbDVVRlydGrWh4rPUVufU8.docx.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lesson plan</a> from week one shows that the academy focuses on issues of racial and sexual identity while reading from the book “Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness.” The book says that “whiteness is a bad deal. It always was” and that “you can be white without signing on to whiteness.” 
The students are also taught that it is “white supremacy” that the 10 richest Americans are white and that governors were 96% white based on 2016-era statistics, <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NEW-HAVEN-SOCIAL-JUSTICE-ACADEMY-2024-at-PIO.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to planning materials for the academy from 2024. 
In another <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hire_Fire-Bias.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exercise</a>, students were taught about stereotypes by being forced to fire people from a list of names, before gradually learning more about them, including their sexual identities and disabilities. 
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In week two of the academy, students are taught about Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and taught to compare former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
The comparison between Trump and Hitler happens during a section on &#8220;dehumanizing language,&#8221; where students are shown an image of the two men with quotes. However, the quote attributed to Trump is completely fabricated. 
Trump is quoted in the image as saying “Undocumented immigrants are not human; they are animals.” While Trump has referred to violent gang members and murderers as “animals,” he never said all illegal immigrants are animals in a blanket manner. 
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The course also takes a pro-Palestinian bent, accusing Israel of being a colonialist power and pointing students to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayY9DEnW8Gw&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> from the leftist outlet The Root called “Why Black people should care about Palestinian Liberation.”
Also during the <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WEEK-2-Lessons-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second week</a>, students are taught about “defunding the police,” the history of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the “criminalization of BIPOC.” The course materials argue that school disciplinary practices create a “school-to-prison” pipeline that disproportionately impacts black students.  
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During week three of the social justice academy, students read from two books pushing transgender ideology. One book, “I Am Jazz,” is based on Jazz Jennings, a man who identifies as a woman. Jennings&#8217; parents moved him towards “gender-transition” at age 3, and he quickly became the star of a reality TV show that highlighted transgenderism. 
Students <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LGBTQIA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are taught</a> that being “transgender is not a choice” and how to be an “LGBTQIA+ Ally.” Course materials list “transgender rights” as things like “access to medical care” and “all gender bathrooms.” 
Students are also taught about a Florida law that prohibited discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation for young children in classrooms. The legislation was derisively referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by the Left. 
New Haven Unified School District did not respond to requests for comment.
Erika Sanzi, the director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, said that the academy should be shut down. 
&#8220;This summer program should have been advertised as an indoctrination camp where ideologues who spell the word &#8216;women&#8217; with an x feed students propaganda about defunding the police, transgenderism, and oppression,” she told The Daily Wire. “At the same time that they lie to kids about book bans, the curriculum includes a children&#8217;s book that calls whiteness bad and equates it with the devil.”

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Inside A ‘Social Justice Academy’ Where Third Graders Learn To Be Leftist Activists

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