Despite medical officials having yet to issue a final cause of death for the infant, and his office admitting as much, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) declared to the nation Wednesday that his state had suffered what he described as “the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to COVID-19,” the death of a 7-week-old who tested positive for the virus in the autopsy. In a video posted on social media Friday that has already racked up nearly 3 million views, conservative commentator Candace Owens demanded the governor resign for what she says she has confirmed to be a willful &#8220;lie.&#8221; On the same day Owens posted the video, the office of the state&#8217;s chief medical officer told the media they have yet to issue a final cause of death for the child.
“It is with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to [COVID-19],” Lamont announced in a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scum-behavior-candace-owens-unloads-on-governor-for-tweeting-newborns-death-was-linked-to-covid-19">tweets</a> Wednesday.  “A 6-week-old newborn from the Hartford area was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived. Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive. This is absolutely heartbreaking. We believe this is one of the youngest lives lost anywhere due to complications relating to COVID-19. This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy. This also stresses the importance of staying home and limiting exposure to other people. Your life and the lives of others could literally depend on it. Our prayers are with the family at this difficult time.”
While Lamont&#8217;s statement strongly suggested the baby died because of coronavirus, the state&#8217;s chief medical examiner, Dr. James Gill, said Wednesday after the governor&#8217;s announcement that the cause of death of the child had not yet been established.
&#8220;The infant did test positive for the COVID-19 virus and an autopsy was done at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,” Gill said in an email to <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Lamont-16-more-coronavirus-related-deaths-in-CT-15171683.php">CT Post</a> Wednesday. &#8220;At the current time, we have not issued a final cause of death. There are numerous tests that we must do on infant deaths before issuing a final cause of death. We cannot discuss the specifics of an investigation.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://fox6now.com/2020/04/01/connecticut-governor-announces-covid-19-death-of-baby-less-than-7-weeks-old/">FOX 6</a> Wednesday, a spokesman for Lamont acknowledged that officials &#8220;did not know whether the infant had underlying medical conditions&#8221; when he made the announcement.
Owens, who was born in Connecticut and still has family members who live in the state, responded to Lamont&#8217;s announcement Wednesday by blasting him for “scaring mothers” through &#8220;partial information&#8221; and &#8220;political doublespeak&#8221; — particularly noting his use of the imprecise phrase &#8220;like to COVID-19&#8221; in his statement — and accusing him of trying to use the tragic announcement for political purposes.
&#8220;&#8216;Linked to Covid-19’. What the hell does that mean?&#8221; Owens wrote in a series of posts. &#8220;Did the newborn have pre-existing conditions— yes or no? Did the infant die OF coronavirus yes or no? STOP with this political doublespeak. Scaring mothers of newborns with partial information is SCUM BEHAVIOR.&#8221; She added in a follow-up post: &#8220;‘Complicated by’ ‘Linked to’, has anybody else realized that ALL of these death announcements provide partial information? If you are going to start using the death of infants to scare people into doing what you want, you better start providing FULL information, [Gov. Lamont].&#8221;
On Friday, Owens posted a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1593518174052711/videos/525960668111396/">video</a> on Facebook in which she claims to have confirmed that the 7-week-old infant died from a terrible accident at home, rather than complications related to the virus, and accuses Lamont of knowing that when he made the announcement Wednesday. Lamont, she said, should resign or be forced out — and perhaps face legal consequences for his alleged actions. In the video, Owens does not provide many specifics about the case, stating that she is attempting to be sensitive to the family who suffered the tragic death, but has since specified in a follow-up <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1246469374413864963">tweet</a> that the child &#8220;was accidentally suffocated by its caretaker, who then called police.&#8221;
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Since word is getting out— I can now confirm that the infant in CT was accidentally suffocated by its caretaker, who then called the police. <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovNedLamont</a> KNEW this, &amp; then lied to the world by linking it to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> because he wants more Federal money. He should RESIGN. <a href="https://t.co/q6L5V55DWh">https://t.co/q6L5V55DWh</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1246469374413864963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Owens&#8217; claims are yet to be either confirmed or refuted. As of Saturday morning, Connecticut officials, including Lamont and Gill, have not provided definitive updates about the results of the investigation into the infant&#8217;s tragic death, and most media outlets that initially reported on the case have provided no follow-up reports. On Friday, the <a href="https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-infant-death-coronavirus-positive-20200404-54z75ceqzfei7ajtwskc4ncrua-story.html">Hartford Courant</a> reported that two days after the governor&#8217;s announcement, &#8220;questions remain about the 6-week-old baby’s exact cause of death.&#8221; The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner &#8220;has not ruled that COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, caused the baby&#8217;s death as of Friday afternoon,&#8221; the outlet reported.
In another social media post Friday, Owens highlighted video of Lamont being asked about his much-reported claim on Friday and if it&#8217;s possible the child died of a cause other than COVID-19. The governor responds by quickly directing the question to the Public Health Department&#8217;s Dr. Matthew Cartter, who says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know the cause of death for this person that you&#8217;re talking about, or any of the people.&#8221; His office&#8217;s &#8220;purpose,&#8221; he explains, is to report on confirmed cases of COVID-19, not cause of death.
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Here it is! <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovNedLamont</a> pressed today about my earlier report that he LIED about the infant <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> death. Look at this coward as he’s too scared to answer—now claiming they have no idea how the baby died!
It was an at-home tragedy. He should be forced to RESIGN for this <a href="https://t.co/lJ2ohO7Gv9">pic.twitter.com/lJ2ohO7Gv9</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1246187691072524288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1593518174052711/videos/525960668111396/">Watch Owens&#8217; Facebook video here</a>.

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Candace Owens Accuses Governor Of ‘Lying’ About Newborn’s Coronavirus-‘Linked’ Death, Calls For Resignation

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Conservative commentator Candace Owens tore into the governor of her home state Wednesday after he announced what he described as &#8220;the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to COVID-19,&#8221; despite his spokesman admitting that medical officials have not yet actually confirmed what caused the death of the child and the chief medical officer telling reporters Wednesday that they &#8220;have not issued a final cause of death.&#8221; 
&#8220;It is with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to [COVID-19],&#8221; Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) announced in a series of tweets Wednesday (posts below).  &#8220;A 6-week-old newborn from the Hartford area was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived. Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive.&#8221;
&#8220;This is absolutely heartbreaking,&#8221; the governor continued. &#8220;We believe this is one of the youngest lives lost anywhere due to complications relating to COVID-19. This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy. This also stresses the importance of staying home and limiting exposure to other people. Your life and the lives of others could literally depend on it. Our prayers are with the family at this difficult time.&#8221;
Owens, who has family members who live in the state, unloaded on Lamont for what she portrayed as &#8220;scaring mothers&#8221; through &#8220;partial information&#8221; and &#8220;political doublespeak.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Linked to Covid-19&#8217;. What the hell does that mean?&#8221; Owens wrote in a series of posts responding to Lamont&#8217;s thread. &#8220;Did the newborn have pre-existing conditions— yes or no? Did the infant die OF coronavirus yes or no?&#8221;
&#8220;STOP with this political doublespeak,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Scaring mothers of newborns with partial information is SCUM BEHAVIOR.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Complicated by&#8217; &#8216;Linked to&#8217;, has anybody else realized that ALL of these death announcements provide partial information?&#8221; Owens wrote in a follow-up post. &#8220;If you are going to start using the death of infants to scare people into doing what you want, you better start providing FULL information, [Gov. Lamont].&#8221;
In response to someone accusing her of suggesting that mothers should have &#8220;zero worry over COVID-19,&#8221; Owens wrote: &#8220;Both of my sisters, who live in a Connecticut, gave birth for the first time in these past 3 [coronavirus] weeks. What I am demanding, is that [Gov. Lamont] be more responsible and tell mothers the FULL picture, so as not to inspire undue mass panic.&#8221;
&#8220;Two things can be true at once: the [coronavirus] can be real, and corrupt politicians like [Gov. Lamont] and [Gov. Andrew Cuomo] can be lying to extract money from the federal government because their socialist-run states are out of money,&#8221; she added in another post later. &#8220;Both are true.&#8221;
While Lamont suggested that the baby died because of coronavirus, as reported by <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Lamont-16-more-coronavirus-related-deaths-in-CT-15171683.php">CT Post</a>, chief medical examiner Dr. James Gill &#8220;said the actual cause of death has not yet been established.&#8221;
&#8220;The infant did test positive for the COVID-19 virus and an autopsy was done at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,&#8221; Gill said in an email to the outlet. &#8220;At the current time, we have not issued a final cause of death. There are numerous tests that we must do on infant deaths before issuing a final cause of death. We cannot discuss the specifics of an investigation.&#8221;
<a href="https://fox6now.com/2020/04/01/connecticut-governor-announces-covid-19-death-of-baby-less-than-7-weeks-old/">FOX 6</a> reported Wednesday that a spokesman for Lamont acknowledged that officials &#8220;did not know whether the infant had underlying medical conditions.&#8221;
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It is with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a>. A 6-week-old newborn from the Hartford area was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived. (1/3)
&mdash; Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont/status/1245429678875295744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy. This also stresses the importance of staying home and limiting exposure to other people. Your life and the lives of others could literally depend on it. Our prayers are with the family at this difficult time. (3/3)
&mdash; Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont/status/1245429681060487168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Complicated by” “Linked to”, has anybody else realized that ALL of these death announcements provide partial information? 
If you are going to start using the death of infants to scare people into doing what you want, you better start providing FULL information, <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovNedLamont</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1245467672000724995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Both of my sisters, who live in a Connecticut, gave birth for the first time in these past 3 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> weeks. What I am demanding, is that <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovNedLamont</a> be more responsible and tell mothers the FULL picture, so as not to inspire undue mass panic. <a href="https://t.co/BaivAOJcuI">https://t.co/BaivAOJcuI</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1245471284005416961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Two things can be true at once: the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> can be real, and corrupt politicians like <a href="https://twitter.com/GovNedLamont?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovNedLamont</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> can be lying to extract money from the federal government because their socialist-run states are out of money. 
Both are true.
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1245553371592957954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘SCUM BEHAVIOR’: Candace Owens Unloads On Governor For Tweeting Newborn’s Death ‘Linked To COVID-19’

A doctor in Connecticut was arrested on Thursday after police stated co-workers said he had intentionally coughed on and hugged nurses at the hospital where he worked.
UConn police charged Dr. Cory Edgar, 48, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, with breach of peace, as <a href="https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-farmington-storrs-uconn-health-doctor-arrested-20200327-7sc35hq3sbebfldxayjzlvgkde-story.html">The Hartford Courant</a> reported. The police report stated that they were summoned to the UConn Health outpatient surgery clinic in Farmington, Connecticut, for a report of a doctor “deliberately coughing on and hugging nurses, causing them a substantial amount of alarm.” Multiple witnesses allegedly saw the actions the doctor took.
UConn Health spokeswoman Jennifer Walker stated that to the best of her knowledge, Edgar does not have the coronavirus. She stated, “The involved doctor has confirmed that he is in excellent health and does not to his knowledge have COVID-19. We can also state that any UConn Health employee with an indication of illness is asked to stay home, and during this pandemic all employees are screened for symptoms prior to entering the premises.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8161191/DOCTOR-arrested-deliberately-coughing-workers-ignoring-social-distancing.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported that Walker stated that witnesses said Edgar &#8220;intentionally coughed on two other medical employees at the health center in close proximity.&#8221; The Daily Mail wrote that witnesses added they thought he was “purposely disregarding space and safety concerns involving the Coronavirus pandemic.”
The Courant noted, “The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Connecticut exceeds 1,000, although it is believed to be higher because of people who either haven’t been tested or are awaiting results. Twenty-one people have died in the state.”
The UConn Health <a href="https://facultydirectory.uchc.edu/profile?profileId=Edgar-Cory">website</a> describes Edgar this way:
<blockquote>Dr. Cory Edgar is an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UConn Health. A team physician for Boston University athletics, he was recruited back after serving as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Edgar was a former sports medicine fellow at the UConn and has a strong research and academic interest. Dr. Edgar has a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology and established research activities in bone biology, cartilage healing and applications of stem cells for tissue healing. He is an outstanding educator with many invited lectureships and national level courses that he teaches. He most recently won the AOSSM research award and is considered a rising star in the sports medicine community.
Dr. Edgar’s clinical interests and expertise include primary and revision ACL reconstructions, multi-ligament knee injuries, meniscal transplantation, patella dislocations and instability, complex shoulder instability with bone loss, revision rotator cuff surgery, AC joint injuries, pectoralis tendon ruptures, distal biceps ruptures, ankle instability and talus OCD lesions.
Dr. Edgar continues to devote himself to improving the field of orthopedics through research. A primary area of interest and expertise is the use of stem cells to enhance healing and graft incorporation in sports medicine. His research goal is to continue to explore and develop through a translational medical approach, the application of biologics and regenerative medicine to sports medicine issues.
Dr. Edgar is committed to education and patient care. His clinical interests, education, and experience enable him to care for patients with compassion and expertise.</blockquote>
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Shortly after a high-profile lawsuit was filed in Connecticut against a recent state policy allowing biological males to participate in girls&#8217; sports, legislators in Ohio are taking action to &#8220;Save Women&#8217;s Sports&#8221; from transgender athletes.
In a <a href="http://www.ohiohouse.gov/jena-powell/press/representative-powell-proposes-the-save-womens-sports-act">press release</a> in late-February, the Ohio House of Representatives announced a new bill, the &#8220;Save Women’s Sports Act,&#8221; proposed by Republican state representatives Jena Powell and Reggie Stoltzfus that &#8220;seeks to promote fairness to all and preserve the integrity of school sports&#8221; by keeping biological males out of female athletic events.
&#8220;The Save Women’s Sports Act ensures that women are not forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams,&#8221; reads the release. &#8220;The bill would designate male and female sports teams be based upon the biological sex of an individual, meaning that biological males cannot play on female teams.&#8221;
The legislation would apply to all public schools and private schools that are members of state or national athletic associations.
&#8220;The Save Women’s Sports Act is a fairness issue for women,&#8221; Powell said at a February 25 press conference announcing the bill. &#8220;This bill ensures that every little girl who works hard to make it on a podium is not robbed of her chance by a biological male competing against her in a biological female sport. We want every little girl to achieve her athletic dream here in the state of Ohio.&#8221;
In her comments promoting the new bill, Powell specifically cited recent developments in Connecticut in which two transgender runners have dominated girl&#8217;s track in the state. Titles that were held by nine different girls in the year prior to the state&#8217;s new pro-transgender policy went into effect, Powell noted, have been held by just two biological male runners since.
&#8220;The legislation goes further to protect a school or college who preserve women-only teams from being punished by a government entity under a state or local non-discrimination law,&#8221; the press release explains. &#8220;Additionally, the bill allows any student a private right of action who may be deprived of an athletic opportunity or is harmed by a school or college that violates this act and protects the student from any retaliatory actions taken by any school. The bill also creates a process to resolve any disputes over a student’s sex and respectfully accommodates those who have an intersex condition or disorder of sexual development to demonstrate they are, in fact, a female. Further, the Save Women’s Sports Act also will make sure biological men who identify as a female cannot be categorized as a woman to compete against women in sports.&#8221;
As Powell referenced, Connecticut has gained national attention due to recent eye-opening developments in its high school track competitions. The dominance of the competition by two biological males who identify as female in the state over the last three years has resulted in a high-profile lawsuit from Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of three female runners.
&#8220;Ever since the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events, boys have consistently deprived Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels,&#8221; ADF said in a February 12 <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/high-school-athletes-file-suit-to-protect-fairness-in-girls-sports">press release</a> announcing its lawsuit against Connecticut&#8217;s new policy. &#8220;Mitchell, for example, would have won the 2019 state championship in the women’s 55-meter indoor track competition, but because two males took first and second place, she was denied the gold medal. Soule and Smith likewise have been denied medals and/or advancement opportunities.&#8221;
&#8220;The <a title="complaint" href="https://adflegal.blob.core.windows.net/mainsite-new/docs/default-source/documents/legal-documents/soule-v.-connecticut-association-of-schools/soule-v-connecticut-association-of-schools---complaint.pdf?sfvrsn=f1ed93a9_4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">complaint</a> filed in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools with the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut explains that CIAC’s new policy and others like it pose a concrete threat to Title IX gains because &#8216;inescapable biological facts of the human species [are] not stereotypes, &#8220;social constructs,&#8221; or relics of past discrimination. As a result of these many inherent physiological differences between men and women after puberty, male athletes consistently achieve records 10-20% higher than comparably fit and trained women across almost all athletic events, with even wider consistent disparities in long-term endurance events and contests of sheer strength such as weight-lifting,'&#8221; the release details.
&#8220;As a result of CIAC’s policy, two males were permitted to compete in girls’ athletic competitions beginning in the 2017 track season,&#8221; the release explains. &#8220;Between them, they have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.&#8221;

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After Trans Runner Lawsuit, Ohio Legislators Step In To ‘Save Women’s Sports’ From Biological Males

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On Friday, two days after she and two other high school girl track competitors filed a federal lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls, Chelsea Mitchell defeated one of the biological males who has won numerous titles in girls’ events, winning the Class S 55-meter dash title with her time of 7.18 seconds. She beat Bloomfield High School student Terry Miller, who is a biological boy and ran the event in 7.20 seconds.
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The Class S girls 55 meter state championship goes to Canton senior Chelsea Mitchell, who edged out defending champ Terry Miller of Bloomfield. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cttrack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cttrack</a> <a href="https://t.co/aDL7ieIEsx">pic.twitter.com/aDL7ieIEsx</a>
&mdash; Shawn McFarland (@McFarland_Shawn) <a href="https://twitter.com/McFarland_Shawn/status/1228460021438205953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8009879/High-school-runner-beats-transgender-competitor-filing-lawsuit-cut-girls-category.html">The Daily Mail</a> noted, “Mitchell also came first in the 300-meter dash, while Miller was 16th, and Mitchell won the long jump.”
According to the <a href="https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-class-s-track-transgender-athletes-lawsuit-20200215-4rfrv3w3dfa4jfdfs74ntsjbay-story.html">Hartford Courant</a>, “There was no interaction between the two before or after the race.”
Mitchell said she didn’t think that winning against Miller, the first time she had beaten Miller, would affect the lawsuit, stating, “I don&#8217;t think it could go against, there&#8217;s still tons of girls that lose on a daily basis.”
Mitchell, Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School, and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School, filed a federal lawsuit with their families after CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those biological males, Miller and Andraya Yearwood, had taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and had taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.
The Daily Mail noted some of the past history, adding, “The three plaintiffs have competed directly against them, almost always losing to Miller and usually behind Yearwood. Mitchell finished third in the 2019 state championship in the girls 55-meter indoor track competition behind Miller and Yearwood.”
Mitchell, who is currently ranked the fastest biological girl in Connecticut in the 55m, lost four girls’ state championships and two all-New England awards. She recalled, “I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state. I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance &#8230; I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
Miller <a href="https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-transgender-policy-runners-respond-20190619-20190620-5x2c7s2f5jb6dnw2dwpftiw6ru-story.html">stated</a> in June 2019, “I have faced discrimination in every aspect of my life and I no longer want to remain silent. I am a girl and I am a runner. I participate in athletics just like my peers to excel, find community, and meaning in my life. It is both unfair and painful that my victories have to be attacked and my hard work ignored.”
Yearwood echoed, “I hope that the next generation of trans youth doesn&#8217;t have to fight the fights that I have. I hope they can be celebrated when they succeed not demonized. For the next generation, I run for you!”

Families of 3 Connecticut students sue to block transgender athletes from girls sports

WATCH: Girl Who Sued To Block Boys From Competing Against Girls Defeats Trans Runner For First Time — In State Championship

A male student at the University of Connecticut will get a new campus hearing – with strict instructions for fairness – after the school punished him even though evidence suggested his accuser was not credible.
The student, referred to in court documents as John Doe, will receive a new hearing that will allow him to actually present evidence in his defense. John was accused by a female student referred to only as Jane Roe several months after the two engaged in sexual intercourse in April 2019.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-claimed-he-sexually-assaulted-her-the-school-ignored-witnesses-that-challenged-her-credibility">reported</a>, Jane and her friend began talking to John. Jane later expressed interest in him and left with him and several other students after the party to get food:
<blockquote>When the party ended, a group of six students piled into a car to get food. Jane sat on John’s lap, but later claimed she was forced to. John said he didn’t ask her or force her to sit on his lap. The student in the front passenger seat later said he felt Jane’s knees against the back of the seat and he could tell she was moving around on John’s lap. Another student in the back seat said he had to look away from the two because Jane was gyrating her hips on John’s lap. Jane later claimed she did not do this, and the multiple witnesses disputing her story were kept out of the campus investigator’s report on the allegations. The fact that Jane had at least two instances of claiming one thing while multiple witnesses disputed her should have made UConn skeptical of her allegations, yet the school ignored them and expelled John, later reducing his punishment to a two-year suspension.</blockquote>
The other instance of Jane claiming one thing while witnesses said another was when she said John was “falling over” drunk. Multiple other witnesses, including one of Jane’s friends, said otherwise.
John said he fully intended to go home alone that night and was even dropped off in front of his dorm, but Jane kept calling for him to get back in the car and go home with her. She would later claim she didn’t invite John back, and then change her story to say she did invite him back, but just to watch TV and eat pizza. Multiple witnesses disputed both of her claims.
Still, campus investigators ignored all this evidence and took Jane’s allegations as fact. John explained how Jane gave him “unambiguous” consent for sexual activity, but because Jane denied this, UConn investigators found John responsible.
John petitioned the court to stop UConn from implementing his two-year suspension and the court agreed, finding that the school ignoring Jane’s history of inconsistent statements and her lack of credibility to determine John responsible violated his due process rights.
Now the school and John have agreed to a new hearing, as author and professor K.C. Johnson noted on Twitter.
“After [temporary restraining order], pending settlement in <a href="https://twitter.com/UConn">@UConn</a> due process case. Guilty finding w/drawn, student gets new hearings w/new rights: to call witnesses, to have relevant questions asked through panel, to have credibilty [sic] determination made in context of events of entire night.
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Indeed, the court listed 12 demands of the new hearing, including documentation of its rationale behind its future finding of John, and the requirement that evidence and witnesses presented at the hearing must be made available to both parties prior to the hearing.

Don&#8217;t Mess With Me

Male Student Railroaded By Campus Kangaroo Court Gets Another Chance

Sexual Assault

Title IX

On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in federal court by three high school girls and their mothers against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls.
Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), were denied opportunities to compete at higher levels as boys took home the prizes. CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those boys have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.
Mitchell, who is currently ranked the fastest biological girl in Connecticut in the 55m, lost four girls’ state championships and two all-New England awards. She recalled, “I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state. I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance &#8230; I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
Soule missed qualifying for the state championship 55m final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship by one spot in the 2018-19 season as two spots were taken by boys. She said, “It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these [male] athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try. They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes &#8230; me being included.”
Smith, whose father is MLB Hall of Famer relief pitcher Lee Smith, won the 400m at the 2019 outdoor New England Regional  Championships as a freshman and finished second in the 200m at the New England Regional  Championships.  She stated, “Even before I get to the track, I already know that I’m not going to  get first place, or maybe even second place . . . I know that no matter how hard I work, I won’t be able to have the top spot.”
ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb stated, “Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities. Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition. And forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.”
The <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/SouleComplaint.pdf">complaint </a>filed in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools states that policies that permit boys to compete in girls sports threaten Title IX gains because “inescapable biological facts of the human species [are] not stereotypes, ‘social constructs,’ or relicts of past discrimination. As a result of these many inherent physiological differences between men and women after puberty, male athletes consistently achieve records 10-20% higher than comparably fit and trained women across almost all athletic events, with even wider consistent disparities in long-term endurance events and contests of sheer strength such as weight-lifting.”
The complaint adds, “In sum, the real-world result of the CIAC Policy is that in Connecticut interscholastic track competitions, while highly competitive girls are experiencing the no doubt character-building ‘agony of defeat,’ they are systematically being deprived of a fair and equal opportunity to experience the ‘thrill of victory.’ A transgender athlete advocate recently wrote that this should be accepted because part of competitive sports is ‘learning to lose.’ A policy such as the CIAC Policy that ensures that girls get extra lessons in losing, however, cannot be reconciled with Title IX.”
ADF Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner concluded, “Girls deserve the same opportunity as boys to excel and chase their dreams. Allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports shatters those dreams and steals opportunities. Boys have physical advantages over girls. It’s dispiriting to girls competing against boys to know what the outcome likely is before the race even starts. The government shouldn’t rob these girls of the opportunity not only to win, but to earn college scholarships and launch their own careers in athletics, coaching, and more.”

FIRST PLACE MEDAL

Boys Competing With Girls Won Track Meets. The Girls Just Filed A Lawsuit In Federal Court.

On July 15, JT Lewis, brother of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis, announced a run for state Senate in Connecticut. The 19-year-old Lewis will be challenging incumbent Tony Hwang in the Republican primary.
On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to speak with JT about his intentions, and about what he believes he will bring to the race for state Senator.
Before reading further, check out Lewis’ announcement video:
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<blockquote>DW: When and why did you decide to run?
LEWIS: I&#8217;m running in Connecticut because our leadership has, in large part, failed us. As evidence, our state Senator never returned our phone call after a shooting that left 26 people dead in our state. We called him, my mom called him with her foundation, the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement. She was ready to launch it, thinking a state like Connecticut, which just had a mass shooting, would want a mental health program like that to show the rest of the country what to do after a shooting. The state Senator never returned our phone calls.
DW: Can you talk about your opponent? Is it that specific state Senator against whom you’re running?
LEWIS: Yeah, I&#8217;m running against Tony Hwang. He&#8217;s a Republican and I&#8217;m launching a primary challenge against him. He&#8217;s been here for three terms and was a state representative before that, since 2009. Actually, interestingly enough, I don&#8217;t want this whole campaign to be about a fight between us – that&#8217;s not what this is about. It&#8217;s about fresh leadership in Connecticut, which I think is in serious trouble right now.
Right before the 2018 election, I saw one of his posts on Facebook, it was sponsored, it was titled, &#8220;Commitment to the Community,&#8221; which is a slogan. I left a comment that said, &#8220;How do you call yourself committed to the community when you never returned my mom’s phone call after a shooting where she lost her son?&#8221; He quickly deleted the post and said that he had &#8220;dropped the ball,&#8221; he was &#8220;very sorry,&#8221; blah blah blah. Later, I gave him my mom’s contact information, and they were in touch. This is years later, years after we originally called him.
After he won reelection in 2018, we never heard from him again. So, that&#8217;s an example of the poor leadership – and it&#8217;s not just him. It&#8217;s really all of our leaders here who are seriously lacking.
DW: If you win the primary, who is your Democratic opponent?
LEWIS: We don&#8217;t have one yet. It&#8217;s about a year before the primary, which is August 2020. So I don&#8217;t know that yet, but we’ve just got to beat Tony first.
DW: If you had to whittle everything down, what is your primary political issue going to be?
LEWIS: Right, we worked on a national level with the president on safety reform, releasing a federal safety report with the president, that’s been a big issue – but as far as Connecticut, and that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll continue to push here because our schools are not safe yet – but as far as Connecticut goes, the big issue here is our economic problems. Our governor wants to implement tolls and taxes, an insane amount of tolls and taxes, so we&#8217;re fighting against that, but we’re also fighting to lower taxes on businesses so we can bring some of them back that are leaving our state.
Our state has a huge problem right now with businesses leaving, so that&#8217;s a huge message. I&#8217;m 19 years old, so people don&#8217;t think I can handle that, but it&#8217;s something I have a grasp on, and I&#8217;m ready to fight for it.
DW: What kind of Republican are you? Are your more moderate or more conservative?
LEWIS: I&#8217;m running as a Republican, so I support the president because he&#8217;s been very responsive to our families for school safety and included our ideas amongst the top. As far as that goes, I&#8217;m running on a message of unity here. I have met both President Trump and President Obama, and we shared our stories with them. They both helped us to different extents – not as much by Obama. I&#8217;m running as a Republican, and I will be fighting for conservative values and beliefs. I&#8217;m 19 years old, so it’s a new wave of Republican leadership.
DW: Can you expand a little bit on your brand of politician?
LEWIS: It will be a very unifying message. One of the things I&#8217;m talking about is how my brother Jesse, the one who was killed in the shooting, actually saved nine of his classmates. It&#8217;s a message I&#8217;ve been trying to spread, and a message we shared with President Obama and President Trump, and it made both of them emotional. President Obama cried and president Trump actually brought us back to the Oval Office and had a private moment with us once we shared that story with him. It’s a very powerful message.
As far as fighting for school safety or fighting for gun control, we all want the same thing. That message is able to bring people to the table and really hash out these ideas and get things done.
DW: Do you think there is a unifying point between people who are strong advocates of further gun restrictions and those who aren&#8217;t?
LEWIS: Well, the unifying point would be kids being safe in school and people being safe in their communities. We&#8217;re just coming at it from a different angle. You know, talking with people personally, it isn&#8217;t this fight that you see in Washington, and it doesn&#8217;t matter which side of the aisle you&#8217;re on. We all want the same thing; we don&#8217;t want to fight about it; we just want to get it done. So, as a state Senator, I&#8217;ll be able to bring people who are very important to the table and have this conversation to figure out what is supported by the majority of Americans. We&#8217;ll figure it out and we&#8217;ll use that message to bring people to the table. That&#8217;s something that really has never been tried before.
DW: What do you expect will be the most difficult part, if you win the election, of being in a position of power like that?
LEWIS: I don&#8217;t think there is going to be a very difficult part. Honestly, for the past year and half – and I&#8217;m not naive to the difficulties of the job – but for the past year and a half, I have been fighting on a national level with national legislators. We&#8217;ve done different things like the Stop School Violence Act and Fix NICS, releasing the federal school safety report with the president. So, I&#8217;ve worked with legislators on a national level, and I think I can bring that experience back to my home state of Connecticut and fix my home state.
DW: What do you expect from this race going forward? How do you think it will play out?
LEWIS: Obviously, I&#8217;m going to win with a message like this, and a message of unity here in a very divided state that wants to be unified. I think that message plays really well and it&#8217;s something I truly believe in.
As far as the race between me and Tony goes, it&#8217;s going to be a bit of a dog fight. I saw him recently at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a project that he had nothing to do with. I was just in the crowd supporting a family member and he stared me down the entire ceremony with these evil eyes. If that told me anything about how this race is going to go, it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s going to be a bit of a dog fight, but I&#8217;m absolutely ready for that. I&#8217;m doing it for the right reason, to honor my brother, and my opponent is not going to get in the way of that.
DW: Do you have any ambitions beyond this race?
LEWIS: My focus is solely on this race, my time as a state Senator, and how I can better my community and state now.
DW: Is there anything you want to say to Daily Wire readers?
LEWIS: My message to readers would be that if you feel your state&#8217;s (or country&#8217;s) leadership is lacking, challenge the status quo. Lazy politicians in Connecticut are waking up to the realization that if a 19-year-old can mount a challenge against a 10-year legislator, they are all vulnerable.</blockquote>
I would like to thank JT Lewis for taking the time to speak with me about his state Senate run. For more information, visit his <a href="https://www.jt4ct.org/​">official website</a>, and follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/thejtlewis?lang=en">Twitter</a>.

INTERVIEW: JT Lewis, Brother Of Slain Sandy Hook Student, To Challenge State Senate Incumbent

2020 Election

Republican Party

Shooting

On Monday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys representing teen track star Selina Soule and two other minor female track athletes submitted a <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/SouleComplaintOCR.pdf">complaint</a> to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights seeking an investigation into sex discrimination. The complaint specifically challenges the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) policy allowing biological males who identify as female to compete in girls&#8217; athletics, ADF announced in a press release sent to The Daily Wire on Monday.
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BREAKING NEWS: Female athletes challenge Connecticut policy that abolishes girls-only sports. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FairPlay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FairPlay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RunLikeAGirl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RunLikeAGirl</a>
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Per the CIAC policy, Soule was forced to compete against female-identifying biological males in a high-stakes track competition where two transgender sprinters beat the field, taking first and second place by significant margins; Soule landed in 8th place, missing an opportunity to compete in front of college coaches by two places.
&#8220;I am very happy for these athletes and I fully support them for being true to themselves and having the courage to do what they believe in,&#8221; Soule <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44063/watch-female-high-schooler-speaks-out-after-losing-amanda-prestigiacomo">told</a> host Fox News host Laura Ingraham in February. &#8220;But, in athletics, it&#8217;s an entirely different situation. It&#8217;s scientifically proven that males are built to be physically stronger than females. It&#8217;s unfair to put someone who is biologically a male, who has not undergone anything in terms of hormone therapy, against cis-gender girls.&#8221;
&#8220;Throughout the 2018-19 track season, males consistently deprived the female athletes who are part of the complaint of dozens of medals, opportunities to compete at a higher level, and the public recognition critical to college recruiting and scholarship opportunities,&#8221; an ADF news release said. &#8220;The complaint notes that CIAC&#8217;s policy and its results directly violated the requirements of Title IX, a federal regulation designed to protect equal athletic opportunities for women and girls.&#8221;
&#8220;Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,&#8221; ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb said.
&#8220;Forcing female athletes to compete against boys is grossly unfair and destroys their athletic opportunities,&#8221; Holcomb argued. &#8220;Title IX was designed to eliminate discrimination against women in education and athletics, and women fought long and hard to earn the equal athletic opportunities that Title IX provides. Allowing boys to compete in girls&#8217; sports reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women under this law. We shouldn&#8217;t force these young women to be spectators in their own sports.&#8221;
&#8220;Selina and her fellow female athletes train countless hours to shave mere fractions of seconds off their race times. They put in that effort in hope of the personal satisfaction of victory, an opportunity to participate in state and regional meets, or a chance at a college scholarship,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But girls competing against boys know the outcome before the race even starts: They can&#8217;t win. Boys will always have physical advantages over girls; that&#8217;s the reason we have women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
Along with an investigation into sex discrimination, the complaint asks the Office for Civil Rights &#8220;to require the conference to acknowledge every girl who would have been identified as a champion or who would have qualified for participation in a higher level competition but for the participation of a male in her event,&#8221; <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/SouleComplaintOCR.pdf">noted</a> the organization.

Teen Athletes Challenge CT Policy Allowing Transgenders To Compete Against Girls

Gender

High School

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Sandy Hook victims&#8217; families can move forward with a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the AR-15-style gun used by the shooter in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school attack.
&#8220;The court ruled that the Sandy Hook families should have the opportunity to prove that Remington violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) by marketing what it knew was a weapon designed for military use to civilians,&#8221; <a href="https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-sandy-hook-gun-ruling-20190314-pwcw3qncazb7zkitbbkocmplka-story.html">reported</a> the Hartford Courant.
In 2012, a mass shooter used his mother&#8217;s legally-purchased AR-15 to massacre 20 first graders, six educators, and his mother.
As <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/manufacturer-of-ar-15-can-be-sued-over-sandy-hook-massacre-court-rules-11552579520">noted</a> by The Wall Street Journal, &#8220;The ruling allows the plaintiffs to move forward with their claims that Remington Outdoor Co. violated Connecticut&#8217;s law against unfair trade practices by allegedly promoting the rifle as a combat weapon intended for waging war and killing human beings.&#8221;
&#8220;[I]t falls to a jury to decide whether the promotional schemes alleged in the present case rise to the level of illegal trade practices and whether fault for the tragedy can be laid at their feet,&#8221; justices <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/nyregion/sandy-hook-supreme-court.html">wrote</a> in the majority decision.
The plaintiffs&#8217; lawsuit claimed the AR-15 used in the 2012 massacre &#8220;had been marketed as a weapon of war, invoking the violence of combat and using slogans like &#8216;Consider your man card reissued,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/nyregion/sandy-hook-supreme-court.html">noted</a> The New York Times. &#8220;Lawyers pointed out advertising &#8212; with messages of combat dominance and hyper-masculinity &#8212; that resonated with disturbed young men who could be induced to use the weapon to commit violence,&#8221; the outlet added.
In 2017, Joshua D. Koskoff, a lawyer representing the victims&#8217; families, argued that &#8220;Remington may never have known [the shooter], but they had been courting him for years.&#8221;
Notably, the weapon used by the shooter was legally purchased by the man&#8217;s mother, who was murdered by her son on the day of the massacre.
The shooting &#8220;was a tragedy that cannot be forgotten,&#8221; argued James B. Vogts, a lawyer for Remington. &#8220;But no matter how tragic, no matter how much we wish those children and their teachers were not lost and those damages not suffered, the law needs to be applied dispassionately.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no need for a legal re-examination of the law,&#8221; <a href="https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-sandy-hook-gun-ruling-20190314-pwcw3qncazb7zkitbbkocmplka-story.html">said</a> Vogts. &#8220;Under the law, the manufacturer of the gun used by the criminal that day isn&#8217;t responsible legally for his actions.&#8221;
A Connecticut judge ruled last month that Infowars host Alex Jones will have to undergo a sworn deposition in the defamation case brought against the host by relatives of the victims in the Sandy Hook shooting.
&#8220;Discussions on Jones&#8217; web show have called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax, and lawsuits by families of eight victims and a first responder say they&#8217;ve been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones&#8217; followers,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/infowars-host-alex-jones-be-deposed-defamation-suit-brought-sandy-n971421">reported</a> NBC News, adding: &#8220;Jones has defended the discussions on his show. He has cited First Amendment rights and says he believes the shooting happened.&#8221;

Families Of Sandy Hook Victims Allowed To Sue AR-15 Manufacturer, Judge Rules

Guns

Second Amendment

On Monday, an apparent anti-gun activist attending the annual Connecticut Judiciary Committee public hearing on gun bills was <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Anti-gun-activist-I-d-blow-away-CT-13679790.php">caught in a photo</a> with a text message saying if she had a gun, she&#8217;d &#8220;blow away state senator Rob Sampson and a large group of NRA.&#8221;
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Sampson (R-Wolcott) is a staunch supporter of gun rights; he has been awarded the NRA&#8217;s Defender of Freedom Award. <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/anti-gun-activist-tossed-from-conn-legislature-for-threatening-lawmakers-nra/">National Review</a> reported that the hearing dealt with legislation to tighten restrictions on home storage of firearms, adding:
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The legislation was introduced in response to the death of 15-year-old Ethan Song, who was killed after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a gun that belonged to his friend&#8217;s father. The gun had been secured with a lock, but left in a container with the key and accompanying ammunition. As a result, state prosecutors said they could not charge its owner, because state law requires only that loaded guns are properly secured. Under the new legislation, which has been dubbed &#8220;Ethan&#8217;s Law&#8221; by his parents, owners would be required to lock loaded and unloaded guns alike.
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The woman texting was expelled from the hearing; Capitol police barred her from returning to the building until tomorrow.
According to <a href="https://www.newstimes.com/politics/article/Capitol-Police-eject-woman-during-gun-hearing-13679739.php">Newstimes</a>, Walter Lee Jr., chief of the Capitol Police, said of the woman, &#8220;She left without incident,&#8221; adding that she was not arrested because she had not violated state laws regarding threatening behavior. He stated, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here twenty years and we have had multiple incidents like that.&#8221;
Apprised of what happened, Sampson commented, &#8220;Sad to say it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve been threatened in this job.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-gun-hearing-clashes-20190311-js5mqen5pfcsrbrspwvfxv4bmq-story.html">The Hartford Courant</a> reported, one of the bills considered during the hearing stated that an owner who is visibly carrying a gun be required to offer a pistol permit if police request it. In downtown Bridgeport, a man repeatedly refused to show his permit; some officials claimed the situation could have intensified because of his refusal. The situation was eventually resolved peacefully with police. Sampson commented, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why it was allowed to escalate. This person was minding their own business, like riding down the road or mowing your lawn. &#8230; Why would law enforcement need to show up for that purpose?&#8221;
In March 2017, Sampson <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sampsonforct/posts/recently-i-received-a-number-of-emails-from-all-over-the-state-as-a-result-of-ca/10154365435557423/">noted</a> he had received numerous emails regarding Connecticut Against Gun Violence&#8217;s campaign in favor of HB 6200 and against pistol permit reciprocity. He commented, &#8220;CAGV is a single issue anti-gun, anti-second amendment organization that has no respect for the constitutional rights of Connecticut citizens and has repeatedly called for legislation that interferes with both the second amendment and due process rights. Those that value civil liberties and the second amendment in particular need to be aware of this campaign and be sure to make their voices heard in opposition.&#8221;
Sampson quoted a letter he had written in response to one email:
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Thank you for contacting me to let me know your thoughts on these two bills. I fully understand and respect your desire for public safety and genuinely appreciate hearing from anyone who takes the time to write me. Your email is one of several hundred I received that contain the same wording. I assume these are the result of an email campaign by an openly anti-gun lobbying group.
&#8230; I want to be clear when I say that the information that you have provided in your email is sadly not complete or accurate. Please encourage the organization that provided you with the canned email language that the truth should be respected. It shows a lack of confidence in one&#8217;s argument when the facts are not portrayed candidly.All gun control laws rely on the willingness of citizens to obey them and the deterrent effect of penalties for those that do not. When it comes to virtually all of the gun control legislation passed in Connecticut within recent years including the banning of certain firearms and magazines, and the requirements for various licenses and background checks, this is self-evident.
Requiring universal background checks for example sounds like a very appropriate idea until you realize the net effect is that honest law abiding citizens are being forced to pay additional fees and jump through bureaucratic hoops needlessly and that criminals exchanging an illegal gun before a robbery will simply not comply. There are things that could and should be done &#8211; starting with an honest effort to keep guns out of the hands of actual criminals, prosecuting those that break our laws, and applying penalties that keep them off our streets.
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A male student is suing his university after the school allegedly violated its own policies in order to find him responsible for sexually assaulting a female student who only came forward after he began dating a mutual friend.
John Doe, as he is referred to in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, attended the Jesuit, Catholic school Fairfield University in Connecticut. He also has ADHD. He was accused of sexual assault by a woman referred to in court documents as Jane Roe.
Fairfield in 2018 received a $299,954 grant to &#8220;Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus&#8221; from the Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Violence Against Women. The grant was received after John was punished, but the deadline to apply fell within the disciplinary procedures against him, and those seeking a grant have to show their policies are worthy.
The purpose of the grant, according to a passage quoted in John&#8217;s lawsuit, is to encourage &#8220;comprehensive coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety, provides services for victims and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable.&#8221; In addition, the grant &#8220;supports activities that develop and strengthen victim services and strategies to prevent, investigate, respond to and prosecute these crimes.&#8221; Further, &#8220;Colleges and universities should demonstrate to every student that these crimes will not be tolerated, that perpetrators will face serious consequences, and that holistic services are available for victims.&#8221;
The grant <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ovw/page/file/1117446/download">description on the DOJ website</a> says nothing about due process, truth, fairness, or an unbiased investigation. A <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ovw/page/file/1117446/download">companion document</a> to the one used to file for such a grant also ignores due process, fairness, or anything resembling an unbiased investigation. Indeed, the information goes into great length about what a grantee can&#8217;t do when it comes to alleged victims, but says nothing of the accused.
This grant, according to John&#8217;s attorneys, provided Fairfield with a financial incentive to find him responsible by any means necessary. And it did.
John and Jane met in the fall of 2016 through mutual friends. Jane, according to John&#8217;s lawsuit, invited him to sleep over three separate times. John obliged, but only cuddled Jane, as he refused to engage in sexual activity because Jane had a boyfriend. In September 2017, Jane told John she had broken up with her boyfriend, and the two engaged in &#8220;consensual oral sexual activity,&#8221; according to the lawsuit.
On September 29, 2017, Jane approached John at a university event, and later invited him to join her and her friends. Jane claimed she only had one or two drinks. The two walked back to John&#8217;s off-campus apartment and began talking and kissing. John invited Jane to his bedroom, and Jane accepted and the two continued kissing. John says in his lawsuit the two undressed themselves and John asked Jane, &#8220;Do you want to have sex?&#8221; as Jane touched his genitals. John says Jane verbally consented to sex and the two proceeded.
John&#8217;s roommate returned home and waited to enter the room until he no longer heard sounds of the couple having sex. He said everything sounded consensual, he had a short conversation with the couple after, and that Jane continued to see John and engage in sexual activity after that night.
John drove Jane home the next day, and the two exchanged friendly text messages for the next several day. Over the next week, the two continue to meet and have sex, until October 11, when John decided he no longer wanted to pursue a relationship with Jane.
After Jane had sex with John, she went to the campus health center for an STD test. At this time, she did not claim to be a victim of sexual assault. Months later, according to the lawsuit, Jane apparently went back to the clinic &#8212; after she accused John &#8212; asked that her records be changed to indicate she had reported to have been sexually assaulted when she came in for the STD test.
Two months after they first had sexual intercourse, Jane accused John of sexual assault. Her accusation changed constantly as she talked to Fairfield&#8217;s Department of Safety and her friends, according to the lawsuit, and provided redacted text messages to her friends telling them she had been sexually assaulted.
At one point during the investigation, one of Jane&#8217;s friends told Fairfield investigators that Jane and another roommate were both interested in John, which caused friction in the house. Yet another roommate, referred to as K.P., said John was pursuing Jane and the other roommate, and Jane only told her about the alleged sexual assault after John broke up with her.
John wasn&#8217;t informed of the full allegations against him until January 23, 2018. Minutes later, he was provided a copy of the investigation report, which contained only an &#8220;incident report compiled by DPS,&#8221; according to John&#8217;s lawsuit. He had just been informed of an investigation, and now he was being informed the investigation was complete and would move to a hearing.
The report contained only statements from Jane and her friends, who weren&#8217;t present for the incident but relayed what Jane told them.
During his first hearing, John discovered that a member of the hearing board had previously worked with Jane, yet this clear conflict of interest was ignored. Jane didn&#8217;t disclose this relationship prior to the hearing, as required by school policy at the time. Jane was also allowed to personally ask questions of witnesses, even though the school limited who could ask questions to the hearing board, a Department of Safety representative, or through questions provided to the hearing board by the accusers and accused.
Jane&#8217;s adviser was also allowed to give a list of questions to the hearing board to ask of John, another policy violation.
John was not allowed these same opportunities, according to his lawsuit, nor was he allowed to bring character witnesses, like Jane was able to. There were even witnesses who testified who weren&#8217;t on the list provided to John before the hearing, yet another violation of Fairfield policy.
John wasn&#8217;t able to cross-examine Jane or her witnesses, and was found responsible. John appealed on procedural grounds that didn&#8217;t line up with a new sexual assault policy issued by Fairfield.
On February 12, 2018, John was granted a new hearing. He filed several reports of misconduct against Jane for spreading information about the first hearing, which had been nullified, and also claiming John had filed a counterclaim against her. She was not punished for spreading misinformation.
On March 5, John faced a second hearing panel that was conducted using a new policy that didn&#8217;t exist at the time of John and Jane&#8217;s sexual encounter. This time, Jane submitted emails between herself and her friends with questionable timestamps, according to the lawsuit, and were heavily redacted. John was concerned that Jane set up the messages by asking her friends to ask her questions to build &#8220;evidence.&#8221; The university took no action toward John&#8217;s concerns.
Fairfield proceeded to violate its new policy, according to John&#8217;s lawsuit.
He wasn&#8217;t able to defend himself under the new policy, and &#8220;had to sit and listen to false allegations and accusations that he was a &#8216;rapist&#8217; while unable to rebut the false claims.&#8221; In addition, Jane publicly threatened him while testifying, saying, according to the lawsuit, that &#8220;if my dad knew about this, he would kill you.&#8221; No action was taken against Jane for making this threat.
John was found responsible and barred from campus. He wasn&#8217;t expelled, but must complete his coursework from anywhere other than the classroom. His professors were not informed that he would need accommodations to continue his studies.
John&#8217;s appeal was denied, even though he presented a new witness who had not previously testified. He was told his appeal &#8220;did not provide new evidence or adequate evidence to substantiate an error in the proceedings.&#8221;
John then tried to get disability accommodations for his ADHD, since he now had to take his classes from home. John was denied these accommodations and barred from attending necessary labs for some of his classes. Essentially, the university didn&#8217;t expel him, but put restrictions on his studies so as to set him up for failure.
John is now suing. Neither Fairfield nor John&#8217;s attorney, Andrew Miltenberg (who previously represented the man who was accused by &#8220;Mattress Girl&#8221; Emma Sulkowitz), immediately responded to a Daily Wire request for comment.
A copy of the lawsuit was originally uploaded to Save Our Sons, an organization dedicated to helping male students falsely accused of sexual assault. In <a href="https://helpsaveoursons.com/accused-male-sues-fairfield-jesuit-university-pocketed-300k-grant-to-treat-accused-as-guilty/">a post about the lawsuit</a>, a woman using the pseudonym &#8220;Alice,&#8221; pleaded with others to consider innocent men on campus.
&#8220;After reading my summary of Doe&#8217;s court filing, perhaps the reader can understand why so many parents like me fight the many injustices that are perpetrated upon innocent decent loving and respectful college males,&#8221; she wrote.

She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault After He Started Dating Her Friend. He Claims The School Had A Financial Incentive To Punish Him.

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A state representative in Connecticut has planted a new flag in the gun-control debate after proposing a bill that would increase the tax on ammunition by 50%.
Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-Hartford), who was elected last November, <a href="https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&amp;bill_num=HB05700&amp;which_year=2019">introduced HB5700</a>, which would &#8220;increase the rate of the sales and use taxes on ammunition to fifty per cent.&#8221; On Twitter, Gilchrest posted a video message explaining her bill.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve introduced HB 5700, a 50% tax increase on ammunition. It doesn&#8217;t apply to military or law enforcement. I&#8217;m hearing push back about the need to protect one&#8217;s home &#8230; but how much ammunition does someone really need to do that?&#8221;
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I&#8217;ve introduced HB 5700, a 50% tax increase on ammunition. It doesn&#8217;t apply to military or law enforcement. I&#8217;m hearing push back about the need to protect one&#8217;s home&#8230; but how much ammunition does someone really need to do that? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gunsense?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gunsense</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/enough?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#enough</a> <a href="https://t.co/NZjkWBrpjC">pic.twitter.com/NZjkWBrpjC</a>
&#8212; Jillian Gilchrest (@Jilchrest) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jilchrest/status/1092519429232095243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It doesn&#8217;t matter how much ammunition someone &#8220;really&#8221; needs to protect themselves, an increase like this would make it harder for many low-income Americans to do so.
&#8220;Currently ammunition is taxed at the same rate as other products,&#8221; Gilchrest said in her video. &#8220;We want to increase it by 50% because we see it as a prevention measure.&#8221;
&#8220;We see this as a public health measure similar to what we&#8217;ve done in the state of Connecticut with increasing the tax on cigarettes,&#8221; she added. &#8220;When we increase that tax we&#8217;ve seen a reduction in use. We want to continue Connecticut&#8217;s legacy of being the leader in preventing and addressing gun violence and we see this as another step forward in that direction.&#8221;
Tax increases for cigarettes were done along with a campaign to inform people of the harm caused by cigarette use, something not readily known prior. People know what guns can do, and ammunition doesn&#8217;t do anything by itself. This is just a way for the state to make money. And, like all punitive taxes of this kind, it will hurt low-income Americans the most &#8212; who not only have less money to spend on home protection, but are also in most need of it.
The National Rifle Association has begun targeting Gilchrest&#8217;s bill, and released a tweet saying this &#8220;dreadful legislation punishes law-abiding citizens and makes it harder to learn how to safely use firearms,&#8221; because one does go through quite a bit of ammunition when learning to shoot.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Connecticut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Connecticut</a> state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest <a href="https://twitter.com/Jilchrest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jilchrest</a> introduced HB 5700, which would impose a 50% tax increase on ammunition. This dreadful legislation punishes law-abiding citizens and makes it harder to learn how to safely use firearms. <a href="https://t.co/fuK07CrhDJ">pic.twitter.com/fuK07CrhDJ</a>
&#8212; NRA (@NRA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1092787675457875969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Radio host and staunch Second Amendment supporter (who is also a spokeswoman for the NRA) Dana Loesch also tweeted about the bill, calling it &#8220;[c]lass warfare with your Constitutional rights.&#8221;
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Class warfare with your Constitutional rights. <a href="https://t.co/5n2rOSKQDN">https://t.co/5n2rOSKQDN</a>
&#8212; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1092819370533945344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As The <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/05/connecticut-rep-tax-increase-ammunition/">Daily Caller reported</a>, passage of the bill &#8220;would likely face significant legal challenges from the NRA and other Second Amendment advocacy organizations.
The <a href="https://www.courant.com/politics/capitol-watch/hc-pol-jillian-gilchrest-50-percent-ammo-tax-20190205-xm4tv6dq2zfbphirunnotk3yeq-story.html">Hartford Courant quoted</a> the RAND Corporation&#8217;s research, which found &#8220;little empirical evidence to indicate how taxation would influence firearm-related outcomes, such as violent crime or suicides&#8221; but suggested the law could be used to &#8220;derive insights from policy changes in these markets.&#8221;

Connecticut Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Increase Ammunition Tax By 50%

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As many as 76 people overdosed near Yale University on Tuesday night, and police have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/health/new-haven-overdoses/index.html">arrested three men</a> connected to the incident. Rick Fontana, New Haven&#8217;s director of emergency operations, said all of the overdoses were in the area of the New Haven Green, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-haven-overdoses-connecticut-new-haven-green-k2-synthetic-marijuana/">CBS News</a>.
New Haven Fire Chief John Alston added that the overdoses could be linked to &#8220;K2&#8221; synthetic marijuana laced with another drug. Emergency Medical Services Medical Director Dr. Sandy Bogucki echoed, &#8220;We heard from people on the green this morning that it potentially included PCP. Some of the reactions of the patients in the emergency department would suggest that there was an opioid involved as well,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/15/new-haven-green-overdoses-police-arrest-linked-dozens-overdoses/1002061002/">USA Today reported</a>. Bogucki also stated that it wasn&#8217;t clear whether all the victims had used the same drug.
Alston said that Wednesday morning at roughly 8 a.m., calls were made to emergency crews reporting people vomiting and passing out. He recalled that after the sixth response, &#8220;we knew that now we were going to have a multi-casualty incident. Even while we were trying to return people to service, they were passing victims on the ground.&#8221;
No deaths were reported, but two individuals were reported in serious, life-threatening condition.
CBS News reported that by Thursday, toxicology testing had not yielded definitive results. Dr. Kathryn Hawk, an emergency medicine physician and professor at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said some victims tested positive for fentanyl, but the common factor in virtually every case was &#8220;K2&#8243; synthetic marijuana.
On July 4, more than a dozen people became ill at the New Haven Green from synthetic marijuana. In January, another dozen synthetic marijuana overdoses were reported there.

In One Night, 76 People Overdose Around Public Park Near Yale University

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One elderly Vietnam veteran in Connecticut, outraged that a nearby town official preferred kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance, traveled to a meeting to confront the official as she knelt, snapping, &#8220;As it says on my shirt, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t like this flag, I&#8217;ll help you pack your bags and get the heck out of here.&#8217;&#8221;
Calvin Bunnell, who lives in nearby Meriden, traveled to Haddam, Connecticut to confront Haddam town official Melissa Schlag, who had previously knelt for the pledge and who had been taped saying the town of Haddam was &#8220;fascist&#8221; and &#8220;racist.&#8221; She later apologized on a radio interview, but insisted, &#8220;Strong veins of fascism and racism run deep in Haddam.&#8221;
Bunnell said he was part of a group of roughly 75 people at the meeting who were disgusted by Schlag&#8217;s actions. Once there, Bunnell yelled at Schlag, &#8220;As it says on my shirt, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t like this flag, I&#8217;ll help you pack your bags and get the heck out of here.&#8217; When you kneeled and turned your back on this flag, you turned your back on half of this town.&#8221;
Interviewed on Fox News by host Ainsley Earhardt, who asked him why he did what he did, Bunnell responded:
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Because to me, the flag is supposed to represent the United States, and when somebody kneels down and does not respect it, it goes along with the national anthem. You&#8217;re supposed to stand up and present yourself to that situation as well as the flag. When I first went into elementary school, it was the first thing they taught us, was respect for the flag and what it stood for. It just doesn&#8217;t stand for freedom, but it also stands for all the gentlemen, ladies in the service that have been killed in the line of duty. And when somebody kneels down in front of it, for me, it&#8217;s a very disrespectful thing because for me, you should stand up and praise these people as well as that flag of the United States.
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Bunnell stated that he traveled to Haddam to protest Schlag kneeling, knowing she had knelt for the anthem before. He said, &#8220;I just figured it was time some other people besides her town people let them know how they felt on it.&#8221;
Asked by Fox News&#8217; Ainsley Earhardt whether Schlag should resign, Bunnell answered, &#8220;I think so, because when she does something like that, she is not representing the constituents of that town in the right way.&#8221;
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WATCH: Furious Elderly Vietnam Vet Yells At Connecticut Official Kneeling During The Pledge Of Allegiance

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While two transgender athletes dominated the 100 and 200 meter dashes at Connecticut&#8217;s state championships for girls track and field, some parents <a href="http://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/petitions-circulate-after-transgender-athletes-take-top-spots-in-state-competition/1236486365">launched petitions</a> to make sure that competitions are restricted to athletes who were the same gender at birth.
The Hartford Courant<a href="http://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-hs-transgender-high-school-athletes-0520-story.html"> reported</a> that Bianca Stanescu, whose daughter Selina Soule finished sixth in the 100-meter State Open final, was circulating one petition at track meets. Her petition asks the state legislature to require athletes to compete in sports based on their gender at birth, unless the athlete has undergone hormone therapy. Soule herself said, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s unfair to the girls who work really hard to do well and qualify for Opens and New Englands. These girls, they&#8217;re just coming in and beating everyone. I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl.&#8221;
The Courant reports that the second petition was created by Jarmaine Lee, whose sons run in Plainville. That petition was sent to all of the high school athletic directors in the state.
The two transgender athletes, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, dominated the 100 and 200 yard dash; Miller won first place in the 100 and 200 meter dash; Andraya took second in the 100 meter dash.
As of June 5, according to the Courant, Stanescu&#8217;s petition had 60 signatures; Lee&#8217;s had 88.
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Terry Miller of Bulkeley wins the 100m girls dash i. 11.72 (meet record). Andraya Yearwood of Cromwell 2nd, RHAM&#8217;s Bridget Lalonde 3rd <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cttrack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cttrack</a> <a href="https://t.co/4GmLRyicDI">pic.twitter.com/4GmLRyicDI</a>
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Connecticut Parents Launch Petitions To Restrict Athletic Competitions By Birth Gender

A former substitute teacher was arrested for allegedly <a href="http://time.com/5238879/connecticut-substitute-teacher-fight-club/?utm_campaign=time&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;xid=time_socialflow_twitter">supervising a student &#8220;fight club&#8221;</a> at a Connecticut high school. Numerous cellphone videos show 23-year-old Ryan Fish supporting slap-fights in his math class at Montville High School.
Although the fights happened last October, it was in December that Officer Karen Moorehead, a school resource officer, wrote the arrest warrant affidavit because that was when the Juvenile Court Liaison, Tammy Algar, reported the incidents at the school to the police.
According to the <a href="http://lmgcorporate.com/wfsb/news/Montvillefight.pdf">arrest warrant</a> filed by Moorehead, there were four victims; Victim 1: a 15-year-old; Victims 2&amp;3: two 16-year-olds, and Victim 4: a 14-year old.
According to the arrest warrant, on December 14, 2017, the Juvenile Court Liaison, who is a social worker, reported to the police that victim 1 showed signs of being traumatized, robbed and beaten. The next day, Officer Moorehead visited the school and spoke with the assistant principal, Tatiana Patten, who told her that on October 10, 2017, she had been made aware of a &#8220;fight club&#8221; happening in a math class. Patten reported that multiple videos had been made showing &#8220;slap-fighting&#8221; in the class. Patten said that victim 1 and victim 2 were fighting in the classroom, though neither was a member of the class. Victim 1 told Patten he was not a willing participant in the fight.
Patten told Moorehead that when Fish was taken to the principal, he said, &#8220;Boys will be boys,&#8221; that he grew up in the country, and &#8220;Boys do stuff like that.&#8221; Fish was fired on October 17.
In one of the videos showing the incidents, Fish can be seen positioning himself in front of the doorway leading to the hallway. Moorehead wrote that in the fights, the boys were always unevenly matched; one student was much smaller than the other student.
Victim 4 told Moorehead that in one instance, he was in Fish&#8217;s class when victim 3 walked in and without any warning, hit him and &#8220;the fight was on.&#8221; He said Fish moved things out of the way so the fight could last longer. He added that the fight ended when victim 3 wound up throwing up in a trash can, but when victim 3 was done throwing up Fish attempted to restart the fight by saying, &#8220;Round two,&#8221; but it didn&#8217;t restart because the bell rang. Victim 4 said the fight between victims 3 and 4 went several rounds.
Victim 3 said he didn&#8217;t feel that Fish had done anything wrong, but also said the fight he had with victim 4 was to establish &#8220;dominance.&#8221;
Victim 2 said the fight between him and victim 1 was two 30-second rounds; he said he knew the length of the fight because he set an alarm on his phone for 30 seconds.
According to <a href="https://www.theday.com/article/20180412/NWS04/180419822">The Day</a>, &#8220;Patten has been on leave since January pending separate investigations by the school district and police.&#8221;
Fish told police he was &#8220;immature&#8221; and an &#8220;idiot&#8221; who wanted to befriend his students.

Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Supervising ‘Fight Club’ Among Students

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On Monday, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, joining the antigun radicals around the country who have condemned the NRA, likened the NRA to a &#8220;terrorist organization.&#8221; Malloy <a href="http://fox61.com/2018/03/06/gov-malloy-nra-has-become-a-terrorist-organization/">stated</a>, &#8220;They act quite frankly in some cases as a terrorist organization. You want to make safer guns? We will boycott your company. That&#8217;s who they are. That&#8217;s what they do. &#8230; The NRA today is a far cry from the NRA that in 1999 said that teachers shouldn&#8217;t carry weapons in schools. Or in the 90&#8217;s said we should have universal background checks. They have in essence become a terrorist organization.&#8221;
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin also <a href="http://www.courant.com/politics/capitol-watch/hc-pol-luke-bronin-delete-the-nra-20180305-story.html">fulminated</a> against the NRA on Monday as he called for termination of the NRA&#8217;s role in Connecticut&#8217;s gun-permitting process. He snapped:
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The idea that the NRA should be recognized as a voice for gun safety is ridiculous. If the NRA had its way we wouldn&#8217;t be permitting in the first place. This is an organization that opposes universal background checks despite the fact that overwhelming majority of Americans and even a large number of NRA members support universal background checks.
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Bronin added that the NRA is &#8220;the single most destructive force pushing back against common sense gun laws.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/video/governor-of-connecticut-calls-nra-a-terrorist-organization?utm_content=buffer50ee0&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=theblaze">The Blaze</a> pointed out, Bronin&#8217;s call would ban referring &#8220;citizens to the NRA for basic gun safety courses and firearm permits and will essentially erase all terms and references to the NRA from Connecticut gun statutes.&#8221;
NRA spokesperson Catherine Mortensen <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/03/07/connecticut-governor-says-the-nra-has-become-a-terrorist-organization">fired back</a> at Bronin:
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No organization in the world does more to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms than the NRA. The NRA&#8217;s Basics of Pistol Shooting course is the best training available for anyone seeking to carry a concealed firearm for self-protection. By eliminating the NRA training and standards for Connecticut&#8217;s permit holders, Mayor Bronin is putting politics above the safety of Connecticut citizens.
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NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker went after Malloy:
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The NRA is comprised of over five million law-abiding citizens many of whom are teachers, doctors, policeman, farmers , moms and dads residing in Connecticut. So let&#8217;s be clear Governor Malloy just called tens of thousands of his constituents terrorists. Voters are fed up with politicians who engage in political stunts and childish name calling rather than serious policy discussions aimed at making our schools and communities safer. A perfect example is the absurd political stunt to remove NRA trainers from the permitting process in Connecticut. No organization in the world does more to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms than the NRA.
The NRA&#8217;s Basics of Pistol Shooting course is the best training available for anyone seeking to carry a concealed firearm for self-protection. Public safety isn&#8217;t improved by eliminating the NRA training and standards for Connecticut&#8217;s permit holders or by calling people who disagree with you terrorists. NRA members love our children and want them to be safe just as much as anyone else we just disagree that punishing law-abiding citizens who want to exercise their constitutional right to self-defense is the way to achieve that goal.
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On Wednesday, the NRA responded to Malloy&#8217;s outrageous statement on Twitter:
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Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy just called tens of thousands of his constituents terrorists, retweet this to tell <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMalloyOffice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovMalloyOffice</a> you&#8217;re a voter, you&#8217;re the NRA, and you are NOT A TERRORIST. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefendTheSecond?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DefendTheSecond</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NRA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NRA</a> <a href="https://t.co/VoaNWikjwo">https://t.co/VoaNWikjwo</a> <a href="https://t.co/Wh3ovpVi9s">pic.twitter.com/Wh3ovpVi9s</a>
&#8212; NRA (@NRA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/971486372224733186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Connecticut Governor Calls NRA A ‘Terrorist Organization.’ NRA Lets Him Have It.

National Rifle Association (NRA)

A 22-year-old former student teacher and track coach at a Connecticut high school has been charged with sexual assault for having intercourse and oral sex with an 18-year-old student.
Tayler Ivy Boncal met the student in question while she was student teaching at Conard High School in West Hartford; the 18-year-old was in some of her classes. But the two began having sexual relations at the end of December, when Boncal&#8217;s student teaching gig had ended and she was assigned as an assistant track and field coach at the school.
Boncal has been charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault, according to police. &#8220;She is accused of engaging in intercourse and oral sex with the student under a statute that prohibits sexual contact between teachers and students in their schools,&#8221; <a href="http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-new-britain-arrest-west-hartford-teacher-20180202-story.html">reports</a> the Hartford Courant.
A &#8220;concerned parent&#8221; tipped off school officials about the alleged relationship, said West Hartford schools Superintendent Tom Moore on Friday. School officials then notified police.
According to police, the sexual encounters took place at the young woman&#8217;s home in New Britain from December 25 to January 11.
Both the 18-year-old and the former teacher told police that it was the student who initiated the relationship, asking Boncal for her phone number in mid-December. The duo began texting one another on December 13.
The former teacher told police &#8220;that the victim was kind to her,&#8221; says the affidavit. &#8220;Boncal stated that she loved the victim and was emotional regarding her feelings for him.&#8221;
According to the Courant, the alleged victim &#8220;initially denied the relationship to investigators, but eventually told them of the encounters,&#8221; per the affidavit. The student claimed he had lost his cell phone, but the two had exchanged sexually explicit photos and messages, though most of the correspondence was done via Facebook Messenger.
&#8220;The victim refused to provide a written statement,&#8221; said police. &#8220;The victim expressed concern for Boncal with regard to the outcome of this investigation.&#8221;
Conard High School Principal Julio Duarte informed parents of Boncal&#8217;s arrest on Friday in a letter sent to parents.
&#8220;As educators, we are entrusted to protect and educate all of our students and know there are certain boundaries that can never be crossed,&#8221; wrote Duarte in the letter. &#8220;Also, we will not tolerate any behavior that compromises the safety or well-being of our students. I hope you will not let the misconduct of this one individual cast a shadow over all of our staff members who demonstrate their commitment to our students every day.&#8221;
Superintendent Moore added, &#8220;Whether someone is 21, 41, or 61, the moment they are a part of a school as a student teacher, mentor, or coach, they enter into a sacred trust with our students and community.&#8221;
Boncal was arraigned on Thursday and has since been released from custody. She&#8217;s set for court on March 1.
Boncal was terminated from her position as assistant track coach.

22-Year-Old Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault For Sex With 18-Year-Old Student

A New Milford, Connecticut councilman, Democrat Scott Chamberlain, has been forced to resign his post after constituents discovered that Chamberlain likes to dress up and participate in the &#8220;Furry&#8221; subculture.
Chamberlain is heavily involved in the Furry community, it seems, a subculture of adults who dress in life-sized animal costumes not dissimilar to the kind that typically represent sports teams as mascots. There are Furry conventions, Furry meet-ups, and, of course, online groups and social media pages devoted to fleshing out fur-covered alternate identities.
The councilman, <a href="http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-councilman-resigns-after-furor-over-12181577.php?cmpid=fbsocialflow#photo-14068944">who goes by his alternate name, &#8220;Gray Paws,</a>&#8221; when at Furry conventions and among his four-legged friends, had his secret identity revealed when one of his constituents posted screenshots of Chamberlain&#8217;s profile from a private Furries-only website.
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Although members of the Furry community don&#8217;t necessarily see dressing up as part of a sexual fetish &#8212; most say they do it as a form of social interaction and as part of a &#8220;fandom&#8221; &#8212; Chamberlain&#8217;s profile did list a few red flags on that account. According to the New Milford News Times, Gray Paws had a list of &#8220;loves, likes, and hates&#8221; some of which were &#8220;sexual in nature.&#8221; His profile also mentioned &#8220;that he &#8216;tolerates&#8217; rape.&#8221;
Now it&#8217;s getting weird.
Chamberlain tried to diffuse the situation by claiming that he participates in the Furry subculture as a &#8220;harmless hobby.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s nothing to do with sex; it&#8217;s an interest in cartoon animals,&#8221; he told local media.
But it turns out, the mayor and his fellow city council members weren&#8217;t easily convinced. The Mayor told the News Times that Chamberlain should drop out of office because government officials need to be held to a &#8220;higher standard&#8221; than community members &#8212; even the Furry ones &#8212; and another councilman casually mentioned to media that Chamberlain told him that he dabbled in writing &#8220;science fiction adult literature.&#8221;
Chamberlain also pens a &#8220;soap opera&#8221; for other Furries, and his characters, yes, do engage in adult activities.
Most of the commenters who responded to the Facebook post about Chamberlain&#8217;s extra-curricular activities seemed to feel the same: that what people do in the privacy of their own homes is their business, but this might just be a step too far for a quiet town in central Connecticut. His party felt the same way, and on Friday, Chamberlain was asked to tuck his tail between his legs, turn over his gavel, and resign.

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