I have talked a lot about the collapse of the criminal justice system. The very concept of criminal justice — of enacting justice, and punishing crime — has been destroyed. But very few people ever take the time to trace the roots of our current state of lawless anarchy back to its origins. And the thing is, you don’t need to trace the roots very far.
There is a reason why we now live in a country governed by people who don’t believe in simply enforcing the law and punishing lawbreakers. These are people who are operating according to certain particularly crazy set of beliefs. And one of those beliefs is that deterrence doesn’t exist. Effectively, you cannot deter crime by punishing it. That’s the insane idea that began in our institutions of higher learning — the sort of insane idea that can only begin in our institutions of higher learning — and filtered its way down from there. As these ideas always do.
It began with the claim, first made years ago, that the death penalty doesn’t deter crime. This was always false, for reasons we’ll touch on later. But whatever you think of the death penalty, the implication underlying this &#8220;deterrence&#8221; argument was never going to stop with the death penalty. It was always going to progress far beyond that. And indeed, we&#8217;ve seen that progression in recent years. It&#8217;s no longer, &#8220;The death penalty is pointless because people don&#8217;t consider those consequences when they commit crime.&#8221; Instead, the argument we&#8217;re hearing today is, &#8220;All harsh punishment is pointless because people don&#8217;t consider any consequences when they commit crime.&#8221;
This is the intellectual origin of the &#8220;soft-on-crime&#8221; approach to law enforcement that we&#8217;re seeing in every major city in the country right now. And several years ago, this approach was adopted by the Obama DOJ without any fanfare whatsoever. In May of 2016, the National Institute of Justice, which is the research arm of the DOJ, published a <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> entitled, &#8220;Five Things About Deterrence.&#8221; You’ve probably never heard of this document but it is essentially the modern manifesto of the anti-incarceration movement in the United States. It applies the reasoning of anti-death penalty advocates to all forms of crime. It’s truly a remarkable document.
So here are the &#8220;five things about deterrence&#8221; that the memo highlights and then expands upon.
Number one: &#8220;The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.&#8221; In other words, according to the DOJ, criminals are primarily worried about whether the cops are going to arrest them — not about how long they&#8217;re going to have to stay in prison. The question that apparently never occurred to this DOJ is: If the punishments aren’t severe, then why would the certainty of being caught deter anyone? Why would criminals care if they’re caught, if they know ahead of time that they won’t be punished? The whole reason that being caught is scary is that you will be punished. But if you aren’t punished, then being caught isn’t scary anymore. 
We are seeing this play out in cities across the country. Sure, the criminals are caught (sometimes), but it doesn’t matter because they aren’t punished and they’re back on the street a day later, committing more crimes. The argument from the DOJ is like saying that home invaders are deterred by guns, but it doesn’t matter if it’s a Glock or a super soaker. It makes no sense.
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The DOJ&#8217;s manifesto doesn&#8217;t bother to expound on this point in any way. It just says, &#8220;Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment.&#8221; So there you have it. &#8220;Research&#8221; shows that punishment doesn&#8217;t work. What kind of research? They don&#8217;t say, at least not in that paragraph. Buried in the fine print on the page, however, is a citation to an <a href="https://prohic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-06-02-DeterrenceMetaNagin.2013.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by a public policy professor named Daniel Nagin at Carnegie Mellon University. This is the primary paper the DOJ relies on, along with a couple of others. Apparently, Nagin has done the research, and he&#8217;s realized that criminals don&#8217;t really care that much about punishment. They only care about the prospect of being caught.
I looked around to see if Nagin actually thinks this, and if so, what his logic is. I came across this clip from many years ago, which I&#8217;m going to play primarily because it&#8217;s kind of hilarious. Watch as a local news team breaks the news that, according to Daniel Nagin&#8217;s first groundbreaking finding, when you have more police officers, criminals tend to commit less crime. And then the news station interviews a couple of random people who think that checks out. This is one of the best examples of &#8220;research&#8221; telling us something that&#8217;s incredibly obvious, to a comical degree. But buried in this report, if you listen really carefully, is Nagin&#8217;s second theory, which the DOJ finds so compelling. Watch:
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So the reporter holds up the stack of papers. &#8220;Here&#8217;s the research,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It shows that more police means less crime!&#8221; Cut to the two local residents and the sheriff who say, &#8220;uh, yeah. You think?&#8221; Apparently, being a professor at Carnegie Mellon isn&#8217;t what it used to be. Random people off the street think your research is incredibly obvious, because it is.
But the key part of that segment for our purposes is what Daniel Nagin says in that clip. He reports that, &#8220;There&#8217;s little evidence that making punishments even more severe than they already are has an incremental effect.&#8221; Right away, that&#8217;s a different argument from the one the DOJ is making. The DOJ said flat-out that, &#8220;draconian punishments&#8221; don&#8217;t deter crime. But the argument this Carnegie Mellon professor is advancing in that clip is that, if you make our existing punishments more severe, then they won&#8217;t deter crime that much. Those are two completely different arguments.
This little inconsistency confused me enough to look up Nagin&#8217;s actual paper — the one the DOJ cites in its manifesto on deterrence. And in that article, you&#8217;ll find two main claims.
The first one is the idea he outlines in that video clip, &#8220;There is little evidence that increases in the length of already long prison sentences yield general deterrence effects that are sufficiently large to justify their social and economic costs.&#8221; In other words, he&#8217;s saying that existing prison sentences are a sufficient deterrent, and we don&#8217;t need to make them longer.
But afterwards in the paper, Nagin goes on to say pretty much what the DOJ claims. He says, &#8220;I have concluded that there is little evidence of a specific deterrent effect arising from the experience of imprisonment compared with the experience of noncustodial sanctions such as probation. .. It is clear that lengthy prison sentences cannot be justified on a deterrence-based, crime prevention basis.&#8221;
Those claims don&#8217;t follow at all. His starting point is that we don&#8217;t need to make prison sentences longer. And somehow, without showing his work, he ends up with a declaration that criminals don&#8217;t really care about their punishments, only whether they&#8217;re apprehended — as though apprehension without punishment matters to anyone. We might as well just sentence everyone to probation, is what he&#8217;s saying.
The technical term for this kind of argument is that it&#8217;s garbage. It&#8217;s a clearly absurd result, but it&#8217;s the basis for the DOJ&#8217;s entire argument against deterrence. This is the document that the DOJ cites to justify its policy of releasing as many criminals as possible — or at least, criminals who share the DOJ&#8217;s politics. It&#8217;s hard to overemphasize how truly bizarre and incredible this is.
But it gets weirder. Citing Nagin&#8217;s research, the DOJ goes on to claim that, &#8220;Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn’t a very effective way to deter crime.&#8221;
Again, that&#8217;s a direct quote from a document produced by the DOJ in 2016. &#8220;Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn&#8217;t a very effective way to deter crime.&#8221; They&#8217;re saying that because some random Carnegie Mellon professor just wrote it down a few years earlier. Again, they don&#8217;t really clarify this point. Here&#8217;s the extent of the DOJ&#8217;s explanation: “Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies from each other, and time spent in prison may desensitize many to the threat of future imprisonment.&#8221;
If this is true, it’s an argument for giving out even longer punishments, not shorter ones. In fact, this is a solid reason to be much more generous in handing out life sentences. If you give a life sentence — and actually make it a life sentence, meaning that the person isn&#8217;t released after 25 years or whatever — then the deterrence issue, at least for that individual, is a moot point. He’s gone. He’s off the street for good. But the DOJ doesn&#8217;t mention this possibility in the memo. Instead they conclude that we should let people out of jail sooner, after just telling us that jail only makes criminals more dangerous.
The rest of the DOJ document continues along these lines.
The third bullet point in the DOJ&#8217;s document says, &#8220;Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.&#8221; (This was the earth-shattering revelation that shocked those news reporters). 
Number four: &#8220;Increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.&#8221;
And number five: &#8220;There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals.&#8221;
Those latter two bullet points contradict everything we know about the human condition. Obviously longer, harsh prison sentences deter crime. This is a basic fact of human psychology. People are less likely to do something if the consequences are very bad. That doesn’t mean nobody will do it. It doesn&#8217;t mean that everyone will respond to incentives like a rational person. It just means fewer people will do it. It&#8217;s impossible for a reasonable person to deny this point because it is again a basic fact of human behavior, well established over the course of thousands of years of human civilization.
That’s why they have no way of disproving it. All they have are random studies done by quack sociologists which are supposed to outweigh the collective experience of all mankind for the past 10 thousand years. And by the way, these random studies contradict the random studies I cited earlier — the ones CBS News reported on back in 2007.
That&#8217;s a cue that it&#8217;s a good idea to ignore all of these studies, and use common sense. The DOJ is stacking a handful of research papers against the totality of human experience, and expect us to believe the research papers. Which is also how they come up with the ridiculous proposition that the death penalty doesn’t deter crime. Obviously people are less likely to do something if you kill them for doing it. If the death penalty in its current form is less effective as a deterrence than it has been in the past, that&#8217;s only because we put so much time in between conviction and punishment that the punishment loses much of its societal impact.
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And again, the DOJ&#8217;s arguments are all assuming that &#8220;deterrence&#8221; is somehow the only relevant goal. But long prison sentences have another important goal, known as &#8220;incapacitation.&#8221; They remove violent criminals from the public, so they can&#8217;t hurt anyone again. 
Later on in the document, the DOJ does briefly touch on the goal of incapacitation. Here&#8217;s what they say: &#8220;Individuals grow out of criminal activity as they age. &#8230; A more severe (i.e., lengthy) prison sentence for convicted individuals who are naturally aging out of crime does achieve the goal of punishment and incapacitation. But that incapacitation is a costly way to deter future crimes by aging individuals who already are less likely to commit those crimes by virtue of age.&#8221;
This is how the DOJ views criminal justice. They actually say that sending criminals to prison for a long time might be pointless because they&#8217;ll grow out of being criminals anyway. This is the type of thinking that is directing the justice system from the very top, and the mental rot goes all the way down from there.
But the DOJ does make one point that makes sense, which is that it&#8217;s impossible to say which criminals are likely to reoffend, and which criminals are likely to &#8220;age out&#8221; of a life of crime. That&#8217;s true. Really, it&#8217;s impossible to conduct a fully accurate study of deterrence. There&#8217;s no way to quantify the number of people who would have committed a crime had the punishments been softer, or the number who did commit one because the punishments were too soft. This would require not only self-reported data (which is notoriously unreliable) but also a person&#8217;s speculations about their theoretical mental states in some other possible universe. There&#8217;s just no way to compile that into a statistic and call it science.
We ultimately have to fall back on the history of human societies and our own basic common sense intuitions about how human beings operate and what sorts of things incentivize and disincentivize them.
And all of that points back to a simple and straightforward conclusion: if you want less crime, you have one choice. It&#8217;s the choice that academics and public health experts and politicians have avoided making for decades now. You have to punish criminals, and you have to punish them severely.

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Why The Criminal Justice System Gave Up On Punishing Criminals

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The second inmate who escaped last week from an Arkansas county jail has been captured, authorities said on Monday.
Jatonia Bryant, 23, was walking in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Monday when nearby officers conducting surveillance saw him. Captain Yohance Brunson of the Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (JCSO) identified Bryant by his clothing, the sheriff’s office said in <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1438" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>.
Bryant walked near Brunson’s vehicle, and the captain called for additional personnel who assisted in taking Bryant into custody “without incident.”
Last Thursday, the other inmate who escaped, 22-year-old Noah Roush, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-escaped-arkansas-inmate-has-been-captured-while-the-other-is-still-at-large" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was apprehended</a> after the Metropolitan Emergency Association (MECA) received a 911 call from someone who said a person fitting Roush’s description was inside an abandoned home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1437" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>.
At that time, Brunson arrived to find Roush, who attempted to flee. Brunson chased Roush and was able to apprehend him with the help of Captain Brad Vilches and Officer Aaron Torres of the Southeast Arkansas College Department of Public Safety (SEARKDPS).
“We appreciate the brave citizen who made the decision to get involved and call MECA as well as the outstanding efforts of our own Captain Brunson, as well as SEARKDPS Captain Brad Vilches and Officer Torres,” the JCSO said in the press release. “Over the last three days numerous hours were worked by our own Deputies as well as the Pine Bluff Police Department Vice and Narcotics, Arkansas State Police, and Arkansas Department of Correction. We appreciate all of their time and effort they have put in to make this happen.”
Roush and Bryant were discovered missing Monday night, around 10:30 p.m. local time, the JCSO said in an earlier <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. Bryant was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2-arkansas-inmates-escape-including-one-held-on-murder-charges">being held</a> on probable cause of capital murder, while Roush was being held on probable cause for residential burglary and theft of property. He is also the suspect in a homicide.
The sheriff’s office said on Monday that an internal investigation of the escape revealed that jail personnel had not conducted an accurate head count, leading to Roush and Bryant escaping 36 hours before they were discovered missing.
“While both Noah Roush and Jatonia Bryant have been returned to the detention center our investigation does not end. Our Investigators will continue to work bringing criminal charges against all the people who assisted Roush and Bryant in evading apprehension,” the JCSO said.
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The sheriff’s office also said that &#8220;the actions of our jailers&#8221; would not be excused and that an investigation continues into the escape.
&#8220;We are committed to transparency and accountability throughout this process, recognizing that the trust of our community hinges on our ability to effectively safeguard our community and those under our care. As Sheriff, I assure you that every resource will be mobilized, every protocol reviewed, and every effort exerted to prevent such incidents from occurring again,” Sheriff Lafayette Woods, Jr. said in the press release. &#8220;Let there be no doubt: the safety of our community and the integrity of our detention center are non-negotiable priorities, and we will spare no effort in upholding them.&#8221;

Jatonia Bryant and Noah Roush

Second Escaped Arkansas Inmate Captured

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One of the inmates who escaped this week from an Arkansas county jail has been apprehended, leaving one inmate still on the run.
Noah Roush, 22, was captured on Thursday afternoon after the Metropolitan Emergency Association (MECA) received a 911 call from someone who said a person fitting Roush’s description was inside an abandoned home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1437" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>.
Captain Yohance Brunson arrived to find Roush, who attempted to flee. Brunson chased Roush and was able to apprehend him with the help of Captain Brad Vilches and Officer Aaron Torres of the Southeast Arkansas College Department of Public Safety (SEARKDPS).
“We appreciate the brave citizen who made the decision to get involved and call MECA as well as the outstanding efforts of our own Captain Brunson, as well as SEARKDPS Captain Brad Vilches and Officer Torres,” the JCSO said in the press release. “Over the last three days numerous hours were worked by our own Deputies as well as the Pine Bluff Police Department Vice and Narcotics, Arkansas State Police, and Arkansas Department of Correction. We appreciate all of their time and effort they have put in to make this happen.”
Roush, along with 23-year-old Jatonia Bryant, were discovered missing Monday night, around 10:30 p.m. local time, the JCSO said in an earlier <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. The two escaped from the Dub Brassell Adult Detention Center and may have broken free within the previous 48 hours. It is unclear how long it had been before they were discovered missing. It is also unclear how they escaped.
Bryan is a black male, 5’11” tall, and weighs about 145 pounds. He was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2-arkansas-inmates-escape-including-one-held-on-murder-charges">being held</a> on probable cause of capital murder.
Roush was being held on probable cause for residential burglary and theft of property. He is also the suspect in a homicide.
“We are relieved to have Roush in custody, but we also remain vigilant in capturing Jatonia Bryant who remains at large,” the JCSO said.
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Authorities are asking anyone with information about Bryant’s whereabouts to contact MECA (870)541-5300, Captain Yohance Brunson (870)692-3376, or Lieutenant Terry Wingard (870)510-0395.
A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to Bryant’s capture.

One Escaped Arkansas Inmate Has Been Captured, While The Other Is Still At Large

Two inmates at an Arkansas county jail, including one being held on murder charges, have escaped.
Jatonia Bryant and Noah Roush were discovered missing Monday night, around 10:30 p.m., the Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (JCSO) said in <a href="https://www.jeffcoso.org/press_view.php?id=1434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>. The two escaped from the Dub Brassell Adult Detention Center and may have broken free within the previous 48 hours. It is unclear how long it had been before they were discovered missing. It is also unclear how they escaped.
Roush, 22, is a white male, 6’2” tall, and weighs about 180 pounds with a scar on the right side of his head. He was being held on probable cause for residential burglary and theft of property. He is also the suspect in a homicide.
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Bryant, 23, is a black male, 5’11” tall, and weighs about 145 pounds. He was being held on probable cause of capital murder.
“Both individuals are to be considered dangerous and should only be approached by law enforcement personnel,” the JCSO said in its press release. “All efforts are being made at this moment to apprehend these suspects. The JCSO is working in cooperation with the Pine Bluff Police Department Vice and Narcotics, Arkansas State Police, And Arkansas Department of Correction to locate these individuals.”
The sheriff’s office is asking for anyone with information to come forward by contacting the Metropolitan Emergency Communication Association at 870-541-5300, Captain Yohance Brunson (870)692-3376, or Lieutenant Terry Wingard (870) 510-0395.

2 Arkansas Inmates Escape, Including One Held On Murder Charges

The final inmate who escaped from a Georgia jail last month has been captured, ending a month-long search that included numerous arrests beyond the four escaped men.
Joey Travis Fournier, 52, was the last inmate still on the loose, but was captured over the weekend and returned to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center. Fournier, who was being held on allegations of murder, was captured in Stockbridge, Georgia, shortly before noon on Saturday, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/videos/887642772883473" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>.
“We are grateful that this last escapee has been captured,” Sheriff David Davis said in a statement. “My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of the hard working law enforcement officers from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and from all of our partner agencies who worked tirelessly to bring these four fugitives back into custody.”
Fournier and three other inmates – Marc Anderson,  Johnifer Barnwell, and Chavis Stokes – escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center on October 16 after scaling a wall and fleeing to an awaiting blue Dodge Challenger.
Ten days after the men escaped Stokes was taken into custody. He was being held for possession of a firearm and drug trafficking before the escape. Anderson, who was being held for aggravated assault, was captured on November 3. Barnwell was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-out-of-4-escaped-georgia-inmates-caught-murder-suspect-still-at-large" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken into custody</a> on November 12 from a home in Augusta, Georgia, where police found large quantities of drugs, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/posts/pfbid0vjZguRQxJXeHdYVxCgjEmTh6d34evGRD3JeGfXokSi5wMsFzfNQPJHXT4wnsxFGzl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>. The sheriff’s office said the amount of drugs was “of trafficking quantity” and were recovered from the home.
Barnwell was being detained for the United States Marshals.
When Anderson was captured, authorities also arrested 32-year-old Tymesha Timley, who was accused of hindering Anderson’s arrest. Two more women – Jacorshia Smith, 30, and Janecia Green, 30 – <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/2-women-accused-helping-georgia-inmate-escaped-jail-104894341" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were arrested</a> for allegedly helping the inmates escape, though no additional details about their involvement have been given.
In late October, Jakaylen Williams, 24, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-man-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-car-used-to-help-four-inmates-escape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> for allegedly stealing the blue Dodge Challenger used to help the four inmates escape.
Williams was in possession of the vehicle when police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-escaped-inmates-from-georgia-remain-at-large-getaway-car-recovered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found it</a> on October 20, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=727649716057685&amp;set=a.230242405798421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a>. He was charged with four counts of aiding or permitting another to escape lawful custody or confinement, theft by receiving stolen property, and a probation violation. He was also arrested on warrants for aggravated assault, criminal trespass, and battery family violence in an unrelated case.
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Another man, Christian Demond Williams (no relation), died October 24 at a hospital in Macon, Georgia, after shooting himself when the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrived at an apartment in Macon to question him about the four escaped inmates, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-jail-escapees-investigation-man-dies-c9ad785d905a4dc7ec6c1e0b0f775d0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing Bibb County authorities.
Investigators had received a tip that Christian had information about the escapees, and when they arrived at the apartment, a bullet fired through the door, according to law enforcement. A SWAT team was called, and a woman inside the apartment told officers that Christian had shot himself and showed authorities where he was. Christian was wounded but still alive and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he died.
Christian turned out to be a fugitive suspected of murder and had been missing since March 5, the night before he was supposed to be tried for the alleged crime. Christian was accused of shooting to death a man at a convenience store in 2021.

Joey Fournier

4th Escaped Georgia Inmate Finally Captured, Ending Month-Long Manhunt

Fourth Escaped Georgia Inmate Finally Captured, Ending Month-Long Manhunt

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Three out of the four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month have been returned to authorities, with the third man captured on Sunday morning.
Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was taken into custody from a home in Augusta, Georgia, where police found large quantities of drugs, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/posts/pfbid0vjZguRQxJXeHdYVxCgjEmTh6d34evGRD3JeGfXokSi5wMsFzfNQPJHXT4wnsxFGzl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>. The sheriff’s office said the amount of drugs was “of trafficking quantity” and were recovered from the home.
Barnwell was being detained for the United States Marshals when he and three other inmates escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center on the morning of October 16 through a damaged day room window and a cut fence, the Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a> at the time. The escape occurred around 3:00 a.m., with a blue Dodge Challenger pulling up outside the jail and transporting the inmates away.
Ten days after the men escaped, one of the escapees, Chavis Stokes, was taken into custody. He was being held for possession of a firearm and drug trafficking before the escape. Another escaped prisoner, Marc Anderson, who was being held for aggravated assault, was captured on November 3.
That leaves Joey Fournier, 52, as the only remaining escapee still on the run. Fournier is a white male with gray hair and blue eyes who was being held at the detention center on allegations of murder. He is the only escapee who was being held for murder.
When Anderson was captured, authorities also arrested 32-year-old Tymesha Timley, who was accused of hindering Anderson’s arrest. On Tuesday, two more women – Jacorshia Smith, 30, and Janecia Green, 30 – <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/2-women-accused-helping-georgia-inmate-escaped-jail-104894341" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were arrested</a> for allegedly helping the inmates escape, though no additional details about their involvement have been given.
In late October, Jakaylen Williams, 24, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-man-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-car-used-to-help-four-inmates-escape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> for allegedly stealing the blue Dodge Challenger used to help the four inmates escape.
Williams was in possession of the vehicle when police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-escaped-inmates-from-georgia-remain-at-large-getaway-car-recovered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found it</a> on October 20, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=727649716057685&amp;set=a.230242405798421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a>. He was charged with four counts of aiding or permitting another to escape lawful custody or confinement, theft by receiving stolen property, and a probation violation. He was also arrested on warrants for aggravated assault, criminal trespass, and battery family violence in an unrelated case.
Another man, Christian Demond Williams (no relation), died October 24 at a hospital in Macon, Georgia, after shooting himself when the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrived at an apartment in Macon to question him about the four escaped inmates, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-jail-escapees-investigation-man-dies-c9ad785d905a4dc7ec6c1e0b0f775d0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing Bibb County authorities.
Investigators had received a tip that Christian had information about the escapees, and when they arrived at the apartment, a bullet fired through the door, according to law enforcement. A SWAT team was called, and a woman inside the apartment told officers that Christian had shot himself and showed authorities where he was. Christian was wounded but still alive and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he died.
Christian turned out to be a fugitive suspected of murder and had been missing since March 5, the night before he was supposed to be tried for the alleged crime. Christian was accused of shooting to death a man at a convenience store in 2021.
The Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information about the possible location of these inmates to call the FBI’s tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI or the United States Marshal Service at 1-877-WANTED2. Tips may be submitted online at <a href="https://tips.fbi.gov/home?fbclid=IwAR0K4gMFMVSnS7OmZ-nGCQAsFw17gz6JmE-dxSZItFyZxag1ITWuJhj6YBo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tips.fbi.gov</a> or through the USMS Tips app.

Johnifer Barnwell

3 Out Of 4 Escaped Georgia Inmates Caught, Murder Suspect Still At Large

Three Out Of Four Escaped Georgia Inmates Caught, Murder Suspect Still At Large

Two men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month have been captured, while two more remain at large.
Marc Anderson, 25, was arrested in Fulton County on Friday afternoon, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=733830015439655&amp;set=pb.100064379902001.-2207520000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>. No additional information about his arrest was given.
The four inmates broke out of the Bibb County Detention Center on the morning of October 16 through a damaged day room window and a cut fence, the Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a> at the time. The escape occurred around 3:00 a.m., with a blue Dodge Challenger pulling up outside the jail and transporting the inmates away.
In addition to Anderson, 32-year-old Tymesha Timley was also arrested for allegedly hindering Anderson’s arrest.
Ten days after the men escaped, Chavis Stokes was taken into custody. Joey Fournier, 52, and Johnifer Barnwell, 37, are still on the run. Fournier is a white male with gray hair and blue eyes who was being held at the detention center for alleged murder. Barnwell is a black man with braids who was being detained for the United States Marshals.
In late October, Jakaylen Williams, 24, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-man-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-car-used-to-help-four-inmates-escape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> for allegedly stealing the blue Dodge Challenger used to help the four inmates escape.
Williams was in possession of the vehicle when police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-escaped-inmates-from-georgia-remain-at-large-getaway-car-recovered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found it</a> on October 20, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=727649716057685&amp;set=a.230242405798421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a>. He was charged with four counts of aiding or permitting another to escape lawful custody or confinement, theft by receiving stolen property, and a probation violation. He was also arrested on warrants for aggravated assault, criminal trespass, and battery family violence in an unrelated case.
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Another man, Christian Demond Williams (no relation), died October 24 at a hospital in Macon, Georgia, after shooting himself when the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrived at an apartment in Macon to question him about the four escaped inmates, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-jail-escapees-investigation-man-dies-c9ad785d905a4dc7ec6c1e0b0f775d0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing Bibb County authorities.
Investigators had received a tip that Christian had information about the escapees, and when they arrived at the apartment, a bullet fired through the door, according to law enforcement. A SWAT team was called, and a woman inside the apartment told officers that Christian had shot himself and showed authorities where he was. Christian was wounded but still alive and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he died.
Christian turned out to be a fugitive suspected of murder and had been missing since March 5, the night before he was supposed to be tried for the alleged crime. Christian was accused of shooting to death a man at a convenience store in 2021.
The Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information about the possible location of these inmates to call the FBI’s tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI or the United States Marshal Service at 1-877-WANTED2. Tips may be submitted online at <a href="https://tips.fbi.gov/home?fbclid=IwAR0K4gMFMVSnS7OmZ-nGCQAsFw17gz6JmE-dxSZItFyZxag1ITWuJhj6YBo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tips.fbi.gov</a> or through the USMS Tips app.

Marc Anderson

Two Of The Four Escaped Georgia Inmates Have Been Caught

Four inmates have escaped from a Georgia jail, authorities said, including one man who has been accused of murder.
The inmates escaped from the Bibb County Detention Center early Monday morning through a damaged day room window and a cut fence, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BibbCountySheriffsOffice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Facebook post</a>. The escape occurred around 3:00 a.m., with a blue Dodge Challenger pulling up outside the jail and helping the inmates flee.
The escaped inmates include 52-year-old Joey Fournier, a white male with gray hair and blue eyes, who was being held at the detention center for alleged murder. The other three inmates are 24-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson, a black man being held for aggravated assault; 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, a black man being detained for the United States Marshals; and 29-year-old Chavis Demaryo Stokes, a black man being held for possession of a firearm and drug trafficking.
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The sheriff’s office is asking anyone with information about the location of the inmates or the vehicle used in their escape to call 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. People can also call the tip line at 478-310-4502 or 478-310-4485.
The sheriff’s office and Crime Stoppers are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of each inmate, for a total of $4,000.
The Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the FBI, and the U.S. Marshals Service are also looking for the inmates, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-inmates-murder-suspect-escape-georgia-jail-authorities-say-rcna120728?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&amp;_branch_match_id=1133745504221936325&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9av8s71LAgJNYpwSQIATRoBVCQAAAA%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said at a news conference on Monday that the inmates could be anywhere and may still be together or have split up.
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&#8220;Somebody that sees this tonight knows where these four people are, and somebody is probably laughing at the TV set saying, &#8216;They&#8217;ll never get us,'&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;We will catch them. They will come back to jail. It&#8217;s just a matter of time.&#8221;
This is the latest prison escape to make headlines this year, following the escape of convicted child sex offender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dangerous-child-sex-offender-escapes-from-custody-while-receiving-treatment-at-st-louis-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tommy Wayne Boyd</a> in September, along with nine juvenile inmates in Pennsylvania, convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante, also from Pennsylvania. Another inmate escaped from the same jail as Cavalcante earlier in the year. All of these escapees have been captured.

Empty Prison Cell

4 Inmates, Including A Suspected Murderer, Escape From Georgia Jail

The 28-year-old man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students is reportedly not getting special treatment while being held in jail.
The suspect, whom The Daily Wire will not name due to a policy aimed at depriving mass killers of the notoriety they so often crave, is currently in jail awaiting trial on murder charges. He allegedly killed Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.
The suspect isn’t getting the special treatment many people believe he is, as NewsNation’s Brian Entin <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianEntin/status/1703956651181568285" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> on the network show “Banfield.” According to Entin, the suspected killer has access to a computer – but not the internet – so that he can read documents relating to his case. This is the same access given to other inmates, who can also respond to documents through their attorneys.
It was previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jail-trying-to-accommodate-accused-idaho-killers-vegan-diet-but-wont-buy-new-pots-and-pans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the jail was trying to accommodate the suspected Idaho killer’s vegan diet, which still appears accurate since Entin said the suspect is only being fed rice and beans.
The suspect is also being isolated from other prisoners “for his safety and the safety of others,” a source previously <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/source-inmate-threatened-to-kill-bryan-kohberger/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation.
The accused has no definite trial date, as the original October start date has been pushed back.
DNA found on a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene has been matched to the suspect, according to court documents.
In early August, his attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-university-of-idaho-killer-offers-alibi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered an alibi</a> for the suspect’s whereabouts on the night of the murder, saying he was out driving late at night.
“[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,” Anne Taylor, the suspect&#8217;s attorney, wrote in the filing. “[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
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Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect&#8217;s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.

University of Idaho Off-Campus Residence

University Of Idaho Murder Suspect Not Getting Special Treatment Behind Bars: Report

Idaho

Murder

Disgraced FTX founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-collapsed-over-hubris-incompetence-and-greed-bankruptcy-lawyer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bankman-Fried</a> was jailed Friday after a judge revoked his bail for allegedly tampering with witnesses on at least two occasions. 
Bankman-Fried, who had been living with his parents after being placed under house arrest, jeopardized his upcoming trial by leaking writings and love letters from his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison to a New York Times reporter, according to prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan agreed with the prosecutors and said there was probable cause to believe the crypto founder tried to “tamper with witnesses” at least twice since his arrest in December, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/ftxs-sam-bankman-fried-seeks-to-avoid-jail-before-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The FTX founder’s defense attorney Mark Cohen said he will appeal the decision and asked for an immediate stay pending the appeal&#8217;s result, but the request was rejected by Judge Kaplan. Bankman-Fried’s defense team argued that prosecutors are using “innuendo, speculation, and scant facts” to push for Bankman-Fried’s jailing. The former billionaire will be held at the Manhattan Detention Complex until his trial begins on October 2. 
Ellison, who pleaded guilty to fraud for her role in the crypto empire, is expected to be a witness in Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial. Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend ran Alameda Research, a crypto hedge fund started by the disgraced FTX founder to which he loaned half of FTX customer’s funds in a move prohibited by the company’s terms of service. In a report last month, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/ftx-caroline-ellison-bankman-fried.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> some of Ellison’s private writings where she revealed she was “feeling pretty unhappy and overwhelmed with [her] job” and expressed frustrations with her on-and-off relationship with Bankman-Fried. 
Bankman-Fried <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-pleads-not-guilty-allowed-to-conceal-who-is-securing-his-250-million-bond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> not guilty in January to eight charges, which include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He was hit with four additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-charges-against-disgraced-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges</a> the next month, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer business. 
The indictment unsealed in February said that some of Bankman-Fried’s political contributions were “made in the names of others in order to obscure the true source of the money and evade federal election law.” Bankman-Fried donated nearly $40 million primarily to Democrat nominees and political action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. He was also the second-largest donor to the 2020 Biden presidential campaign and was granted four meetings at the White House with senior advisers in the months before his companies filed for bankruptcy.
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In March, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-charged-for-allegedly-bribing-communist-chinese-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> the entrepreneur for allegedly bribing members of the Chinese Communist Party with millions of dollars. According to the DOJ indictment, Bankman-Fried “authorized and directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials.”

Sam Bankman-Fried

SBF Jailed After Judge Revokes Bail For Allegedly Tampering With Witnesses, Leaking Ex’s Love Letters

SBF Jailed After Judge Revokes Bail For Allegedly Tampering With Witnesses, Leaking Ex's Love Letters

Court

Cryptocurrency

Fraud

There&#8217;s not a lot of humor to be found in wokeism, or &#8220;safeteyism,&#8221; or whatever you want to call modern Left-wing ideology. But since it&#8217;s Friday, it&#8217;s worth acknowledging something everyone knows deep down, which is that there are a few things about it that are, if we’re being honest, pretty funny.
Here&#8217;s one of them. Most jurisdictions in this country used to consider it a serious offense to lie and call someone &#8220;gay.&#8221; If someone was straight, and you started spreading rumors that they&#8217;re secretly gay, then until very recently, New York courts would punish you for that without a second thought. They&#8217;d call it &#8220;defamation per se.&#8221;
But in 2021, all that changed. A New York appeals court <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/falsely-claiming-someone-gay-no-longer-defamation-se-n-y-n1254175">ruled</a> that, actually, you can call people gay all you want, and it&#8217;s not necessarily defamatory. Why? Because according to New York court judges, if you lie and call someone gay, if anything, you&#8217;re probably *improving* their reputation in the community, rather than harming it. That&#8217;s because being gay has become a status symbol, at least in places like Manhattan. So, suggesting someone is secretly &#8220;gay&#8221; is like calling someone a multimillionaire. It&#8217;s a compliment, whether it&#8217;s true or not.
It&#8217;s kind of amusing when you think about it. New York is now so woke that gay slurs, at least in some cases, are now acceptable. In that respect, strangely enough, New York is quite different from, say, the United Kingdom, another hotbed of leftism. Over there, they don&#8217;t take kindly to unfounded accusations of homosexuality. 
We know that because, this week, a team of police officers in Leeds raided the home of a 16-year-old autistic girl suffering from scoliosis. The girl&#8217;s crime? She said that one of the officers looked like her lesbian relative. That&#8217;s all this girl did. She didn&#8217;t even imply it was bad to be a lesbian, in any way. And for that, cops dragged her away. Here&#8217;s what that arrest looked like:
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This is what the British empire has become. They used to rule the world. Now they scramble half the police department in response to a teenager who says, &#8220;hey, you look like my lesbian nana.&#8221; It&#8217;s quite a fall from grace, especially given that the police officer in question, if we&#8217;re being honest, could definitely pass as a lesbian. Whether she&#8217;s trying to look that way or not, it&#8217;s a convincing display. And, at least in civilized progressive utopias like New York, they celebrate that kind of thing. The UK obviously hasn’t thought this all the way through. By arresting autistic kids who say that women who look like lesbians, look like lesbians, they’re sending the message that looking like a lesbian is a bad thing. A horrendous insult. But that’s the opposite of what the UK intends to do here. Really they’re trying to elevate LGBT people to a special, sacred status, and protect their feelings with the force of law — even if it means dragging a teenage girl to jail, kicking and screaming.
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But the truth is, the United States isn&#8217;t far from becoming the U.K, where children are sent to prison for offending the government. What happened to that girl in the U.K. is quickly becoming a hallmark of so-called western democracies. Recently in Canada, for example, a pastor was arrested for the crime of protesting drag queens who were trying to indoctrinate children. Watch this news report carefully, because it&#8217;s one of the most incredible clips you&#8217;ll ever see:
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&#8220;There should never be an issue with safety,&#8221; says the woman. &#8220;Police are questioning if the events are safe,&#8221; says the reporter. 

Meanwhile, they show footage of the mob throwing the pastor to the ground. The message is pretty clear. By &#8220;safety,&#8221; they mean: you don&#8217;t get to question their views. You don&#8217;t get to object when they sexualize children. If you do, you&#8217;ll get attacked and thrown in jail. That&#8217;s what they mean when they say “safety.&#8221; Safety no longer means safety in the traditional sense. For a long time now it has meant something closer to emotional comfort. To be “safe” is to feel good, it is to have nice feelings, and anyone who causes you to have not-nice feelings, and feel not-good, is compromising your safety.
This has been true in Canada for a while. A couple of years ago, a man who was down on his luck went on a rant at the office of his local member of parliament, a woman named Catherine McKenna. Here&#8217;s what he said:
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So, he yells a few harsh words, including a few that were bleeped out. Makes some valid points as well, we should admit. But he never made any violent threats. For that, Catherine McKenna <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hate-crime-obscenities-catherine-mckenna-office-1.5680926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a hate crimes investigation, and authorities opened one. You see, in Canada, no one&#8217;s allowed to say mean things to politicians. You can call conservatives &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; all you want, but don&#8217;t you dare attack the people in power. In a free country — which Canada, of course, isn’t — cussing out politicians would be considered a virtuous act. A way to keep our leaders humble and on their toes. But in Canada, it’s a potential hate crime. 
We&#8217;d like to think these attacks on freedom of speech couldn&#8217;t happen here, but the truth is, they&#8217;re already happening. They&#8217;re just not getting much coverage. Recently in Watertown, Wisconsin, police arrested a young Christian man for simply reading the bible, on the sidewalk, in the vicinity of a &#8220;public drag event.&#8221; Watch:
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US &#8211; Where freedom of speech, religion, opinion and thought is now dead.
“Love your neighbour as yourself” as quoted from the bible, is considered hate speech and the young man is arrested.
Read that again. And weep for what you have become 😞
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&mdash; Bernie&#39;s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1686442609454043143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He has every right to be out here engaging in speech, the guy holding the camera says. And he’s right. But we don’t live in a country that cares about that sort of thing anymore. Marcus Schroeder, the man who was arrested for reading the bible, later spoke to the city council about what had happened. Watch what he said:
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Anyone watching that man speak knows that he&#8217;s a far better person to have around children, than men pretending to be women who talk to kids about their sexual fantasies. But Marcus Schroeder was arrested, and the drag queens were able to continue indoctrinating children, as the mothers of these children looked on approvingly. It&#8217;s the same thing that happens in Canada. Preach the gospel, go to jail. Preach perversion, and the police protect you.
In many states in this country, this will soon become the norm. A bill that recently passed in the Michigan state house, called HB 4474, would make it a hate crime to cause someone to quote “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.” The bill specifies that “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” are protected classes. If you make someone &#8220;feel threatened&#8221; because of their gender identity, you can go to prison for five years.
What does it mean to make someone &#8220;feel threatened&#8221; because of their gender identity? You know the answer to that question. Trans activists have been screaming for years, at maximum volume — unless you affirm their delusions, then you&#8217;re committing &#8220;literal violence.&#8221; You&#8217;re engaging in genocide. So, yes, this bill means that if you refuse to lie about basic facts of biology in the state of Michigan, then you&#8217;ll go to jail, just like that girl in Britain. They&#8217;ll haul you out of your home and arrest you for telling the truth — just like they did to that autistic girl in Britain. They will take the fight to you.
If you don&#8217;t believe that, consider what happened on Wednesday to an elderly man in Utah named Craig Robertson. Robertson was obese and used a cane to get around. He went to church on Sundays and took care of his blind son. But he also liked to post angry memes and comments on social media, mocking and threatening Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other random political figures. In response to those memes, before dawn on Wednesday, the FBI went to Robertson&#8217;s home. Neighbors report that as many as 50 agents were on the scene. Craig Robertson was shot dead in a hail of bullets.
Why did FBI agents kill Robertson, exactly? We don&#8217;t know. The FBI won&#8217;t tell us. We asked them yesterday, and they refused to explain. The New York Post reports today that Robertson allegedly pointed a gun at the agents. Maybe he did, we don’t know at this point. But we do know that the neighbors are all confused and disturbed, trying to figure out why the federal government would need to send dozens of armed agents to a disabled, elderly man’s home because of things he posted online. If you saw them swarming his house and didn’t have any context, you’d think they were taking down a drug kingpin. You’d never guess that the guy’s crime was a Facebook meme. So the question that many are asking — especially those in Robertson’s community — is whether this level of response was actually necessary? Did the FBI really consider Robertson a credible threat to the President of the United States? It’s hard to believe.
This isn&#8217;t to defend the things that Robertson posted online, obviously. The point is that the most powerful law enforcement organization in the country, which is funded by your tax dollars, is completely unwilling to explain why they killed an American citizen two days ago. They have no justification for why they decided to go after him at 6:00am in the morning. They don&#8217;t seem interested in providing a justification. If you&#8217;re living in the U.K., or Canada, then it&#8217;s quite possible that none of this is particularly shocking to you. You&#8217;re used to this kind of thing. But if you thought that the United States could never descend into totalitarianism, as those countries have, then what&#8217;s happening in many states across this country should disabuse you of that notion.
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A 23-year-old woman avoided jail time Wednesday after stabbing her blind date last year in a Las Vegas-area hotel room to get “revenge” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. 
While on a blind date with Daniel Trevino, a man she connected with on the dating app Plenty of Fish, Nika Nikoubin blindfolded Trevino and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife while the two were having sex in a hotel room, according to police, 8 News Now <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/singer-who-wounded-blind-date-in-las-vegas-area-hotel-room-over-death-of-iranian-leader-gets-probation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Nikoubin, who came to the U.S. from Iran when she was 12, was indicted last year by a Las Vegas grand jury on charges of attempted murder and two counts of battery, and she later agreed to plead guilty to two counts of false imprisonment with the use of a deadly weapon. Instead of a jail sentence, Judge Carli Kierny ordered Nikoubin to serve three years of probation. 
Trevino, who survived the stabbing, told Kierny that he has “the scars to show for it,” adding that he has “chosen to forgive but whatever the law decides to do, that’s up to the law.”
Bodycam footage from law enforcement obtained by 8 News Now showed Nikoubin telling officers that she stabbed Trevino out of “spite and revenge” for the drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Soleimani in January 2020. 
“I mean the U.S. killed Soleimani. Lots of blood spilled,” she said. “So, I feel like, it’s fair that American blood be spilled.”
“We were drinking a little bit and then — I guess we started to get into it and then I stabbed him,” Nikoubin added. 
Nikoubin’s lawyer argued that Nikoubin had a psychotic episode during the stabbing, and Kierny cited Nikoubin’s mental health issues as the reason she sentenced her to probation. The 23-year-old also told the judge she was raped when she was 18 and “did not fully realize the impact that this experience had on me and my mental health deteriorated.” Nikoubin also claimed she was in a mental health facility for ten days before meeting Trevino. 
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Nikoubin attended classes at a university in her home state of Texas while under house arrest, but a police representative for the university said their department did not know she was on house arrest in their jurisdiction. The judge said it appeared that the agency in Dallas monitoring Nikoubin only tracked her location and did not check to see if she had violated her curfew or other provisions. Nikoubin was later banned from the university’s campus, but her lawyer argued she did not violate any terms of her house arrest and said she did not have a connection to any terrorist organization.

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Woman Avoids Jail Time After Stabbing Blind Date To Get 'Revenge' For U.S. Killing Iranian General

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