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Riot Declared After Police Kill Man in Oregon Protests

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Protesters lit a portable bathroom on fire in downtown Portland, Ore., Friday. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

(AP) Police in Portland, Oregon, said Saturday they arrested four people after declaring a riot Friday night when protesters smashed windows, burglarized businesses and set multiple fires during demonstrations that started after police fatally shot a man while responding to reports of a person with a gun.

Police said they dispersed the crowd so firefighting crews could douse fires before they spread in extreme fire hazard conditions.

The vandalism downtown came after the police shooting earlier Friday and was also was part of vigils and demonstrations already planned for the night in the name of people killed in police shootings nationwide. They include 13-year-old Adam Toledo of Chicago and Daunte Wright, a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb.

Deputy Police Chief Chris Davis told reporters a white man in his 30s had been shot and killed in Portland by police. The man was pronounced dead at the scene in Lents Park, a leafy, residential neighborhood of the city.

Two officers fired a 40mm device that shoots non-lethal projectiles, and one officer — an eight-year veteran — fired a gun, police said in a statement. The officer is on paid administrative leave, and his or her name will be released, authorities said.

Davis did not know if the man who died had pointed a weapon at the officers and did not say how many shots were fired. A witness who spoke to reporters at the scene said the man, who had removed his shirt and was blocking an intersection, appeared to be in a mental health crisis, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.

The police investigation into the shooting was hampered by a crowd of “fairly aggressive people” who showed up at the park within two hours of the shooting. Those arrested could face charges ranging from assaulting a public safety officer to criminal mischief.

There were no reports of injuries to police.

As investigators worked the scene of the shooting and huddled over a covered body, nearly 100 yards (91 meters) away, a crowd of more than 150 people — many dressed in all black and some carrying helmets, goggles and gas masks — gathered behind crime scene tape, chanting and yelling at officers standing in front of them.

“We’ve had to summon just about every police officer in Multnomah County to keep this group far enough away … to preserve what we refer to in our business as the integrity of the scene, so that nobody who shouldn’t be in there goes in there,” Davis said, adding that deputies with county sheriff’s office were also helping.

The crowd later marched through the park, ripped down police tape and stood face to face with officers dressed in riot gear. Police left the park around 3:30 p.m., and the crowd eventually stood in a nearby intersection, blocking traffic and chanting.

Police said they had used pepper spray on protesters in order to keep them away. Some people hit officers with sticks and chased them as they were leaving, police said in a news release. Officers deployed smoke canisters and then used a rubber ball distraction device, police said.

Portland has been the site of frequent protests, many involving violent clashes between officers and demonstrators, since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

Over the summer, there were demonstrations for more than 100 straight days. Earlier this week, a crowd set a fire outside the city’s police union headquarters following recent fatal police shootings in Chicago and Minneapolis.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has decried what he described as a segment of violent agitators who detract from the message of police accountability and should be subject to more severe punishment.

Wheeler visited the Friday shooting scene and issued a statement urging Portland residents to “proceed with empathy and peace” while the investigation unfolds.

These shootings always are traumatic for everyone involved and for our community, regardless of the circumstances,” Wheeler said. “I want to offer my sympathy to the individual involved and to their family. My thoughts also are with the officers who were involved.”

Todd Littlefield, who lives near where the shooting happened, told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he went to the park after he heard gunfire.

Littlefield said he saw several officers standing behind trees and their cars, ordering a man to show his hands.

Juan Chavez, an attendant at a nearby gas station, said he saw a man standing in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic, with his shirt off. He appeared to be unstable and disoriented, Chavez told the newspaper.

Police then showed up, and the man entered the park before Chavez said he heard two gunshots.

Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Set for July 12 After Judge Denies Defense Motion

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Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

By Nick Koutsobinas(NEWSMAX)   Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, is set to stand trial on July 12 after U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan on Friday denied her request to dismiss the case or at least delay it.

Maxwell asserted that media attention and the protracted length of the investigation of her case was sufficient cause to toss out the charges. Nathan denied both claims.

“The Court will not dismiss the indictment on Maxwell’s bare assertion that numerous witnesses are engaged in a perjurious conspiracy against her…And the Court will take all appropriate steps to ensure that the pretrial publicity in this case does not compromise Maxwell’s right to a fair and impartial jury,” Nathan said, according to the Associated Press.

Nathan also dismissed arguments that charges should be dropped “because of the possibility of missing witnesses, failing memories, or lost records.”

Maxwell’s attorney had said the trial date for July 12 should be moved to mid-January due to the complications investigating the claims because of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The lawyers had asked to delay the trial due to the presentation of new evidence — 2,100 “highly confidential” pictures, according to the Daily Mail.

“We have tried to use an FBI-supplied laptop and hard drive to review approximately 2,100 ‘Highly Confidential’ photographs that were not produced to us in discovery,” they defense attorneys said, “Because of technical issues with the laptop, we still have not completed the review.”

Maxwell’s attorneys said they received tens of thousands of documents from 226 witnesses.

“We cannot adequately prepare for a trial containing the new charges and a substantially expanded conspiracy in the less than three months remaining,” Maxwell’s attorneys said.

Also, this week Maxwell’s family has created a website with updates on her case. The website has a video of her brother extending his feelings about Maxwell’s current circumstances.

Maxwell was arrested on July 2 and charged with enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children, and allegedly helping procure underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

BLM Activist Asks When People ‘Ready to Get Blood on Their Hands?’

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An activist speaking at Black Lives Matter Plaza asked how long before “people are really ready to get blood on their hands” to make change happen. His call to action came during a “Jail Killer Cops” rally in Washington, DC, on Friday evening.

“Voting is not gonna bring us this (change),” Rahim B., a 21-year-old activist, said during a “Jail Killer Cops” rally held Friday night in the nation’s capital. “We voted in the new president, Joe Biden, but I told folks straight up — Joe Biden ain’t gonna do nothing for us because Joe Biden was in office as the vice-president when the Black Lives Matter movement started and ain’t nothing changed.”

“We’ve been protesting for a really long time,” Rahim continued. “How much longer can we protest and march in the streets before we are ready, really ready, to get blood on their hands because one of these days, it’s going to have to come to that.”

Earlier in his speech, Rahim said he was ready to “dedicate my life to change.”

“Bringing about that change is not going to always be pretty, and it’s not going to be peaceful,” he predicted. “I don’t condemn who loot, I support them for looting. I support people who take matters in their own hands. If you want to set something on fire, go do that.”

Rahim said fathers are not in people’s lives because the system is killing them.

“The system is killing people every single day,” he explained. “In the courtroom, you got people locked up doing 20 years, facing life sentences, for crimes they didn’t commit.”

“How far are you willing to go for this justice?” Rahim asked.

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Bklyn Man Tests Positive for Covid After J&J Jab; Strange Vaccine Occurrences Continue

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By: Jared Evan

A Brooklyn man found out on Monday that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus — more than two weeks after getting the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine, adding to the growing list of strange occurrences after taking a COVID vaccine.

While the results of the COVID vaccinations have been positive, and all of the vaccines seem to be highly effective, many have been reported to still get COVID after vaccination, in addition to several deaths, which occurred post vaccination.

Matthew Sambolin, 39, told The Post that though he opted for the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it was “convenient,” he now wishes he’d gotten the Pfizer or Moderna shot instead.

“The risk was there; I was willing to take it. Now I’m wishing I made a different decision,” he said in a phone call from the spare bedroom of his Bath Beach home, where he’s currently quarantining.

Meanwhile the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers For Disease Control (CDC) released a joint statement on Tuesday, calling for a pause in utilizing Johnson & Johnson shots in the United States. The agency cited blood clots as the main reason for the pause. The J&J experimental viral vector shot is essentially the same product as the AstraZeneca experimental viral vector shot. Thus, it is not surprising that the two products are causing the same adverse effects.

TTJV news previously reported that Michigan data showed 246 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 more than two weeks after being fully vaccinated against the virus that causes it. TJV news also recently reported, More than 100 people in Washington state have tested positive for COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, authorities said March 30. This date includes all vaccines, not just the Johnson & Johnson, however the J&J vaccine seems to be the only one getting attention from the media and health officials.

There have been hundreds upon hundreds of reports coming in of deaths which have occurred shortly after individuals were vaccinated, most of them come in via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which was put in place in 1990 to capture unforeseen reactions from vaccines. Most of these reports are not fully verified and reporters and medical experts are very hesitant to blame the vaccines themselves for the deaths.

Many high-profile deaths have occurred after being vaccinated, such as DMX, Marvin Hagler, Hank Aaron, and Larry King. The details of their vaccination have usually been left out of news reports; however, they have all been vaccinated. The politicization of everything has contributed to a climate of fear of being labeled an “anti-vaxxer” for reporting on possible vaccine deaths and dangerous side effects. The fact that Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine is making headlines is an information breakthrough in an era of journalistic fear.

The queen says goodbye to Philip, continues her reign alone

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Pall bearers carry the coffin arriving at St George's Chapel for the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip inside Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Saturday, April 17, 2021. Prince Philip died April 9 at the age of 99 after 73 years of marriage to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

(AP) — Sitting by herself at the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth cut a regal, but solitary figure: still the monarch, but now alone.

The queen sat apart from family members at the simple but somber ceremony in accordance with strict social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic. But if the ceremony had been for anyone else, at her side would have been her husband of 73 years, who gave a lifetime of service to the crown.

Wearing a facemask, the queen was dressed all in black, except for the diamond brooch that flashed on her left shoulder — a piece she had often worn on engagements with her husband.

The monarch’s four children and eight grandchildren sat in small groups nearby, during a stripped-back service at Windsor Castle that made their loss somehow more personal for people who often live their lives in public. The pandemic has put Britain’s royal family in the same position as many others, unable to give loved ones the sendoffs they would have wanted.

Just 30 mourners were allowed to attend the service for the prince, who died April 9 at the age of 99.

“We have been inspired by his unwavering loyalty to our queen, by his service to the nation and the Commonwealth, by his courage, fortitude and faith,” the dean of Windsor, David Conner, said in his call to prayer. “Our lives have been enriched through the challenges that he has set us; the encouragement that he has given us; his kindness, humor and humanity.”

Philip’s body was carried to St. George’s Chapel at the castle on a Land Rover that the prince himself had specially designed. It was followed by members of the Royal Family, including Princes William and Harry, who made their first public appearance together since Harry and his wife, Meghan, gave a controversial interview to U.S. television host Oprah Winfrey in which they discussed the difficulties of royal life and how the two brothers had grown apart.

The procession traversed the grounds of Windsor Castle, passing military detachments arrayed under bright blue skies.

 

The nation honored Philip with a minute’s silence observed across the United Kingdom at 3 p.m., its beginning and end marked by a gun fired by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. The final shot signaled the start of a funeral service steeped in military and royal tradition, but infused with the duke’s personality.

Inside the medieval Gothic chapel, the setting for centuries of royal weddings and funerals, this service was quiet and without excessive pageantry. Philip was deeply involved in planning the ceremony. At his request, there was no sermon. There were also no eulogies or readings, in keeping with royal tradition.

Former Bishop of London Richard Chartres, who knew Philip well, said the 50-minute service reflected the preferences of the prince, who was a man of faith but liked things to be succinct.

“He was at home with broad church, high church and low church, but what he really liked was short church,” Chartres told the BBC.

The monarch offered her own touches to the day. Ahead of the funeral, Buckingham Palace released a photo of the queen and Philip, smiling and relaxing on blankets in the grass in the Scottish Highlands in 2003. The palace said the casual, unposed photo was a favorite of the queen.

Earlier in the day, a few local residents left flowers outside the castle, though most people heeded requests from the palace and police to stay away because of the pandemic.

The funeral procession and the service itself took place out of public view, within the grounds of the castle, a 950-year-old royal residence 20 miles (about 30 kilometers) west of London. It was broadcast live on television.

The day’s events began at 11 a.m., when Philip’s coffin was moved from the royal family’s private chapel to the Inner Hall of Windsor Castle, where it rested until the procession began. The coffin was draped with Philip’s personal standard, topped with his Admiral of the Fleet Naval Cap and sword. The sword was given to him by his father-in-law, King George VI, on the occasion of his marriage to the queen in 1947.

Composing a wreath atop the coffin were flowers chosen by the queen, including white lilies, small white roses, white freesia, white wax flower, white sweet peas and jasmine. A note from the monarch was attached, but its contents were not disclosed.

The funeral reflected Philip’s military ties, both as the ceremonial commander of many units and as a veteran of the Royal Navy who served with distinction during World War II. More than 700 military personnel took part in the commemorative events, including army bands, Royal Marine buglers and an honor guard drawn from across the armed forces.

The armed forces also sent wreaths of flowers that were laid outside St. George’s chapel, some with handwritten notes. One said the Royal Marines wanted to pay their respects to a man “who stood with us and among us for 64 years.”

Lieutenant Gen. Roland Walker, regimental lieutenant colonel of the Grenadier Guards, said his unit was honored to take part because of its close relationship with the prince. Philip served as regimental colonel of the guards, its honorary leader, for 42 years.

“This is a privilege,” he told the BBC. “Because my understanding is he planned this, so we’re here because he wanted us to be here, and that, I think, down to the junior guardsmen, is a known fact.”

Philip and the queen’s children — Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward — walked behind the hearse along with other members of the Royal Family, all of whom wore civilian clothes at the queen’s request. The queen followed in a Bentley.

William and Harry were part of the nine-member royal contingent, although their cousin, Peter Phillips, walked between them. There was no obvious tension between the brothers, whose relationship has been strained since Harry’s decision to quit royal duties and move to California. After the service, they walked back to the castle together, seeming to chat amiably.

Their appearance at the service stirred memories of the 1997 funeral of Princess Diana, when William and Harry, then 15 and 12, walked behind their mother’s coffin accompanied by Philip.

In honor of Philip’s military service, several elements of the funeral had a maritime theme, including the hymn “Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” which is associated with seafarers and seeks protection “for those in peril on the sea.”

As Philip’s coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, Royal Marine buglers sounded “Action Stations,” an alarm that alerts sailors to prepare for battle — included in the service at Philip’s request. He will rest there, at least until the queen’s death, alongside the remains of 24 other royals, including King George III, whose reign included the years of the American Revolution. The queen and Philip are expected to be buried together in the Royal Burial Ground on the Frogmore Estate close to Windsor Castle.

For decades, Philip was a fixture of British life, renowned for his founding of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards program that encouraged youths to challenge themselves and for a blunt-spoken manner that at times included downright offensive remarks. He lived in his wife’s shadow, but his death has sparked a reflection about his role, and new appreciation from many in Britain.

“To be perfectly honest I didn’t realize the extent (of) what his life had been, what he had done for us all,” said Viv Davies, who came to pay her respects in Windsor. “He was a marvelous husband, wasn’t he, to the queen and the children? Just remarkable — and I don’t think we will see the like again.”

COVID House Arrest and Mass Shootings

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Law enforcement confer at the scene, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis, where multiple people were shot at a FedEx Ground facility near the Indianapolis airport. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

S. Christopher Michaels(American Thinker)

Deterrence doesn’t work. Numerous studies built on years of research have proven this over generations. The National Institute of Justice published findings in 2016 with five crucial takeaways:

  • The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.
  • Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn’t a very effective way to deter crime.
  • Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.
  • Increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.
  • There is no proof that the death penalty deters crime.

The trend data is unsurprising to anyone who has studied criminal justice. It has also reached a nadir across the country where the effects of being shuttered to one degree or another over fourteen months are tearing apart the fabric of civil society. Another mass shooting destroyed the lives of countless families last night in Indianapolis. At least eight have succumbed to their wounds. More were shot. Once again, determining the motive remains elusive for authorities.

Is it any wonder individuals who have reached their breaking point with society respond in violent ways?

It’s not new that an irrational person will behave in a chaotic and destructive manner. It has been with humanity since the dawn of time. American history is replete with examples of mass murder. No reasonable member of society ever finds peace with it. Still, events that began in the early months of 2020 have accelerated an unraveling process because ‘fifteen days to flatten the curve’ is approaching its fifteenth month of house arrest.

Americans are locked out of their freedoms, though some places — Florida and Texas — choose to ignore the calls for indefinite restrictions by a federal government playing fast and loose with the lives of its citizens. The CDC website offers a list of COVID-specific coping strategies in a rearguard response to the obvious mental health crisis consuming cities and towns. It feels like too little, too late.

Incarceration — including house arrest — is reserved for anyone convicted of breaking the law. It is part of a grand bargain civil societies make to ensure reasonable public safety. However, when an individual’s only crime is living during a pandemic, the edges of that bargain get frayed to a point where distinctions between rational and irrational are blurred.

Two years ago, one in ten adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression. That number is now four in ten. Substance abuse and thoughts of suicide are also on the rise, though not to the same degree — at least for now. Americans are losing grip on their lives. The mental health crisis bubbles under the surface, erupting in episodic outbursts of mass violence. Law-abiding citizens were not meant to be locked away from their lives and loved ones for any length of time.

The government’s response is to pass more seemingly arbitrary dictums through the process of an executive order. President Biden has signed forty-nine such orders, bypassing the checks and balances put in place precisely to prevent rule by fiat. Simultaneously, runaway members of Congress propose bill after bill that only serve to distance themselves from the very Americans who elected them.

The apex of liberty seems to have passed. Individual rights and freedoms begin an inevitable decline when a government ignores its mandate to respect the representative process. Its citizens ignore their obligation to demand better. Of course, stimulus checks soften the blow for many Americans who don’t recognize what they’re giving up for pennies on the dollar. Another spending proposal lurks around the corner. The running tally brings the cost-per-citizen to more than $17,000 thus far.

Each of these topics is worthy of its own investigation. Taken together, they represent a systemic failure destined to change the face of society. Perhaps, that is the target for proponents of the Great Reset. Rahm Emanuel is famously quoted, “never let a crisis go to waste.” The progressive commandment is followed with religious fervor as leftists goose step to the march of ‘Death to America.’

Famed French sociologist Emile Durkheim would say that Americans suffer from a breakdown in organic solidarity. When social institutions are shuttered, bankrupted, or canceled, another bond is broken between man and society. Once enough bonds break, individuals rupture out of their communal cocoons, exacting vengeance on anyone in their path. Quite simply, an irrational person experiencing that level of discord has nothing left to lose.

The totality of circumstances points to a heightened immunity to deterrence. Small-scale rebellions take the form of not wearing a face mask or ignoring local curfews. Large-scale rioting continues to plague cities — some of which were already burned to the ground. Proposed legislation to further curtail individual liberties, such as gun rights, gain momentum among progressive legislators and their media stooges. More bonds are broken as more Americans are pushed to the brink.

The fundamental failure of civic leaders to recognize that increased sanctions do not result in desired conformity is a disappointing lesson that too many generations must learn firsthand. The British Bloody Code from the 18th and 19th centuries offer the single greatest example of this lesson. More than 200 offenses were punishable by death. Still, it did not deter mankind from its ways. Locking Americans in their homes under COVID arrest, stripping them of their liberties, and throwing deflated dollars at the problem only cuts deeper at nearly-severed social bonds. The Rubicon has been crossed. Too many have nothing left to lose.

Is it any wonder mass shootings are on the rise? Is it any wonder that Americans don’t fear deterrence?

Riots Erupt Across US in Wake of Police Shootings

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Demonstrators set fire to the front of the California Bank and Trust building during a protest against police brutality in Oakland, Calif., Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

BY ZACHARY STIEBER(EPOCH TIMES) 

Demonstrations took place in a slew of major U.S. cities on Friday night, with some devolving into riots, in the wake of several deadly police shootings.

In Brooklyn Center, where 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot on April 11 after resisting arrest, a peaceful march swelled in size after returning to the police headquarters, and agitators began trying to tear down fencing surrounding the building and lobbing projectiles at law enforcement.

Individuals wearing hockey gear, gas masks, and respirators, armed with weapons like baseball bats, got through a breach in the exterior fence, triggering law enforcement to order the crowd to disperse.

Most of those who had gathered did leave but the ones who did not were arrested, with upwards of 100 taken into custody.

“It left people behind who were intent to cause destruction and disorder. When somebody, a group of these people wearing masks are trying to cut down the fence to get into a safe area, their intentions are to cause harm either to the building or to the police officers and the deputies inside the fence. Again, violence is not going to be tolerated by myself or this operation. We need to grieve. We don’t need to have more problems with destruction,” David Hutchinson, the Hennepin County sheriff, told an early Friday morning briefing in the city.

Members of the crowd spraypainted “Death to Amerika [sic]” and “ACAB,” an anti-police acronym favored by the far-left Antifa network.

“We would like nothing better for all of our protests to go peacefully. It’s not fair to those that protest peacefully when the violent ones come in. If you’re going to commit violence, we’d prefer you not do that in Brooklyn Center, right, because it’s not fair to the citizens. They have enough going on right now as it is,” added Tony Gruenig, Brooklyn Center’s interim police chief.

Rioters in Portland smashed windows at various businesses, including Nordstrom and Nike, and torched an Apple location, after police fatally shot a man at a nearby park.

Officers rushed to the scene to make targeted arrests, once again leaving law enforcement resources stretched too thin.

The Portland Police Bureau had to place on hold calls for service, including for burglaries and a hit and run, the bureau said in an incident summary. At 10:49 p.m., 79 calls were on hold.

Four people were arrested, though one was quickly released from jail. Firefighters put out the fires, with the extent of the damage not yet clear.

“No one is entitled to break windows, set fires, or attack police officers. If you choose to participate in this kind of criminal activity, you can expect to be arrested and prosecuted,” Chris Davis, Portland’s deputy police chief, said in a statement.

“None of this destruction tonight has anything to do with the important work of racial justice and reconciliation our community and our nation need at this critical time in our history.”

A crowd of 250 to 300 demonstrators assaulted both a community member and a police officer, broke windows, spray-painted buildings, and set a car on fire in Oakland, California, officials there said.

No arrests were made and no citations were issued.

Demonstrators were upset about the shooting of Wright, as well as another recent police shooting in California, of Tyrell Wilson.

 

Kim Potter, the former officer who fired on Wright, was charged this week with second-degree manslaughter. Andrew Hall, the Danville officer who fatally shot Wilson when the man refused to drop a knife he was holding in March, was sued this week by Wilson’s family.

A police union official in Minnesota has said Wright would still be alive he had complied with orders while a union official in Illinois called the fatal shooting of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old who was shot by an officer on March 29 after evading the police, justified.

In Chicago, protesters gathered Friday to speak out about the Toledo shooting.

“The rage does feel deeper now than it was even 24 hours ago or the start of the week,” Julie Wilson, one of the protesters, told CBS Chicago.

The crowd of approximately 1,000 clashed with police officers who arrived to disperse them from Logan Square Park. It was not clear if any arrests were made.

Demonstrations also took place in Raleigh, North Carolina and Washington.

Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta Leader Moshe Beck Dies in Monsey at 87

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(TJVNEWS.COM)On Thursday night, the leader of the notoriously anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement in Monsey, New York. Moshe Dov Ber Beck, 87, was a fixture at every anti-Israel event in the Tri-State area for years, easily recognizable as he wore a Yerushalmi bekesha every day.

 

Neturei Karta is a religious group of Haredi Jews, formally created in Jerusalem,  in 1938, splitting off from Agudas Yisrael. Neturei Karta opposes Zionism and calls for a dismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Jewish Messiah and that the state of Israel is a rebellion against God.While the Neturei Karta describe themselves as true traditional Jews, the Anti-Defamation League has described them as “the farthest fringes of Judaism”.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, members of Neturei Karta have a long history of “extremist statements” and support for notable anti-Zionists and Islamists.

YWN reported that there was no statement released by the terrorist regime in Iran where Beck was a welcomed figure among the highest levels of government.

 

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Beck’s early childhood was spent hiding with his brother from Nazi persecution until 1945, when Soviet troops took Budapest. In 1948, he migrated to Bnei Brak, Israel, where he began yeshiva studies. In 1959, he married, and at that time joined Neturei Karta, leaving Vizhnitz of which he had formerly been a part. He left Israel in 1970 because, he said, of his strong opposition to Zionism, and has since lived in Monsey, New York, where he spent his time as a vehement anti-Zionist activist, as was reported by YWN.

Beck, along with other terrorist-supporting Jews such as Yisroel Dovid Weiss, disguise themselves as Orthodox Jews and have literally kissed and hugged the most notorious anti-Semites of the globe, as was reported by YWN.  Beck travelled to Iran in 2006 with a group of his supporters to attend the Holocaust Denial conference, which was held by then Iranian-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frequently called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

In fact Mr Weiss told Ahmadinejad that he was “a light to the nations”, and that he was “exemplary” in his recognition of what Zionism really is and his warmth for Judaism.

FedEx: Mass shooter was a former employee of the company

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Law enforcement confer at the scene, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis, where multiple people were shot at a FedEx Ground facility near the Indianapolis airport. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

(AP) — Police scoured a Fedex facility in Indianapolis and searched the suspected gunman’s home Friday, looking for a motive for the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S., as family members of the eight victims spent agonizing hours awaiting word on their loved ones.

The shooter was identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole of Indiana, two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told The Associated Press. Investigators searched a home in Indianapolis associated with Hole and seized evidence, including desktop computers and other electronic media, the officials said. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

 

Without identifying him by name, FedEx spokesperson Bonny Harrison told the AP that the suspected gunman was a former FedEx employee.

Indianapolis police said earlier that they had not yet discovered the gunman’s motive for opening fire with a rifle late Thursday night at a FedEx processing center near the Indianapolis airport. The shooter started randomly firing at people in the parking lot and then went into the building and continued shooting, said Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt. He said the shooter apparently killed himself shortly before police entered the building.

“There was no confrontation with anyone that was there,” he said. “There was no disturbance, there was no argument. He just appeared to randomly start shooting.”

McCartt said four people were killed outside the building and another four inside. Several people were also wounded, including five who were taken to the hospital. McCartt said the slayings took place in a matter of minutes.

Officials with the coroner’s office began the process of identifying victims Friday afternoon, a process they said would take several hours.

Police Chief Randal Taylor noted that a “significant” number of employees at the FedEx facility are members of the Sikh community, and the Sikh Coalition later issued a statement saying it was “deeply saddened to learn” that Sikh community members were among the wounded and killed.

The coalition, which identifies itself as the largest Sikh civil rights organization in the U.S., said in the statement that it expected authorities to “conduct a full investigation — including the possibility of bias as a factor.” The coalition’s executive director, Satjeet Kaur, noted that more than 8,000 Sikh Americans live in Indiana.

The agonizing wait by the workers’ families was exacerbated by the fact that most employees aren’t allowed to carry cellphones inside the FedEx building, making contact with them difficult.

“When you see notifications on your phone, but you’re not getting a text back from your kid and you’re not getting information and you still don’t know where they are … what are you supposed to do?” Mindy Carson said early Friday, fighting back tears.

Carson later said she had heard from her daughter Jessica, who works in the facility, and that she was OK. She was going to meet her, but didn’t say where.

FedEx said in a statement that cellphone access is limited to a small number of workers in the dock and package sorting areas to “support safety protocols and minimize potential distractions.”

FedEx Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederick Smith called the shooting a “senseless act of violence.”

“This is a devastating day, and words are hard to describe the emotions we all feel,” he wrote in an email to employees.

The killings marked the latest in a string of recent mass shootings across the country and the third mass shooting this year in Indianapolis. Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot and killed in the city in January, and a man was accused of killing three adults and a child before abducting his daughter during at argument at a home in March. In other states last month, eight people were fatally shot at massage businesses in the Atlanta area, and 10 died in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the community must guard against resignation and “the assumption that this is simply how it must be and we might as well get used to it.”

President Joe Biden said he had been briefed on the shooting and called gun violence “an epidemic” in the U.S.

“Too many Americans are dying every single day from gun violence. It stains our character and pierces the very soul of our nation,” he said in a statement. Later, he tweeted, “We can, and must, do more to reduce gun violence and save lives.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was “horrified and heartbroken” by the shooting and called for congressional action on gun control.

“As we pray for the families of all affected, we must work urgently to enact commonsense gun violence prevention laws to save lives & prevent this suffering,” the Democratic leader said in a tweet.

A witness said he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.

“I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand and he starts firing and he starts yelling stuff that I could not understand,” Levi Miller told WTHR-TV. “What I ended up doing was ducking down to make sure he did not see me because I thought he would see me and he would shoot me.”

A man told WTTV that his niece was sitting in the driver’s seat of her car when the gunfire erupted, and she was wounded.

“She got shot on her left arm,” said Parminder Singh. “She’s fine, she’s in the hospital now.”

Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until April 20, and he and others decried the shooting.

Chris Bavender, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Indianapolis office, said the bureau is helping with the investigation.

Controversy Erupts Over “Israel Prize” Winner; Likud MK Opposes Professor Who Supports BDS

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MK Gallant who represents the Likud party has asserted that Weizmann Institute Professor Oded Goldreich supports the international, pro-Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel, better known as the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, according to the NY Times report

Edited by: TJVNews.com

 

One of the highlights of Yom Haatzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) is the annual Israel Prize. This year, however, controversy surrounds the prize and has caused many to consider whether the prize is immersed in politics.

 

According to a New York Times report, the prize is the state’s most prestigious honor, traditionally awarded to 10 or more citizens or organizations for outstanding contributions to the sciences, culture and society.

 

About a month ago, the overseer of the prize, Israeli Education Minister Yoav Gallant had refused to honor one of the winners. Oded Goldreich, a Weizmann Institute of Science professor of mathematics and computer science was selected as a winner, however, MKGallant who represents the Likud party has asserted that Professor Goldreich supports the international, pro-Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel, better known as the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, according to the NY Times report. Professor Goldreich has insisted that he is neutral on the issue.

 

The Times reported that the selection committee that chose Professor Goldreich as a recipient of the award itself turned to the Supreme Court of Israel to lodge a complaint that MK Gallant had overstepped his authority. The education minister grants the prize but has no say over the committee’s choices.

 

The Supreme Court of Israel has previously fielded requests from outside critics to disqualify several laureates from across the political spectrum, as was reported by the NYT.

 

The Times reported that the panel of three judges lamented in a ruling issued last week, “Once again, we are required, in what has turned into a repetitive ritual, to engage in the Israel Prize. “Indeed, it is regrettable that such a prestigious and renowned award and such a unifying and uplifting event as the Israel Prize ceremony has turned into an almost constant source of disagreement and division.”

 

Professor Goldreich has a history of signing letters and petitions opposing Israel’s presence in the liberated lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The Palestinians have insisted that these territories be designated as their own autonomous state of Palestine. Others have said that the ultimate objective of the Palestinians is the expulsion of Jews from the entire land of Israel.   The Times has reported that Im Tirtzu, a nationalistic Israeli group has called Goldreich the “Anti-Israel Israeli Professor” campaigned against his nomination.

 

Another instance of controversy pertaining to the Israel Prize occurred in the early 1990s, according to the NY Times report. Another professor, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a strident opponent of Jews settling in Israel’s Biblical heartland.  He was a winner of the Israel Prize but soon thereafter he withdrew as a prize recipient when the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin had threatened to boycott the prize ceremony, according to the Times report.

 

Only last year, the winner of the Israel Prize was Rabbi Yaakov Ariel and certain people and factions of the government stood in staunch opposition to the committee’s decision to present him with the award. Rabbi Ariel’s detractors claimed that he held biased views of homosexuals and allegedly compared them to “disabled” people.

 

The New York Times reported that at that juncture, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition calling for the rabbi’s disqualification, saying that his past remarks were irrelevant and had no bearing on his professional excellence in his field of Torah scholarship, and that his comments were protected by free speech.

 

Did CBS Deceptively Edit Gun Out of Adam Toledo Bodycam Footage?

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Sholom Schreirber
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Jared Evan

 

Chicago police have released graphic footage of an officer shooting dead 13-year-old Adam Toledo in a dark alley.

According to prosecutors, the teenager was with a 21-year-old man, Ruben Roman, who had just fired a gun at a passing car. The gunfire drew police to the area, resulting in the deadly confrontation.

Mr. Roman appeared in court on Saturday charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, reckless discharge of a firearm, and child endangerment, according to local media reports.
In bodycam footage of the March 29 shooting, Toledo can be seen holding a pistol just before a Chicago police officer shoots him (around 2:04 in the following video). Waring, the video is graphic. To watch click where it says to watch on youtube.

However, in a video of the shooting uploaded to Twitter by CBS News, the frame showing Toledo holding the gun is missing, making it appear as though police fired on an unarmed teen.

It is apparent the cop had a millisecond to decide what to do, as Toledo was still armed in less than a second before he was shot.
It is debatable as to if the cop should have fired or not, there was literally less than a second before the gun being dropped, and the deceased attempting to surrender.
However, the teen was only minutes before firing at a car and running from the cops. The entire situation was intense and unfortunate.
CBS presentation of the video on social media is clearly cropped, and you do not see the image below which shows the gun in his hand a second before he was shot. Toledo appears to be dropping the weapon behind the fence, which was where it was later found.
CBS reported to Fox News, “CBS News, tweeted a video formatted for mobile devices. As a result, both sides of the bodycam footage were cropped and the image of Toledo holding the gun was omitted.”
Nonetheless, CBS does not tell the viewer that their video is not the full image and simply wrote above the video: “Newly released bodycam footage shows Chicago police chasing and fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo, as he appeared to comply with orders to raise his hands.
Leaving out the fact that the gun was missing from their video is vital to understand the entire situation. Was this done to spark emotion and create a false narrative? If this was an honest technical problem, why did they not inform the viewer?
These kinds of videos spread fast on social media, the George Floyd video was spread like wildfire before broadcast television reported on it. CBS tweeting a cropped video without informing people of the entire picture is dangerous in a post-George Floyd environment.
With the Daunte Wright shooting fresh in everyone’s minds and the verdict of the Chauvin trial, just days away, CBS presenting a video of an apparently unarmed 13-year-old can only pour gasoline on an already volatile situation.

MLB Favorability Among Republicans Crashes 35 Percent

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Sholom Schreirber
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AP”

WARNER TODD HUSTON

Major League Baseball’s favorability rate among Republicans has collapsed 35 percent, down from 47 percent to 12 percent in only a month.

In the wake of MLB’s decision to remove its All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia’s new election integrity law and its increasing number of woke proclamations, Republican support for pro-baseball has cratered, according to Morning Consult.

Up until 2019, baseball had resisted woke politics. And its ratings were strong as the NFL and NBA’s began collapsing. Baseball had only one player take a knee during the national anthem until last year. In 2020, the league joined the rest of pro sports in approving protests against the country during the anthem.

Now, with Woke Baseball warning that they plan to start punishing red states for daring to pass laws that oppose the left-wing agenda, baseball’s once robust support has evaporated.

“MLB had the highest net favorability rating among Republicans of the four major sports leagues before the All-Star Game decision, but last week dropped below that of both the NHL and NFL,” Morning Consult noted.

Of course, baseball is far from the only pro sport with collapsing support among conservatives and Republicans. As each sport bows further in supplication to wokeism, the numbers have fallen. According to Axios, only 26 percent of Republicans support the NHL, while a smaller 16 percent favor the NFL. But the worst level of support figures for the NBA, which has a negative five percent support among the right!

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Facebook Blocks NY Post Story on BLM Founder’s Mansions

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Sholom Schreirber
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By Eric Mack

Big tech is covering for liberal activists and censoring the New York Post again, blocking a story on the Black Lives Matter co-founder’s multiple million-dollar homes.

Facebook is preventing users from sharing the Post report, instead giving the error message: “Your content couldn’t be shared because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

The Post story “was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Hill.

“Facebook is now blocking the New York Post, reporting,” Fox New host Tucker Carlson said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Thursday. “We just tried to share that on Facebook, and we got a message, ‘You can’t share this link because it goes against our community standards.’ Those standards include flacking for every left-wing activist group in America.”

The New York Times media writer Ben Smith tweeted the reasons given for blocking the story, noting the co-founder’s residences were being identified:

“Facebook on why it blocked a NY Post article. This all applies to lots of articles on news sites.”

Newsmax attempted to post the New York Post report headlined “Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge,” but could not.

The attempt delivered the following error message: “Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.”

Other stories on the topic were permitted to be shared, however.

A subsequent attempt to Facebook share a similar New York Post report of a celebrity home purchase, headlined “Ivanka and Jared buy $30M lot on high-security Miami island” was permitted without issue, error, or warning. The story similarly reported the residence location of the daughter of former President Donald Trump.

Notably, real estate sales and purchases are matters of public record and readily available online, especially for prominent public figures.

The Facebook ban on the Post’s reporting of the BLM co-founder’s newfound riches appeared to begin Thursday, according to reports.

Infamous during the 2020 presidential campaign, multiple social media companies blocked the New York Post’s reporting on the alleged contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, originally under the guise it was material obtained via a cyber “hack.”

There has been no evidence, then or now, that was the case, despite the claims by Twitter and Facebook, two organizations conservatives criticize for being left-leaning and holding political bias against Republicans in general and Trump supporters in particular.

Outkick journalist Jason Whitlock, a Black man, was also censored by Twitter last week for calling out the BLM co-founder’s hypocrisy, sharing the Post story.

Whitlock tweeted in a now-blocked post:

“Black Lives Matter found buys $1.4 million home in Topanga, which has a black population of 1.4%. She’s with her people!”

Breitbart

Report: Mozambique Jihadists ‘Beheading, Skinning, Cutting off Limbs’

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Sholom Schreirber
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THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

The brutal violence of Islamist militants in northern Mozambique is “driving the local population from their homes in terror,” the Barnabas Fund reported Friday.

“What they do to the people they capture and kill I have never seen anywhere in Africa,” said one witness cited by the Barnabas Fund, a charity monitoring and assisting persecuted Christians.

The ongoing violence has led to the displacement of some 750,000 people in the Cabo Delgado province where the militants operate, or a third of the local population, the report added.

Because of the crisis, nearly a million people in northern Mozambique face severe hunger, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe beyond epic proportions,” said Antonella D’Aprile, WFP Representative and Country Director for Mozambique.

As Breitbart News reported this week, human rights groups have begun to speak out against the atrocities committed by Islamic militants in northern Mozambique, especially after seven foreigners were killed.

“Africa is no stranger to violence on a vast scale but even by these standards, the horror of what is unfolding in Mozambique is truly indescribable – almost beyond compare,” said John Pontifex, spokesman for the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).

The stories coming out of Mozambique “are beyond our worst fears,” Pontifex said, with “reports of children as young as 11 being beheaded.”

While the violence has been ongoing for a long time, recent events, including an armed invasion in March on the coastal town of Palma and the murder of at least seven expatriate workers have contributed to drawing international media attention.

“Whatever the world is seeing now has been going on in Mozambique for years,” said Johan Viljoen, the director of the Dennis Hurley Peace Institute (DHPI), which operates under the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC).

“We have tried to talk about it but no one cared to listen,” Viljoen said. “There is a global uproar now because a handful of foreigners were affected. But this has been going on. More than 3,000 innocent Mozambicans have died in this violence and no one cared.”

According to a report this week by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado region is facing a “large and likely long-lasting” humanitarian crisis, “with nearly a third of its population displaced, worsening hunger and rising risk of deadly diseases.”

More than 3,000 people have been killed and 700,000 displaced since the Islamist fighters began their assaults on the Cabo Delgado region in 2017.

 

California Weighs ‘Equitable Math’: Goal of Obtaining Correct Answer Is Racist

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Sholom Schreirber
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DR. SUSAN BERRY

The California education department is considering implementing a statewide math framework that promotes the concept that working to figure out a correct answer in math is an example of racism and white supremacy invading the classroom.

The framework, titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction,” is intended to be “exercises for educators to reflect on their own biases to transform their instructional practice.”

The “Equitable Math” website states its training manual was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary private source of funding for the Common Core State Standards.

“White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the document states. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.”

The proposed California framework provides examples of how “white supremacy culture” has infiltrated math classes in schools:

  • The focus is on getting the “right” answer.
  • Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration.
  • “Real-world math” is valued over math in the real world.
  • Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom).
  • Participation structures reinforce dominant ways of being.

Additionally, the document asserts the means by which teachers assess student learning in math is based on white supremacy culture, as demonstrated by:

  • Grading practices are focused on lack of knowledge.
  • Language acquisition is equated with mathematical proficiency.
  • Students are required to “show their work.”
  • The proposed California framework continues:
These common practices that perpetuate white supremacy culture create and sustain institutional and systemic barriers to equity for Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students. In order to dismantle these barriers, we must identify what it means to be an antiracist math educator.
In order to embody antiracist math education, teachers must engage in critical praxis that interrogates the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms, and develop a plan toward antiracist math education to address issues of equity for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.

In the section that criticizes the concept of “getting the ‘right’ answer” in math, the document states:

The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity [sic] as well as fear of open conflict [sic].

Some in the education field are sounding the alarm about the “Equitable Math” framework.

According to Fox News, Lori Meyers, co-founder of Educators for Quality and Equality, said her organization sent a letter to California education officials, expressing its members are “deeply concerned about the draft 2021 CA Mathematics Framework, which contains discriminatory and divisive content that will impede us from accomplishing” important goals in math instruction.

“We ask that the state provide us with a mathematics framework that reflects sound, research-based practices over political ideology,” Meyers’ group added.

In February, the Oregon Department of Education defended its instruction of teachers via the “Equitable Math” training manual in how to teach mathematics by dismantling as “racist” the longstanding view of objectivity in math, as exemplified by the idea that one must obtain a correct answer to a math problem.

Breitbart News reported on the same “Equitable Math” manual:

The manual enumerates signs of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” which include a focus on “getting the right answer,” an emphasis on “real-world math,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” students being required to “show their work,” and grading students based on their demonstrated knowledge of the material.

“In order to embody antiracist math education, teachers must engage in critical praxis that interrogates the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms,” the manual declares, “and develop a plan toward antiracist math education to address issues of equity for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.”

Breitbart

U.S. Opioid Overdose Deaths Have Soared During Covid-19 Pandemic; More than 87K Lives Lost

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Sholom Schreirber
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AP

Edited by: TJVNews.com

There were more than 87,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States from October 2019 to September 2020, the highest of any one-year period since the nation’s opioid crisis began in the 1990s, preliminary government data shows.

The death toll was 29 percent higher than in the previous 12-month period and the increase was largely driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, with stimulant drugs such as methamphetamine also playing a role, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Whites in rural and suburban areas accounted for many of the deaths in the early years of the U.S. opioid epidemic, but the latest data show Blacks being affected disproportionately.

“The highest increase in mortality from opioids, predominantly driven by fentanyl, is now among Black Americans,” Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said at an addiction conference last week, The New York Times reported. “And when you look at mortality from methamphetamine, it’s chilling to realize that the risk of dying from methamphetamine overdose is 12-fold higher among American Indians and Alaskan Natives than other groups.” Volkow added that more deaths than ever involved drug combinations, typically of fentanyl or heroin with stimulants.

Overdose deaths fell slightly in 2018 for the first time in decades, but started to climb again the months before the COVID-19 pandemic and had the highest spike in April and May 2020. In the early months of the pandemic, many addiction treatment centers shut down, at least temporarily, and services were reduced at many drop-in centers that offer support, clean syringes, and the overdose-reversal medication naloxone. In many cases, those services have not been fully restored. Also, the drug overdose crisis has received less attention and resources as the country struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, The Times said.

Fox News reported that experts have said that the devastation is an indictment of the public health infrastructure, which failed to fight the dueling crises of COVID-19 and addiction.

Brendan Saloner, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health who studies access to addiction treatment, told Fox News that, “the data points corroborate something I believe, which is that people who were already using drugs started using in ways that were higher risk — especially using alone and from a less reliable supply,”

Sara Glick, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington, said, “with health departments spending so much on COVID, some programs have really had to cut their budgets. That can mean seeing fewer participants, or pausing their H.I.V. and hepatitis C testing,” as was reported by Fox News.

$1.5 billion for the prevention and treatment of drug abuse as well as $30 million in funding for local services that benefit addicts, including syringe exchange programs will be included in the American Rescue Plan Act, according to the Fox News report.

Last month, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the new surgeon general said he would make the relapsing opioid overdose crisis his top priority, according to the Fox News report.

Speaking to senators during his confirmation hearing about his parents during his youth in Miami, Dr. Murthy said: “As a child, I watched them make house calls in the middle of the night and wake up early to visit patients in the hospital before heading to their office. I have tried to live by the lessons they embodied: that we have an obligation to help each other whenever we can, to alleviate suffering wherever we find it, and to give back to this country that made their lives, and my life, and the lives of my children possible.”

He added that, “”We cannot neglect the other public health crises that have been exacerbated by this pandemic, particularly the opioid epidemic, mental illness and racial and geographic health inequities.” (Sources; HealthDay News, the New York Times, Fox News)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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