[FoxNews] The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by Attorney General Letitia James against David Elmendorf, the former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Schenectady
A former ice cream shop owner in Upstate New York who was accused of calling police and falsely claiming to be threatened by non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters last year was ordered Wednesday to pay them a total of $4,500 for violating their civil rights.
The judge's ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James against David Elmendorf, former owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Bumpy’s Polar Freeze, about 167 miles north of New York City.
Under the ruling, Elmendorf must pay $500 each to nine protesters he harassed, totaling $4,500.
Elmendorf's defense attorney, James Mermigis, said the allegations were "categorically false" and that his client's name was being smeared. Mermigis said Elmendorf was never properly served a summons, so no defense was made in court.
James' lawsuit was the first to rely, in part, on a new law that makes it illegal to submit a false "race-based" police report. The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her, reports said.
Elmendorf is accused of violating state law by making "multiple armed threats, including death threats, using derogatory racist language, against peaceful Black protestors and made false reports to the police regarding those protestors," the suit alleges.
The protesters went to his business in June 2020 to demonstrate after racist text messages Elmendorf allegedly wrote were shared on social media.
Elmendorf was also accused of calling 911 to falsely report that there were "20 armed protestors who were threatening to shoot him," according to the lawsuit. He allegedly referred to the Black protesters as "savages," the suit added.
"There is zero tolerance for harassment, intimidation, or violence of any kind against anyone in New York," James said. "As this nation continues to be plagued by division and hate, this decision sends a critical and clear message that those who perpetuate racism and discrimination, including filing false, race-based police reports, will be held to the fullest extent of the law."
"This is an important step forward, but our work isn’t over — we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that every New Yorker feels safe and protected," James added.
Elmendorf is permanently barred from making future threats against people because of their race. He's also barred from brandishing a deadly weapon within 1,000 feet "of any person or group of persons peacefully protesting."
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The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her
A Lie makes its way around the world before Truth can get its boots laced.
The law was passed last year after a White woman called 911 on a Black birdwatcher in New York City’s Central Park and falsely claimed he was threatening her, reports said.
Ummm...that is the cover, not the reason. IIRC "Birdwatcher" was fuggin with Karen's dog to provoke an incident.
[JustTheNews] Judge intervenes in dispute between the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
A federal judge in Louisiana has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine from mandating COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of student enrollment.
The decision is the latest development in a dispute involving several students, the private medical college operating at the University of Louisiana-Monroe and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
Landry actively opposes vaccine mandates, while VCOM asserts its mandatory vaccination policy is critical to keeping students, staff and patients safe.
“Even during a pandemic, we must protect the rights of our citizens,” Landry said immediately after the ruling. “I'm pleased with the court’s decision and glad these students can focus on what's important; their education.”
Landry first approached the school when three students said they were retaliated against for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations.
“These complaints have included recordings of conversations with VCOM staff engaging in harassing and coercive conduct targeting students who have exercised their right to opt-out of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine,” Landry said in July.
The school rejected accusations of wrongdoing and maintains it has acted appropriately regarding health and legal obligations.
“The intention of VCOM’s coronavirus vaccine policy, is and always has been the safety of our students, the safety of our employees and workplace, as well as the safety of the patients being cared for by our students, faculty and staff,” VCOM said in an emailed statement.
The school granted the students religious exemptions after they filed a federal lawsuit, along with the attorney general, Aug. 4. Landry later backed out after Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana questioned the state’s standing.
The students continued their lawsuit, in part, because of restrictions that came with the religious exemptions, such as required vaccine education trainings, a prohibition on activities involving patients and only working with student lab partners who agree to work with unvaccinated students.
“VCOM has responded to the Attorney General’s letters twice by making minor amendments to our policy, but vaccination remains a requirement. This requirement is important as our students become medical providers in their first year,” the school said.
“Physicians and VCOM students, as medical providers, also have no right to be a vector in spreading the virus or infecting the unknowing patients they will care for, who would naturally believe the students would be vaccinated,” VCOM said.
Doughty sided with the students in his Tuesday ruling, saying the restrictions attached to the school’s religious exemptions would cause “irreparable harm” to the students. He added all VCOM students share the same risks outlined by the school’s administration by virtue of being at the University of Louisiana-Monroe.
“Although VCOM has an interest in protecting its students, its students are allowed to attend ULM functions, participate in ULM intramural events, study in the ULM library and mingle with ULM students, who are not required to get the vaccine,” the decision said.
Michael DuBos, the attorney representing the aggrieved VCOM students, said he was happy with the legal outcome.
“We feel it is important to respect individual rights, especially in a time of crisis. If not, it sets a dangerous precedent,” DuBos said.
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1) Media lies all the time. They are not qualified to vet lies.
2) Politicians lie all the time. Too many Americans still don't get that.
3) Lies will fester and eventually kill you.
Wake. Up.
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Psychopath President of a Psychopath Bureaucracy, all carefully selected by the Chinese Politbureau with help from the OPM Database.
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Well at least they're not lying dog-faced pony soldiers.
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Pretty sure Me & The Boys + Case Natty Light could come up with a plan in one evening.
Of course, that requires the humility to admit to drinking shit and feeling like asshole the next morning, and likely some unflattering moments in between, but the job would have got done.
So, of course, over 20 years, dedicated and educated brains have worked on this. Pretty sure it would involve Bagram in the last act, not a decision point in the act before.
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“In addition to memory loss and confusion, many people with Alzheimer's disease have trouble sleeping. Now an NIH-funded team of researchers has evidence that the reverse is also true: a chronic lack of sleep may worsen the disease and its associated memory loss.”
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There's another Kenny Rogers song about when its time to walk into the bar where the assholes hang out, and locking the door behind you.
Should have been packed up and left like a gin milk fizz when Bagram folded shop. Looks like State didn't issue a GTFO for optics, and everyone was like, oh, its fine, because State didn't say GTFO.
EXCLUSIVE: Pressed on whether the U.S.'s exit from Afghanistan could have been handled better, Pres. Biden tells @GStephanopoulos, "The idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing—I don't know how that happens." https://t.co/mH1AyWI5lbpic.twitter.com/osAwdDQy2L
[Breaking Defense OCT 2020] Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them wartime commanders and leaders, are not given to histrionics or hyperbole. So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders — including 22 retired four-star general officers and five former Defense Secretaries who’ve served in both Republican and Democratic administrations — put their names on a public letter supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s run for the White House, Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield interviewed a cross section of them to find out why.
"All of us who spent careers in the military were raised on the notion that you lead by example, and President Trump has been the antithesis of that in dealing with this pandemic," said Charles "Steve" Abbot, former commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and deputy Homeland Security Adviser. "Instead of taking steps that I would call ’Crisis Management 101,’ President Trump shirked his duty to the nation by failing to provide the central leadership necessary to get our arms around the problem, and he continues to mislead the entire nation about this terrible threat. The result of that failure of leadership was that his administration committed an unrelenting string of missteps, and the American public has lost trust in what the president tells them."
The final straw for Abbot was President Trump’s attack on mail-in balloting during a general election beset by a pandemic, insisting without evidence that it will lead to "the most rigged election in history." That sustained attack on the legitimacy of a presidential election could all but portend a constitutional crisis in a close contest.
"If you want to know why hundreds of us who devoted our lives to service signed a letter saying we feared for our country, look no further than the spectacle of a commander-in-chief threatening not to support a peaceful transition of power if one is required. That’s an effort to undermine our democracy," Abbot said in an interview. "So, as a Navy man, I would tell you that the ship of state had already taken on a bad list during this pandemic. And President Trump’s insistence that he may not accept the results of the election is a torpedo in the water."
The signatories criticisms fall into some broad categories:
BELITTLING AND BULLYING ALLIES
President Trump’s America First foreign policy does not mesh with the worldview of most senior military and national security leaders. Trump is strictly transactional on the matter of burden-sharing and other issues related to our allies, and he has repeatedly expressed a view of alliances as little more than protection rackets. He also frequently goes out of his way to belittle and bully venerable allies, variously calling the Canadian prime minister "dishonest" and "weak," Germany’s chancellor "stupid," and the French prime minister "very, very nasty."
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Time to do away with civil service protections and lifetime gummint employment. The "stability" and "years of expertise" are just costing us too much.
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The adulation of experts and now of all times. Because now anybody can go online and find authoritative voices that prove not just anything but everything. 'Experts!', mostly self titled, too.
It's as though some impenetrable cloud of intellectual fart gas has descended on this great country. We don't need another politician.
We need some kind of nationally approved Moe Howard to line the bleeding lot of them up and slap them into some form of coherence.
The denouement would be the confrontation with that blithering idiot Milley, 'Come here, Porky-pine.' followed by a quick shovel to the forehead.
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Miley is a product of the personnel management system that practices 'equity' over capabilities. We dragged a peacetime promotion and selection system into a 20 year war. War is the ultimate test of warriors. There is no fair, there is no equity in war. The promotion system was suppose to be a process to find the leaders to fight in war during times of peace, instead it displaced the actual purpose of finding true combat leaders during war. We've ended up with bureaucrats and politicians who play the system instead of warriors. Get your boxes checked.
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BTW, Trump as president gave the order to execute a withdraw. The GOs refused to carry through. -
10 U.S. Code § 892 - Art. 92. Failure to obey order or regulation
Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or (3) is derelict in the performance of his duties;
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We really should not worship politicians, generals, celebrities or media mouthpieces.
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Well Buy Dung is an impersonator president, put him in a uniform, lets get the court-marital going...
Everything else has been - forget the law, constitution, fake democrat leadership and Big Lies for the last 7 months... why stop now ?
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So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders.....
Group-think. That's what happens when you operate inside an Echo Chamber.
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President Trump’s America First foreign policy does not mesh with the worldview of most senior military and national security leaders. Trump is strictly transactional while they are all leeches.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breaking Defense OCT 2020] Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them wartime commanders and leaders, are not given to histrionics or hyperbole. So when hundreds (it’s now up to 780) of national security leaders — including 22 retired four-star general officers and five former Defense Secretaries who’ve served in both Republican and Democratic administrations — put their names on a public letter supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s run for the White House, Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield interviewed a cross section of them to find out why.
