Here's the context you've missed if you don't read right-wing media: right now *the* narrative on the right—adopted by many cops—is Trump and Trumpists *must* return to power because BLM is a domestic terror group secretly working with the media to destroy America. Now read this:
(PS) My point is that there's a reason pro-Trump, anti-media cops are at times acting like authoritarian storm troopers. When some of them go home, they're reading anti-BLM, anti-media Trumpist propaganda telling them America's under armed attack by left-wing domestic terrorists.
(PS2) The *reason* that Donald Trump and his Trumpists created this narrative is because Trump launched a domestic terror movement on January 6 that is endangering America. To erase that, he and his camp are doing the usual: accusing their "enemies" of exactly what they're doing.
(PS3) Major media has done a poor job of explaining how BLM and January 6 are now *politically* linked topics. And the way they're linked is this: the far right—including some police officers—*need* to advance the BLM-and-media-as-domestic enemies narrative for political reasons.

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19 Apr
BREAKING NEWS (live on-air, CNN): Judge in Derek Chauvin Case Concedes That Recent Public Statement By Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) May Give Chauvin and Defense Team Grounds for Appeal and Declaration of Mistrial By Way of Having Intimidated and Thereby Tainted the Jury
(PS) For anyone who is confused about what "sequestration" means, jurors were instructed not to watch the news during the course of the trial, but that is *not* sequestration (i.e., physical isolation). The jury is *now* sequestered—as of today—for purpose of their deliberations.
(PS2) I agree with the judge that the statement of a member of Congress is unlikely to be significant enough to any juror to prejudice them. As an entirely separate matter, I *do* think the judge should have sequestered the jury from the beginning of the trial. That was a fail.
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19 Apr
Just so I'm clear on the time-space distortion you traveled through before writing this, you're saying that Adam Toledo both (a) tossed the gun and (b) put his hands up in 838 milliseconds? How long does it take you to brush your teeth in the morning? Is it measurable in seconds?
(PS) If you believe someone can toss a gun *and* put their hands up in 838 milliseconds, especially when footage from a business across an empty lot shows the toss was a relatively slow underhand, please replace Ezra Miller in the next Justice League
(PS2) I guess another good question would be why did the officer tell Toledo to put his hands up? Why not just shoot him when he saw him holding a gun? What was it about the order to put his hands up or Toledo putting his hands up that made the officer or Toledo safer in any way?
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18 Apr
Those who read PROOF might've been surprised at the text below, wondering why the insurrectionists would be *anti-police*. Here's the key to understanding it: the "Do your job!" chant was intended to *enlist* police to get violent with antifa, BLM, and media.

Which they now are.
So when you hear from CNN journalists that MN cops are getting aggressive with media—and proudly so—in a way U.S. journalists haven't seen before, understand that this is *part of the domestic insurgency*. Explicitly. The Proud Boys *on Insurrection Day* were chanting for this.
Those of us on the political left are mystified to see the police respond to police violence with *more* police violence. But that's because we live in different reality streams. Many cops believe there *is* a domestic insurgency right now—one composed of antifa, BLM, and media.
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16 Apr
It's time for Americans to fully wake up to what happened on January 6, 2021.

THE WASHINGTON POST: "As the Capitol was overrun, armed supporters of President Donald Trump were waiting across the Potomac in Virginia for orders to bring guns into the fray." washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
When people ask me why so much of my writing is focused on the insurrection, it's because I know from hundreds of hours of research that we only narrowly escaped the beginning of a second civil war on that day, with Trump thereafter invoking the Insurrection Act to stay in power.
What we saw on our television screens January 6 was not the worst-case scenario. It was the best-case scenario. It is only through a series of incredibly lucky coincidences that all the chaos and failures of that day did not produce something significantly worse than what we saw.
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16 Apr
Here's what gets me about calling the Kilimnik story today "breaking news." We knew a year ago that Kilimnik was an *active* intel agent when Manafort met with him—so how is it breaking news today that Kilimnik gave what Manafort gave him to "Russian intelligence"? See the issue?
(PS) We also knew Kilimnik's bosses—the men he was acting as an agent for in 2016—are top Kremlin agents, and we know Kilimnik has been hiding in a Russian intelligence compound since he was indicted. But it's *big news* today that he was in touch with Russian intelligence? What?
(PS2) This was a way for major media to admit that certain of us were right about collusion way back in 2017 while maintaining the illusion that the excellent journalism conducted back then was actually premature, and we only just "found out" about collusion today. It's nonsense.
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16 Apr
It's hard not to watch the tragic video of 13 year-old Adam Toledo being shot and not feel like he was going to be shot no matter what. He was ordered to show his hands and as soon as he complied—with empty hands—he was shot. That means the order he was given was merely a ritual.
Cops are trained to give orders that—if complied with—make themselves and others safer. This officer appears to have given an order that was meaningless—as a lack of compliance with it could have led to deadly force but compliance with it was *also* going to lead to deadly force.
While running from police is a bad idea, and running from police with a deadly weapon is an even worse idea, (a) doing so is *not* a death sentence in the United States—by law—and (b) policing only *works* if suspects are allowed to surrender when they're clearly trying to do so.
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