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@stephenehorn
Nov 21, 2024 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1/ Will the enforcers who trampled our rights in 2020 ever face consequences?

Today, the NC legislature nearly unanimously voted to promote one of the police chiefs behind the shutdown of the 1st Reopen NC event and arrest of a citizen for "non-essential" protesting
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2/ Bodycam video and court documents show then-Chief of the State Capitol Police R. E. "Chip" Hawley played a major role in the repression of the protest

Hawley was nominated as SBI Director by Cooper last year, but the confirmation was delayed till today
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/coopers-pick…
3/ April 14, 2020

Two weeks after Gov. Cooper unilaterally issued a stay-at-home order telling us not to leave our homes except for "essential activities", demonstrators (including myself) gathered in a parking lot near his mansion to protest
4/ Many if not most of the protesters were social distancing by household, but we were nonetheless ordered to disperse under the very order we were out to demonstrate against, with the Raleigh Police infamously declaring to the public that "Protesting is a non-essential activity" Image
5/ In leaked body camera footage from the Raleigh Police staging area, Captain Dedric Bond references a call with Hawley, the Legislative Police Chief, and Wake County DA Lorrin Freeman approving the dispersal: "We got the blessing from everybody"
6/ Hawley's involvement was not merely limited to the planning stage

The video also shows him in a white shirt and tie accompanying the RPD officers as they scour the parking lot and decide to "make an example" of the last protester to leave, Monica Ussery
7/ Although it was RPD who surrounded and cuffed Ussery, she was officially arrested by Hawley's subordinates in the State Capitol Police and loaded into their vehicle with Hawley presiding
8/ Hawley is also as a witness in the incident report filed by his agency, stating "that he heard the defendant state that she was not leaving and it was her constitutional right to be in the parking lot with everyone else."
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/coopers-pick…Image
9/ Hawley has been named as a defendant in the civil rights lawsuits in both state and federal courts by Ussery, alleging that her arrest was "retaliatory prosecution"

thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/cooper-named…

(The federal case, filed last year, has been dismissed: thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/federal-judg…)
10/ Although Hawley was nominated in as SBI Director in 2023, the legislature declined to take a vote on confirmation at the time and allowed the current director to remain in office past the end of his term while they investigated his allegations of improper influence by the governor's office
newsobserver.com/news/politics-…Image
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11/ Despite Ussery and her supporters attempting to make legislators aware of these facts, the only NO vote in either chamber on Hawley's confirmation vote held yesterday and today was from @RepKidwell
ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/202…Image
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Apr 28
1/ Did COVID-19 re-leak out of UNC labs over half-a-dozen times during the pandemic?

That's what two researchers believe they have found evidence of in seven anomalous genomes sequenced at a UNC Hospital lab in Chapel Hill between June 2020 and January 2021
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2/ Read the full article at @TriangleTrumpet, as well as the full interview w/ Drs. Steven Quay and Steve Massey (for supporters):
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/unc-lab-leak…
3/ Although UNC's coronavirologist Dr. Ralph Baric has ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the gain of function research which potentially started the pandemic, the subject of this preprint is lab-acquired infections after COVID-19 was widespread
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Mar 15
1/ A sheriff's office used its governmental power to obtain the identity of an anonymous online critic who made 1A-protected post

This ID was provided to subjects of the criticism, despite no finding of criminal activity

Should this not be a national story?
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2/ If you're a local here in NC or interested in first amendment issues, checkout the full article at @triangletrumpet

Otherwise, keep scrolling for the thread
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/joco-sheriff…
@TriangleTrumpet 3/ The anonymous Facebook account "Ronald Johnson's Prison Cell Phone" was named after former Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson, who was removed from office and sentenced to prison after being found guilty of extortion, obstruction of justice, etc. Image
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Feb 13
1/ Members of a radical transgender cult linked to four homicides including the recent shooting of a federal agent in Vermont were holed up in Chapel Hill before the most recent murder

Who are the Zizians, why are they killing, and what were they doing in our state?
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2/ For the full writeup at @triangletrumpet, which includes additional information and links to sources:
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/report-radic…
3/ In January, Zizian associates Teresa "Milo" Youngblut and Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt travelled to Vermont to find property to re-establish a autonomous commune

Vermont and federal authorities began surveilling the two after receiving a tip from a suspicious hotel employee Image
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Feb 10
1/ @chccs superintendent Nyah Hamlett will be moving to her next DEI position after a scandal-ridden term

Hamlett was discovered to have plagiarized in her doctoral dissertation, and she's facing a lawsuit for "maliciously" using the court system against critics
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2/ Hamlett came to North Carolina from the Loudoun County, VA

Months after her departure as Chief of Staff, the school district was embroiled in a scandal when it attempted to cover-up the rape of at least two female students by a skirt-wearing male Image
3/ In Loudoun Co. they had the father of one of the victims arrested

Hamlett's administration merely filed reports with two different police departments based solely on critical emails and social media posts by a parent

Carrboro Police found there was "no criminal violation" Image
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Jan 24
1/ On December 4, a 10-year Muslim convert made his way to the RDU airport to fly to Morocco and join the Islamic State in Africa

What the would-be jihadist didn't know is that his ISIS contacts were undercover FBI, and he'd been under surveillance for months
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2/ Alexander "Alec" Justin White aka "Sulaiman Al-Amriki," 29, of Durham, was arrested and charged with Providing, Attempting, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization per court documents unsealed last week
thisweekinthetriangle.com/p/aspiring-jih…Image
3/ The rest of this thread is info from the DOJ's criminal complaint

Beyond that, all I found on White was an inactive voter registration in Orange Co.:
- white, male, Democrat
- born in NC
- voted in the 2016 Democratic primary and the 2016, 2018, and 2020 general elections Image
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Dec 31, 2024
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1/ Seven of the biggest sponsors of H-1B(*) visas in North Carolina are recipients of the state's Job Development Investment Grant, with a combined $128,328,750 in tax-dollars awarded

Each of these companies has sponsored more visa applications for higher average wages than the non-visa jobs they are required to create to receive for the grant money

(H-1B visa holders are not counted as "qualifying jobs" as defined by law)Image
2/
 Infosys Limited (d/b/a Infosys Limited of India)
Visa Applications: 3,361
Visa App. Avg. Base Salary: $88,273

Grant Jobs: 2,000
Grant Jobs Target Avg. Salary: $72,146

Grant Amount to Company: $22,387,500
Grant Cost to State: $29,850,000 Image
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3/
 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Visa Applications: 1,149
Visa App. Avg. Base Salary: $112,332

Grant Jobs: 550
Grant Jobs Target Avg. Salary: $72,700

Grant Amount to Company: $12,981,750
Grant Cost to State: $17,309,000 Image
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