Rising right wing violence

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Everything ok?

I'm fantastic. Why do you ask?

[RichardCranium]

All of your posts read like a Vox copy and paste.

[Parkbandit]

All of your posts read like a Vox copy and paste.

The first one is Vox... 2nd one is NY Daily.

He's a fucking regurgitating machine!

[~Rocktar~]

So, ummmm Boooo Hoooo, criminals separated from their family while in detention like every other suspect or criminal in the US when arrested.

Libs care more about a Trans person that died in custody than Jeffrey Epstein who's story has been swept fully under the rug so far it's likely wedged under the baseboard in the other room.

Sorry they died, would like to get to the bottom of it, would also like to get to the bottom of that piece of shit pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death and to know who all he helped to assault kids so they can all rot in prison too.

[Methais]

The Trump administration has conceded it separated 1,556 immigrant parents and children more than it had previously admitted in court, bringing the total count of families separated to almost 5,500.

The government had originally admitted to separating about 2,800 families when a California federal court ordered it to end the practice in June 2018 as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU.

But it has since identified more separations; approximately 1,090 occurred after and in violation of the court order. The additional 1,556 separations disclosed on Thursday, which included 207 children under the age of 5, happened before the Trump administration implemented its “zero tolerance” policy aimed at prosecuting anyone who crosses the border without authorization. Officials have cited the zero tolerance policy as the cause of family separations.

This latest count is apparently exhaustive. Over the course of the last six months, the government investigated each one of the 33,000 children who had been in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement dating back to July 1, 2017, to determine the new tally of separations, Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU, said in an interview. But the ACLU is also currently investigating potential separations that could have occurred before July 1, 2017, he added.

“If we hear about separations that occurred in the first six months after inauguration, then we’re going to go back to court and ask for those,” he said.

The new tally comes after a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report published in January found many separated families had gone unidentified.

The OIG report said that the “lack of an existing, integrated data system” at DHS and HHS made it difficult to ascertain just how many families had been separated. The final list of separated families was consistently revised through December 2018. Now even more separations have come to light.

“It is shocking that 1,556 more families — including babies and toddlers — join the thousands of others already torn apart by this inhumane and illegal policy,” Gelernt said in a statement. “Families have suffered tremendously, and some may never recover. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated.”

The “zero tolerance” policy led to family separations
The separations were a result of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy.” Announced in April 2018, the zero tolerance policy coincided with a shift in the demographics of migrants showing up at the border: families now make up the majority of those apprehended, rather than single adult males.

The Trump administration has sent record numbers of asylum-seeking families to immigration detention. The government’s rationale was that the practice of releasing families while they awaited their court dates — formerly the typical practice, which Trump has called “catch and release” — was encouraging migrants to come to the US, and that keeping them in detention while their immigration cases were underway would deter further migration.

But the US does not have the infrastructure to detain families on the scale the Trump administration has sought. There are only three facilities nationwide licensed to hold families long-term: Berks Family Residential Center in Berks County, Pennsylvania; Karnes Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas; and South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

The government also can’t hold children in adult detention facilities for longer than 20 days under the Flores settlement agreement, which came from a 1997 court case in California. After the 20-day mark, children have to be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services or another facility licensed to administer their care.

Trump officials have repeatedly cited these restrictions on the detention of immigrant children as the reason why they started separating families after former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed a memo in April 2018 greenlighting the practice. Even after leaving office, Nielsen has continued to defend her testimony before Congress that December that the administration “never had a policy for family separation” and that the administration was merely enforcing immigration laws.

Officials have also said the practice wasn’t anything new. To an extent, that’s true — President Barack Obama also separated some families. But the number of separations that occurred under the Obama administration did not even come close to the number that have occurred under Trump, and it wasn’t done under an official policy.

Amid public backlash against family separations, Trump issued an executive order purporting to put a stop to them in June 2018. The California court also blocked the policy that month and ordered the government to reunify the families.

TR;DR

Officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have deleted surveillance video of a transgender woman who died while in custody.

Roxsana Hernandez, a 33-year-old transgender woman from Honduras, died on May 25, 2018, nine days after she was admitted to the Cibola General Hospital in Milan, N.M.

After she arrived in the U.S., Hernandez spent five days in Customs and Border Protection before she was handed over to ICE. She was then moved to the Cibola County Correctional Center, a facility owned by CoreCivic, a privately operated prison that contracts with the federal government.

An official autopsy concluded that Hernandez died because of HIV-related complications, and it classified the “manner of death as natural.”

An independent autopsy, however, which was requested by her family, confirmed the cause of death, but added that she’d been physically abused during her detention.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot speak to the validity of the private autopsy,” Danielle Bennett, a spokeswoman for ICE, said in a statement, at the time. “However, allegations that she was abused in ICE custody are false.”

In June, a nonprofit civil rights group, the Transgender Law Center, filed a lawsuit against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security demanding the release of all documents regarding Hernandez’s time while in custody.

Video documentation, which could help the case by providing vital evidence of how she was being treated at the correctional center, however, no longer exists.

On Wednesday, the Transgender Law Center released correspondence it received from a representative from ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which read, in part, that “the requested video is no longer available," an email that was dated Aug. 28, 2018 read. "The footage is held in memory up to around 90 days. They attempted to locate and was negative.”

But to Lynly Egyes, the law center’s legal director, the footage should’ve been saved, since CoreCivic should’ve anticipated pending litigation because of the independent autopsy requested by Hernandez family.

“When a detainee death review is conducted, it’s important to keep track of all the documents to understand why someone died, and for that reason alone, they should’ve been keeping all of this evidence," Egyes told BuzzFeed News.

Andrew Free, an attorney working on the case, is also questioning the deletion of the surveillance video.

“How can ICE and CoreCivic claim any kind of transparency when they withheld video footage during an active investigation?” Free said in a statement.

“They were on notice to preserve any and all video surveillance and it seems they may have failed to do so... We filed suit because we have reason to believe they may be withholding more evidence,” he added.

A representative for the private prison facility claims that the company wasn’t aware of a possible lawsuit.

“CoreCivic didn’t receive notice that the plaintiff was considering a lawsuit until November 26, 2018 (six months after the death of Ms. Hernandez) when we were notified by a member of the media that Mr. Free was planning to file a lawsuit,” Brandon Bissell, manager of public affairs for CoreCivic, told the Phoenix New Times.

“As the digital camera equipment is not capable of retaining digital images beyond approximately thirty days, whatever digital images that might have existed had been long overwritten," Bissell added.

Also TR;DR

Stay triggered, twat lettuce

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https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents...160000507.html

FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat

The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)

The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau’s Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists,” as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven’t been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.

The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn’t actually have a basement).

“The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.

Is it really a crack down on conspiracies or is the Deep State trying to bury the truth by locking up those who really know whats going on?

[Taernath]

Is it really a crack down on conspiracies or is the Deep State trying to bury the truth by locking up those who really know whats going on?

There was a Qanon guy who smashed up a church a little bit ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-consp...church-1462223

[Methais]

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents...160000507.html



Is it really a crack down on conspiracies or is the Deep State trying to bury the truth by locking up those who really know whats going on?

TR;DR

[Seran]

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents...160000507.html



Is it really a crack down on conspiracies or is the Deep State trying to bury the truth by locking up those who really know whats going on?

You and the President are doing quite a bit of sedition peddling. Maybe you should take step back and consider the enormity of a US President trying to overturn the power of the Legislative and Judicial branches by peddling conspiracy lies.

[Seran]

U.S. Code § 2383.Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.