A real estate broker was leaving the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant in Fort Myers, Fla., when a sheriff’s deputy pulled him over for an alleged traffic violation. The Dec. 16 stop escalated when Deputy Niko Irizarry, with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, said he suspected there were illegal substances in the car.
With the help of drug-sniffing dogs, law enforcement found more than 50 bags of opioids, methamphetamines and other pills, police records show. Irizarry arrested the real estate broker and allegedly signed an affidavit stating he had witnessed the man putting the drugs in his car.
But the sheriff’s office now says the arrest was a setup. Irizarry, 25, was fired and charged with felony misconduct, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno announced on Friday. The deputy, investigators said, had made a deal with a friend to arrest the victim in exchange for sexual favors and a trip to Europe.
Investigators said Charles Custodio, 37, had a vendetta against the victim and promised Irizarry he would provide the trip and would arrange for the sex if he made the arrest. Custodio then had a third man, Scott Snider, pose as a real estate agent and plant drugs in the person’s car, investigators said.
Custodio then told Irizarry where he could find the victim. Investigators say Irizarry then performed a traffic stop and arrested the victim on drug charges. Custodio and Snider, 29, were arrested for trafficking in fentanyl, possession of a controlled substance, and conspiracy.
Hit the first link above for a detailed breakdown of the alleged convoluted plot. It’s not clear from reports exactly who was to provide the “sexual favors.”
In the years since Colin took a knee, we’ve learned that, in the eyes of conservatives, there is no acceptable form of protest against racial injustice.
Republicans see a calamity and elect it. The Russians beam with pride.
Trump is absolute poison for America.
This what the people behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill are really after. We don't have to guess or toss around hypotheticals. It's all right there, out in the open for all to see. https://t.co/Q9m420axHc
It seems Putin got what he wanted. Ukraine has said they wont join Nato. It is a shame that the local bully can keep the people from advancing their country with threats to destroy them.
Russia is not the USSR, but Putin would like it to be.
China is pushing it’s spear of influence all over the world. Just as the US did in the middle of the last century. And China is getting ever closer to places the US thought were in the US sphere of influence. The US is falling way behind and had better fix their interactions with other nations.
Oh I knew this was coming. It is pure distraction from tRump’s troubles. Basically Durham was appointed by Barr to find things to try to back up tRump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegal. Several court cases and investigations found that the investigation was legal and valid. Every legal podcast I have listen too destroys the indictment. His indictment against the lawyer that brought the findings of the tech people to the FBI he accused of lying because he did not tell the FBI he once worked for Hillary. Once worked for her. He was not working for her then. The FBI did not ask because it did not matter, the information was what mattered. So it was not lying to the FBI to not says something they did not ask. If a person reports a bank robbery to the FBI the issue is not if the person reporting has a bank account. The other thing that jumps out is that these types of charges are normally one page. Durham wrote a screed of 26 pages of conjecture and conspiracies. He was building right wing talking points. Here is the weaponizing of the DOJ that the right seems to think Biden has done. It is being done right in the open, using the DOJ and the courts to attack political enemies like a banana republic.
Also this is an attempt to distract from the information given to the FBI. The fact is a Russian bank in Moscow that was tied to Putin was pinging a dedicated server in tRump Tower. There was no explanation for it. Especially when the talk was Russia was helping tRump. Their was an attempt to hide the server, to hide the data on it, to hide the connection, and that server only talked to that bank. Very suspicious. So The right deflects by saying the real crime that should be investigated was the person who delivered it had once worked for Hillary.
How about both when the deserve it? This is not jousting wind mills. This is calling out that acts of aggression and violating human rights.
So what should the US have done to truckers / people on the Canadian side of the border? Send troops into a sovereign country and blow stuff up, steal the trucks by towing them away, and kidnap the people by arresting them? Well that is what the new right wing hero Putin would do. This was Canada’s problem to solve and they did.
The current inflation problem is caused by price gouging and profit taking. Companies are making record profits. CEO pay packages are soaring. The ones being hurt are the consumers as companies try to make up for the slower times during Covid.
Again the current inflation is caused by price gouging and profit taking of businesses. Corporations have record profits. CEO pay packages / benefits are soaring. But they want the people to blame everything else especially the little increases in pay that workers may get.
It is about the data. The cases are falling in the areas where the mandates are being withdrawn. This is a great thing, less cases means less death and less really ill people in hospitals. Follow the medical science is what people should be doing. It is what the people in charge should be following.
Must be a Fox reporter, can’t wear a mask correctly. Only people that are insecure in their own sexuality are concerned with others sexuality. And Republican politicians, of course.
Durham made a filing, no charges, no indictment. He built up a 26 page conspiracy theory with no new information and all insinuation. He accuses the lawyer that took the information from the tech people to the FBI of lying by not telling the FBI he once worked for Hillary. That doesn’t matter. If someone reports a bank robbery the FBI doesn’t care if the person has a bank account or not. The important point was the information Durham and the Republicans want to bury, that there was a bank in Moscow connected to Putin communicating with a server in tRump tower. It was the only computer communicating with that server. This at a time when there when Putin had hacked the DNC and was rumored to be interfering in the election. So this is just an attempt to muddy the waters and create a misleading right wing talking point.
I guess if a minority of the people wanted to race their cars through school zones some times killing kids and themselves, we should let them because of “Freedom”. The mask and vaccine mandates saved lives. No one lost freedom. No one was forced to get a shot or wear a mask at gun point. But if you wanted the right to join in the fun, you had the responsibility to follow public health rules.
This cartoon really pissed me off. That is an asinine cartoon that insults child abuse victims. Wearing a mask is not child abuse any more than wearing shoes are. It causes no harm and protects the wearer. Most children are not bothered by masks, the only ones with a problem with them are because the parents have made such a stink over it. Masks are proven to prevent the spread of Covid. Period. They saved lives, of children and adults. Grow up.
Kids do not care about masks, they are too worried about boredom, tests, bullies, making friends, dates, and a hundred more things important to them. Masks are not even on the list.
Police funding is actually UP across the country, and that “Defund the Police” meme is about as valid as the “Critical Race Theory” and “Sharia Law” boogymen that right wing propagandists use to keep their gullible “base” riled up.
MEANWHILE Republicans are doing everything they can to destroy democracy and literally steal elections, while supporting thoroughly-rotten criminal candidates, starting at the top with their Dear Leader. But what’s important to right-wing propagandists is to distract with their shiny-object reminders of anger and fear.
Goodwyn is indirectly attacking BLM, since “Defund the Police” was a collateral slogan of those protests; demonize “Defund the Police” (blaming all crime on a non-existent policy), and you’re also reminding people why they hated and feared BLM, too.
Win, win, because you keep people angry, fearful, and aggrieved, keeping attention off the very real assault on America.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
And now some for fun
This what the people behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill are really after. We don't have to guess or toss around hypotheticals. It's all right there, out in the open for all to see. https://t.co/Q9m420axHc
It seems Putin got what he wanted. Ukraine has said they wont join Nato. It is a shame that the local bully can keep the people from advancing their country with threats to destroy them.
Russia is not the USSR, but Putin would like it to be.
China is pushing it’s spear of influence all over the world. Just as the US did in the middle of the last century. And China is getting ever closer to places the US thought were in the US sphere of influence. The US is falling way behind and had better fix their interactions with other nations.
Oh I knew this was coming. It is pure distraction from tRump’s troubles. Basically Durham was appointed by Barr to find things to try to back up tRump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegal. Several court cases and investigations found that the investigation was legal and valid. Every legal podcast I have listen too destroys the indictment. His indictment against the lawyer that brought the findings of the tech people to the FBI he accused of lying because he did not tell the FBI he once worked for Hillary. Once worked for her. He was not working for her then. The FBI did not ask because it did not matter, the information was what mattered. So it was not lying to the FBI to not says something they did not ask. If a person reports a bank robbery to the FBI the issue is not if the person reporting has a bank account. The other thing that jumps out is that these types of charges are normally one page. Durham wrote a screed of 26 pages of conjecture and conspiracies. He was building right wing talking points. Here is the weaponizing of the DOJ that the right seems to think Biden has done. It is being done right in the open, using the DOJ and the courts to attack political enemies like a banana republic.
Also this is an attempt to distract from the information given to the FBI. The fact is a Russian bank in Moscow that was tied to Putin was pinging a dedicated server in tRump Tower. There was no explanation for it. Especially when the talk was Russia was helping tRump. Their was an attempt to hide the server, to hide the data on it, to hide the connection, and that server only talked to that bank. Very suspicious. So The right deflects by saying the real crime that should be investigated was the person who delivered it had once worked for Hillary.
How about both when the deserve it? This is not jousting wind mills. This is calling out that acts of aggression and violating human rights.
So what should the US have done to truckers / people on the Canadian side of the border? Send troops into a sovereign country and blow stuff up, steal the trucks by towing them away, and kidnap the people by arresting them? Well that is what the new right wing hero Putin would do. This was Canada’s problem to solve and they did.
The current inflation problem is caused by price gouging and profit taking. Companies are making record profits. CEO pay packages are soaring. The ones being hurt are the consumers as companies try to make up for the slower times during Covid.
Again the current inflation is caused by price gouging and profit taking of businesses. Corporations have record profits. CEO pay packages / benefits are soaring. But they want the people to blame everything else especially the little increases in pay that workers may get.
It is about the data. The cases are falling in the areas where the mandates are being withdrawn. This is a great thing, less cases means less death and less really ill people in hospitals. Follow the medical science is what people should be doing. It is what the people in charge should be following.
Must be a Fox reporter, can’t wear a mask correctly. Only people that are insecure in their own sexuality are concerned with others sexuality. And Republican politicians, of course.
Durham made a filing, no charges, no indictment. He built up a 26 page conspiracy theory with no new information and all insinuation. He accuses the lawyer that took the information from the tech people to the FBI of lying by not telling the FBI he once worked for Hillary. That doesn’t matter. If someone reports a bank robbery the FBI doesn’t care if the person has a bank account or not. The important point was the information Durham and the Republicans want to bury, that there was a bank in Moscow connected to Putin communicating with a server in tRump tower. It was the only computer communicating with that server. This at a time when there when Putin had hacked the DNC and was rumored to be interfering in the election. So this is just an attempt to muddy the waters and create a misleading right wing talking point.
I guess if a minority of the people wanted to race their cars through school zones some times killing kids and themselves, we should let them because of “Freedom”. The mask and vaccine mandates saved lives. No one lost freedom. No one was forced to get a shot or wear a mask at gun point. But if you wanted the right to join in the fun, you had the responsibility to follow public health rules.
This cartoon really pissed me off. That is an asinine cartoon that insults child abuse victims. Wearing a mask is not child abuse any more than wearing shoes are. It causes no harm and protects the wearer. Most children are not bothered by masks, the only ones with a problem with them are because the parents have made such a stink over it. Masks are proven to prevent the spread of Covid. Period. They saved lives, of children and adults. Grow up.
Kids do not care about masks, they are too worried about boredom, tests, bullies, making friends, dates, and a hundred more things important to them. Masks are not even on the list.
Police funding is actually UP across the country, and that “Defund the Police” meme is about as valid as the “Critical Race Theory” and “Sharia Law” boogymen that right wing propagandists use to keep their gullible “base” riled up.
MEANWHILE Republicans are doing everything they can to destroy democracy and literally steal elections, while supporting thoroughly-rotten criminal candidates, starting at the top with their Dear Leader. But what’s important to right-wing propagandists is to distract with their shiny-object reminders of anger and fear.
Goodwyn is indirectly attacking BLM, since “Defund the Police” was a collateral slogan of those protests; demonize “Defund the Police” (blaming all crime on a non-existent policy), and you’re also reminding people why they hated and feared BLM, too.
Win, win, because you keep people angry, fearful, and aggrieved, keeping attention off the very real assault on America.
No one was calling for Rogan to be canceled or taken off the air. The issue was his misinformation about a public health crisis and misinformation on treatments for the public health crisis. Even he admitted he was careless with the truth and should have done better. The problem is he is promoting his program as a news show reporting facts and not just an opinion show. Now Spotify labels the misinformation and directs people to the factual true information.
And that is not being taught either. It is just another way to prevent real history from being taught. If they can prevent people from learning how bad slavery was then they can prevent any of the real history of holding black people back from being learned and they can keep doing things to oppress POC.
By using state power to censor any truthful teaching about how four centuries (and counting!) of American racism have influenced the socioeconomic status of Black Americans, bans on the teaching of “CRT” implicitly and deliberately “teach” the lie that the glaring disparities persist because Black “individuals” are “inherently inferior.” Those promoting such bans claim to be driven by solicitude for pupils’ feelings; but they are solicitous only about White pupils’ feelings. The effect of their lie on Black pupils’ feelings is devastating by deliberate design.
Police funding is actually UP across the country, and that “Defund the Police” meme is about as valid as the “Critical Race Theory” and “Sharia Law” boogymen that right wing propagandists use to keep their gullible “base” riled up.
MEANWHILE Republicans are doing everything they can to destroy democracy and literally steal elections, while supporting thoroughly-rotten criminal candidates, starting at the top with their Dear Leader. But what’s important to right-wing propagandists is to distract with their shiny-object reminders of anger and fear.
Goodwyn is indirectly attacking BLM, since “Defund the Police” was a collateral slogan of those protests; demonize “Defund the Police” (blaming all crime on a non-existent policy), and you’re also reminding people why they hated and feared BLM, too.
Win, win, because you keep people angry, fearful, and aggrieved, keeping attention off the very real assault on America.