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Texas Paul DELIVERS July 4th Message
THIS GUY Chose THREE Supreme Court Justices?? THIS GUY!?????
A Far-Right Extremist ‘Bear Maced’ Abortion-Rights Activists and Their Kids Last Night
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adn9w/jennifer-harrison-spray-mace-abortion-rights-protesters
Really right to life when she bear mace sprays kids. But that is what we are dealing with, thugs who think might makes right and who also think assaulting anyone who disagrees with them. Scary world coming up. I remember these kinds of thugs attacking me for being gay and the police or those in charge ignoring it. Those time are coming back it seems. Hugs
Patriot AZ leader Jennifer Harrison has garnered attention in recent years for spraying BLM protesters with bear spray and harassing migrants as they cross into the country.
The leader of a far-right extremist group in Arizona sprayed mace into the faces of abortion-rights activists and their children on Sunday night, according to the protesters and eyewitnesses.
The incident happened in downtown Tempe during a second night of protests at the end of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
On Saturday night, Jennifer Harrison, the leader of the extremist AZ Patriots group, had harassed and berated protesters, livestreaming everything to her Facebook followers.
On Sunday night, she returned in her car and sprayed what bystanders said was bear mace into the faces of several protesters, reportedly including several children. After she used the spray, some of the group began hitting Harrison’s car so she sprayed them again, according to video footage of the incident reviewed by VICE News.
Videos of the incident were posted to social media hours later.
One eyewitness reported that paramedics were also called to the scene and several protesters were taken away by ambulance for further treatment.
The Tempe Police Department told VICE News that “at approximately 9:30 p.m, members of the community were engaged in a protest along Mill Ave. and University Dr. when a subject deployed what appeared to be pepper spray from a vehicle towards members in the crowd.”
It also confirmed that Tempe Fire Medical and Tempe Police Department responded to the area where the victims were treated.
Detective Natalie Barela added that the department had “coordinated with witnesses and victims developed investigative leads [and] the case is now being investigated by our detectives.” The police would not comment on the identity of the attacker.
Earlier this year, Arizona enacted a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, and it’s among the 26 states that are expected to ban abortions outright now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe. As a result, thousands of Arizona residents have taken to the streets. Some groups, like Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom, are using the protests as a way to call for the codifying of abortion protections within the state.
Harrison has gained notoriety in recent years for leading protests against immigration, railing against COVID-19 restrictions, and antagonizing left-wing activists such as Black Lives Matter protesters. She has even admitted to using “bear spray” on Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, and said that she would run them over with her car if she felt threatened. She has also spent time on the southern U.S. border harassing migrants as they cross into the country.
Harrison did not respond to a request for comment.
Several protesters called out the police for their inaction, pointing out that they had reacted very swiftly earlier in the night when the peaceful protesters staged a sit-in on the street but did nothing when Harrison sprayed the protesters.
“Amazing that all those cops who were so heavily patrolling the peaceful abortion rights protesters did absolutely nothing when Jen Harrison drove by and maced an entire group of people,” AZ Right Wing Watch, an anonymous researcher who tracks extremist groups in Arizona, tweeted.
The incident comes as fears over violence at abortion-rights protests grow in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The vast majority of protests have been peaceful, but a handful have turned violent.
Just down the road at Arizona’s State Capitol building, police fired teargas at abortion-rights protesters the day Roe was overturned, and in New York, police arrested over two dozen abortion-rights activists last week.
In Greenville, South Carolina, a police officer was captured on video threatening a woman with a Taser and throwing an elderly man to the ground. And in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, someone drove a pickup truck through protesters, hospitalizing one woman.
If Harrison’s name rings a bell, that’s because of a 2019 incident in which a man laughed so uproariously at her batshit ranting that he became the meme legend known as Green Shirt Guy.
Later in 2019, she was appointed as a Republican precinct committee member. As you see below, in 2020 she was arrested for alleged felony identify theft.
The AZ Patriots has been listed as an anti-immigrant hate group by the SPLC.
thatotherjean • 2 hours ago • edited
Why has she not been arrested, then? Surely, spraying Mace into the faces of children cannot be legal, even in Arizona?
Tazzari1 thatotherjean • 20 minutes ago
She’s a patriot! The children were probably godless communists who might even support gun control and mail-in ballots!.
Or something.
Dazzer thatotherjean • 2 hours ago
It’s only a crime in Arizona if she maced a fetus.
Silverwynde 🌻🇺🇦🌻 thatotherjean • 2 hours ago
She’s white.
That’s it. That’s the comment.
Houndentenor thatotherjean • 2 hours ago
The law is only as good as the people who enforce them. Were the cops more sympathetic to the MAGAt? Obviously. Will prosecutors be? Very likely.
Adam Schmidt Boreal • 2 hours ago
Embryos aren’t babies. That’s why we have two different words because they’re different things. The closest parallel would be to say that an acorn is a sapling. Anyone with eyes can see that those two things aren’t the same.
rednekokie Adam Schmidt • 2 hours ago
Embryos aren’t considered living creatures by their Bible (Gen 2:7) until the breath of life has entered them. Only then are they considered babies.
What does it actually take in this country to get a white person arrested? Other than holding a pro-abortion rights sign?
ohbear1957 • 2 hours ago • edited
Hump the hostess!
University of Florida researchers pressured to destroy COVID-19 data, told not to criticize DeSantis: report
People need to understand what a dictator authoritarian DeathSantis is. He is a complete thug, a trump disapele. He wants to rule with an iron fist, you are not even allowed to criticize him. He even went after Disney which arguably brings in the most tourism dollars to the state simply because they disagreed with his don’t say gay demands. If he gets into the White House then democracy is over. And the Republican base loves him. Hugs
Researchers at the University of Florida allegedly felt pressured to delete COVID-19 data while working on a study for an undisclosed state entity, according to a report released on Monday by the Faculty Senate committee.
The report stated that staff felt “external pressure to destroy” data and “barriers to accessing and analyzing” data in a timely manner.
The document added that staff said there were “barriers to publication of scientific research which inhibited the ability of faculty to contribute scientific findings during a world-wide pandemic.”
Other challenges reported to the committee included “palpable reticence and even fear on the part of faculty to speak up on these issues.” In addition, faculty “often engaged in self-censorship and chose not to ‘rock the boat’ for fear of retaliation,” according to the report.
University of Florida employees were reportedly told “not to criticize the Governor of Florida [Republican Ron DeSantis] or UF policies related to COVID-19 in media interactions.”
However, the Faculty Senate committee said that they “did not have the resources or the time to fully investigate these reports or their legal and policy implications. Faculty did express discontent about political interference with our mission, that academic freedom is under attack, and that we will likely lose faculty as a result.”
The six-person panel was convened to investigate academic freedom issues after the university decided to bar three professors from testifying in a federal lawsuit against the state over a recently enacted elections bill.
A spokesperson from the University of Florida did not have any further comment on the report when reached for additional information by The Hill.
A spokesperson for DeSantis told The Hill that “The report referenced contains plenty of unsourced allegations and innuendo, but zero evidence that Governor DeSantis or anyone connected to the governor’s office has exerted or attempted to exert improper influence on UF. This is because it did not happen.”
A fourth University of Florida professor alleged in November that the school rejected his request to testify against state leaders and provide his expertise on the impact of COVID-19 on children.
Jeffrey L. Goldhagen, a University of Florida professor and pediatrician, was asked to testify against DeSantis, the Florida commissioner of education, the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Board of Education for a case in which Florida parents and children sought to overturn the state’s ban on mask mandates in schools.
However, after he submitted conflict-of-interest disclosures to the university, his requests to testify were denied.
Faculty also expressed concern over funding being pulled if the university’s activities didn’t align with the DeSantis administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
“We knew there was more silencing and pressure coming from above. The Big Above. There was grave concern about retaliation and a sense that anyone who objected to the state of affairs might lose his or her job or be punished in some way,” Danaya Wright, a constitutional law professor and former Faculty Senate chairperson, told The Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday.
“COVID research, it is life and death to not be able to do your job,” Wright continued. “To have your research that you’ve trained for so many years to be able to do, to have that research tabled, put on the shelf and ignored and not get it out there to the academic community to get it out there and see if it’s going to do any good.”
University of Florida spokeswoman Hessy Fernandez previously told The Hill that the university has “a long track record of supporting free speech and our faculty’s academic freedom.”
DeSantis recently signed legislation aimed at curbing vaccine mandates for several groups of employees.
UK embassy shares Fourth of July playlist in cheeky nod to former colonial relationship with US
The U.K. Embassy in Washington, D.C., shared a playlist to commemorate the United States’s Independence Day on Monday, including only one song on repeat by the band Player: “Baby Come Back.”
“Baby come back, any kind of fool could see/There was something in everything about you/Baby come back, you can blame it all on me/I was wrong and I just can’t live without you,” Player sings in its iconic 1977 song.
The playlist, called “Fourth of July,” features a photo of Jonathan Groff portraying King George III in “Hamilton,” with a caption underneath reading “You’ll be back” in reference to a song from the musical.
Both the song and photo choices are a cheeky nod to the relationship that England had with its American colonies, which declared their independence from the British in July 1776. King George III, then the ruler of England, vehemently opposed the move and oversaw his country’s failed fight to retain the colonies in the Revolutionary War.
U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. Karen Pierce also joked in a tweet on Monday that “Without the UK, none of this would have been possible. You’re welcome.”
It is not the first time that the British embassy has cheekily nodded to the two countries’ former relationship on the Fourth of July.
The embassy posted a tweet on July 4 in 2017 that read “Being British in America today. #FourthOfJuly” and included a GIF of actress Emma Watson looking uncomfortable while trying to smile.
Thanks, Brits! I needed a good laugh today!
I miss the comedies that BBCA used to show. Mitchell and Webb are hilarious. Lee Mack is another favorite.
Republican crowd TURNS on Trump as Cheney SHREDS him in speech
Gavin Newsom demolishes Florida Republicans with viral ad IN FLORIDA
Anti-LGBTQ Texas GOP Megadonor Charged With Two Felonies Related To 2020 “Voter Fraud” Search Incident
The Texas Tribune reports:
Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.
Hotze, 71, was indicted by a Harris County grand jury and faces one count of unlawful restraint and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The charges stem from Hotze’s hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Read the full article.
Hotze last appeared on JMG when he left a voice mail for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, telling him to “shoot to kill” Black Lives Matter activists.
You may recall that Steven Hotze has compared gays to “communist termites” eating away at America’s moral fabric. He is also fond of declaring that it’s now a hate crime to denounce homosexuality.
It was Hotze who bankrolled the successful campaign to repeal Houston’s “wicked, evil, Satanic” LGBT rights ordinance, during which he compared gays to rapists and murderers.
According to Hotze, same-sex marriage will result in children “practicing sodomy” in kindergarten.
In 2017, he appeared here when he “prophesied” that God will deliver “just retribution” to lawmakers who vote for LGBT rights.
When he’s not calling on God to kill politicians or for the governor to kill Black Lives Matter activists, Hotze sells “miracle” supplements because high cholesterol doesn’t really cause heart disease.
Hotze regularly quotes QAnon slogans.
These old white trumper’s think they can get away with stuff just like Trump does.
This is why Trump is their hero.
mikeiver Longpole • 2 months ago • edited
Guess what, he will get away with it. This is the one star state we are talking about here. The state that put a black woman in jail for 5 years for attempting to vote with the help of a poll worker and a provisional ballot when she was banned. He will 100% be let off!
Republicans keep talking about voter fraud but it seems the only people committing voter fraud are Republicans.
Christopher Gigi • 2 months ago
It’s always projection with that lot.
Dude is facing some serious charges but he is white, christian and conservative so this kind of behavior is what we should expect.
Police Rescue 77 From Nigerian “Rapture” Church
The New Arab reports:
Nigerian police have rescued dozens of people, including many children, from a church basement where they had been told to wait for what they believed would be second coming of Christ, police said.
Police raided the Whole Bible Believers Church in southwestern Ondo State on Friday after a tip from a local mother who said that her children were being kept there against their will. Seventy-seven people, including 26 children, were rescued and two church pastors were arrested, Ondo State police spokeswoman Funmilayo Odunlami said in a statement.
Police said the people had been kept in the church after being told they must wait for Rapture, a belief among some Christians that they will ascend to heaven when Jesus Christ returns.
The Voice Of America reports:
Reports say some of the people had been in the Whole Bible Believers Church for as long as six months and had been convinced they would soon witness the second coming of Jesus Christ. While some of the people are reported to have been kidnapped, others came freely.
One young woman said that she had decided to join the church because “my parents were leading me away from God and I want to make heaven.” Authorities conducted the raid on the church after complaints from parents. The pastor and other members of the church have been arrested, police said.
So, let me get this straight….
The Rapture DIDN’T come, and they waited as long as SIX MONTHS!?! What is wrong with their Jeebus anyway? How disappointed they must be with him!
Still busy rigging sportsball games. He’ll get around to it. Eventually.
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