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Chuck Darwin
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As the mob descended on lawmakers certifying the results of the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden,
#Michael #Fanone, then a District of Columbia Metropolitan Police officer, would be viciously assaulted as he defended the U.S. Capitol.

He was electroshocked on his neck with a Taser;
he was kicked and beaten.
His radio was ripped off his body;
his badge stripped away from him.

The group of men who assaulted him came at him five at a time.

Fanone had a heart attack and lost consciousness.

At one point during the assault, he pleaded with the Trump supporters clawing at him to consider his children.

Shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Fanone left the police force.

-- He has spent much of the last four years warning the public that indifference to the insurrection would spell the death of democracy as Americans know it.

He poured himself into disseminating this warning
while watching, like many others, as legal attempt after legal attempt to hold Trump to any account for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 events evaporated.

The experience has left Fanone with no confidence in his fellow police officers, the justice system at large or the American public.

⚠️“There’s no doubt in my mind that he got away with inciting an insurrection as well as defrauding the American people and attempting to subvert democracy,”
Fanone told HuffPost during a phone interview just ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riot.

🔥“I don’t believe we live in a democracy anymore,” Fanone said.

“I believe democracy in this country is dead, and it died when the Supreme Court granted the president of the United States immunity for official acts
and then failed to define what the fuck official acts are.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States in July found that as long as something could be shaded as an “official” act,
prosecution was off the table.

The ruling obliterated key parts of the criminal indictment brought against Trump in the Jan. 6 case by then-special counsel Jack Smith.

And Trump’s victory in November means he’ll likely never face federal charges.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-fanone-jan-6-anniversary-donald-trump-immunity_n_6778641ce4b03c84a28dacc5

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Markus Beckedahl
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Mark Zuckerberg kündigt an, dass Meta seine Contentregeln bei den Themen Gender und Migration ändern wird, weil sich der „Mainstream-Debatte“ verschoben hätte.

Damit soll es einfacher sein, seine Meinung frei äußern zu können.

Auf deutsch heißt das: Rechter Hass wird jetzt noch mehr toleriert.

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