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,9-20-20 Porsche Bennet, mother of 3, on 8-12-20 saw police taking a Black man to the ground. Out of instinct, Bennett said, she pulled out her phone. The video she streamed to Facebook that night shows a Kenosha officer punching the handcuffed man twice in the ribs. Ordered to disperse while filming from about 15 feet away, Bennett yells: “We’re not moving until we know he’s safe!” An officer replies: “Do you want to get shot?” Instead Bennett was arrested by her home in Kenosha, Wisconsin by the white officers. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TGmeX3QdXKwJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kenosha-police-history-bias-brutality/2020/09/20/05a081e0-f769-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ………………………………….......................... “Over the last 16 years over 30 Russian dissidents, defectors & political opponents of Putin have wound up poisoned, falling out of windows or victims of bombings,” the Florida Republican tweeted Friday. “So let [there] be no doubt who poisoned Navalny,” Acting Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) added. “As always the price for standing up for freedom comes at a heavy cost,“ Sen. Graham (R-SC) said. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/21/alexei-navalny-poisoning-no-doubt-whos-responsible/ ………………………………….....................… 9-9-20 “I would guess it would make the Russian people pretty upset when they find out how many billions not only Putin but his close associates in his inner circle, how much those folks are worth,” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and chairman of the subcommittee for Europe, told the Washington Examiner. “I think that would be effective. We need to make sure that our sanctions are targeted and, hopefully very precisely, on Putin and the people that prop him up — make those people feel a lot of pain,” Johnson said. He also suggested that Putin has "stashed" his wealth in foreign accounts. "I'm not saying it's an easy investigation. I think we probably know more than what we reveal.…I think primarily it’s (the poisoning) directed to anybody else who just might step out of line and try and replace or support people like Navalny,” Johnson said. Navalny, the country’s foremost anti-corruption activist, was pursuing prior to his poisoning last month. Prior to the attack he was working on a documentary about corruption in Siberia — focused on politicians from Putin’s United Russia party, with the explicit goal of undermining the Kremlin chief’s power base in regional elections this month. “The United Russia deputies who sit in these [regional] parliaments are the actual backbone of the entire Putin’s (sic) regime,” the documentary says. “They are not cogs, but the foundation on which the ruling party, which has prevented us from living normally for 20 years, is built.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/senior-gop-senator-wants-us-to-retaliate-against-putin-over-alexei-navalny-poisoning …………....................................... 9-8-20 “If the Russian government is once again determined to have used a chemical weapon against one of its own nationals, additional sanctions should be imposed,” Representatives Eliot Engel, the Democratic committee chairman, and Michael McCaul, the panel’s top Republican, said in a letter to Trump. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-usa/u-s-house-members-ask-trump-to-probe-navalny-poisoning-suggest-sanctions-idUSKBN25Z2RN ……………………………................................. As they sat for photographs at the start of their first formal meeting in nearly a year, the US president lightheartedly sought common ground with Putin at the expense of the journalists around them in Osaka. “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia but we do,” Trump said…. It is a year to the day since five Capital Gazette employees were killed in their newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland. The shooting led to the organisation Reporters Without Borders adding the US to its list of the five deadliest countries for journalism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/28/smirking-trump-jokes-to-putin-dont-meddle-in-us-election-g20 ………………………………………….….............................

Jarrod Ramos, 38, killed 5 on 6-28-18. In 2012, Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and a columnist over a July 2011 article that covered a criminal harassment charge against him.…Marquardt said he wasn’t surprised to hear Ramos identified as the alleged gunman, saying he started harassing the paper and its staff shortly after the 2011 article. The harassment escalated for years with online threats, Marquardt said. “I was seriously concerned he would threaten us with physical violence,” Marquardt said from his retirement home in Florida. “I even told my wife, ‘We have to be concerned. This guy could really hurt us.’ ” Marquardt said he called the Anne Arundel County police about Ramos in 2013, but nothing came of it. He consulted the paper's lawyers about filing a restraining order but decided against it. “I remember telling our attorneys 'This is a guy who is going to come in and shoot us,” he said. Ramos’ aunt Vielka Ramos, 59, said she couldn’t believe he was the suspected gunman. She said her nephew had a good childhood, growing up in Severn and attended Arundel High School. “He was very intelligent. He would try to communicate with people but he was a loner,” she said. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ramos-search-20180628-story.html …………….................................... “You’ve crippled my life for a year, and now I’m going to cripple your company forever,” now-convicted murderer Jarrod Ramos wrote in an October 2012 letter to former Capital Gazette editor and publisher Thomas Marquardt….a July 2011 column published by The Capital, headlined “Jarrod wants to be your friend,” that detailed circumstances behind a guilty plea in a harassment suit levied against him by a former Arundel High School classmate. The piece describes messages he sent to his harassment victim, whom Capital News Service is not naming, in a months-long cyber-barrage that the column reported “caused her to live in fear for her safety.” https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/12/26/capital-gazette-shooter-jarrod-ramos-was-concerned-about-sanity/ (A doctor has declared Ramos sane and fit to stand trial.)