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Signal Messaging App Adds Face-Blurring Feature to Hide Identity of Protesters

The Signal messaging app introduced a feature this week that will help protesters shield their identities. When activated, the feature uses facial detection technology to automatically blur faces in pictures, hindering law enforcement efforts to identify violent rioters and looters. According to the company, “One immediate thing seems clear: 2020 is a pretty good year to cover your face.”

According to a blog post on the Signal website, a new feature on the smartphone application will make it easier for users to blur faces in photos. Signal, which launched in 2014, offers users greater privacy than other messaging services through encryption technology.

On Wednesday, Signal announced in a blog post that it supports the protesters that have taken to the streets in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

To ensure privacy, Signal noted that the face-blurring function is performed on the user’s smartphone. This means that the original image will not be transmitted to Signal’s servers.

Signal Messaging App Adds Face-Blurring Feature to Hide Identity of Protesters
 
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PA Gov. Tom Wolf Marches with Protesters After Slamming Business Owners as Cowardly, Selfish for Reopening

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) joined a large gathering of protesters in Harrisburg on Wednesday, just weeks after slamming local leaders and business owners as “cowardly” for moving to reopen their counties and businesses outside of his far-reaching lockdown orders.

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Wolf, who threatened business owners who signaled they would move to reopen their businesses outside of his guidelines, marched with protesters in Harrisburg on Wednesday, seemingly unbothered by the stark violations to his own orders.

Dauphin County, home of Harrisburg, moved to the yellow phase last week, which prohibits large gatherings of more than 25:


Photos show Wolf congregating with a large crowd, which is prohibited under the yellow phase of reopening. Another participant in the background can be seen holding a sign reading, “Blue Lives Murder”:

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, the nation’s first openly transgender public health secretary, defended Wolf’s seeming violation of his own orders and warnings.​
 
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I sure hope all the Dem politicians realize that the genie is out of the bottle, the cows are out of the barn and Elvis has left the building, regarding all their stay at home lockdowns.😂
 
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NCFisher said:
For al layman, I think I’ve a decent grasp.

For instance, unlike “20 year prosecutor” AG Ellison, I might have reconsidered the Murder 3 charge; under MN law the law is for reckless, dangerous actions not directed at a single person; and therefore a defective charge, a misapplication.

Ellison had already stated his logic for updating the murder charge which rests upon proving the police engaged in felonious assault, which relieves the requirement for intent to kill under the Murder 2 charge. He has retained the Manslaughter 2 charge which, unless the jury buys into felonious assault, is the most likely – and most fitting – charge. As stated prior, that assumes there’s no indication Chauvin intended to kill Floyd. It also assumes Floyd’s health and intoxication are not considered material under either charge.

How am I doing, Counselor?

Next, the other three officers face the same 40 years under the murder 2 charge. If the jury doesn’t buy the foundation assault charge, oops! Aside from that, what warrants murder aid/abet besides being there? Chauvin was the senior officer. It’s reported at least one of the officers asked or requested if they should turn Floyd over, that he appeared in mental distress, which Chauvin either rejected or replied he was fine or something to that effect. At one point two other officers were assisting securing Floyd, how long they did so I don’t know. I think they’ve also been overcharged.

Floyd was being restrained, I’ve seen no evidence he was being beaten or otherwise action indicating physical harm was intended him. I think an impartial jury should have a damned hard time coming to a felon assault conclusion. I'm not alone; some 'legal experts' are questioning the charges. Any objective prosecutor should be. Ellison admits the new charge is an uphill climb, though couching it in allusion to how hard it is to convict cops. Maybe cops are hard to convict because overcharging and that rule of law thing, eh?

Lastly, I've had my fill of expert "career prosecutors". Rosenstein yesterday addressed the same legion of former prosecutors who call for Barr to resign and that Trump should be removed on obstruction of justice. As if we needed more proof of their activism rather than adherence or knowledge of the law, especially regarding the executive branch.

And that can’t have been a real question; of course I want your assholish best. Anything less would disappoint me. I figure an actual lawyer, even one who claimed (the Mueller and FBI investigations) that "Trump and his associates got treated the way any suspected criminal would be treated anywhere in America", must eventually find a nut.
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This is the first Minnesota case law result for “lesser included offense of second degree murder:“

State v. Leinweber, 228 NW 2d 120 - Minn: Supreme Court 1975 - Google Scholar

The first sentences of the case lay out the procedural posture, starting with the indicted charges and the result at the trial level:

“Defendant, Harry Alexander Leinweber, was charged by information with murder in the second degree for the shooting death in June 1971 of his wife. Following an 18-day trial, the jury found him guilty of the lesser offense of murder in the third degree, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for an indeterminate term of not more than 25 years.

So the prosecutor “introduced” the charge of second degree murder and lost. But the guy didn’t walk, like you said he should. The defendant still got convicted of a lesser offense. He got a 25 year sentence.

Turns out the judge, consistent with Minnesota law (and as far as I know, the law in all 50 states) instructed the jury on lesser included offenses. They convicted him of a lesser offense, just like I said they could and just like the state’s attorney general would know that they could.

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But wait, there’s more: Mr. Leinweber agreed with you and thought this was an affront to justice. He appealed. But his lawyer wasn’t aware of this “overcharged defendant walks if not convicted of top charge” silver bullet, so he appealed on the grounds that the judge didn’t charge enough lesser included offenses.

And the Supreme Court of Minnesota, instead of asking “what is a lesser included offense,” agreed! This man got a new trial because the judge didn’t instruct the jury about enough alternative crimes.

So this idea that the perp walks if the prosecutor fails to prove the charge on the indictment is news to the prosecutor, defense attorney, trial judge, jury, appellate judges, and Supreme Court of Minnesota. And that has been the case since 1975!

This cop may very well earn a full acquittal.* In fact, for reasons I wrote out earlier, I’d be more surprised by a conviction, even for any lesser included, than I would by a straight acquittal. But the odds that it will have anything to do with this charging decision are extremely remote, because the jury will be instructed on lesser included offenses, consistent with Minnesota law. They’ll be instructed on third degree murder and any other lesser included required under Minnesota law.

You clearly have a romanticized view of the criminal legal system that probably developed from watching Law & Order reruns. Take a day off from Dunning & Kruger, go down to your local courthouse, and watch a day of the lowest level criminal court you can find. Then come back and tell me how much I don’t know about how great suspected criminals are treated in America.

*- although suspect your interpretation of the necessary evidence for a conviction on murder 2 is erroneous as well. Those issues tend to vary slightly on a state-state basis and I don’t care to go down that rabbit hole.
 
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'Practice an eye-gouge': Project Veritas infiltrates Antifa's undercover training

Oregon’s notoriously secretive Rose City Antifa meets regularly “like a business” to train in weapons and tactics, including eye-gouging, as well as how to engage in violence without getting caught, according to a video released Thursday by Project Veritas.

In what may be the first video of Antifa’s inner workings, the hidden-camera footage showed what was described as training sessions — in some cases using PowerPoint — by Rose City Antifa leaders inside a Portland, Oregon, bookshop before a room of apparently young, white recruits.

“Practice things like an eye gouge. It takes very little pressure to injure someone’s eyes,” said a man identified as Nicholas Cifuni in a “recon and tactics” class.

He was also recorded on audio delivering a profanity-laced warning to recruits about being too obvious while engaging in violence lest they draw the attention of police.

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“Don’t be that f***ing guy with the ********* spiked brass knuckles getting photos taken of you,” he said. “Police are going to be like, perfect we can prosecute these f**s, look how violent they are, and not that we’re not, but we need to f**g hide that sh**.”

A heavily disguised insider wearing a black “Rose City Antifa” hoodie said in an interview that he was a “prospect for Rose City Antifa,” recruited on ProtonMail. He was later told to meet an Antifa recruiter at a Starbucks.

“How violent is antifa or Rose City Antifa in particular? They do not hesitate to either push back or incite some kind of violence,” said the insider. “In our classes and in our meetings, before we do any sort of demonstration of black bloc, we talk about weapons detail and what we carry and what we should have.”

Said an instructor identified as Ashes on the undercover video: “The whole goal of this, right, is to go out and do dangerous things as safely as possible.”

Mr. Cifuni also told activists to “consider destroying your enemy,” rather than showing off boxing or kickboxing moves.

The insider expressed surprise at how organized the group was, speculating that Antifa may be receiving outside support, in contrast to its image as hierarchy-rejecting street anarchists.

“With Rose City Antifa, it seems much more structured, almost like a company or like a business,” said the insider. “I feel like there is some type of outside funding, influence or resources being used.”

‘Practice an eye-gouge’: Project Veritas infiltrates Antifa’s undercover training
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Would that be like a Three Stooges eye gouge? I’ve got this picture of them practicing the block like Curly used to do when Moe went to poke him in the eyes.
 
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Calls today at Floyd's Memorial Service for a march on Washington August 28. That is the anniversary of the original Million Man March, and one day after the GOP Convention if they keep the original North Carolina dates.
 
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Calls today at Floyd's Memorial Service for a march on Washington August 28. That is the anniversary of the original Million Man March, and one day after the GOP Convention if they keep the original North Carolina dates.
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They planning on dragging this out awhile huh?
 
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Just how low will the leftist propaganda machine stoop? Slimy belly slithering low comes to mind. In light of the uproar created by the viral video showing the Captain kneeling at the feet of protesters the leftists have decided to one up themselves.

There’s now a video circulating of a group of “National Guard” soldiers in California kneeling to support the protests. They say that the devil is in the details and darn those pesky little military details, you’d think a Hollyweird costume department should know better.

First clue to fakeness, unbloused boots on several of the actors... Duh!
Biggest clue to fakeness, the unit patch on the actor located at the nearest right side in the video. When did we deploy the 1st ID to the protests and when did BRO become a National Guard Unit? I hope somebody gives FT. Riley a courtesy call about losing their Division.🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂😂
 
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