HAKE NEWS 06/25/21 Fri. Indiana Grandmother Sentenced for January 6 Protest
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Hake News for The Jesse Lee Peterson Show, Friday, June 25, 2021
End of Hour 1: Kangaroo court for Trump-supporting Democrat grandmother!
End of Hour 2: Homelessness is out-of-control, and phony politicians enable it!
After JLP, catch The Hake Report.
06/25/21 Fri. Hour 1
Kangaroo court for Trump-supporting Democrat grandmother!
MOSTLY PEACEFUL CAPITOL PROTEST FALLOUT
(Fox News) An Indiana grandmother was the first to be convicted in Capitol protest/riot cases; (she was interviewed by Laura Ingraham)
(IndyStar) 49-year-old Anna Morgan-Lloyd of Bloomington was the first to be sentenced among the mostly peaceful protestors. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 3 years probation, forced to pay a $500 fine, has to do 40 hours of community service, and is forbidden from buying a firearm.
Newsweek’s Jenni Fink and her editor call this woman a Capitol Rioter [Avoiding] Jail Time for [Her] Role in the QUOTE-UNQUOTE "Insurrection" (which it was not).
She pleaded guilty to only one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building — trespassing, per ABC7.
GOV’T LIES
Reagan Judge Royce Lamberth handed down this ridiculous sentence, saying, "This wasn’t a peaceful demonstration. It was not an accident that it turned violent. I also think some of these defendants in these cases are not gonna do what you did [and] say they did anything wrong."
Gov’t prosecutor lawyers/liars said: "what the Defendant initially described [on Facebook] as 'the most exciting day of my life' was, in fact, a tragic day for our nation—a day of riotous violence, collective destruction, and criminal conduct by a frenzied and lawless mob." LIES.
HER STORY
A registered Democrat, she supported Trump for "standing up for what we believe in." She entered the Capitol to keep an older woman they met safe (and make sure she didn’t fall). She was surprised when she got arrested (in February, a month afterward). But she said she was wrong for "stepping even one foot into the building" and cooperated with FBI agents.
"Where I was at, we've seen nobody damage anything and people were actually very polite," she told Laura Ingraham; a man accidentally knocked her cell phone onto the ground and retrieved it for her.
Asked if she thought the protests were "an insurrection" as described, she said there was no hint of such drama in the part of the complex where she was.
"I can only talk about the area I was in and I don't believe it. ... People were not breaking the windows," she said.
Morgan-Lloyd told Laura Ingraham she was concerned her own attorney thought she was somehow a racist but found personal comfort in the truth that she is not. SMH, EVIL.
RIDICULOUS BOOKS
Ahead of the sentencing, Morgan-Lloyd read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by writer Dee Brown, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Schindler's List [or Schindler’s Ark, historical fiction, or nonfiction??] by Thomas Keneally to "educate herself on 'government policy' toward Native Americans, African Americans and European Jews," according to her court-appointed public defender. She submitted reports (LIKE SHE’S A CHILD IN SCHOOL) on the film adaptation of Schindler's List and the book Just Mercy to the judge, saying Just Mercy made her rethink her position on the death penalty.
In a letter to the judge she wrote: "My lawyer has given me names of books and movies to help me see what life is like for others in our country. I've learned that even though we live in a wonderful country, things still need to improve. People of all colors should feel as safe as I do to walk down the street."
NOT READ: SOCIAL PUNISHMENT
Referencing her letter to the judge, prosecutors said it indicated an "important level of contrition"... she posed no threat to the public and appeared to have tempered her boldness...
Morgan-Lloyd later said that after her arrest, she was promptly fired by the hospital she had worked at for more than a decade – adding that the medical center wouldn't let her retrieve her belongings and instead shipped them to her home via Federal Express.
Morgan-Lloyd said she is still unemployed and that her husband has suggested she move on to being a grandmother full-time instead.
NOT READ: GRAND-STANDING JUDGE
(FreedomHeadlines / Daily Wire) “Some of these defendants are not going to do what you did. They’re not going to say they did anything wrong. They, to this day, would still participate in the demonstration,” Lamberth said, according to CNN. “… I don’t want to create the impression that probation is the automatic outcome here, because it’s not going to be.”
Lamberth also took the opportunity to take a shot at unnamed Republicans who he said were downplaying the events of January 6.
“I don’t know what planet they were on,” Lamberth said, without naming a single GOP lawmaker. He added that videos from the incident “will show the attempt of some congressman to rewrite history that these were tourists walking through the capitol is utter nonsense.”
06/25/21 Fri. Hour 2
Homelessness is out-of-control, and phony politicians enable it!
After JLP, catch The Hake Report.
HOMELESSNESS
Los Angeles Sheriff Urges State of Emergency on Homelessness
(The Epoch Times) In an unusual move, Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva has sent a letter to the Board of Supervisors. He told reporters, “We’ve been inundated with calls, ... concerns, ... images from the news, from people picking up the phone, emailing, sending us letters, about what’s going on in [the famed beach town of] Venice [inundated with tents, trash, needles, drugs, and bums]. And that is a microcosm of what’s going on throughout the entire county of Los Angeles. Enough is enough, we need to kick this into high gear.”
There’s an estimated 200 homeless people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk and 2,000 throughout the neighborhood, making it the second largest concentration of homeless people after Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles… getting attention from the sheriffs’ Homeless Outreach and Services Team (HOST).
With the state of emergency, the county will be eligible for FEMA funds, since county resources are limited, he said.
A few Venice residents sounding the alarm for months, also part of the press conference! Chie Lunn, a teacher and member of the Venice Public Health & Safety Committee told The Epoch Times her “children were becoming more and more enclosed.”
“...I witnessed more people going inward [for] their safety and feeling like they couldn’t just walk outside their front doors,” she said.
She said the Venice Beach Park called “a place for kids to go during COVID to feel safe and to get internet access,” by Councilmember Mike Bonin.
“But yet at that very park we had thr ee RVs exploding [METH LABS??], we had drug use, we had RVs staying on the streets. ...our [police and] sanitation [crews] … cannot keep up with the amount of ... people dropping off stuff and using our streets as a dumping ground for their trash,” she said. DISGUSTING.
IT’S A RACKET
“It is a national disgrace,” Villanueva said. “All those 501 C-3 organizations … we’re going to talk about money; there is a homeless industrial complex, and they’re raking in money, not by the millions, not by the hundreds of millions, by the billions.”
Villanueva shared salary data equating to over $2.8 million of the top earning employees compensated by the Venice Family Clinic revenue, a nonprofit that provides healthcare to low-income residents in Venice.
Villanueva slammed the state’s “housing first” policy (the pretense that homelessness is just a housing crisis). Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond passed in 2016 by Angeleno voters to build 10,000 supportive housing units, has only constructed a total of three buildings.
“You cannot build your way out of homelessness,” Villanueva said. “It was the Los Angeles Homeless Authority themselves that said for every 100 [bums] that we house, they’re replaced by 120 [bums] on the street–that math seems to elude these people … our elected officials.”
On average, Los Angeles spends close to $1 billion annually on homeless services.
“In fact, we’re way past $2 billion this year because this is just half of one year, so the true numbers are way up here, as the problem grows, like clockwork, year after year. So, you tell me, you think it’s time to regulate public space?” he said.
NOT READ: PHONY POLITICIAN
In response to the press conference, Councilmember Bonin released a statement: “Sheriff Villanueva and I are very different. I believe in treating people humanely and with dignity, whether they are housed or unhoused. I believe everyone has a right to housing, food, and health care, and I applaud those who provide it. And I believe (and evidence shows) that the best, most effective, least expensive way to end homelessness is with housing, not with handcuffs.” WHAT A DECEIVER.
NOT READ: MEANWHILE, IN REALITY
Bob Carlson, owner of a local skate shop called Arbor Venice, has been victimized several times by homeless people outside his shop. Two weeks ago, his beloved security guard “T” was brutally attacked by a homeless person who was high on drugs.
“He stabbed him multiple times in the head tearing up pieces of his scalp,” Carlson told reporters. He paused.
“Sorry, this is this is tough … these are people who work for me, and I feel responsible for,” he said. “He tore open his wrist and sliced his finger to the bone and cut him in several other places across his arms and torso.”
Carlson, who’s lived in Venice Beach for the last 25 years, said as a skateboarder he’s had multiple interactions with police officers in his life that were less than perfect.
“It takes a lot for me to stand up here, and give that man my thanks very publicly, but that’s what I’m here to do,” Carlson said pointing to Villanueva.
“The people of Venice are scared and walk around in fear of being attacked, our tourists are gone, our restaurants and businesses are struggling. And one of the cultural hearts, the arts community of Los Angeles is being decimated, and something has to be done about it,” he said.
MORE: PHONY POLITICIAN
Bonin was granted $5 million by the Budget & Finance Committee to ramp up the homeless efforts specifically in Venice. The councilmember has been staunchly opposed to law enforcement’s involvement in the effort.
“The ‘Venice Beach Encampment to Home’ program will not be led by law enforcement, nor driven by threats of arrest or incarceration. We will offer what works: housing, with counseling, or mental health services, substance abuse recovery services, and anything else needed to successfully transition people into housing,” Bonin wrote in an email to recipients on June 22.
Bonin plans to reach every person on the boardwalk by deploying outreach workers from St. Joseph Center for six weeks under the new plan. Residents are thankful for the help, but say it comes on the heels of ignored cries for help.
MORE: REALITY
LAPD Capt. Steve Embrich told the Venice Neighborhood Council earlier this month that felony arrests are up 68 percent and misdemeanor arrests are up 355 percent, but it doesn’t make much of a difference when they’re released the same day.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, there have been zero arrests made during the HOST efforts.
Lt. Geff Deedrick, who leads the HOST team, told The Epoch Times “we do what we do regardless of the other issues surrounding this topic, in a political effort, in a sense that politics doesn’t factor into the human condition.”
He said so far, they’ve done seven outreaches and connected 15 people to housing, and four people have been reunified with their families through West Coast Care.
“We’ve talked to roughly 140, we’re at 10 percent right there, but it’s a preliminary conversation,” he said.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
As Independence Day draws near, Villanueva and his team have been in Venice for the last two weeks talking to business owners and homeless individuals to better understand their concerns. The goal is to have all the encampments cleared by that date, with every homeless person connected to housing or rehabilitation resources.
And for the “nomadic travelers” who don’t want to move? Villanueva said they will once again enforce the “laws that exist already.”
“You don’t have a right to negatively impact the community and claim public space as your own,” he said.
THE LAW / LOCAL CODE
Villanueva cited California Gov. Code 26.600 as reason for the department’s authority to act. The code says that the sheriff “shall preserve peace, and to accomplish this object may sponsor, supervise, or participate in any project of crime prevention, rehabilitation of persons previously convicted of crime, or the suppression of delinquency.”
“The assumption is that every single subdivision of L.A. County has a police force and they’re doing their job, or better yet they’re permitted to do their job by the political oversight,” he said.
“In this case, we have an absolute failure of political oversight, who has handcuffed the LAPD [who] was more than capable to get the job done and regulate public space.”
06/25/21 Fri. Hour 3
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