On May 31 last year, 25-year-old Safarain Herring was shot in the head and dropped off at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago by a man named Michael Williams. He died two days later.

Chicago police eventually arrested the 64-year-old Williams and charged him with murder (Williams maintains that Herring was hit in a drive-by shooting). A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot.

How did they know that’s where the shooting happened? Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place.

Except that’s not entirely true, according to recent court filings.

That night, 19 ShotSpotter sensors detected a percussive sound at 11:46 p.m. and determined the location to be 5700 South Lake Shore Drive—a mile away from the site where prosecutors say Williams committed the murder, according to a motion filed by Williams’ public defender. The company’s algorithms initially classified the sound as a firework. That weekend had seen widespread protests in Chicago in response to George Floyd’s murder, and some of those protesting lit fireworks.

But after the 11:46 p.m. alert came in, a ShotSpotter analyst manually overrode the algorithms and “reclassified” the sound as a gunshot. Then, months later and after “post-processing,” another ShotSpotter analyst changed the alert’s coordinates to a location on South Stony Island Drive near where Williams’ car was seen on camera.

Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI (vice.com)

My long time suspicion about the efficacy of ShotSpotter has long been recorded in this blog. I have seen personally how inaccurate the system can be, but I did not know it could be so easily manipulated to create “evidence” to be used against citizens.

I know of cities that have dropped the system because it is both inaccurate and expensive, but now that it has been found out it is alterable, I do not know how any remaining customer cities can take the chance of having cases dropped because part of their important evidence can be changed to satisfy the need of a less than honorable LEO or prosecuting attorney. At best, cities will open themselves to magnificent lawsuits for false incarceration and at worse, human predators will be have to be released among the population and the erosion of the public trust will only get worse.

De Santis is a Fascist dictator because he is nor forcing people to vaccinate, wear masks or mandates new lockdowns.

If was a restaurateur who somehow managed to stay alive after pandemic shut downs and then idiotic regulations, the last thing I want to do is risk income by becoming a COVID Enforcement Agent for some power hungry assholes in government.

As a consumer, I believe I have a better chance of ending up in the hospital with a case of food poisoning from Chez CDC than catching the Kung-flu in an eatery.

Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers should have their firearms taken away.

No personal security and safety for the rest of us? Cool. None for you then.

— Rob Forbes (@RobForbesDJ) July 31, 2021

Don’t want to mask or vax?  You get to lose your right to own a gun.

The thing is, the way the Left has been treating masks is fundamentally backwards from gun ownership.

The way we see it is, a mask protects me, a vaccine protects me, a gun protects me.  I use these to protect myself.

If I choose not to mask or get vaxxed why should it matter, because if they are masked and vaxxed I am only risking myself,  right?

No.

The Left admits that want you to wear a mask to protect themselves from you.  They want you to get vaccinated to protect themselves from you.  Their masks and their vaccines don’t protect them, they are relying on you masking and vaxing to protect them.  This turns the entire idea of protection against disease on its head.

So you must actively protect them from you with a mask and vaccine or you will be denied the right to protect yourself with a gun.

If Robert feels this strongly about it, he can try and take guns from people not wearing masks himself.

And to all those readers who keep commenting “why pay attention to these internet randos saying this wackadoodle shit.”

Welcome to the new Left.  Some internet activist comes up with a wackadoodle shit idea.  It goes around Leftist social media.  It makes it way to someone like Cori Bush or AOC, where it gets turned into a Cause célèbre.  This pushes the Overton window and the racial Left of the party steers the Democrat leadership in that direction.

Don’t underestimate the way the Left is driven by a social media echo chamber.

If you are trying to shame me in social media by posting kids accidentally shooting others, I will remind you over and over that your side has been the one opposing the Eddie Eagle program that teaches kid to stay away from guns and trying to defund Project Childsafe which distributes free gun locks to secure weapons from kids.

In fact, you are the ones killing the kids, not us. You are the bloodthirsty assholes. You need to have kids killed so you can post something besides your latest quiche recipe and why kale is good for masturbation.

Take a bow, King Herod.

Yesterday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters Tweeted this about the CDC eviction moratorium:

I don't buy that the CDC can't extend the eviction moratorium – something it has already done in the past! Who is going to stop them? Who is going to penalize them? There is no official ruling saying that they cannot extend this moratorium. C'mon CDC – have a heart! Just do it!

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) August 2, 2021

That is some brazen advocacy for tyranny.

She’s saying that even though the Supreme Court upheld ending the eviction moratorium, stating that the CDC had exceeded its existing statutory authority, the Supreme Court lacks the teeth to enforce their decision so President Biden and the CDC should just ignore the Supreme Court and do what they want anyway.

Today, President Joe Biden made this statement:

.@POTUS on targeted eviction moratorium: "The courts already ruled on the present eviction moratorium… I asked the CDC to go back and consider other options that may be available. You're going to hear from them what those other options are." https://t.co/83m7FGsBUd pic.twitter.com/swQZCnOQaR

— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2021

Holy fucking shit.

Biden is admitting that Constitutional scholars and the Supreme Court said that what he wants to do is illegal, but he’s going to have the CDC do it anyway, because fuck ’em, who’s going to stop him while he runs out the clock.

This is the essence of despotism.

The President is knowingly, willfully, deliberately, and brazenly violating the law, but doesn’t care because he’s in control of Federal Law Enforcement and his party is won’t impeach him, so he can do what he wants because nobody is going to stop him.

The CDC released its new moratorium.

Here are some of the standards by which people are protected from eviction:

(4) What does “taking into account other nondiscretionary expenses” mean?

If a tenant spends $1,000 per month on Amazon prime and only pays $300 in rent, is that allowed?

“But it’s for my stay-at-home job.  Prove it’s not.”

(5) If the eviction means the person has to move back in with their parents, they can’t be evicted?

(6) Here’s the current CDC map of COVID transmission:

Everywhere that is red or yellow is substantial or high rates of transmission and renters cannot be evicted.

Pretty much most of the country is under the new moratorium, and the burden will be on landlords to prove that their tenants are deadbeats wasting their money instead of paying rent and that if they are evicted they can still land on their feet in a new place.  That will burden will be so costly that I doubt many landlords will take action.  Put money into the legal fight to prove their tenants are in fact deadbeats just to have a judge rule against them because they are in a red zone or whatever and be out even more than had they not tried to evict them.

And what about the landlords that do evict people?

Fuck them into the ground, that’s what.

Understand that this was not a law passed by Congress.

This is an order signed by Rochelle Walensky, M.D., Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  An unelected bureacurat.

But under Biden, it has the force of law, because fuck SCOTUS, he can do what he wants.

New levels of Despotism.