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Friday, June 4, 2021

Moment Utah 'child snatcher' is arrested after hero teacher armed with GUN 'stopped him abducting girl, 11, from elementary school playground

Police arrested Ira Cox-Berry, 41, after he allegedly snatched an 11-year-old girl while she was playing on the playground at Lincoln Elementary School in Ogden
Before Cox-Berry could get away with the girl an armed school employee shouted and demanded he leave and ushered students into a nearby classroom
After the children were inside the school, Cox-Berry approached the school building and began punching the window in an attempt to force his way inside
The school worker, who has a concealed-weapons permit, pulled out his gun and held off the 41-year-old while he called 911
Police arrived and arrested Cox-Berry after a brief struggle and charged him with attempted child kidnapping

This is the dramatic moment an alleged child snatcher was arrested after an armed teacher stopped him abducting an 11 year-old girl from a school playground.

Ira Cox-Berry, 41, was filmed being cuffed and put into a police car in Ogden, Utah, after Tuesday's alleged abduction, which police say was foiled by a hero teacher at Lincoln Elementary School, which his alleged victim attends.

Cox-Berry is said to have attempted to yank the girl away from the playground during recess, only for the armed employee to shout at him to leave her alone.

When the 41-year-old let the schoolgirl go, the teacher ushered her and 19 other students into a nearby classroom, Ogden City Police Department said in a statement.

Police arrested 41-year-old Ira Cox-Berry (pictured) and charged him with attempted child kidnapping

An armed school employee at Lincoln Elementary School (pictured) in Ogden held off an attempted kidnapping suspect with a firearm as he waited for police to arrive

After the children were inside the school, Cox-Berry approached the school building and began punching the window in an attempt to force his way inside.

That was when the teacher, who has a concealed-weapons permit, pulled out his gun and held off the 41-year-old while he called 911.

DailyMail.com spoke to the teacher involved on Thursday afternoon. He asked not to be identified over fears for his future career prospects.

But Lt Brian Eynon of Ogden City PD told ABC4 that the teacher was a 'hero,' whose actions were covered by the law.

He said: 'This employee is protected under the Second Amendment. He followed all policy and procedure at the school, and in this particular case, did everything that he should have done to protect the innocent lives of the children at the school.

'And in this case, it is likely that a life was saved or injury to a life was prevented due to the actions of this heroic...

Government Seeks Retribution for the Biden Resistance

The prosecution of the Oath Keepers is critical in fueling the notion that groups of armed, pro-Trump vigilantes organized an assault on the seat of American democracy.

The U.S. government’s vengeance case against the Oath Keepers, a group that publicly declared its opposition to Joe Biden’s presidency, is now in its fourth iteration with no end in sight.

Biden’s Justice Department, led by a man denied a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016 by Senate Republicans and a woman loyal to both Barack Obama and Robert Mueller, is sparing no resource to destroy the lives of Americans tied to the group that allegedly “stormed” the Capitol on January 6.

Last week, Channing Phillips, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia overseeing the sprawling investigation into the events of January 6, filed another superseding indictment against the Oath Keepers while adding new defendants. Four men have been arrested since May 27; the total number of defendants is 16 and counting.

The Oath Keepers, as the media reminds us daily, pose a mortal threat to the country. As NPR recently warned, it is “one of the largest anti-government extremist groups in the far-right patriot militia movement.” The group’s real crime, of course, is opposing Joe Biden; after the election, a founder of the Oath Keepers said the group would “resist” Biden’s presidency, an act of defiance considered mandatory in many quarters when it was directed at the Trump Administration from the Left.
Indispensible to the Narrative

So, retaliation is underway. The first grand jury indictment was filed one week after Inauguration Day; three alleged Oath Keepers—Thomas Caldwell, Jessica Watkins, and Donovan Crowl—were charged with four trespassing and disorderly conduct offenses.

“The Oath Keepers are a large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been co-opted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights,” Michael Sherwin, the prosecutor in charge of the early stage of the investigation who bragged about a “shock and awe” manhunt leading up to Biden’s inauguration, wrote in the original charging document. “The organization’s name alludes to the oath sworn by members of the military and police to defend the Constitution ‘from all enemies, foreign and domestic.’”

Since then, the Justice Department has tacked on a total of 13 counts and 13 more defendants with warnings of more to come. The prosecution of the Oath Keepers is critical in fueling the notion that groups of armed, pro-Trump vigilantes organized an assault on the seat of...

Peaceful Capitol Protester Threatened With 20 Yrs In Prison For Taking Selfie And Praying On Senate Floor Takes Plea Deal

Peaceful Jan 6 Capitol protester Paul Allard Hodgkins was maliciously overcharged by the feds with "obstructing an official proceeding of Congress" and faced 20 years in prison for the crime of taking a selfie on the Senate floor with others as they "cheered and said prayers."

Hodgkins only spent 15 minutes inside "the People's House" but after being threatened with two decades in prison he accepted a plea deal on Wednesday leaving him facing some "15 to 21 months [in prison] under federal guidelines."

From The Washington Post, "Tampa man pleads guilty to felony in Jan. 6 Capitol riot; his recommended prison sentence could set bar for other cases":

A Tampa man who carried a Trump flag into the well of the Senate on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty Wednesday to one felony count of storming the Capitol to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, did not enter a cooperation deal with prosecutors, and he is not accused of any other wrongdoing or involvement with extremist groups.

In admitting to the stiffest felony count charged by prosecutors against individuals not otherwise accused of conspiracy or violence in the Capitol riot, Hodgkins faces a prison sentence of 15 to 21 months under federal guidelines. His sentencing is poised to become a test case watched by other defendants deciding whether to accept pleas, several defense lawyers said.

“I have decided that I will accept this plea offer, and I will plead guilty to charge one,” Hodgkins told U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss.

Hodgkins’s attorney, Patrick Leduc, said he would seek a lower sentence at a sentencing hearing as soon as July 19, and he asked the judge to waive a $7,500 to $75,000 fine because his client also agreed to pay $2,000 in restitution for his share of riot damage to the Capitol.

[...] “Paul is an Eagle Scout with no prior record, a working Joe who is a crane operator at a steel processing plant,” who spent 15 minutes inside the Capitol, Leduc said.

[...] Nearly half the defendants face only misdemeanor charges likely to carry no prison time for first offenders. However, about 200 are charged with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress and are accused of intending to impede or interfere with Congress’s confirmation of the electoral vote count. The charge carries a maximum 20-year prison term.

The threat of heavy jail time led to the first guilty plea stemming from Jan. 6 by Jon Ryan Schaffer, described in court documents as a founding member of the Oath Keepers. Schaffer agreed on April 16 to cooperate fully with prosecutors and is among at least 19 members of the right-wing group whose members or associates have been charged with planning for violence in the Capitol attack. Schaffer, 53, a guitarist and songwriter for the heavy metal band Iced Earth, could face roughly four years in prison, although if his cooperation is...

These next revelations are stunning. Yesterday, during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Dr. Fauci’s boss, Dr. Collins admitted the U.S. collaborated with the Wuhan lab, and they had no control over any funding or research.

Not only that, the deputy director of the Wuhan lab, a radical communist institute, told NIH in 2011 that there were no regulations over gain-of-function research.
Dr. Collins spoke with radio host Hugh Hewitt yesterday and admitted the U.S. collaborated with the Wuhan lab:

Well, we, when we give a grant, Hugh, it has terms attached to it of what it is that the grantee is supposed to be doing with those funds. And we require annual reports to see whether that in fact is what they have been doing. And we trust the grantee to be honest and not deceptive.

The grant funds that went to Wuhan, which were a subcontract from EcoHealth, were very specifically aimed to try to categorize viruses that they could isolate from bats in Chinese caves, which we had a good reason to want to know more about, given SARS and MERS that had come out of there.

And so, we basically had those criteria attached to the grant. And of course, the amount of money that we were providing to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, I’m sure, was a tiny fraction of their total funding. And we had no control over what else they were doing with those funds. That’s another thing we’d like to know more about, and an investigation might potentially tell us.

Collins also admitted that the Chinese Communist Party is involved in the Wuhan lab, but played down their influence. They had to know what the National Pulse reporter easily discovered — the lab is radically committed to the communist party agenda (see below).
When asked if the NIH would collaborate with other human rights abusers and tyrannies such as North Korea, Dr. Collins replied, “Probably not.” He then said...