Multiple Eyewitnesses Claim Unarmed Wichita Man had Hands Up Prior to Being Killed by Cops

By Jay Syrmopoulos

Wichita, Kansas ? Witnesses in the shooting death of unarmed 23-year-old John Paul Quintero have come forward to refute police statements regarding the shooting death of Quintero.

The incident, which took place on Saturday night, began when Quintero's family called 911, saying Quintero was under the influence of alcohol and had threatened them with a knife at a party.

According to police, Quintero was "belligerent" and wouldn't comply with the two officers who arrived at the scene eight minutes later, while seated in an SUV with his father, parked in front of the house.

Ted McAdams and his wife live in the unit behind where the party was going on. They ran outside after they heard screaming. McAdams claims to have witnessed the tragic events leading up to the death of Quintero.

According to McAdams, Quintero was "trying to talk to the male officer with compliance" and "had his arms up until he got tasered, [when] his arms went down to his side."

Multiple witnesses have stated that Quintero had his hands up and seemed to be compliant, until another officer employed a taser on him, subsequently causing Quintero to lower his hands, which then lead to Martin shooting him in the chest with an AR-15, according to KAKE.com.

Police claim Quintero reached toward an officer?s waistband, but McAdams refutes that statement, claiming that he saw the incident and never saw Quintero make such a move.

It must be noted, that claiming a person reached for an officer?s waistband/weapon, is one of the standard police refrains when attempting to justify use of deadly force in the killing unarmed citizens.

A former state school board member from Wichita and vice chairman of the city's Racial Profiling Advisory Board, Walt Chappell, told the Wichita Eagle he had a feeling the officers "made a conscious decision to escalate rather than de-escalate."

The mere fact that the female officer walked up with a rifle "would indicate to me they were already loaded for bear," Chappell said.

McAdams says he?s not alone in thinking this situation was taken too far.

?After that all the neighbors and I threw a little fit at the cops because I?ve got a wife and a newborn and the safety issue and not just that, the way the cops handled themselves.?

He added, ?If he was told to do something, yeah he should?ve done it, but that officer had, to my advice and my suggestion, she shouldn?t have ever shot him.?

Another witness, Dustin Deckard, was driving home on Saturday afternoon when he witnessed a cop aiming her rifle at an unarmed man with his hands up.

"It was clearly a younger man in his early 20s of Hispanic descent, and he was wearing a blue jersey and he had his hands up," said Deckard, referring to the Wichita Police.

"He was behind the SUV, and the female officer was mostly directly in front of him, a little bit to his left. Both the officers were on either side of him, but he was facing the female officer who had her rifle up, and she was looking down the sight."

Deckard added, "It was very eerie, because the shooting must have occurred seconds after. When I passed, I slowed down, so I only got a couple seconds of a view."

Chappell made a very clear point when he stated,

"You don't go in ready to shoot first and ask questions later. There's a lot of things you can do before you ever pull out a weapon.?

The militarized, us vs. them, mindset of US cops, which escalate already tense situations into outright violent altercations, is a plague upon law enforcement and the public that they claim to serve.

Here is audio of the initial 9-1-1 call by the family. All they wanted was help in stopping a fight, instead, a young man was gunned down.

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Ohio Police Claim 17-Yr-Old Pot Dealing High School Student A Drug "Kingpin"

Chris | InformationLiberation

First off, if what police claim in this case is true, this young man is a brilliant entrepreneur who should be celebrated. Second, if police consider finding a high school student who amassed a measly $6,000 in cash a drug "kingpin," they're a complete laughingstock joke.

Via ABC News: Ohio High School Kingpin Arrested in Major Drug Bust:

Ohio police have arrested an alleged drug kingpin, a 17-year-old accused of running a multimillion dollar ring that distributed high-grade marijuana through two school districts and netted $20,000 a month.

When cops raided the boy's bedroom at his parents' home, they found over $6,000 in cash, prosecutors said.

Authorities have not released the student's name, because he was a 16-year-old minor at the time he committed the alleged drug deals. Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said the boy will be tried as juvenile.

Cops first became aware of a high-grade hydroponic strain of marijuana being sold for $350-$400 an ounce in the Mason school district near Cincinnati last year. An undercover agent began making buys at Mason High School, where the teenager was a student, and uncovered a dealing operation headed by the arrested student.

"The undercover officer uncovered six students or former students working for that individual and trafficking drugs in two school districts," Fornshell told ABC News.

"The group supplied an overwhelming amount of marijuana in the Mason and King school districts," Fornshell said.

The story goes on to detail how the student narced on his suppliers, six other adults were arrested and police allegedly found three grow houses where 600 plants were seized "with an estimated street value of $3 million."

Such "street value estimates" are always comically overinflated, regardless what we know for sure is the price of pot in the area is going to be higher as a result of this bust and that will create even more incentive for others to traffic in the harmless plant.
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"...the boy will be tried as [a] juvenile". Of course. One law for some, a different law for others. Is that what they call "equal protection"? this kid couldn't be a drug kingpin in a free nation where the law doesn't control what a man ingests. the police and the lawmakers they encourage made these laws that, made this kid rich. ,,,and there's many more like him. The only way to keep pot out of the hands of kids is to legalize or decriminalize it.

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Police Arrest Woman For Filming Them, Take Phone Out Of Her Bra, Claim That It Must Be Kept As 'Evidence'

by Mike Masnick

In the comments to our story last week about false arrests for filming police, someone pointed to yet another such story of a woman who was arrested for filming the police. Even worst, the police confiscated her phone -- which she had shoved into her bra -- and then have refused to return it, claiming that it's now "evidence" of a crime.

If there's any "good" news in this story, it's that the police chief immediately ordered an investigation into the officer who did this, and noted that it's legal to film police. Still, the details of what happened seem pretty crazy. As reported by the New Haven Independent (linked above):

?Stop filming right now!? Rubino ordered her.

?No this is my civil right,? she recalled saying. Gondola said she?s ?always on all these news sites? reading about recent cases in which cops got in trouble for snatching cameras from citizens.

?Well, I have to right to review it,? Rubino allegedly told her.

Gondola claimed she remained ?very quiet and calm? and ?pressed play? to show him the video. ?But I didn?t let him touch my phone.?

Rubino?s response, according to Gondola: ?It?s evidence of a crime. You need to give it to me right now.?

Her response to his response: ?I?m not giving you the phone.?

His next response: ?If you don?t give me the phone, you?re getting arrested.?

So Gondola slipped the phone into her bra. Rubino ?twisted my hand hard behind me and put the cuffs on me. Really tight. My wrists are black and blue,? she said.

Rubino next ordered a female officer to pat her down and commanded, ?I want that phone out of her bra.? The woman removed the phone. Rubino ?put it in his pocket,? Gondola said.

The article, written a few days later, notes that later on she demanded the phone back, and was once again told that it was "evidence" and that the only way she can get her phone back is to wait until she goes to court, and asks the judge to return the phone. At the very least, it sounds like she will be without her phone for well over a week. In these days, when phones are pretty central to a lot of people's lives, that can be a pretty big hardship... all for doing something perfectly legal: filming the police on duty.

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Virginia Cops Claim Amazing Pot-Sniffing Abilities

by Phillip Smith

Police officers in Chesapeake, Virginia, have developed the ability to smell marijuana in cars as they cruise down the highway, even when the police have their windows up. Or, at least, according to a report in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot this week, that's what they are claiming.

"We drive our patrol car with the vents on, pulling air from the outside in, directly into our faces," Officer Barrett Ring said late last year in court during a preliminary hearing, according to a transcript of the proceedings. "Commonly, we'll be behind vehicles that somebody in the vehicle is smoking marijuana, and we can smell it clear as day."

Smelling the odor of marijuana would create probable cause to stop and search a vehicle. Ring said police would follow a car until there were no other cars in the area so they could make sure it was indeed that vehicle from which the odor of weed was emanating.

Defense attorneys and civil libertarians are pronouncing themselves mind-boggled by the claim.

"The idea that police can drive behind a car and smell marijuana is preposterous," said Assistant Public Defender Matthew Taylor. "What do we need drug dogs for if (police) can drive behind cars and smell marijuana?"

The police were claiming powers verging on the "supernatural," he said.

"It stretches the imagination that the police can drive down the road and home in on a car," agreed ACLU of Virginia executive director Kent Willis.

Willis said that traffic stops based solely on an officer's sniffing from a police car will draw legal challenges. "Experts will have to tangle over this and decide," he predicted.

So far, no cases have been thrown out, although Taylor tried unsuccessfully to make that happen in a recent case. In that case, police claimed they smelled marijuana in a vehicle while driving down the highway and pulled it over. But the issue of their amazing olfactory abilities wasn't addressed by the court because police also said they smelled marijuana when they approached the vehicle on foot.

Other area defense attorneys who had cases where police made similar claims said they had not challenged the searches because police had reasons to conduct the traffic stops.

The practice is apparently limited to Chesapeake Police, according to the Virginian-Pilot's survey of local law enforcement agencies. Suffolk County prosecutor Phillips Ferguson said he hadn't heard of the practice, but it expected it to catch on.

"It's very creative policing," he said, but added that if police were using the moving automobile sniff as their as their sole basis for making a traffic stop, that might be successfully challenged. "I'm not saying they wouldn't have been justified in stopping the car, but it's pushing the line," Ferguson said.

Instead, he recommended that if police smell the odor of marijuana coming from a passing vehicle on the road, they find some other pretext to pull it over.

Public defender Taylor said he challenged the vehicle search in his case because he wanted to challenge the validity of the technique. "If cops can get away with this, they will have total authority," he said.

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It's actually pretty easy to smell someone smoking something in the car in front of you, if they have their windows down. But, I guess reason and logic don't help when writing obliviously moronic cop-hating articles. The point isn't that cannabis can be detected by it's strong odor...

The point is that the smell becomes impossible to hone in on when the wind has dispersed it out the window.

It could be coming from anywhere.

It also doesn't seem highly effective peace officer tactics to tail a car for as long as it takes for it to be the only vehicle on the road.

How far behind are they tailing? How windy is it? How fast is the vehicle travelling?

All of these things play a part in whether someone would not only be able to detect the odor of cannabis...but from where EXACTLY it may be coming.

This is bs, they are just trying to vaildate their illegal stops..

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FDA's New Claim: "Your Body Is a Drug--and We Have the Authority to Regulate It!"

by Alliance for Natural Health

In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs--and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!

We wish this were a joke, but it's the US Food and Drug Administration's latest claim in its battle with a Colorado clinic over its Regenexx-SD? procedure, a non-surgical treatment for people suffering from moderate to severe joint or bone pain using adult stem cells.

The FDA asserts in a court document that it has the right to regulate the Centeno-Schultz Clinic for two reasons:

Stem cells are drugs and therefore fall within their jurisdiction. (The clinic argues that stem cell therapy is the practice of medicine and is therefore not within the FDA's jurisdiction!)The clinic is engaging in interstate commerce and is therefore subject to FDA regulation because any part of the machine or procedure that originates outside Colorado becomes interstate commerce once it enters the state. Moreover, interstate commerce is substantially affected because individuals traveling to Colorado to have the Regenexx procedure would "depress the market for out-of-state drugs that are approved by FDA."
We discussed the very ambiguous issue of interstate commerce last September--it's an argument the FDA frequently uses when the basis for their claim is otherwise lacking. As we noted then, the FDA holds that an "interstate commerce" test must be applied to all steps in a product's manufacture, packaging, and distribution. This means that if any ingredient or tool used in the procedure in question was purchased out of state, the FDA would in its view have jurisdiction, just as they would if the final product had traveled across state lines.

This time the FDA just nakedly says in court documents that the agency wants to protect the market for FDA-approved drugs. No more beating around the bush--their agenda is right out in the open! This appears to be a novel interpretation of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), as evidenced by the government's failure to cite any judicial precedent for their argument.

The implication of the FDA's interpretation of the law, if upheld by the court, would mean that all food, drugs, devices, and biologic or cosmetic products would be subject to FDA jurisdiction. The FDA is expanding its reach even to commerce within the state, which we argue is far beyond its jurisdiction, in order to protect drug company profits.

Last year we ran a two-part series on the current status of federal and state law--and FDA jurisdiction--and how it affects integrative treatments (part one and part two).

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic takes your blood, puts it into a centrifuge machine that separates the stem cells, and a doctor puts them back in your body where there is damaged tissue. The clinic has argued numerous times that stem cells aren't drugs because they are components of the patient's blood from his or her own body.

The FDA says otherwise: "Stem cells, like other medical products that are intended to treat, cure, or prevent disease, generally require FDA approval before they can be marketed. At this time, there are no licensed stem cell treatments." There they go again, saying that components of your body are drugs and they have the authority to regulate them! It's the only way the agency can claim that adult stem cell therapy is within FDA's purview.

However, the agency seems to be of two minds. When ESPN magazine was doing a story on stem cell treatments, the FDA stated that US policy is to allow the injection of stem cells that are treated with "minimal manipulation," which federal regulations define as "processing that does not alter the relevant biological characteristics of cells or tissues"--which is certainly the case with the Regenexx clinic.

Despite this policy, FDA has been attacking the clinic for the past four years. They have tried injunctions and demanded inspections in their attempts to make the company bend; this court battle is merely the latest salvo.

The primary role of adult stem cells in a living organism is to maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found. The hard part has been to get enough of them. But new technology is giving doctors the ability to obtain more stem cells from a patient than previously thought possible, which is why we're now seeing new treatments. Blood, fat, or tissue is withdrawn from the patient, stem cells are obtained using one of these new processes, and the cells are injected back into the patient where they can repair the patient's tissue.

Gov. Rick Perry received this kind of stem cell therapy. We and others noted that the governor's defense of freedom of healthcare choice when it came to his own treatment was starkly at odds with his directive to administer HPV vaccines to young girls against their own (and their parents') wishes. It's also at odds with his support for some of the most egregious witch-hunters on the Texas State Medical Board, which he appoints.

Behind Perry's blatant inconsistency and the latest FDA attempted power grab lies the same problem: a medical system run by special interests under the leadership of the US government, the same government that is supposed to represent "we the people."

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We wrote to the FDA in 2009 requesting a position statement on adipose stem cells.

Our procedure involves uncultured, nonexpanded stem cells extracted from adipose tissue for soft tissue reconstruction and repair. Fat is removed by liposuction, stem cells are freshly isolated from the fat , combined back with a fat graft, and then reinjected into the patient's damaged tissue in the same operative session. In a nutshell, the injection is basically a super charged fat graft which gives the tissue blood supply and IT"S OWN cellular nourishment to heal the area.

In late December 2011, the FDA notified us that these adipose stem cells ARE CONSIDERED TO A DRUG !

Read about our journey with the FDA here:

http://www.cosmeticsurg.net/blog/2012/01/11/fda-stem-cells-from-your-own-fat-are-a-drug/

What we as Federal state citizens must understand is that the our
government has become a National Government run by the Federal Reserve
(central bank); the UN; the International Monetary Fund/World Bank which are
owned by by a group of European Banking families that claim they own
America. When America went Bankrupt in 1933 the Federal Reserve
took control over America and its people. They took control of the educational
systems, but most dangerous of all, is they took control of how we get infor-
mation. " THE NEWS MEDIA ". Also in 1938 they took over our counts
and did away with our Federal united states constitution and gave us admiralty
corporate law,which became the Uniform Commercial Codes. I can go on and
on but I won't. When our parent(s) sign our Birth Certificates they(un-
knowingly) give us to the state. Which are the sub-humans mentioned above.
America is still the biggest experiment on the planet. The FDA's function
is to dictate what goe's into the body's of there human resources. They want
to control us from womb to tomb. The FDA works for the European Inter-
national bankers. This site is a blessing. Since I discovered it I read it every-
day. Please continue to bring the truth forward !!

American people. They work for the European International Bankers who
claim to own us and our country.

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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
By Victoria Ward and Nick Collins

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: ?This is stupidity writ large.

?The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.

?If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.?

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Supreme Court Blocks Government Plan To Claim Ownership Of DNA

Collecting and storing every newborn?s blood violates Genetic Privacy Act
Steve Watson

In a long running case, a Supreme Court has ruled to limit the use of blood samples collected from newborns by the government.

The case has exposed the fact that there is an ongoing semi-covert movement by state and federal governments to claim ownership of every newborn baby?s DNA for the purpose of genetic research without the consent of individual citizens.

The Minnesota Court ruled Wednesday that the Minnesota Department of Health is violating the law in storing, using and disseminating newborn screening test results and newborn DNA.

Overruling a lower court?s decision, the state Supreme Court found that the samples are ?Genetic Information? under the State Genetic Privacy Act, and held that ?unless otherwise provided, the Department must have written informed consent to collect, use, store, or disseminate [the blood samples].?

In 2003, The Citizens? Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), formerly known as The Citizens? Council on Health Care (CCHC), discovered that The Minnesota Department of Health had been indefinitely storing the blood of newborns since the mid 1980s, and using the samples for purposes beyond the State?s newborn screening program since 1997.

The state treated the activity as an ?opt out? program, whereby if the parents of the newborn infant do not specifically opt out of the process, the state presumes its has "informed consent" and that the parents have opted in.

Consequently, the DNA of nearly a million children is considered government property under Minnesota law.

Without the knowledge or consent of the person or their parents, the government has been selling the DNA for genetic research purposes.

In 2008, state Health Department officials began seeking exemption for the so called ?DNA Warehouse? from Minnesota privacy law.

Essentially this would mean that eventually every person?s DNA would be collected at birth, warehoused by the state in what is known as a ?genomic biobank?, and sold or given away to private or governmental genetic researchers, who may manipulate, alter or splice the DNA in any way they see fit.?Hundreds of samples have already been used in government comissioned studies.

Such information would represent a goldmine to employers, insurance companies, medical institutions, and big pharma.

Under such conditions we are faced with the prospect of a society that is literally the mirror image of the nightmarish vision outlined by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 novel Brave New World, where individuals are categorized in a social hierarchy according to their genetic traits.

In a statement, Justice Helen M. Meyer, voicing the majority opinion in this week?s ruling, writes:

?The Genetic Privacy Act ? restricts the collection, use, storage, and dissemination of blood?samples collected pursuant to the newborn screening statutes?

?The newborn screening statutes provide an express exception to the Genetic Privacy Act only to?the extent that the Department is authorized to administer newborn screening by testing the?samples for heritable and congenital disorders, recording and reporting those test results,?maintaining a registry of positive cases for the purpose of follow-up services, and storing those?test results as required by federal law.?

The case was brought by 9-families who sued the Minnesota Department of Health for violation of the state genetic privacy law.

The following video shows the oral argument brought before the court back in March and breaks down the issue in much more detail:

In a press release concerning the court ruling, Twila Brase, president of CCHF writes:

?We are cheered by this good news, says. ?When our organization discovered the state health department?s Baby DNA warehouse in 2003 and the use of newborn DNA for genetic research without parent consent, we determined to do all that we could to stop this practice. No state law expressly permits these activities.?

?We are pleased that these nine families were willing to sue the State of Minnesota,? adds Brase. ?Their action and this decision now secures the genetic privacy rights and informed written consent rights of all Minnesota parents and newborn citizens."

Ms. Brase has been warning of the ongoing move for a a number of years. In January 2007 she issued a written testimony to the Minnesota legislature on the unethical and hidden uses of harvested DNA by the state.

Watch Twila Brase explain the possible consequences of the pending DNA profiling legislation:

Though the Minnesota case has received recent public attention, such DNA harvesting is not restricted to that state and is being undertaken nationwide.

The National Conference of State Legislatures lists for all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the various statutes or regulatory provisions under which newborns? DNA is being collected.

DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. In addition, all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Department of Homeland Security.

In April 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill which formerly announced the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months of birth.

Described as a ?national contingency plan? the justification for the?law S. 1858, known as?The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of ?public health emergency.?

The bill states that the federal government should ?continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening? and ?maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening? ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the internet and is updated at least quarterly?.

Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests, both by the government and by researchers chosen to handle the DNA samples and the information that goes with them.

Read the full bill?here.

Many have described the law as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database, like the one in the UK.

In?2006 and?2007, then Senator Obama filed legislation that would create a national DNA database. The same bill was filed by Sen. Patrick Kennedy?in 2008. The bills required parental consent, but all three died in the Senate.

In certain states, authorities are required to destroy a child?s DNA sample if a parent demands they do so. Ludicrously, parents wishing to do this must fill in a form like?this one from Texas.

In other states, parents have to put their request in writing, however, there is no legal requirement for states to destroy the samples.

The subject made national headlines last year as CNN?s?Senior Medical Correspondent probed the issue:

The practice of taking DNA from all newborns is not limited to the U.S.

In the UK, a similar DNA harvesting program was?rejected in 2005 by The Human Genetics Commission, who cited cost and ethical problems in a report to government ministers.

However, DNA profiling of all newborn babies has since been called for by lawmakers and senior police officers.

In December 2009,?a Dublin hospital was revealed to have built a secret database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge.

The retention of newborn screening cards has also caused controversy in Australia and New Zealand where the DNA has been used by police to help to solve crimes. A sample in New Zealand was used to identify the father of a dead child against the wishes of the mother.

There is no doubt that the practice is in operation all over the developed world.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruling is a small victory on this issue. However, unless this practice is further exposed, publicized, and taken to courts across the country, and indeed the world, we could find ourselves sleepwalking towards the basis for a new eugenics movement, the practice of ?perfecting? the human race through genetic manipulation, previously endorsed by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and toyed with by the likes of Adolf Hitler.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones? Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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