knoxnews | The Knoxville Police Department on Feb. 23
released video recordings of the arrest of a 60-year old woman who
collapsed while she was being taken to jail and later died, and said the
investigation into how officers handled the incident will continue.
Community
reaction to the videos was swift: Nearly 400 comments, the majority
critical of how officers handled the situation, appeared within hours on
the department's Facebook post of a compilation showing excerpts from various police cameras.
Lisa Edwards,
60, was arrested Feb. 5 outside Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center,
where she had been treated earlier. Hospital security called police when
Edwards declined to move off the property after she was discharged.
Here's what Knox News knows about Edwards' arrest, her death and the ongoing police investigation.
A
police video compilation from the Feb. 5 arrest shows how officers
arrested her and what happened after she lost consciousness in the car.
The compilation includes excerpts from body-camera footage of the
initial interaction with Edwards, body camera footage of officers taking
her into custody, and in-car camera footage from the time she was
placed into the back of a cruiser.
Sgt. Brandon Wardlaw, officer Adam Barnett,
officer Timothy Distasio and transportation officer Danny Dugan are
shown in the video compilation. All four are on paid leave during the
internal affairs investigation.
Body cam
footage shows the first KPD officer arrived just before 8 a.m., about an
hour after Edwards was discharged from the hospital. Edwards told the
officer she had a stroke and couldn’t walk, but he responds by telling
her the hospital wants her gone.
LATimes | As they do every week during football season, the Lowe family
gathered Sunday morning to watch the NFL games on two big flat screens
in the South Los Angeles home of the family matriarch.
But as the
San Francisco 49ers prepared to face off against the Philadelphia
Eagles, there was one fewer family member watching. Anthony Lowe, 36, had been shot and killed by Huntington Park police officers Thursday afternoon.
Instead of talking football, the family spoke in hushed tones of the grainy cellphone video
they’d seen the night before: Lowe, a double amputee, trying to run
from Huntington Park police officers on what was left of his legs while
holding a long-bladed knife.
Lowe’s lower legs had been amputated
last year. In the video, he appears to have just dismounted from a
nearby wheelchair. As he scrambled down the sidewalk away from the
uniformed officers, two police sport utility vehicles drove into the
frame and parked, blocking the camera’s view.
The video, which was posted on Twitter on Saturday, then abruptly ends; no footage of the ensuing gunfire has been released.
Yatoya
Toy, Lowe’s older sister, identified the man running from police as her
brother. She said that his legs had been amputated after an altercation
with law enforcement in Texas, and that the family also has questions
about that incident.
“This is the first [Sunday] where he
ain’t watching the game with us. It’s what he loves to do,” Toy said.
She still uses present tense when referring to her brother, who has two
teenage children. “He’s the life of the family. He brings happiness,
joy; he loves to dance. He’s very respectable, he loves his mother. He’s
the favorite uncle. The kids all love him.”
Lowe’s death is a
devastating loss for the close-knit Lowe family, Toy said. And it comes
at a time of increased scrutiny of police brutality and violence after a
string of high-profile incidents, including the beating death of
29-year-old Tyre Nichols by Memphis Police this month.
The
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s homicide unit is
investigating Lowe’s shooting, as it typically does for all shootings
involving Huntington Park Police Department officers, according to the
unit’s Lt. Hugo Reynaga.
A detective with the homicide unit
stopped by the home of Dorothy Lowe, the dead man’s 53-year-old mother,
Saturday to interview family. They responded, Toy said, by peppering the
detective with questions about Anthony’s death.
The answers the
detective provided were vague and unpersuasive, said Tatiana Jackson,
another sister of Lowe. Their biggest question: What was so threatening
about a disabled double amputee with a knife that it necessitated
shooting him?
azcentral | A Pima County grand jury found that there was
insufficient evidence to charge a Tucson police officer who shot and
killed a man in a wheelchair in 2021.
After former police officer, Ryan Remington, fatally shot a man in a motorized wheelchair in Nov. 2021, it was announced that he would be charged with manslaughter in Aug. 2022 by Pima County Attorney Laura Conover.
The
case went to the Grand Jury and found there was not enough evidence to
pursue, however, the state could still decide to charge.
According
to Tucson police, Remington fatally shot the man, identified by police
as Richard Lee Richards, at a Lowe's parking lot near Valencia and
Midvale Park roads at about 6 p.m. on Nov. 29, 2021. Remington was
working off-duty as a security guard when he responded to a shoplifting
call at a nearby Walmart.
Police
said an employee informed them when they confronted the shoplifting
suspect, Richards, to show a receipt for the toolbox he was suspected of
taking, he pulled out a knife and told the employee, “Here’s your
receipt.”
Police said Richards then traveled to a Lowe’s
store across the parking lot in his motorized wheelchair. Tucson police
released bodycam footage showing Remington following Richards across the
parking lot as he called for backup, saying Richards “pulled a knife on
me.”
Officer Stephanie Taylor also responded
to the scene. After both officers told Richards not to enter the Lowe’s,
Remington fired his gun nine times into Richards' back and side,
causing Richards to immediately fall from his chair. He was pronounced
dead at the scene.
psrmemphis | Memphis police officers watched as a man with a handgun bulging from
his right hip walked past them and into a convenience store where he
attempted to make a purchase.
It was busy that Friday night in Parkway Village, the day before
several of these same officers would become entangled in a deadly
encounter with Tyre Nichols – a violent altercation that resulted in the
29-year-old motorist’s death in a hospital bed three days later.
The action grew intense – and violent – on this night, too.
Members of the Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION Team One swooped
onto this gas station parking lot when they saw some young men loitering
about.
After witnessing what they believed was a drug transaction, officers chased down one man and, during a struggle, pepper-sprayed him.
They arrested another man who, like Nichols, had no criminal record.
Carrying a pistol in his belt, he apparently violated the edges of
Tennessee’s permitless carry law by entering a business displaying signs
that guns are prohibited.
“Suspect … refused to cooperate and listen to detectives and immediately started screaming,’’ Officer Demetrius Haley wrote in a report charging the 22-year-old man with misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct and unlawfully possessing a gun.
An investigation by the Institute for Public Service Reporting found
that Haley and four other officers terminated by MPD last week in
connection with Nichols’ death were affiliated with a special unit
called SCORPION, a data-driven initiative that identifies crime hotspots
and attempts to suppress them with saturation patrols.
Records show the unit’s aggressive tactics often trigger volatile interactions with members of the public.
Launched in 2021 by MPD Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis as part of Memphis
Mayor Jim Strickland’s war on crime, the Street Crimes Operation to
Restore Peace In Our Neighborhoods, or SCORPION, unit identifies upticks
in motor vehicle theft and violent crime and then targets those areas
with patrolling SCORPION officers – at times in unmarked cars. An opens in a new windowMPD video promoting the unit appears to show some of the officers dressed in plainclothes.
Discussing SCORPION in a January 2022 address, opens in a new windowStrickland said
the unit of “four, 10-man teams” had made 566 arrests in its first
three months alone, seizing more than “$103,000 in cash, 270 vehicles
and 253 weapons.”
The mayor said then the unit targets homicides, aggravated assaults, robberies and carjackings.
Yet dozens of reports reviewed by the Institute for Public Service
Reporting found SCORPION officers also appear to engage in
“zero-tolerance” or “proactive policing”-type activities, at times
stopping motorists for tinted windows or for failing to wear seat belts and confronting or arresting others for loitering, gambling, drug possession
and other low-level offenses – controversial tactics now at the heart
of a national debate on how best to balance public safety and community
trust.
A thorough analysis of SCORPION’s activities was not possible on
deadline for this story. Some reports show officers removing dangerous
individuals from the streets. Policy experts warn, however, that such
aggressive tactics, if not properly supervised, can lead to
discrimination and abuse, and can erode faith in police.
“They can be very effective,’’ said former Memphis Police Director E.
Winslow “Buddy” Chapman. “But they must be very closely controlled and
monitored.
“The danger is exactly what happened in this case,’’ he said, referring to the death of Nichols.
BAR |What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police
training ground that the community doesn't want? Someone could be
killed, and that happened before Atlanta's awful Cop City project has
even been built.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is often presented as a “Mecca” for
Black people. Every mayor of that city who has held office since 1974
has been Black, and celebrities have made it their home. Major
Historically Black Colleges and Universities are located there. Atlanta
is thought of as a place where Black people thrive.
Except it is like every other major American city, where Black people
are more likely to be low wage workers or among the unhoused. The Black
people in leadership positions are allowed to occupy them precisely
because they have taken a pledge not to upset the established political
order.
These caveats must be kept in mind when discussing the construction
of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known popularly as Cop
City. The purported Black Mecca municipality is spending $30 million to
construct an 85-acre militarized police training camp in the Weelaunee
Forest. Cop City will feature a mock town
with a gas station, bank, bar, nightclub, school, residential homes,
apartments, park, and splash pad. There will also be a warehouse on site
for training in “crowd control.” A survey of area residents indicates
that 98% of them are opposed to the facility which will be constructed by the Atlanta Police Foundation. The Foundation has pledged to raise an additional $60 million for the project from corporate donors.
The impetus for this theft of public land and training ground for
brutality began in 2020. In that year millions of people across the
country rose up in protest after the murder of George Floyd by
Minneapolis police. But Atlanta then experienced its own rebellion when
police there killed Rayshard Brooks. Brooks was killed by police after
an altercation which began when he fell asleep in his car in the parking
lot of a fast food restaurant. Such circumstances are common in police
killings which usually happen during traffic stops, mental health
crises, and even calls for help. Only one-third of police killings occur during the commission of violent crimes.
Brooks' death created another rebellion, this time in Atlanta itself,
which years before was falsely dubbed, the “city too busy to hate.” The
response was classic, as the city’s white fathers ordered their Black
puppets to crack down and thus the idea for Cop City was born. Its
funders are a who’s who of corporate giants including Wells Fargo, JP
Morgan Chase, Chick-Fil-A, Home Depot, United Parcel Service, Delta
airlines, Amazon and Waffle House. All of these entities claim to have
some sort of racial equity program and pledge workplace diversity. Some
of their CEOs made grand gestures like “taking a knee” in 2020, but when
not creating feel good photo opportunities they use police foundations
to help fund police departments across the country. These efforts are
little more than slush funds which help police departments spend more
money without any accountability to the public.
The protests against Cop City also attracted forest defenders,
who camped out to save the old growth trees from destruction. But their
peaceful protest of civil disobedience was met with brute force. Some
of them have been arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism.” But
the worst was yet to come. On January 18, 2023 a forest defender named
Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was killed by the police.They claim that Paez
Terán shot one of them first. But there has been no independent
investigation and conveniently none of the police or members of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation who raided the protectors’ encampment
were wearing body cameras. Cop City is killing people before it even
exists.
Of course protests ensued after Paez Terán was killed and there were arrests. Mayor Andre Dickens channeled
the segregationists of old when he said, "It should be noted that these
individuals were not Atlanta or Georgia residents. Most of them
traveled into our city to wreak havoc." The representatives of the Black
Mecca have resurrected the old “outside agitator” trope.
Police surveillance in Georgia didn’t start with Cop City. In 2007 the plans for what is now Operation Shield
were put in place. More than 10,000 video cameras and license plate
readers make Atlanta the most surveilled city in the country and one of
the most surveilled in the world. Corporate funders to the Atlanta
Police Foundation paid for this hyper policing too.
Cop City shows the nexus between oligarchic control, the police
state, and their errand girls and boys in the Black political class. The
end result of their dirty dealing is the Cop City monstrosity. Police
don’t need a training center. They are already trained. They know quite
well that their job is to keep Black people under physical control and
lock them up as often as possible. A mock town teaching riot control is
the last thing Black people need. Haphazard brutality would be
transformed into an efficient and well oiled machine.
Obviously Cop City should be opposed, but so should corporate control
over our lives, and treacherous Black faces in high places. There will
surely be more killings if Cop City becomes a reality.
localmemphis |Five former MPD officers indicted & charged
This comes after all five former Memphis Police officers who were fired following the death of Tyre Nichols were indicted on charges and booked into the Shelby County Jail Thursday morning.
WATCH: “This could’ve been prevented if Internal Affairs took action like I asked.”
The officers were fired last week after MPD said they were found to
be "directly responsible for the physical abuse of Mr. Nichols.” They
were identified as Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Emmitt Martin III,
Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith.
Haley, Smith, Bean, Mills, and Martin are each charged with second
degree murder, aggravated assault – acting in concert, aggravated
kidnapping causing bodily injury, aggravated kidnapping while possessing
a weapon, official misconduct thru unauthorized exercising of official
power, official misconduct thru failure to perform a duty imposed by
law, and official oppression.
The TBI said all five are in custody in the Shelby County Jail. Bond
for Haley and Martin was set at $350,000, while bond for Bean, Mills and
Smith is set at $250,000.
Charges explained
Mulroy explained the charges during his news conference, saying
second-degree murder is a knowing killing, and appropriate in this
case.
In a news release, the D.A. said "first-degree murder usually
falls into one of the following two categories: Premeditated,
intentional killings and felony murder. Second-degree murder is
generally either an unplanned, intentional killing (reacting in the heat
of the moment when angry) or a death caused by a reckless disregard for
human life."
He said if it was a legal detention, it became illegal at some point... and aggravated means that someone was harmed.
Mulroy said official misconduct means they intentionally or knowingly
exercised unlawful authority, and that law enforcement officers should
prevent misconduct.
Mulroy said official oppression is knowing mistreatment during the course of carrying out official duties.
Isaac Asimov was in no way a sophisticated stylist, but he was an intelligent man and wrote a short story, ‘The Winnowing,’ that
captures exactly the logic that would be wheeled into play —
…”Do you fail to see that the Earth is a
lifeboat? If the food store is divided equally among all, then all will
die. If some are cast out of the lifeboat, the remainder will survive.
The question is not whether some will die, for some
must die; the question is whether some will live.”
“Are you advocating triage-the sacrifice of some for the rest-officially?”
“We can’t. The people in the lifeboat are armed.
Several regions threaten openly to use nuclear weapons if more food is
not forthcoming.”
Rodman said sardonically, “You mean the answer to ‘you die that I may live’ is ‘If I die, you die.’…An impasse.”
“Not quite,” said Affare. “There are places on
Earth where the people cannot be saved. They have overweighted their
land hopelessly with hordes of starving humanity. Suppose they are sent
food, and suppose the food kills them so that
the land requires no further shipments.”
Rodman felt the first twinge of realization. “Kills them how?” he asked.
“The average structural properties of the
cellular membranes of a particular population can be worked out. An LP,
particularly designed to take advantage of those properties, could be
incorporated into the food supply, which would then
be fatal,” said Affare.
“Unthinkable,” said Rodman, astounded.
“Think again. There would be no pain. The
membranes would slowly close off and the affected person would fall
asleep and not wake up-an infinitely better death than that of
starvation which is otherwise inevitable-or nuclear annihilation.
Nor would it be for everyone, for any population varies in its
membranal properties. At worst, seventy per cent will die. The winnowing
out will be done precisely where overpopulation and hopelessness are
worst and enough will be left to preserve each nation,
each ethnic group, each culture.”
“To deliberately kill billions-”
“We would not be killing. We would merely supply
the opportunity for people to die. Which particular individuals would
die would depend on the particular biochemistry of those individuals. It
would be the finger of God.”
“And when the world discovers what has been done?”
“That will be after our time,” said Affare, “and
by then, a flourishing world with limited population will thank us for
our heroic action in choosing the death of some to avoid the death of
all.”
globalnews | Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says
she recognizes her privilege after being criticized for drawing
parallels between her decision to cut her family’s Disney+ subscription
to save money and the efforts of Canadians to make ends meet amid
soaring costs of living.
“I want to start by recognizing that I am a very privileged person,” said Freeland when questioned by reporters in Milton, Ont., on Monday.
“Like
other elected federal leaders, I am paid a very significant salary … I
really recognized that it is not people like me — people who have my
really good fortune — who are struggling the most in Canada today.”
Freeland faced criticism for being “out of touch” after telling Global News’ The West Blockon Sunday that her family cut their Disney+ subscription to save money.
Freeland said the government is working on finding savings in the
federal budget and there is “$6 billion more to go,” adding that she
thinks “every mother in Canada” is using the same approach to cut costs.
“And I want to say to all of those mothers, I believe that I need to
take exactly the same approach with the federal government’s finances
because that’s the money of Canadians,” said Freeland in the interview.
Freeland
said on Monday that people who are struggling to keep up with the high
cost of living are low-income Canadians who “have to make difficult
choices” about what food to buy and how to cover their rent.
On Nov. 3, the federal government released its fall fiscal update, with plans such as advance payment on worker’s benefits and elimination of student loan interest.
Freeland said the recognition that low-income Canadians are
struggling in this economy shaped the federal government’s fall economic
statement, contributing to the decision to “focus government resources
on helping the most vulnerable,” which also drove the decision to double
the GST tax credit.
The government also recognizes young people
are also struggling, which is why they decided to eliminate permanently
the federal interest on Canada students and Canada apprentice loans,
said Freeland.
ncregister | Canadian food bank clients and disabled retirees facing financial
insecurity are now considering doctor-assisted suicide to avoid living
in poverty, several sources have reported.
“Based
on the definitions in the Canadian law, nearly anyone with a chronic
medical condition, such as people with disabilities, can be approved for
euthanasia,” Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia
Prevention Coalition, told CNA Dec. 12.
“Therefore
people with disabilities are requesting euthanasia based on poverty,
homelessness, or an inability to receive needed medical treatment, but
they are approved for euthanasia based on their disability,” he added.
Meghan
Nicholls, CEO of the Mississauga Food Bank in Mississauga, an Ontario
city west of Toronto, said demand has increased by 60% since the start
of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her food bank network now serves 30,000 people
per year, she reported in a Nov. 30 commentary for the Canadian news
magazine Maclean’s.
For the first time,
according to Nicholls, beneficiaries are reporting that the cost of
food has put them into financial insolvency.
“We’re
at the point where clients on these programs are telling us they’re
considering medically assisted death or suicide because they can’t live
in grinding poverty anymore,” she said in the Maclean’s report. “A
client in our Food Bank 2 Home delivery program told one of our staff
that they’re considering suicide because they’re so tired of suffering
through poverty. Another client asked if we knew how to apply for MAID
(medical assistance in dying) for the same reasons.”
“We
can’t underestimate the effect that poverty has on someone’s mental
health. Our clients live with constant worry and cut corners on needed
items like medication, fresh food, or warm clothes — constantly living
under that stress takes its toll mentally, emotionally, and physically,”
Nicholls said.
“When
people start telling us they’re going to end their life because they
can’t live in poverty anymore, it’s clear that we’ve failed them,” she
added.
Nicholls told
Canada’s The Catholic Register that leaders of other food banks in
Canada have not heard clients speak of plans to take their own lives.
“I
don’t know if that’s a bit of an anomaly or if it’s just because we
operate this home delivery program. We do have a chance to connect with
clients directly, and that kind of relationship might open us up for
people to share a little bit more vulnerably than perhaps some other
food banks.”
Schadenberg said assisted suicide has become very easy to access in Canada.
“We
need to understand that many people with disabilities live in poverty
and find themselves having difficulty receiving necessary medical
treatment and yet according to the law they have no difficulty being
approved for death by euthanasia,” he told CNA. “Clearly this has led to
an epidemic of death, of despair, in Canada. Deaths based on cultural
abandonment but sold to the population under the false guise of
freedom.”
In 2021, over
10,000 Canadians died by euthanasia, also called medical aid in dying or
doctor-assisted suicide. This is 10 times the number who died by
euthanasia in 2016, when the procedure was first legalized.
welcometohellworld | Autumn Harris' lungs were so filled with fluid they weighed four
times what a normal person's lungs should weigh during her autopsy. The
thirty four year old died in an Alabama prison in 2018 after going
untreated for pneumonia by medical staff for weeks according to a
malpractice lawsuit filed by her father in 2020 that will finally get a
hearing next year. Six years of waiting for the possibility that maybe
someone will be held responsible for his daughter's death.
Harris had been arrested because she missed a misdemeanor court hearing over an alleged theft of $40 Alabama.com reported.
State
investigators interviewed women Harris was being held with and one said
she got so sick toward the end that she started to hallucinate and was
calling one of them momma.
If you are poor please do not make a
mistake of any kind. Please do not fuck up in such and such a way
leading you to need $40 very badly or to miss a court date. Do not fuck
up even once despite the entire world being littered with boobytraps
just waiting for you to make a false step. The floor is lava but not in
the way that usually means. If you are poor almost every fuck up you
might make carries with it a potential death sentence in this country.
It
sounds facile and obvious to say that kind of shit doesn't it? It's
almost like what's the point? You know it and I know it and people
walking through the obstacle course on hard mode know it better than
anyone.
I guess we have to keep saying it anyway.
We're all
of us walking through the obstacle course to be clear it's just at
varying degrees of difficulty. Unless some of you reading this happen to
be rich in which case can I have $50,000?
Marquette | The wholesale destruction of Jews and other ethnic minorities
in Europe by Nazi Germany before and during World War II has been
widely and justly condemned as a crime against humanity. Literally
thousand of books and articles have been written on this particular
genocide, highlighted by extensive testimony presented to the
Nuremberg criminal trials after the war.
We have been conditioned since World War II to believe that
such a horrible human tragedy cannot, or at least should not, happen
again. Particularly in the Western World, schooled in the Judeo-
Christian ethic, we believe that another Holocaust could not happen and
particularly not in the United States. It cannot happen here, we saybecause we live under democratic forms of government and our U.S.
Constitution guarantees us protection of our lives as a God-given right.
Until this current century, we were no doubt justified in relying
on these guarantees to our human existence. But will these guarantees
survive the very dangerous new trends in the Western world's regard for
the protection of life? Is a new and different kind of Holocaust in the
offing, not against Jews or other minorities, but a Holocaust against the
elderly, the chronically ill, the terminally ill and the disabled, right here
in our own country? This proposition might appear preposterous at
first glance, but the issue is important enough to merit a closer look.
It is a surprising historical fact that in the United States, we are
wittingly or unwittingly following the same steps that led Germany to
the disastrous conclusion that some lives are "life not worthy of life"
and can be legally extinguished to suit the needs of society and the
desires of the family and the state. Germany progressed from the
adoption of genetics theories in the last century to sterilization to
abortion to euthanasia to the indiscriminate murder of ethnically and
politically undesirable races and aliens. Except for timing, the United
States is proceeding along the identical path, with only the legalization
of euthanasia. or assisted suicide, remaining before the flood gates
open. Indeed, we are now facing this last and fatal step on the "slippery
slope".
In January 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court began to hear, on
appeal, oral arguments for Vasco v. Quill and Washington v.
Glucksberg, the New York and Washington cases which struck down
anti-assisted suicide laws in each state earlier in 1996.
If the U.S. Supreme Court follows the unfortunate precedent
which it established in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in which it
created with very questionable constitutional basis a new "right" to
abortion, then they may now create another new "right" to assisted
suicide. If this happens, we will have taken the final step toward
undermining the very foundation of our American democracy in which
the government has the constitutional responsibility both to protect the
lives of its citizens and not destroy those lives.
Ideas do have consequences and the legalization of assisted
suicide would have momentous implications for the future of American
society, families, medicine and the ultimate evaluation of the worth of
a human life, as well as the very foundations of our American form ogovernment. Ultimately, the lives of our citizens may well be
subordinated to the desires and interests of the government, which will
decide directly or indirectly who will live and who will die. In fact,
some U.S. authorities already are beginning to talk about the future
demands on the resources of Medicare and Medicaid to maintain
patients who might be kept alive for many years by modem medical
technology, at great public expense, unless they can be dispensed with
through assisted suicide.
It is well known that in the Netherlands today, where assisted
suicide is widely practiced, serious abuses are being perpetrated against
people who have not given their consent. In almost one-half of the
assisted suicide cases in the Netherlands, the decision is being made by
third parties without consulting the patient or the family. If the state or
its agents can kill targeted people at will, then democracy as we know
it will have perished. The next Holocaust, if and when it comes, will
thus not be of the same character as the Nazis'. But the end result will
be the same, namely, the wholesale killing of undesirables whether they
be unborn, partially born, old, ill, or just tired of living.
Let us review the historical steps that both Germany and the
United States have passed through since Darwin's theory of evolution
originated in the middle 1850s and jolted the scientific world, including
scholars, philosophers and even some misguided theologians. We will
see how the seeds of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany preceded the
Hitler era by several generations
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