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This afternoon, Nestlé Canada Inc. announced it will leave the Canadian bottled water market and sell its bottled water brand, Nestlé Pure Life, to Ice River Springs. This is a significant win for communities across Canada, and everyone who has been fighting the bottled water giant.
“Community groups, First Nations, residents across the country and Council of Canadian supporters have persistently challenged Nestlé’s water takings in Wellington County, Ontario and Hope, British Columbia. This is their victory against the multi-national giant,” says Vi Bui, water campaigner with the Council of Canadians.
Nestlé has been making profit by pumping groundwater all over the world. Over the years, Nestlé has taken billions of litres of pure, clean and vital water from underground aquifers in Canada and sold them for huge profit. Meanwhile, communities are struggling with severe droughts, dwindling water supply for community uses, and plastic bottles clogging up our landfills and waterways.
The Council of Canadians’ supporters and chapters joined with community groups on the ground to mobilize opposition and deny Nestlé’s many attempts to expand its operations, push for a moratorium on water taking permits, and boycott Nestlé products. Today’s announcement follows a decline in the volume of water Nestlé extracts and bottles, thanks to the groundswell of community opposition, public education and our national Boycott Nestlé campaign.
We know that Nestlé’s departure will not end water takings in Canada, and our work continues to oppose any commodification of water for profit, whether by a multi-national corporation or a Canadian-owned one.
Today, we want to say thank you to all our chapters, members, donors and supporters across the country. Your collective activism makes people-powered progress like this possible. Tomorrow, we will continue to build on that grassroots power to keep water protected as a shared commons for current and future generations.
“This wasn’t about changing American police
policies, but about coarsening and brutalizing the discourse around
Israel and Jews through the exploitation of black suffering,” said
Dexter Van Zile, an analyst at CAMERA.
Protesters in Boston in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests
following the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police
officer advocate for the anti-Israel BDS movement on July 1, 2020.
Courtesy: CAMERA.
Tensions brewed at “Day of Rage” rallies and vehicle caravans
nationwide on July 1, protesting Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to
parts of Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank. The
name refers to times when Palestinians riot and hurl rocks against
Israeli soldiers and civilians, most recently near the border with the
Gaza Strip.
Approximately 300 people associated with BDS Boston—a coalition
of far-left anti-Israel organizations—chanted Hamas slogans on Wednesday
night in front of the offices of the Anti-Defamation League and the
Jewish Community Relations Council in the Massachusetts capital.
The BDS organizers said that they were protesting police brutality in the aftermath of the killing of African-American George Floyd, 46, on May 25 in the custody of Minneapolis police.
“The protesters hijacked legitimate outrage over the death of
George Floyd to justify an ugly display of hostility towards Israel and
Jewish organizations on the streets of Boston,” said Dexter Van Zile, an
analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and
Analysis, or CAMERA, which is based in Boston. “This wasn’t about
changing American police policies, but about coarsening and brutalizing
the discourse around Israel and Jews through the exploitation of black
suffering.”
CAMERA staff filmed the rally. A speaker for BDS Boston is on video
leading the large crowd in the Hamas chant “From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free,” which is a call for the replacement of Israel
with a majority-Arab Muslim country.
At other times, the crowd can be heard loudly chanting “Intifada,
Intifada,” the name of violent Palestinian uprisings. Hamas is a
U.S.-designated terrorist group.
“Kaffiyeh-wearing college students and mostly middle-class white
activists with Palestinian flags were shouting for the violent
elimination of the world’s only Jewish state,” said Van Zile. “Think
about that: They’re chanting eliminationist rhetoric outside the offices
of mainstream American Jewish organizations—a fact that shows that this
wasn’t simply about Israel, but about Jews as Jews.”
CAMERA’s Hali Haber said “what struck me about the rally wasn’t just
the hatred, but the outright lies. An SJP leader at Boston University
repeatedly screamed into the microphone that Israel is guilty of
‘genocide,’ a lie easily disproved by looking at Palestinians’ soaring
birth rates and increasing lifespans. I can’t decide whether the people
at this rally were ignorant or malevolent—maybe both.”
She added that “whatever their motivations towards Jews, their
exploitation of the black American experience should be opposed by good
people everywhere.” In Los Angeles, demonstrations border on violent
Elsewhere, protests in California and New York set off tensions
between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian supporters. The demonstrations
are being organized by groups such as Al-Awda, American Muslims for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.
In Los Angeles, a caravan of approximately 150 cars drove around the
Israeli consulate with their windows down, honking their horns and
waiving Palestinian flags. Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian supporters
also stood outside the consulate with the demonstrations became nearly
violent, according to The Forward. There were 10 Los Angeles Police Department officers there to keep the peace, reported the Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal.
In San Diego, about 50 cars as part of a pro-Palestinian caravan
escorted by police drove past various Jewish institutions, including,
but not limited to, the Hillels at University of California, San Diego
and San Diego State University, as well as the local office of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, reported the San Diego Jewish World.
In Portland, Ore., rioters torched “a police precinct and set a fire
[to] Portland’s iconic Elk statue, which has stood since 1900,” reportedThe Post Millennial.
In Brooklyn, N.Y., police officers stood between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
In the vicinity of the demonstrations nationwide, SWU have been using
truck ads with messages such as “Israelis Want Peace,” “Palestinian
Leaders: Stop the Hate, Negotiate Peace,” “Palestinian Leaders: Stop
Teaching Hate & Rewarding Violence,” “Palestinian Leaders Said No to
Peace in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2008 and 2020?” and “Israel Needs a Partner
for Peace.”
On July 2 in Miami, protesters blocked the SWU truck in the area.
“Day of Rage” events were scheduled for on July 4 in Toronto and Misssissauga, Ontario.
Separately, while not a “Day of Rage” event, Black Lives Matter
protesters in Washington, D.C., chanted “Israel we know you, you murder
children, too,” referring to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
Protesters continue to clash with law enforcement in Seattle days after the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone was dismantled.
Police said they arrested 10 people
between Thursday night and Friday morning for property destruction,
assault, harassment, and failure to disperse. The Seattle Police
Department also reported bottles, rocks, and fireworks being thrown at officers. All those who were arrested were booked into the King County Jail.
One of the arrests on Thursday was of a prominent protester
from the CHOP zone who led police in a high-speed chase. Police say the
man was wanted for a felony.
After the suspect crashed his car, he was seen climbing out of the sunroof and standing on top of his car.
“It was crazy. It was really shocking," Sabrina Provost, who captured the incident on video while driving behind the chase in her mother's car,
told KOMO News. “The next thing you know, he jumped off of the car, and
he did this dance like that — ran around the two cops that were there
and just booked it down the freeway. He was so fast. I kid you not.”
The King County Prosecutor's Office said Friday that no criminal charges have been filed against nonviolent protesters.
"The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has not
charged non-violent protesters, and we have no plans to do so," the
office wrote in a statement. "Our position hasn't changed since the
first protests in response to the murder of George Floyd."
This is the King County Prosecuting
Attorney’s Office statement on not filing charges against non-violent
protesters. Our position has not changed. pic.twitter.com/n9ZDBeVuz7
Durkan had recommended that the city not file charges for misdemeanor arrests made during protests.
Police had abandoned the six-block CHOP zone, which
included the department's East Precinct, on June 8 after people
protesting the death of George Floyd took control of the area and declared it an autonomous zone. It was initially dubbed the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone before being renamed.
The
protest was one of many around the nation calling for an end to racial
injustice and police brutality, as well as to defund the police.
When mobs
tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to
African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether
the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.
Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and
Robert E. Lee? Could they recognize the name “Gettysburg”? Could they
even identify the decade in which the Civil War was fought?
Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud,
and self-righteous. But the media blitz during these last several weeks
of protests, riots, and looting also revealed a generation that is
poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.
Many of the young people on the televised front lines of the protests
are in their 20s. But most appear juvenile, at least in comparison to
their grandparents — survivors of the Great Depression and World War II.
How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing?
Ask questions like these, and the answers ultimately lead back to the university.
Millions of those who graduate from college or drop out do so in
arrears. There is some $1.5 trillion in aggregate student debt in the
U.S. Such burdens sometimes delay marriage. They discourage
child-rearing. They make home ownership hard — along with all the other
experiences we associate with the transition to adulthood.
The universities, some with multibillion-dollar endowments, will
accept no moral responsibility.
They are not overly worried that many of
their indebted graduates discover their majors don’t translate into
well-paid jobs or guarantee employers that grads can write, speak, or
think cogently.
One unintended consequence of the chaotic response to the COVID-19
epidemic and the violence that followed the police killing of George
Floyd is a growing re-examination of the circumstances that birthed the
mass protests.
There would be far less college debt if higher education, rather than
the federal government, guaranteed its own students’ loans. If
universities backed loans with their endowments and infrastructure,
college presidents could be slashing costs. They would ensure that
graduates were more likely to get good-paying jobs thanks to rigorous
coursework and faculty accountability.
Taxpayers who are hectored about their supposed racism, homophobia,
and sexism don’t enjoy such finger-wagging from loud, sheltered,
20-something moralists. Perhaps taxpayers will no longer have to
subsidize the abuse if higher education is deemed to be a politicized
institution and thus its endowment income ruled to be fully taxable.
If socialism has become a campus creed, maybe Ivy League schools can
be hit with an annual “wealth tax” on their massive endowments in order
to redistribute revenue to poorer colleges.
It is hard to square the circle of angry graduates having no jobs
with their unaccountable professors who so poorly trained students while
enjoying lifelong tenure. Why does academia guarantee lifetime
employment to those who cannot guarantee that a graduate gets a decent
job?
The epidemic and lockdown required distance learning, but at full
price. The idea that universities can still charge regular rates when
students are forced to stay home is not just an unsustainable practice,
but veritable suicide. If one can supposedly learn well enough from
downloads, Zoom talks, and Skype lectures, then why pay $50,000 or more
for that service from your basement?
Universities are renaming buildings and encouraging statue removal
and cancel culture. But they assume they will always have a red line to
the frenzied trajectory of the mob they helped birth. If the slaveholder
and the robber baron from the distant past deserve no statue, no
eponymous hallway or plaza, then why should the names Yale and Stanford
be exempt from the frenzied name-changing and iconoclasm? Are they seen
as billion-dollar brands, akin to Windex or Coke, that stamp their
investor students as elite “winners”?
The current chaos has posed existential questions of fairness and
transparency that the university cannot answer because to do so would
reveal utter hypocrisy.
Instead, the university’s defense has been to virtue-signal left-wing
social activism to hide or protect its traditional self-interested mode
of profitable business for everyone — staff, faculty, administration,
contractors — except the students who borrow to pay for a lot of it.
How strange that higher education’s monotonous embrace of virtue
signaling, political proselytizing, and loud social-justice activism is
now sowing the seeds of its own obsolescence and replacement.
If being “woke” means that the broke and unemployed are graduating to
ignorantly smashing statues, denying free speech to others, and
institutionalizing cancel culture, then the public would rather pass on
what spawned all of that in the first place.
Taxpayers do not yet know what to replace the university with —
wholly online courses and lectures, apolitical new campuses, or
broad-based vocational education — only that a once hallowed institution
is becoming McCarthyite, malignant, and, in the end, just a bad deal.
Black
Americans from slavery to Jim Crow to the civil rights era never had
anything that vaguely resembled UNRWA or any type of international
relief agency.
2. While the Palestinian
Authority continues to receive enormous amounts of money in
international aid every year, money that is used on racial programming
and propaganda —
Black Americans
received no international aid during centuries of slavery and Jim Crow
segregation. Neither did we receive domestic aid…Money to help fund our
quest for freedom came almost exclusively from private donors including
Black businesses and families, White abolitionists, churches, synagogues
and other Jewish organizations and individuals.
3.
There are many Arab states in the Middle East who have the potential to
help the Palestinian Arabs, not with money, but by offering to accept
them as full citizens. The Arab states refuse to do this, and the few
states that do have Palestinian Arab — Like Lebanon and Syria — treat
them as second-class citizens. Black Americans are in a different
situation —
Black Americans had no Black
nations to which we could turn for help or shelter. While we were
enslaved in America, our continent had been colonized by the Europeans.
Further, all of North Africa is currently being occupied by Arabs, who
stole it from our people. But that’s another list.
4. Washington notes that another difference between Black Americans and the Palestinian Arabs is with regard to terrorism:
Other
than Nat Turner and a few rebellious slaves whom history has forgotten,
Black victims of oppression never possessed the means to offer armed
resistance to our oppressors during slavery. After slavery (and due to
the legal right to purchase guns), Black Americans were able to arm
themselves, but had no access to rockets, rocket launchers, IEDs or
other explosives.
Even so, he adds another point:
If Black Americans had been able to fight with weapons, you can be certain that blowing up our sons and daughters would not have been a strategic option. Ever. Under any circumstances. [emphasis added]
In
a post this month, Dumisani Washington’s son, Joshua Washington —
Director of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) —
continues on this theme of the use of terrorism in the context of the
current protests — and riots — which Palestinian Arabs claim as similar
to their cause. In The Palestinian appropriation of black pain, he writes:
…our struggle could not be any more different.
One of the biggest differences is terrorism. The Palestinian Authority
encourages and incentivizes Palestinians to kill Jews. Palestinians who
successfully kill Jews are awarded with a monthly stipend from the PA.
Palestinians who commit suicide while killing Jews have a monthly
stipend sent to their families. Palestinian children are trained to kill
Jews by any means, including suicide bombing, and they are taught this
through terrorist traning camps and Hamas TV shows. Streets are named
after Palestinians who commit suicide bombings if they kill enough Jews.
As heightened as the black community has ever been, never have we as a people resorted to killing white people everywhere just because they are white.
Never have we encouraged the death of our own children for our cause.
Never have we ever produced television shows to teach our children how
to kill white people. What the Palestinian Authority is engaged in is
not a struggle against oppression; it is pure and simple Jew hatred, and Palestinian leaders will do anything they can to legitimize it including exploiting black pain to do so. [emphasis added]
5. Noting that his grandmother would have called Arabs throwing rocks at motorists “hoodlums,” Washington writes
During
the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s our ‘weapon’ was
non-violent resistance. This was by choice and by necessity, as we were
vastly outnumbered and outgunned by the White majority.
6.
He notes how the UNHRC has consistently made Israel its number one
target for condemnation. However, he is unimpressed by that UN body —
Not
only did Black Americans ever have something like a League of Nations
to condemn our enemies, the UNHRC further insults us by largely ignoring
the suffering of African people in places like Sudan, Eritrea or Congo;
or Egypt/Sinai where African slavery and organ harvesting is taking
place.
7. In his final point, Washington points out
the Arab representation in the Israeli Knesset and Supreme Court, noting
that some continue to be anti-Israel, under protected free speech.
Again, contrast with that the situation of Blacks —
Black
Americans did not become a part of the legislative system until after
slavery during Reconstruction. We were exclusively Republican by
default, as the Democrats were the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the
KKK. We never called for the destruction of America. We have a long,
proud tradition of working within the American legal system to address
violations of civil and human rights — for everyone.
Yet
with all the differences that separate the Black struggle for equal
rights with the situation of Arabs in Israel, Washington recognizes
their need for justice — and offers to point them in right direction:
Lastly, I do not spurn the Palestinian fight for self-determination. Every fight for justice is a righteous struggle. I
would just say that, what made the Black historic struggle effective
was our remembering who our enemy was — and who it was not. In the
interest of defending Palestinian human rights, one may want to start
with the main perpetrators: The Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
[emphasis added]
The Jewish community is very
fortunate to have Black leaders who are outspoken in defense of Jews and
Israel and just as importantly, defending the history of help and
cooperation that they share.
As much as Jews may have helped the
Black community in the past, the Jewish community is now in need of the
aid of such strong Black leaders in the face of the riots and
antisemitic attacks on synagogues that are taking advantage of peaceful
protests.
Hundreds of elephants have mysteriously dropped dead in Botswana, leaving wildlife experts and government officials searching for answers.
Dr. Niall McCann, director of conservation at U.K.-based charity National Park Rescue, told theBBCthat since the start of May, colleagues in Botswana had spotted over 350 elephant carcasses in the country’s Okavango Delta.
Heartbreaking aerial photos show the dead elephants dotted around the Botswanan landscape. The mysterious deaths have also sparked concerns about the potential health impact on people living in the local area.
Aerial photographs show the elephant carcasses dotted across the landscape.(Supplied)
“A catastrophic die-off of elephants is happing in northern Botswana, and no one knows why. It’s vital that a team of independent experts visit and sample the carcasses before any more elephants die, or this spills over into the local human population,” McCann tweeted Wednesday.
Government officials in Botswana say there is no evidence that poaching is involved in the mysterious elephant deaths.
McCann told theGuardianthat elephants have been seen walking around in circles, which might indicate a neurological condition that is afflicting them. The biologist told the Guardian that some of the elephants have fallen straight on their faces, suggesting that they died quickly. Others, however, are dying more slowly.
An unknown pathogen or poisoning are two possibilities, according to the Guardian, which says that Anthrax has been ruled out.
The mysterious elephant deaths in Botswana have baffled wildlife experts and officials. (Supplied)
Phys.orgreportsthat last year, more than 100 elephants in Botswana died in a suspected outbreak of natural Anthrax. Subsequent investigations reported than elephants died from Anthrax while others were victims of drought, according to Phys.org.
The Guardian reports that cyanide poisoning, which is sometimes used by poachers, seems an unlikely cause of the latest die-off given that the dead bodies of scavengers, such as vultures, have not been seen near the elephant carcasses.
Fox News has reached out to Dr. McCann and National Park Rescue on this story.
The mass elephant die-off has been described as "catastrophic."(Supplied)
In a statement released on July 2, the Botswanan government said that investigations into the unexplained deaths are ongoing.
“Following the mysterious deaths of elephants in the areas around Seronga since March 2020, to date, 275 elephant carcasses have been verified against the 365 reported cases,” it said. “Three laboratories in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Canada have been identified to process the samples taken from the dead elephants which will be interpreted against field veterinary assessments of clinically ill and dead elephants.”
Seronga is a village located near the start of the Okavango Delta.
“Members of the public are assured that tusks are being removed from the dead elephants and carcasses within proximity to human settlements continue to be destroyed,” added the Botswana government in its statement.
The African elephant is classified as “vulnerable” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List.
Close-up of a juvenile African elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the Jao concession, Wildlife, Okavango Delta in Botswana - 2019/12/11 - file photo.(Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Last year, more than 500 vultures in Botswana werepoisonedafter elephant carcasses were laced with chemicals.
A commonly held belief among dog owners is that if they want to know how old their pet is, they simply have to times its age by seven.
Then, it can be decided whether man's best friend is acting up because it is a naughty teenager - or simply due to poor training.
However, new research has found that this method is not based on science, and our pooches may be far 'older' than previously believed.
As people, and animals, age, the number and placement of methyl groups in the genome change. By mapping these, scientists can tell the age of an organism.
The researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine used blood samples from 105 Labrador retrievers to accurately work out how quickly the breed ages.
The study, published in Cell Systems, found the comparison is not a 1:7 ratio over time. Especially when dogs are young, they age rapidly compared to humans. A one-year-old dog is similar to a 30-year-old human. A four-year-old dog is similar to a 52-year-old human. Then by seven years old, dog aging slows, and a 12-year-old dog is 70 in human years.
"This makes sense when you think about it - after all, a nine-month-old dog can have puppies, so we already knew that the 1:7 ratio wasn't an accurate measure of age," said senior author Dr Trey Ideker, professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Scientists say this new comparison between dog ageing and human could be helpful for vets, so they can work out whether illnesses in dogs are age-related.
The formula provides a new "epigenetic clock," a method for determining the age of a cell, tissue or organism based on a readout of its epigenetics, which are chemical modifications like methylation, which influence which genes are "off" or "on" without altering the inherited genetic code.
Previous studies have found epigenetic clocks for humans, but these don't translate to other species and may not even be the same for other humans.
One limitation of this clock is they only used blood from Labradors, and different breeds are known to live for different amounts of time. Dr Ideker plans to test more breeds, but said that since it's accurate for humans and mice as well as Labrador retrievers, he predicts the clock will apply to all dog breeds.
"I have a six-year-old dog -- she still runs with me, but I'm now realising that she's not as 'young' as I thought she was," Dr Ideker added.
He said dogs are interesting to study because they live so closely with us, perhaps more than any other animal, so a dog's environmental and chemical exposures are very similar to humans, and they receive nearly the same levels of health care.
The research could be useful for humans, not just their pets. The scientists believe the epigenetic clock could be used to test anti-ageing treatments, to see if they had made any difference to the methylation patterns in the genome and therefore altered the 'age' of human cells.
"There are a lot of anti-ageing products out there these days - with wildly varying degrees of scientific support," Dr Ideker said, "But how do you know if a product will truly extend your life without waiting 40 years or so? What if you could instead measure your age-associated methylation patterns before, during and after the intervention to see if it's doing anything?"
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels, no stranger to making viral videos appealing to tough-on-crime politics, released a video Tuesday that said he will make “special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county” if he feels the county is overwhelmed by protesters.
The three-minute video shows Daniels standing in front of 18 deputies as he derides civil rights protesters as godless disruptors and tells them to stay out of Clay County, a suburb of Jacksonville.
"If we can’t handle you, I’ll exercise the power and authority as the sheriff, and I’ll make special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county and I’ll deputize them for this one purpose to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility," he said.
"That’s what we’re sworn to do. That’s what we’re going to do. You’ve been warned."
Daniels, the county’s first Black sheriff, is himself under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement related to an affair he had with a fellow officer when he was at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and a subsequent false arrest of that officer.
Daniels is a first-term sheriff up for reelection who has said he wants to one day be a congressman. He is being challenged by six opponents, including former Atlantic Beach Police Chief Michelle Cook, former Clay County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Management Director Ben Carroll and Mike Taylor, a former FDLE agent and state attorney’s investigator who has earned the endorsement of former Gov. Jeb Bush.
His challengers accused him of inviting chaos to Clay County and insulting the training necessary to become a sheriff’s deputy.
“We train under intense situations to control the adrenaline dump,” Taylor said, “and we don’t do a perfect job at it, but we train to be prepared to make decisions under pressure. That’s necessary to be effective. To think we can put anyone in that role and it’ll be OK, we’re asking for a much bigger problem and inviting chaos and anarchy in the streets. The citizens of Clay County deserve better than that.”
Taylor added that deputizing private citizens could make the county liable to pay out lawsuits if the newly deputized citizens don’t act appropriately. “I don’t believe it was intended to be a pro-police message. I believe it was intended to be a propaganda message. Real police professionalism actually acknowledges that professionally trained police officers cannot be replaced by a swearing-in ceremony.”
Cook said the video was a sign Daniels wasn’t capable of leading. “What Daniels said yesterday may sound tough and macho. But, instead, it is a call for vigilantism and another signal that he is incapable of leading the sheriff’s department and keeping Clay County safe.”
She added: “Instead of dealing with real issues in a meaningful way, he is behaving like a reality show sheriff and calling attention to himself. To make matters worse, he pulled 18 officers off the streets to be used as props for his taxpayer-funded campaign stunt. It’s no wonder morale is so low among our fine officers.”
Carroll, who spent 14 years at the Sheriff’s Office, said he runs a nonprofit that trains churches and private schools, and he believes it’s foolish to think private citizens could replace deputies.
“I’m sure that was a political production for the sheriff. I doubt seriously that there will ever be the need in Clay County to deputize all the citizens to stand in the gap. I believe the sheriff’s department is totally capable of standing in the pike.”
Carroll said he supports citizens owning and training to use firearms to protect themselves, but he believes the Sherrif’s Office must be capable of handling protesters on its own.
