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Was the Eaton Centre gunman in a ‘dissociative state’? Nearly seven years and two trials later, a jury is set to decide

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After a second trial almost identical to the first, a jury is once again deliberating whether Christopher Husbands murdered two men and injured several other people when he opened fire in the Eaton Centre food court in 2012, or whether he was in a “dissociative state” while shooting and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions.

Husbands, 29, admitted he was the gunman in the shooting at the landmark downtown Toronto mall at 6:22 p.m on June 2, 2012. Nixon Nirmalendran, 22, and Ahmed Hassan, 24, died from gunshot wounds. Connor Stevenson, 13, who was at the food court with his mother and sister, survived after being shot in the head. The shooting and subsequent chaos, during which a pregnant woman was trampled, was captured on surveillance video from the mall.

Christopher Husbands, seen here in a courtroom sketch from June 4, 2012.
Christopher Husbands, seen here in a courtroom sketch from June 4, 2012. (Tammy Hoy / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The jury at Husbands’ second trial was told he had been tried once before. But it did not know he was initially charged with first-degree murder, that he had been convicted on two counts of second-degree murder by the first jury in 2014 nor that he had been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 30 years. His jury was also never told it was a judge’s mistake that resulted in the Court of Appeal ordering a new trial.

The mistake — which resulted in a number of appeals — occurred while potential jurors were being questioned about bias. Instead of allowing the defence request to use “rotating triers” — where two different people from the jury pool assess each new juror — the trial judge, Superior Court Justice Eugene Ewaschuk, imposed “static triers,” where the same two people assess all twelve jurors.

Since the Crown did not appeal the first jury’s finding of second-degree murder, Husbands could not be charged with first-degree murder at his second trial. As such, he faced the lesser murder charges in addition to charges of aggravated assault.

The defence of not criminally responsible presented by Husbands was the same as in the previous trial, though this time it was supported with more expert witnesses, including Boston-based psychologist and PTSD expert Dr. Mark Miller.

In his closing address, Husbands’ lawyer Dirk Derstine argued his client is not criminally responsible for the shooting because he was in a dissociative state where his body did things his mind could not control.

Husbands, who testified to having been physically and sexually abused as a child growing up in the Regent Park neighbourhood, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after a violent attack in February 2012. He told the jury he was ambushed at an apartment, tied up with duct tape, beaten, pistol-whipped and stabbed two-dozen times by six men. Husbands testified his attackers that night included Nixon and Nisan Nirmalendran — two men who were in the food court on June 2, 2012.

On the day of the shooting, Husbands claimed he was temporarily “holding” a loaded gun for a person known as “Gaza,” who was concerned about being stopped by police in the Entertainment District.

Husbands and his then-girlfriend went to SportChek to buy rollerblades, and then picked up burgers to take away. It was when his girlfriend went to get sushi that Husbands saw the Nirmalendran brothers and three other men.

Seeing them put Husbands, already fearful and paranoid, into a scenario from his worst nightmare, Derstine said. He argued that if Husbands had been after revenge, he knew where to find the brothers.

The Crown disputes how serious Husbands PTSD was at the time of the attack and maintains Husbands faked his dissociative symptoms which fall at the “extreme end” of the scale and would be extremely rare.

The Crown’s expert witness Dr. Peter Collins testified Husbands did not appear to be acting in the disorganized and robotic manner he would expect in a dissociative state — including when he “executed” Nixon Nirmalendran at point-blank range as he lay on the floor.

Instead, the Crown argues Husbands, who was armed with a loaded gun, intended to kill Nixon and Nisan Nirmalendran as revenge or “street justice” for their attack on him.

“The video tells the story perfectly clearly. It tells a very powerful story of an intentional murder. It was not the result of any fear. It was not the result of a spontaneous act because of a loss of control. It was not because of his PTSD,” Crown John Cisorio said in his closing address to the jury.

Nixon Nirmalendran never said “shoot him” as Husbands claimed he heard, nor did he did see Nisan Nirmalendran appear to reach for a gun, Cisorio said, adding there is no evidence Nisan Nirmalendran had a gun on him.

“This is not a situation where the group approached him and confronted him and he reacted on impulse to a threat,” Cisorio said. “It was Mr. Husbands who was the threat.”

Alyshah Hasham is a Toronto-based reporter covering crime and court. Follow her on Twitter: @alysanmati



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These US entities partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology — time for a criminal investigation?

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(Natural News) The Wuhan Institute of Virology from which the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is believed to have “escaped” has a number of questionable partnerships that are worth looking into in light of the pandemic.

Most of them are universities, including the University of Alabama, the University of North Texas, and Harvard University. There is also the EcoHealth Alliance, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Wildlife Federation.

While the relationships between these entities and the Wuhan Institute of Virology may be completely innocent, there is no way to really say for sure without a proper investigation. And this is exactly what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling for, as is the nation of Australia.

Pompeo and the folks down under, along with millions of Americans, would really like to know the true origins of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). An increasing number of people simply are not buying the narrative that the novel virus originated in bat soup at a Chinese wet market, and this even includes mainstream media outlets like Fox News.

The only way to really determine what was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and who else might have been involved. is to open the place up for an international investigation. But communist China is against this, of course, accusing Australia of “petty tricks” and collusion with the United States.

“Overnight, I saw comments from the Chinese Foreign Ministry talking about a course of activity with respect to Australia who had the temerity to ask for investigation,” Pompeo is quoted as saying in response to China’s aggression against a proposed investigation.

“Who in the world wouldn’t want an investigation of how this happened to the world?” he added.

As the U.S. aims to get back on track economically speaking, Pompeo believes that now is the time to hold communist China, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and whoever else may have been involved accountable for unleashing this pandemic on the world.

“Not only American wealth, but the global economy’s devastation as a result of this virus,” Pompeo further stated. “There will be a time for this. We will get that timing right.”

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New U.S. analysis finds that lab in Wuhan, China was “most likely” origin of coronavirus release

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(Natural News) While American Leftists and most of the Democrat Party continue to serve as apologists for the Chinese Communist regime over its role in creating and then perpetuating the coronavirus pandemic, a new U.S. government analysis concludes that COVID-19 “most likely” escaped from a lab near Wuhan city.

The Washington Times reports that the analysis cataloged evidence linking the outbreak to the Wuhan lab and has found that other explanations for the origins of the virus are not as credible.

The paper reported:

The document, compiled from open sources and not a finished product, says there is no smoking gun to blame the virus on either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, both located in the city where the first outbreaks were reported.

However, “there is circumstantial evidence to suggest such may be the case,” the paper says.

“All other possible places of the virus’ origin have been proven to be highly unlikely,” said the report, a copy of which was obtained by the Times.

ChiCom officials have claimed that the virus’ origin is unknown. However, Beijing initially stated that coronavirus came from animals at a “wet market” in Wuhan where exotic meats are butchered and sold in disgusting conditions.

Chinese officials claim that COVID-19 went from bats to animals sold in the market last year, then infected humans.

U.S. intelligence officials have increasingly dismissed that explanation, however, as attention has begun to focus on evidence suggesting that Chinese medical researchers were working with coronavirus in the country’s only Level 4 facility, which is in Wuhan.

U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that intelligence agencies are investigating whether the virus escaped from a lab or was the result of a naturally occurring outbreak, but that analysts have ruled out reports that COVID-19 was manmade.

‘The most logical place to investigate the virus origin has been completely sealed off’

“At this point, it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural,” the general said on April 14, “but we don’t know for certain.”

The analysis said that the wet market explanation does not ring true because the first human diagnosis of coronavirus was made in someone who had no connection to the wet market in question. And according to Chinese reports, no bats were sold at that particular market.

At the same time, several questionable actions and a growing paper trail provide clues that the virus actually escaped from a lab, even as China begins to clamp down on those information streams.

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The biggest media lies about the coronavirus: Origins, treatments and vaccines

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(Natural News) If there is one thing that most everyone can agree on concerning the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it is the fact that there is no shortage of conflicting information out there about the nature of it. And the mainstream media is certainly doing its part to steer the narrative as part of a larger agenda, using plenty of misinformation along the way.

The following are among the most commonly parroted lies about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) that aim to distort the facts and deceive you into believing falsehoods about this pandemic:

Media LIE: The virus is not man-made

From the very beginning of this thing, the official narrative was that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) came from a Chinese wet market where bats and other “exotic” animals are sold as meat. But the world later learned that it actually more than likely “escaped” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The mainstream media and social media platforms went nuts trying to censor this information and even called it “fake news.” But eventually it became undeniable that bat soup was not responsible for spreading the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) around Wuhan and eventually to the rest of the world – hence why we continue to call it the Wuhan coronavirus rather than just COVID-19.

We have even seen attempts by the media machine at making the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) a racial issue because there are supposedly more “people of color” coming down with it than people with fair skin, which further detracts attention away from the source of this virus.

Media LIE: Hydroxychloroquine is extremely dangerous and doesn’t work

The minute that President Donald Trump announced that hydroxychloroquine may be an effective, and very inexpensive, remedy for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the mainstream media immediately began decrying this claim as fake news, even though Anthony Fauci himself praised hydroxychloroquine back in 2013 under Barack Obama as being some type of “miracle cure” for SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).

There have even been studies conducted that were designed to intentionally smear the drug as both ineffective and dangerous, though one in particular purposely left out zinc, which appears to be a critical co-factor in supporting the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine – in other words, politics as usual.

Media LIE: Only a vaccine can save us from coronavirus

Many politicians and public health officials are parroting the lie that the only way America can come out of lockdown and go back to “normal” is to get vaccinated with some future vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) that does not even yet exist. A vaccine, we are repeatedly told, is the only thing, or perhaps some new “blockbuster” antiviral drug, that can cure the world of this scourge and make everything happy and wonderful once again.

Meanwhile, not a peep is being made about things like intravenous (IV) high-dose vitamin C, which is being successfully used in other countries to stem the tide of infections without the need for new drugs and vaccines.

By omission, nutrition is pointless

Speaking of natural approaches to overcoming the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) that are being systematically ignored by the mainstream media and most in politics, have you heard anyone mention the importance of nutrition in all of this? We did not think so, and this is intentional.

Regular readers of this site over the years should know by now that the single-most important thing you need to do to stay healthy besides exercising regularly is to feed your body the nutrition it needs to naturally ward off illnesses, including those associated with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

Research compiled by the Lewin Group reveals that nutritional remedies such as calcium, vitamin D, folate, omega-3 fatty acids, lutein, zeaxanthin, and more all play a critical role in fortifying the immune system, which, if properly nourished, should have little problem fending off disease.

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