Calif. city to pay $800K to family of man who died after firefighters wouldn't enter his care center because of COVID rules



A city in California has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a woman whose father died shortly after firefighters refused to enter his care center because of alleged COVID-19 protocols.

On the evening of November 17, 2021, 911 dispatchers received a call from a nurse about an unresponsive patient at the Rialto Post Acute Care Center, a rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility in Rialto, California, about 50 miles due east of Los Angeles.

The unresponsive patient was Joseph Angulo, a 56-year-old man who had entered the facility almost two weeks earlier following a car crash. Body cam footage from Rialto police Sgt. Ralph Ballew revealed that care center staff believed Angulo was in cardiac arrest and frantically attempted to resuscitate him while they waited for first responders.

However, despite the urgent situation, three members of the Rialto Fire Department — Fire Capt. Josh Gilliam, firefighter-paramedic Matt Payne, and fire engineer Mark Brady — calmly waited outside the facility, refusing to go inside. "They're not gonna come in," Ballew can be heard telling care center employees. "They're saying it's a state law that they can't come in."

"You are doing the same thing we would have to do if we went in, so hurry up and bring him out so we can help," one firefighter yelled, according to a later report from Ballew.

Earlier that evening, the three firefighters had reportedly entered the facility at least twice, so their strict adherence to supposed protocols in this case seems curious. Nonetheless, to accommodate their COVID-related demands, a handful of employees detached Angulo's bed. Then, Sgt. Ballew pushed the bed, which reportedly had no wheels, to an emergency exit, while others steered and an unidentified woman continued chest compressions on Angulo.

Once they were outdoors, the first responders took over and transported Angulo to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he later died.

Within a year, Angulo's daughter, Bridgette Angulo, had filed a $100 million lawsuit with the City of Rialto. The city had also fired Gilliam and Payne and suspended Brady for 10 shifts. Rialto Fire Chief Brian Park claimed in November 2022 that first responders were never prohibited from entering such care facilities and that by late 2021, most of the COVID-related restrictions had been lifted.

However, in a shocking development, the department reinstated Gilliam and Payne in January after Kenneth Perea decided an arbitration case in their favor. They were awarded back pay and returned to their rank in seniority, but were assessed a one-week suspension without pay. Brady also had the incident expunged from his record and received full backpay for his suspension. Perea determined that while a "preponderance of the evidence" supported the accusations against the men, their original punishment was too harsh.

Despite the controversial ruling from Perea, the City of Rialto agreed to the $800,000 settlement with Ms. Angulo last month. On Monday, she signed the agreement as well.

Her attorney, William Shapiro, claimed that she wasn't as interested in the money as in ensuring such cases never happen again.

"Bridgette Angulo is proud and confident that as a result of her civil action and the full independent investigation that went into this incident, future emergency care provided by the Rialto Fire Department will meet the full expectations of the citizens of Rialto," Shapiro said.

Rialto Mayor Deborah Robertson likewise issued a statement: "We continue to mourn the patient’s death and our prayers are with the patient’s family in hopes that we may all heal through settlement of this unfortunate matter."

An attorney who represented the firefighters during the arbitration process did not respond to the San Bernardino Sun's request for comment.

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Don't Let Them Put That MASK Back on Your Face!

Don't Let Them Put That MASK Back on Your Face!

Whitlock: Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan stand against the CCP – Competitive COVID Propaganda



Aaron Rodgers is the most dangerous and important man in professional sports. The Green Bay quarterback and reigning NFL MVP can articulate American professional sports leagues’ greed-driven betrayal of their athletes.

So far, most athletes believe the only consequence of American sports bowing to the CCP is a fattened bank account. Young, poorly educated, and dependent on social media algorithms for guidance, modern athletes fail to recognize the danger of globalism and abandonment of traditional American values.

Aaron Rodgers is no longer young. Specks of gray highlight his mane. Intellectual curiosity compels him to seek information beyond what Twitter and Facebook approve. He engages with the disruptive. He flirts with cancellation.

On Saturday, during a three-hour interview, podcaster Joe Rogan played the role of Morpheus and offered Rodgers the red pill and the blue pill. Rodgers channeled Neo and joined the rebellion.

"The Matrix: Competitive COVID Propaganda." That’s what we witnessed Saturday.

In his discussion with Rogan, Rodgers began the process of unpacking the COVID duplicity the NFL unleashed on its players and employees at the behest of Big Pharma.

“And then we're gonna virtue-signal to say, 'Look how righteous our league is, we have 95% compliance with the vaccine,'” Rodgers told Rogan. “And if you don’t, we’re going to send a stooge to your team to show you graphs of your vaccination percentage of your team compared to the rest of the league, which actually happened."

“Day three of training camp, they sent this stooge in, and he showed these slides about what your vaccination percentage was on your team. Where are you, compared to the rest of the league? And I started asking him questions about liability. ‘Oh, I’m not a lawyer.’ Okay, cool. But you’re in here talking about all these different things, and you don’t talk about anybody’s personal health issues. There’s zero exemptions, you took out religious exemptions, you took out PEG exemptions, you took out anybody’s ability to have an opinion of ‘I don’t want to do this.’”

It’s unfair to single out the NFL. The entire sports world joined the Competitive COVID Propaganda movement. The NBA, MLB, NHL, and NCAA were no better than the NFL.

They all bowed to the CCP and the globalist agenda. All the leagues applied as much pressure as possible for young, perfectly healthy athletes to bend over and take an experimental medical trial that does not prevent COVID or its spread. Worse, it’s a rushed medical trial for which we do not know the full scope of its side effects.

In terms of betrayal and damage to trust, this is far worse than the NFL’s alleged dishonesty about concussions. CTE is junk science propagated by the anti-football movement. Even the Washington Post has attacked the alleged discoverer of CTE, Bennet Omalu, the doctor celebrated in the Will Smith-fronted concussion movie.

We’re living through an information and propaganda war. Aaron Rodgers is the highest-profile influencer to join the rebellion. He could wake up his athletic peers to the fact that they’re being used against their own best interest and the best interest of America.

Rodgers might be the most dangerous athlete since Muhammad Ali changed the approved narrative on the Vietnam War. The NFL’s media partners will denigrate Rodgers for consenting to an interview with Rogan and discussing the illogical COVID protocols that defined professional sports last year.

NBC’s Mike Florio, the founder of Pro Football Talk, complained that Rodgers “dredged up a dead issue.” Florio and many other media outlets focused on Rodgers admitting that he misled the media a year ago about his vaccination status.

That’s not the story. Pro sports leagues misleading their employees at the behest of pharmaceutical companies and the vaccine-crazy Biden administration is the real story.

Big Pharma controls television and the sports leagues. That’s what’s driving Competitive COVID Propaganda.

Remember five years ago when Papa John’s Pizza was the NFL’s most visible advertiser? John Schnatter is an all-American success story. He grew up in small-town Indiana. He started a pizza parlor in the closet of his dad’s bar. He became a billionaire. He and Peyton Manning promoted Papa John’s Pizza during commercial breaks of NFL games.

John Schnatter has traditional American values. His brand fit the old NFL. The new NFL pivoted to a globalist agenda The new NFL, like all of television, surrendered to Big Pharma’s advertising thirst.

Big Pharma has pills and vaccines to sell on TV. Big Pharma cut a deal with the Trump-led government to develop vaccines free of any liability for their side effects. The NFL, the NBA, the NHL, and MLB all hopped on the Big Pharma gravy train.

The athletes were treated as lab rats and guinea pigs.

Aaron Rodgers knows this. More importantly, he can articulately explain this. Pro sports leagues don’t want this explained. So their media partners will be very reluctant to address Rodgers’ interview with Rogan. They’ll pretend no one cares.

The truth is Competitive COVID Propaganda has inflicted irrevocable damage on the thin and fading trust between athletes and ownership. As the risks of the vaccines become more and more clear, athletes will realize ownership offered them up as pawns in a globalist game. So did their unions. All of their unions agreed to the draconian COVID protocols. The NFL and the NBA had the most punitive rules because their unions are the weakest and have the worst leadership.

Here’s hoping Aaron Rodgers doesn’t stop with his Joe Rogan interview. Here’s hoping Rodgers inspired other athletes to stand as men and support Novak Djokovic, the world’s top tennis player who is being prevented from playing in the U.S. Open because he won’t take the vaccine. Moderna is one of the primary sponsors of the tournament.

We all must reject the rulership of the Chinese Communist Party and all of its Big Pharma-backed COVID variants.

Nearly 50,000 students in the LA Unified School District did not attend the first day of school this year



When teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District took attendance on August 15, the first day of school, they discovered that a significant number of students listed on their rolls were not there. According to reports, nearly 50,000 students — approximately 11% of the entire student population — were absent.

Despite improvements, the district is still struggling to return to pre-COVID attendance levels. Last year, with COVID protocols firmly in place, chronic absenteeism skyrocketed to nearly 50%, so officials are attempting to address the issue of absenteeism right out of the gate in 2022.

Such high absenteeism "cannot be the case this year," said new district superintendent Alberto Carvalho, "particularly when we talk about black and brown kids, kids in poverty, English-language learners, kids with disabilities."

"They lost so much ground," he added. "Now is the time to accelerate. That's why I'm talking to parents. You need to have your kids in school. Schools are safe, our protocols and protections are in place. Free breakfast, free lunch. Come to school every single day. This is the time. This is the moment."

COVID cases in the area have dropped dramatically, and students and staff no longer have to test weekly like they did last year, though at-home tests have been furnished for students and families. Masks are strongly encouraged but not required. Mercury News reported anecdotally that students and parents at two district schools largely opted not to wear them last Monday.

Though COVID concerns may have kept some students at home, some in the district believe that absenteeism is caused by other struggles, such as mental illness and issues with transportation and child care for younger siblings.

"Mental health is the first priority," said Marian Chiara, the L.A. county office of education attendance coordinator. "We need to take care of the whole child if we want them to feel supported and successful at school. We can’t just look at the fact that they are chronically absent."

"We have to understand why that is the case," she added, "and work with them before it becomes a problem."

Chiara stated that the district is attempting to pivot away from punishing truancy and toward cultivating a safe and welcoming environment where students want to be.

“We are really trying to move away from punitive measures,” she said.

"We know that kids need to feel successful in order to want to come back to school," she continued. "We want to create a supportive environment for students rather than punish them. Especially after the pandemic, a lot of students are going to have arrested development and behavior issues. Let’s understand that and meet these kids where they are at."

Tom Cruise takes COVID protocol enforcement to the next level a month after infamous rant: UK paper says he bought 2 robots to patrol the movie set



Remember Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise's expletive-laden rant against workers reportedly violating COVID-19 protocols on the set of his "Mission: Impossible 7" movie last month — the one where he screamed about how the "motherf***ers" who violated on-set pandemic policies would be fired if they ever did it again?

A refresher: "They're back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us! Because they believe in us and what we're doing! And I'm on the phone with every f***ing studio at night, insurance companies, producers, and they're looking at us and using us to make their movies!" he screamed in December. "We are creating thousands of jobs you motherf***ers!"

It's the rant he followed up with a second foul-mouthed shaming when his first diatribe made international headlines and was splashed on tabloid covers.

Well, it turns out he was super serious about making sure everyone follows every protocol put into place and has reportedly gone beyond just threatening that if he happens to see violators, they're "f***ing gone"

Since he can't be everywhere at once to police each employee's' every move, he has purchased robots to be his eyes and ears to keep an eye on scofflaws, the U.K.'s Sun reported Wednesday.

According to the Sun's entertainment guru, Simon Boyle, sources revealed that Cruise paid big bucks for two robots to patrol the movie set in England and make sure workers are following COVID-19 directives.

"Tom is so serious about making sure the shoot isn't shut down that he's splashed out on these robots as he can't be everywhere to ensure people are behaving themselves," a source said.

The source told Boyle that the robots can also administer "on-the-spot" COVID-19 tests to workers.

"The robots are really sophisticated and rather intimidating. It's like the Terminator only not as violent."

Noting that the rant was probably over the top, the source admitted that Cruise was right on principle and that many observers sympathized with the star.

"He gets paid a lot for these films but he also knows that he is lucky to be working and staff on the film from top to bottom rely on this film going ahead," the person added. "You don't have to go far to see how just how much the pandemic has affected jobs."

Cruise's seemingly unhinged behavior during his multiple rants reportedly led at least five "Mission: Impossible" staffers to quit the movie.