you were told that. yes. and you signed documentation every yore that you certified that you acknowledged knowing the risks and received the materials required for you to carry that tears, correct? yes. i signed the documents. now in terms of the carrying of these weapons, reaction side means what for you? that would be my left hand. okay. you re right-handed? yes. so carrying a taser you have done for years on your left side, correct? yes. and your firearm you carry on your right side? on my right side. how many years do you carry your firearm and taser that way? my firearm for 26 years and my taser according to your documents for 19. so as long as you ve had that taser you carried it on your left side, correct? in the beginning i carried it on my right side in a drop holster. when did you switch? when we were given new holsters. and when would that have been? i don t know. but before 2016, you saw the images in court, long before
if you look again, five months after the second dose, and look under omicron, the red circles, nominal, in other words virtually no degree of neutralization protection. again, one month after the third dose, it goes well within the protective range. we are in the situation where now we re facing a very important delta surge and we re looking over our shoulder at on oncoming omicron surge. the optimal protection is fully vaccinated plus a boost. fully vaccinated plus a boost. meantime another top health expert is warning the u.s. is about to face a viral blizzard in the coming weeks. the white house said the u.s. is now averaging about 119,000 new cases a day. new yorkers waiting in long lines to get tested, a scene playing out in a number of areas around the country. as millions of people prepare to travel for christmas and new year s. kyung lah has the latest for us. reporter: america s covid time warp. long testing and vaccination lines from miami, to massachusetts. i
Just drilling down on it, was there a reaction to something that was real or something that was just sort of goofing off so it is the reaction, a bunch of students starting to get nervous and saying, be careful, tomorrow is violence day, then the parents and the school districts see it. you saw this ratcheting up. so this is a specific perpetrator, you want to investigate them and what is their online identification and tiktok has probably already figured out if they can who it is and will give that information to law enforcement. but in a world in which things get amplified, and can have a physical consequence, which is our schools being closed, we have got to get sophisticated about that amplification, because as you said better safe than sorry can t be the standard when so much is out there. a school district could be closed all of the time. think of covid. if you took the better safe than
Sorry, our kids would not be back in school and no one wants that. so we have to figure out a way to interpret this intelligence better. this is a new threat environment, right? once again social media has a big role in all of this. how do you feel about how tiktok has responded? i thought they ve been good, they ve been pushing back on the response saying we re a social media platform, we cater to teenagers for the most part or young people for most part and so we re trying to figure out what is going on. but also things can get, you know, sort of amplified and people in charge need to be able to interpret it better. what i would like more than everyone reacting to a generalized threat that there is going to be a day of violence is the social media platforms getting much better about the very specific stuff that we see on it. the calls for specific violence at a place, the radicalization that we see going on. this stuff is unfortunately
For any evidence to substantiate the possibility of potential violence at schools and it said it can t find any. all it is finding are these vague warnings, encouraging people to stay home from school. and it is removing those warnings, according to tiktok spokesperson because the it represents misinformation on the platform and it violates the company s misinformation policy based on what they re hearing from law enforcement, and school officials, these tiktok warning videos are, you know, are not actually factually true and so the company is taking them down where it sees them. and that is really important that the company is doing that. because what they re really concerned about is not whether or not there may be some credible threat here, but that in fak that the videos may end up inspiring or encouraging people who are already predisposed perhaps to engage in