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>>22450979, >>22450995 ANDY NGO REPORTS: Trans terror? Trans duo revealed as suspects in killing of a Vermont border patrol officer

Danielson v. Cnty. of Sonoma

Opinion

21-cv-08854-JCS

04-19-2022

GWEN DANIELSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF SONOMA, CALIFORNIA, et al., Defendants.

JOSEPH C. SPERO CHIEF MAGISTRATE JUDGE

ORDER REGARDING MOTION TO STAY AND MOTION TO DISMISS RE: DKT. NOS. 23, 27

JOSEPH C. SPERO CHIEF MAGISTRATE JUDGE

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs Gwen Danielson, Emma Borhanian,Jack Lasota, and Alexander Leatham bring claims in this case based on their purportedly false arrest by Sonoma County sheriff's deputies (Joseph Ricks and Daniel Ager-collectively with Sonoma County, the “County Defendants”) after a purportedly false complaint by Defendants Westminster Woods, Christopher Rhodes, and/or Olivia Longstaff (the “Westminster Defendants”). Plaintiffs now move to stay the case based on criminal charges that have been filed against them related to the arrests at issue. The County Defendants do not oppose the stay. The Westminster Defendants oppose the stay for the limited purpose of resolving their pending motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but do not oppose a stay of further proceedings if the Court were to deny the motion to dismiss.

The Court finds the matter suitable for resolution without oral argument, and VACATES the hearing and case management conference previously set for April 22, 2022. A status conference will occur on August 19, 2022 at 2:00 PM.

For the reasons discussed below, Plaintiffs' motion to stay is GRANTED. The Westminster Defendants' motion to dismiss is DENIED as moot, without prejudice to any argument they might raise after the stay is lifted.

The parties have consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate judge for all purposes under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).

II. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs allege that on November 15, 2019, the Westminster Defendants falsely reported to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department that Plaintiffs had a gun,in order to disrupt Plaintiffs' protest at the Westminster Woods property regarding an alleged coverup of child molestation.Compl. (dkt. 1) ¶¶ 20-21. According to Plaintiffs' complaint, the County Defendants arrested each plaintiff for possession of a firearm, despite only one gun being reported and no gun being found. Id. ¶ 22. Plaintiffs allege they were mistreated during and after their arrests. Id. ¶¶ 24-25. Plaintiffs assert claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and California's Bane Act and Ralph Act. Id. ¶¶ 26-40. Except for two claims addressing only liability by the County of Sonoma (the ADA claim and a Monell claim), Plaintiffs' claims generally do not distinguish among the various defendants, instead referring generally to misconduct by “Defendants.” See id.

On November 10, 2019, Plaintiffs were charged in state court with felony conspiracy “to commit the crime[s] of Trespass, False Imprisonment, Child Abuse, Resisting Arrest, and Wearling Masks to Avoid Identification, ” as well as related misdemeanors. Friedman Decl. (dkt. 27-1) Ex. A (felony complaint) at 1-2. Plaintiffs' complaint, filed in November of 2021, acknowledged the pending criminal charges, stating that “Plaintiffs seek a stay of this civil action until the underlying criminal matter has resolved” and “will seek to amend this complaint after the underlying criminal matter resolves.” Compl. ¶ 5.

The child abuse allegation in the criminal complaint appears to be based on allegations that Plaintiffs' conduct “caused 18 elementary school children present on the property to be directed to shelter in place for a possible active shooter, ” resulting in “unjustifiable physical pain and mental suffering.” Friedman Decl. Ex. A at 2.

https://casetext.com/case/danielson-v-cnty-of-sonoma

>>22451715

>Plaintiffs Gwen Danielson, Emma Borhanian,Jack Lasota, and Alexander Leatham

Authorities ID four arrested in Westminster Woods protest

The suspects were found carrying pepper spray, walkie-talkie radios and a body-worn camera.

Jack Lasota (Sonoma County Sheriff's Office)

Bohemian Highway was closed for about three hours on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, while deputies responded to reports of a possible person with a gun. (Pat Paterson)

Alexander Leatham (Sonoma County Sheriffs Office)

Emma Borhanian (Sonoma County Sheriffs Office)

Gwen Danielson (Sonoma County Sheriffs Office)

Jack Lasota (Sonoma County Sheriff's Office)

Bohemian Highway was closed for about three hours on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, while deputies responded to reports of a possible person with a gun. (Pat Paterson)

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Bohemian Highway was closed for about three hours on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, while deputies responded to reports of a possible person with a gun. (Pat Paterson)

NASHELLY CHAVEZ

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

November 18, 2019

2 minute read

A group of masked and hooded demonstrators who were arrested Friday after they barricaded the entrance to an Occidental-area retreat center were protesting an event hosted by a Berkeley rationality and cognitive bias nonprofit, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Four people were taken into custody after sheriff’s deputies swarmed the wooded area outside the Westminster Woods camp near Camp Meeker, where authorities were told about 3:40 p.m. of a group of “unwanted people,” including one person said to have had a gun, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

No weapon was found but the protesters,wearing robes and Guy Fawkes masks, did not follow deputies’ orders and physically resisted efforts to detain them, the Sheriff’s Office said. The mask is a symbol of the online group Anonymous and is worn by the main character in the movie “V for Vendetta” though it does not appear the protesters were with any specific group, Sonoma County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Misti Wood said.

The arrested suspects were identified Monday afternoon as Jack Lasota, 28, of Berkeley, Emma Borhanian, 28, of Albany, Gwen Danielson, 25, a homeless person and Alexander Leatham, 24, whose hometown was unknown, authorities said.

The group was found carrying pepper spray, a body-worn camera and walkie-talkie radios, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

All except Borhanian remained at the Sonoma County Jail on Monday afternoon on bail of $50,000.

Each faced offenses including felony suspicion of child endangerment, false imprisonment, conspiracy, misdemeanor resisting arrest, wearing a mask while committing a crime and trespassing, authorities said. A fifth person, who initially claimed to be a reporter, was released. Authorities determined that person committed no crime, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Protesters used a small bus, a box truck and a Toyota Prius to block both entrances to Westminster Woods, preventing anyone from leaving, the Sheriff’s Office said. A group of about a dozen adults with the Center for Applied Rationality, the Berkeley nonprofit, were guests at the campground at the time, authorities said. ? A SWAT team was called in, and along with deputies, they swept the area in search of a gunman while a Sheriff’s Office helicopter flew overhead.

About 50 people, including about three dozen who were sheltering in place at Westminster Woods, were evacuated from the campground and driven to the Occidental Fire Department in a school bus.

The suspects declined to identify themselves in subsequent interviews with deputies, leading detectives to use fingerprints to identify them, the Sheriff’s Office said.

https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/authorities-id-four-arrested-in-westminster-woods-protest/

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>>22451744

Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death

Posted on | January 27, 2025 | 14 Comments

Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz”

You’ve never heard of the “Zizians,” and neither had I until this afternoon, but you’re probably going to be hearing a lot more about them now that this weirdo California cult has been connected to the shootout in Vermont last week that left a Border Patrol agent dead. Credit to Andy Ngo for putting together the pieces of this bizarre puzzle. When the shootout went down in Vermont on January 20, the initial reports were very thin, but piece by piece, we’ve learned more about the two suspects, Teresa Youngblut, a 21-year-old from Seattle, and Felix Bauckholt, a math genius from Germany who hadworked in the financial industry on__ an H1B visa__. About seven months ago, Youngblut’s parents had reported her missing, saying she had cut off contact with them and they were concerned she might be in a coercive relationship. The police didn’t do anything, saying that as an adult, she couldn’t be considered a runaway.

Youngblut and Bauckholt showed up in Vermont a couple of weeks ago and attracted suspicion because they were wearing black “tactical” gear and Youngblut had a pistol in a visible holster. Eventually, this lead to an attempted traffic stop on I-95 in which both Youngblut and Bauckholt pulled pistols. Bauckholt was killed in the resulting shootout, but Younglut survived and will face charges. This was mysterious. Why were they in Vermont? What were they doing with the tactical gear, an “arsenal” of weapons and even night-vision goggles? But then there’s this:

In court papers filed earlier Monday,federal prosecutors in Vermont said Youngblut and Bauckholt both possessed firearms purchased by a resident of the state in February 2024. That person, who was not identified, is a person of interest in a double homicide in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.

Bauckholt flew into the U.S. in the hours before the Pennsylvania murders. Prosecutors also said that Youngblut has been in “frequent contact” with an individual who was detained during the investigation into the double homicide.

That individual is also a person of interest in a murder investigation in Vallejo, California, federal prosecutors said. No other details were provided.

That’s three other murders that this is connected to. And then, thanks to Andy Ngo (and @jessi_cata) we learned that both of the suspects in the Vermont shootoutwere transgender,Youngblut identifying as “Milo” and Bauckholt calling himself “Ophelia.” Furthermore, it appears that both of them were involved with the Zizians, whose leader Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz,” became notorious for a 2019 protest against CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality). Among other things, the Zizians are radical vegans. The Pennsylvania double homicide was in January 2023 and the victims, Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69,were the parents of a Zizian cult member named Michelle “Jamie” Zajko.

Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death

Posted on | January 27, 2025 | 14 Comments

Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz”

You’ve never heard of the “Zizians,” and neither had I until this afternoon, but you’re probably going to be hearing a lot more about them now that this weirdo California cult has been connected to the shootout in Vermont last week that left a Border Patrol agent dead. Credit to Andy Ngo for putting together the pieces of this bizarre puzzle. When the shootout went down in Vermont on January 20, the initial reports were very thin, but piece by piece, we’ve learned more about the two suspects, Teresa Youngblut, a 21-year-old from Seattle, and Felix Bauckholt, a math genius from Germany who had worked in the financial industry on an H1B visa. About seven months ago, Youngblut’s parents had reported her missing, saying she had cut off contact with them and they were concerned she might be in a coercive relationship. The police didn’t do anything, saying that as an adult, she couldn’t be considered a runaway.

>>22451880

>Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death

Youngblut and Bauckholt showed up in Vermont a couple of weeks ago and attracted suspicion because they were wearing black “tactical” gear and Youngblut had a pistol in a visible holster. Eventually, this lead to an attempted traffic stop on I-95 in which both Youngblut and Bauckholt pulled pistols. Bauckholt was killed in the resulting shootout, but Younglut survived and will face charges. This was mysterious. Why were they in Vermont? What were they doing with the tactical gear, an “arsenal” of weapons and even night-vision goggles? But then there’s this:

In court papers filed earlier Monday, federal prosecutors in Vermont said Youngblut and Bauckholt both possessed firearms purchased by a resident of the state in February 2024. That person, who was not identified, is a person of interest in a double homicide in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.

Bauckholt flew into the U.S. in the hours before the Pennsylvania murders. Prosecutors also said that Youngblut has been in “frequent contact” with an individual who was detained during the investigation into the double homicide.

That individual is also a person of interest in a murder investigation in Vallejo, California, federal prosecutors said. No other details were provided.

That’s three other murders that this is connected to. And then, thanks to Andy Ngo (and @jessi_cata) we learned that both of the suspects in the Vermont shootout were transgender, Youngblut identifying as “Milo” and Bauckholt calling himself “Ophelia.” Furthermore, it appears that both of them were involved with the Zizians, whose leader Jack Lasota, a/k/a “Ziz,” became notorious for a 2019 protest against CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality). Among other things, the Zizians are radical vegans. The Pennsylvania double homicide was in January 2023 and the victims, Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69, were the parents of a Zizian cult member named Michelle “Jamie” Zajko.

It appears these highly intelligent people lacked common sense. They got sucked into the vortex of radical Vegan transgender craziness, despite being warned about this cult, and now Bauckholt is dead, as is a Border Patrol agent, while Youngblut is likely facing life in prison.

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?

https://theothermccain.com/2025/01/27/radical-vegan-transgender-cult-implicated-in-border-agents-death/

>>22451880

>Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death

>>22451882

>>22451892

>the part about the purchase of two rolls of aluminum foil at a local Walmart, and then the guy 'wrapping' unknown items in that foil seems to be left out of this account.

think this article moar focused on the trannie cult than Felix. but yeah…there's some interdasting details regarding Vermont

[Link] A community alert about Ziz

by DanielFilan

23rd Feb 2023

Review

This is a linkpost for https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

The start of the post is copy-pasted below. Note that the post is anonymous, and I am not claiming to have written it.

Some people in the rationalist community are concerned about risks of physical violence from Ziz and some of her associates. Following discussions with several people, I’m posting here to explain where those concerns come from, and recommend some responses.

TLDR (details and links in the post body)

Over the past few years, Ziz has repeatedly called for the deaths of many different classes of people.

In August of 2022, Ziz seems to have faked her own death. Ziz’s close associate Gwen Danielson may have done the same thing in April of 2022.

In November of 2022, three associates of Ziz (Somnulence “Somni” Logencia, Emma Borhanian, and someone going by the alias “Suri Dao”) got into a violent conflict with their landlord in Vallejo, California, according to court records and news reports. Somni stabbed the landlord in the back with a sword, and the landlord shot Somni and Emma. Emma died, and Somni and Suri were arrested. Ziz and Gwen were seen by police at the scene, alive.

I gather that Pennsylvania police believe, based on a lot of circumstantial evidence and investigation, that one or more of Ziz, Michelle “Jamie” Zajko, or Daniel Blank was very plausibly involved in the murder of Jamie’s parents in Pennsylvania around December 31st, 2022.

Ziz is currently in police custody on charges related to obstructing a PA police investigation. Daniel, Jamie, and Gwen are not in custody (as far as I know), and I don’t know their locations.

I don’t know of any concrete plans by Ziz or her associates to do anything else violent, but it seemed like a good idea to raise a loud alarm about all of this now. People should speak up (or at least tell a friend) if they have information, and should take whatever safety precautions make sense for their situation in case more violence occurs at some point in the future.

Even seemingly minor pieces of information might be helpful here, since they could add up to a clearer picture when combined with other information that also seems minor. If you want to share information privately, you can email me at sefashapiro@gmail.com, or submit information anonymously through this form.

This is a complicated situation that I don’t fully understand, and it’s likely that I’m getting some facts wrong. I’ve talked to a lot of people in an attempt to piece together what happened, and I’ll try to update this post with corrections or important details if they’re brought to my attention.

Please keep in mind, as I am trying to keep in mind myself, that every observation is evidence for more than one hypothesis, that things are often not what they seem, and that it’s useful to make the effort to think about both what’s appropriate to do in the world where your best guesses are true, and what’s appropriate to do in the world where your best guesses are wrong. Split and commit is better than seeking confirmation of a single theory.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-community-alert-about-ziz

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>>22451913

>[Link] A community alert about Ziz

New Evidence Shows Chester Heights Double Murder Not ‘Random Act of Violence'

In an updated report, police say that Richard Zajko and his wife, Rita, were likely targeted when they were murdered last month

By Hayden Mitman • Published February 1, 2023 • Updated on February 1, 2023 at 12:11 pm

Law enforcement officials believe a double murder that occurred in the Philadelphia suburbs last month was not a random act of violence.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, the bodies of Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69, were found inside of their home along Highland Drive in Chester Heights, Delaware County, on Jan. 2.

Chester Heights Homicide Victims

Pennsylvania State Police

Richard Zajko, 72, and his wife, Rita, 69.

A document released by the troopers notes that the deaths have been ruled a homicide and based on information gathered through "dozens of interviews" law enforcement officials believe the murders were not a random act of violence.

State police, however, didn't name any suspects or motive in the killings.

Police asked anyone who may have information about the case to contact the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS (8477) or contact the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop K, directly at 484-840-1000.

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>>22452148

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>>22452159

>Los Angeles PoliceAir SupportDivision

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>>22452166

>Chinatown

>Los Angeles, CA 90012

Standard hotel