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and authority of the law enforcement officer to investigate.” The petition cites more than a dozen Arizona laws, including negligent homicide, vulnerable adult abuse and racketeering. It also relies on the concept of “command responsibility” drawn from international law. That would hold administrators liable for outcomes of policies they implemented or failed to prevent but is unlikely to be enforced. Highlighted victim testimonies include that of a mother whose son “suffered 47 days of pure torture alone,” and another who described hospital conditions so extreme that her loved one’s body was “black with gangrene.” Rodriguez said her team has identified potential criminal targets not among frontline doctors, but among hospital administrators who implemented and enforced protocols in exchange for federal CARES Act money. “It is the hospital systems. We have not identified individual doctors because they’re care providers,” she said. “The administrations... are the ones who would take the CARES Act money. They’re the ones that would promulgate policy. They’re the ones that would put incentives, both disincentives and positive incentives, for engaging in particular protocols and countermeasures that are lethal.” ‘Chemical crucifixion’ While Rodriguez declined to say whether any active investigations are underway in Arizona, she confirmed two criminal investigations are moving forward in other states. “Unfortunately, because they’re open criminal investigations, I’m not allowed to speak further about them,” she said. “One is a little bit more advanced than the other.” Families like Holland’s and Sherri Smith’s are watching closely. Smith’s husband, Chuck, died at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa in August 2021 after being administered remdesivir against family wishes. Smith, a former nurse, discovered in his records what she describes as a “chemical crucifixion” of sedatives and paralytics. “His body was black with gangrene,” she said. “Our daughter was covered in his blood when they removed the ventilator. It was inhumane.” Holland attempted to sue, but the case was dismissed under the PREP Act. That’s when he took his protest public — on the back of his Tacoma. “That’s why I put the message on the truck,” Holland said. “If they sue me for defamation, I can countersue. Then, I get discovery. Otherwise, they’re untouchable.”
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Chuck Smith died at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa in August 2021 after being administered remdesivir against family wishes.
and that patients were not allowed to give informed consent, that they were held against their will and that there was medical treatment given contrary to their consent, then no, that is not okay.” Rodriguez says she’s seen a growing shift in how people talk about COVID-era policies. “More people realize things that happened to them, things that happened to their loved ones, might have a different explanation,” she said. She hopes stories like Holland’s open space for healing, too. “I just want people who have been victimized to get healthy,” she said. “I want people to see the truth so that we can avoid this in the future. And I also want people who feel like they’ve been silenced and gaslit...to feel some mental and spiritual health from that trauma.” Rodriguez’s legal theory remains untested. But the community behind it is growing. “There are groups of people who are so traumatized and so bereaved, they’re meeting in groups for support,” she said. “And that’s happening around the country.” Hundreds have joined the new push to put the legal theory to the test — and perhaps the efficacy of ivermectin, once and for all — including Maricopa’s Holland. For the widower, State Route 347 is his loudest megaphone. He’s got a blog, a pickup truck and a belief that justice, even if delayed, is still possible. “I’m not trying to convince everybody,” he said. “But if one person sees the truck and starts asking questions, maybe that’s enough.” Heck, that’s how InMaricopa found him.
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For Rodriguez, the goal of these criminal petitions is twofold: legal accountability and national awareness. “These prosecutions should bring justice, and it should also declare to everyone and poke through the COVID delusion that this was just a crisis we didn’t know, we tried our best,” the attorney said. “That’s not the truth. The truth is that there was criminal action and we as a people should not allow that.” She’s quick to push back on the narrative that overwhelmed hospitals did their best under impossible circumstances. “If the evidence demonstrates that actions taken were known to cause harm to patients,
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