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For Michael O.D. Brown. Born May 20, 1996.
Call 314-200-5093 or visit to leave a voicemail.
Part of the 1-800 Happy Birthday Project.
[an
@evenodd_studio
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🧵:
@MayorBowser
and
@brookepintodc
are proposing legislation that will not improve public safety in
#washingtondc
.
The devil is in the details ⬇️
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Former Philadelphia Police Officer, Darren Kardos has been charged with aggravated assault after he pulled a young Black mother out of a vehicle by her hair in October 2020.
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Jada Johnson, a 22-year-old woman shot by Fayetteville police in July, died as a result of 17 gunshot wounds.
Jada was suffering from a psychiatric crisis when police were called to her grandparents' home.
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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2. The police can now designate any neighborhood as high-risk, allowing them to arrest innocent people for gathering in groups of 2 or more.
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3. Police can now kill suspects during car chases,
a practice that is currently banned.
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1. ANY items worn that cover most of the face are now criminalized, with detention or arrest as the penalty.
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SF DA
@ChesaBoudin
is facing a recall Tuesday in
#SanFrancisco
and we urge you to vote "NO".
He can't do his job effectively until
@SFPD
does more than the bare minimum - especially when 90% of reported crimes aren't making it to the DA's office.
#RejectRecall
#NoOnH
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Today’s 13th death in 2022 is another reminder that going to Rikers is a death sentence, like it was for Elijah Muhammad who was locked illegally in a tiny shower cell for 30 hours before he died.
Eric Adams is unfit to run Rikers.
#RikersInCrisis
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A recently released analysis of public data, personnel data and officer misconduct files on Chicago Police Department officers using algorithms and machine learning techniques has found 160 "crews" of deviant and possibly criminal cops.
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Instead of solutions, the proposed Bowser-Pinto plan is full of cuts to vital social services.
Read more, and then tell your Councilperson that you do not support this legislation,
#washingtondc
:
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Herman Whitfield III died within an hour of his mother calling 911 for mental health help.
Six Indianapolis officers were dispatched to the home, where he was tased and held face down.
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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Qualified immunity protects the police from civil liability when they violate an individual’s constitutional rights.
Learn more and join the fight. Let’s support victims and end qualified immunity:
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Zero excuses.
The police chief apologized at the meeting, and said they were purchased but didn't say where they were from.
Farmington Hills, MI Police must be held accountable.
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“Rikers is a human rights crisis. It’s been declared that.”
There have been 18 deaths in 2022 so far.
Join the fight and demand federal receivership for Rikers Island now:
#RikersInCrisis
#CloseRikers
#ReceivershipNow
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Celebrating Black joy, resilience and resistance.
We hope you are also able to rest, recharge and celebrate ❤️
#Juneteenth
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Patrick Rose, former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association pleaded guilty to raping six children over 27 years.
He was sentenced to 10 to 13 years in prison.
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4. The plan will overturn current policy that prohibits the police from viewing their own body camera footage before they write statements.
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During the early hours of August 29th, a gunman shot four people in Detroit. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said, “If we had ShotSpotter, there’s an excellent chance he was arrested by five in the morning.” But here’s the thing - ShotSpotter itself won’t even make this claim.
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On the night of October 10, 2016, a State Trooper's patrol vehicle collided with a Chevy Malibu driven by Tavon Jenkins, with Cassandra Braun in the passenger seat.
Both Jenkins and Braun were ejected from the vehicle, both died.
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7. The police will now be able to immediately arrest anyone suspected of misconduct while riding the Metro who refuses to share their name and home address.
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Malcolm James, 27, called 911 for help amidst a mental health crisis. Four days later, he died in county jail.
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5. Anyone wearing any item that covers most of the face who "causes" another person to feel "afraid" can now be arrested regardless of the person's actions.
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Instead of solutions, this proposed plan is full of cuts to vital social services.
Read more, and tell your Councilperson that you do not support this legislation,
#washingtondc
:
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6. The public will no longer be able to know if an officer who was found to have engaged in misconduct is still on active duty or not.
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8. If you illegally possess a gun, which is already a crime, the moment that you drop the gun or put the bullets down, you've committed two more additional crimes.
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The NYC Department of Correction has abruptly stopped notifying the media when an incarcerated person dies and will no longer do so in the future, claiming "that was a practice, not a policy."
What is the NYC Doc hiding?
#RikersIsland
#RikersInCrisis
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“No one notified me that he was dead” – Shanelle Jenkins.
Her husband’s death is one story among countless others centered around the lack of transparency regarding people who die in the custody of law enforcement.
#NewsYouShouldKnow
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In memory of Michael O.D. Brown, we're proud to announce scholarships for St. Louis City & County seniors pursuing studies in performing arts & social justice. Help us keep his legacy alive by supporting aspiring students.
#MichaelODBrownScholarship
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For a disturbing 42 seconds, a Los Angeles police officer repeatedly stunned teacher Keenan Anderson with a Taser gun as other officers tried to pin and handcuff the man in the middle of a busy street in California.
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Keith Davis Jr. is only the second person in US history to be tried 6 times for the same incident. For the last 5 years, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been prosecuting Keith with no standing conviction.
#FreeKeithDavisJr
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Chicago's top watchdog says the Chicago Police Department overlooked incriminating evidence while looking into an officer’s ties to the far-right Proud Boys and failed to consider whether he should be fired for lying to investigators.
Read the full story:
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Patricia Rodney walked into the 62nd Precinct in Dyker Heights on December 2, 2020 to report her glucose monitor as lost.
She left with a broken arm:
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#PoliceViolence
#PoliceBrutality
On Friday
#LeonnaHale
was unarmed, with her hands up, when she informed police that she couldn't get on the ground because she was pregnant.
@KansasCityPoli1
shot her five times.
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The phrase "ski-mask" does not appear anywhere in the proposed text of the SecureDC legislation.
The language that is in
#SecureDC
is so broad that it includes hoodies, bandanas, COVID face masks, scarves, and hijabs.
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ShotSpotter advertises itself as a reputable tool that can be used as forensic evidence in the court room. In practice, the company would rather be held in contempt by a judge than honor public defenders' subpoenas.
It's time to
#CancelShotSpotter
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(Thread)
During his final year in high school, Samuel began to suffer from anxiety. Samuel sought help privately, immersing himself in his Christian faith while battling severe bouts of depression. With support from family, he completed school with a Bright Futures Scholarship.
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“But in actuality, the people that are convicted, that are incarcerated at Rikers have not been convicted of a crime. They haven’t had their trial. They’re simply there because they don’t have the money to afford bail.”
#RikersInCrisis
#ReceivershipNow
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California police were more than twice as likely to use force against Black residents than white residents during traffic and pedestrian stops in 2021, according to a new annual report on racial profiling.
More:
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Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals ruled that a ShotSpotter alert by itself doesn't justify a
#StopAndFrisk
.
Paraphrased:
"The alert gives officers a justifiable safety concern, but it doesn't "legitimize the 'indiscriminate stop & frisk of the 1st person on the scene."
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"While Chief White thought he was proving ShotSpotter is not a tool for mass surveillance, his testimony revealed what many had been saying for weeks: the company’s microphones do little other than record entire—often Black, brown, and poor—neighborhoods on the police’s behalf."
Companies like ShotSpotter are little more than “data brokers” that profit by selling bulk information to police, Edward Vogel writes. But as they expand the surveillance state, they've offered little evidence that they're actually improving public safety.
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Yesterday,
@TheOCEQI
announced the second resubmission of petitions for the "Protecting Ohioans'
Constitutional Rights" amendment to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.
The amendment seeks to ensure greater accountability for government actions.
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According to a federal monitor, the New York Police Department continues to violate a court order by underreporting the rate that cops use controversial stop-and-frisk practices.
Read more:
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Is it legal to record police at a traffic stop? Is live-streaming different?
Whether it's legal is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit after Dijon Sharpe was threatened with jail time for recording via Facebook Live.
Read more:
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With $142 million saved in New York's state budget after 6 prisons were closed, there is a historic opportunity to transform public safety. Read more about what that could look like here:
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#SecureDC
establishes arrest criteria individual police officers could use if they believe someone will be a future criminal.
This language is so vague that an individual officer's personal beliefs, preferences, or biases would now become criteria for arrest.
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More than 700 children were arrested in U.S. elementary schools during the 2017-2018 school year alone—often violently—according to a CBS News analysis of the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Read more:
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(Thread)
If passed, an Act to
#EndQualifiedImmunity
, introduced by
@RepPressley
and
@SenMarkey
, would restore civil rights in order to protect individuals - not cops.
#EndQI
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#RikersIsland
is in crisis‼️
Here are 3️⃣ things you need to know about what’s happening.
Tale action and demand Judge Swain appoints a receiver:
>> CALL: (212) 637-2800
>> EMAIL: SwainNYSDCorresp
@nysd
.uscourts.gov
>> TWEET:
@SDNYnews
#CloseRikers
#RikersInCrisis
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11:35 am: Police arrived and located the shooter 2 minutes after the shooter entered the school and began shooting.
12:50 pm: Police FINALLY "breach" the door, after 75 minutes of inaction led to 21 dead & 17 injured, mostly children.
Police do NOT make our communities safer.
Texas police release timeline in deadly school shooting, revealing that the suspect was inside for 77 minutes.
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We finally got the
@CampaignZero
twitter handle. Please follow us!
As always, you can view our impact here:
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Hey,
#WestBaltimore
!
In response to the boil water advisory that is currently in effect,
@BGoldsmithing
is accepting donations of water to help the community. We are happy to partner with them in support.
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.
@MayorBowser
repeats that this is a ski-mask ban. That is simply untrue.
The phrase "ski-mask" does not appear anywhere in the text and provides no protections that limit the police's ability to arrest someone for wearing a hoodie, scarf, hijab, bandana or medical covering.
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Santa Ana Police’s Major Enforcement Team (MET) Includes Gang-Like Group That Sexually Assaulted a Child.
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Big news‼️
Eight months after giving the go-ahead to contract with SoundThinking — formerly known as ShotSpotter — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Thursday that the city won’t pursue installing the technology.
More:
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Eighteen people have died while in custody at Rikers Island in 2022, officially making this the "deadliest year" at Rikers since 2013.
Read more:
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⬇️⬇️⬇️
The DC Crime Bill gives the police so much unchecked power. The ppl behind it want us to believe the police won’t abuse the power they’re giving them but there’s nothing in the law to stop them. The vote is TOMORROW. If you’re in DC, show up at the John Wilson building at 12:30pm
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Richard Whitehead—who has taught at least 560 police officers and other public safety workers in 12 states over the past four years—has joined an extremist group and supported other far-right movements.
More from the report:
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Decades of corruption and mismanagement have proven that New York City is unable to improve the deadly human rights crisis manufactured by the Department of Corrections.
A thread 🧵>>
#RikersInCrisis
#ReceivershipNow
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Raymond Chaluisant, only 18 years old was shot and killed by Dion Middleton, 45, an off-duty corrections officer over his use of a toy water gun.
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Maurice Johnson was killed by police after his mother, Marcella Holloman, called for help in getting him to a mental hospital.
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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Marilyn Mosby (
@BaltimoreSAO
) is trying
#KeithDavisJr
for murder for a record FIFTH time despite "evidence" that does not add up.
A Baltimore judge has ruled that there is a “presumption of vindictiveness” in her targeting of Keith.
Listen for yourself:
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"I thought that it was important for me to really share with you what it's like as a family member, as a loving sister, what it feels like not to have Samuel here."
@iamSamCelestin
's family should be celebrating the holidays with their son and brother.
#JusticeForSamuelCelestin
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(Thread)
Police officers executing a search warrant in relation to alleged illegal gambling machines produced an inventory sheet stating that they had seized $50,000 from the suspects.
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The state of Maryland has finally passed a bill to increase the legal age for marriage to 17 years old, with parental consent. Until earlier this year, it was 15.
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NEWS: Colorado bill banning use of ‘excited delirium’ heads to governor’s desk
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In Pittsburgh, PA's contract, Shotspotter, admits their technology will not result in preventing crime, arresting or prosecuting criminals, or detecting gunfire.
It's time to
#Cancelshotspotter
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Felony theft thresholds are the dollar amount that determine when a theft becomes a felony and vary across the United States.
These thresholds have remained dangerously low for decades.
#RaiseTheThreshold
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Marilyn Mosby has lost the Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney to Ivan Bates, a defense attorney.
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(Thread)
After he became the target of a no-knock warrant that should have taken place at the home one door over, Onree Norris filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit against Captain David Cody.
#EndQualifiedImmunity
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“When the mayor tells us we don’t have money for this or for that – we have so much money! It’s just been spent already. As they say, a budget is a moral document.”
How would you spend the $29 million that the NYPD spends per day?
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In the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020, Massachusetts one of the nation's few states without police misconduct records adopted a Commission to track complaints. Now more than two years later, the database is delayed.
Read:
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Solitary confinement does not deter rule violations or make prisons safer.
It actually makes it more likely for someone to engage in harmful acts.
#EndSolitaryConfinement
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Mayor Duggan is intentionally misleading voters yet again, using fear to drive support for a proposal that the Council rightfully is prepared to vote down. ShotSpotter is not an effective public safety tool. A vote on the expansion is expected September 20th.
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There have now been 17 deaths on Rikers Island in 2022. The only path forward is federal receivership.
Help take action:
#rikersisland
#rikersincrisis
#closerikers
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🧵:
#SecureDC
's "drug free zone" provisions will allow the police to arrest people they think might engage in any activity they believe are likely associated with "drug-dealing.
It is such a far-reaching proposal that infringes on people's constitutional rights that it was
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There were nearly 800 stories per month across all digital and print media about crime in New York City following Adams’s inauguration, according to an analysis of data compiled by Media Cloud.
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Detroit residents:
Get connected with local groups leading on the ground:
@WeThePeople_MI
@Detroit_Action
@justcitydetroit
@MILiberation
@DETWILLBREATHE
Contact your city council members:
Learn more about ShotSpotter:
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The NYPD is tracking possible shooters in a secret new database. When pressed for details about the list, the NYPD declined to provide details.
Civil liberties and anti-surveillance advocates content the list may include suspects, witnesses and victims.
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In Detroit's contract, ShotSpotter states that it does not make any claim to preventing crime, apprehending a perpetrator, or detecting criminal activity. It further removes itself from any promise to detect all gunfire.
Article 4. Contractor’s Representations and Warranties:
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NYPD Detective Jerry St. Louis was arrested for drunk driving when he slammed into another car in front of a police precinct.
Read more:
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#Chicago
’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., is under fire for inmate deaths since the COVID pandemic began.
Read the full story from
@YahooNews
:
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Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of Michael O.D. Brown with the establishment of the Michael O.D. Brown Memorial Scholarship.
High school seniors in
#StLouis
County, don't miss this opportunity!
Final deadline is THIS Friday:
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TODAY Judge Laura Swain will decide whether or not to put New York City’s failing jails under federal receivership.
It's time to
#PackTheCourtroom
and DEMAND RECEIVERSHIP for Rikers Island:
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How can we hold our most powerful institutions accountable?
This season on The Untold Story,
@Travon
talks to real people who are all part of the effort to answer that question.
(Produced by
@JayREllis
+
@deray
, and presented by Campaign Zero)
🎧:
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Three activists involved in the Defend Atlanta Forest movement face 20 years in prison for handing out flyers that identified a police officer they said was linked to the killing of a protester in the Atlanta forest.
Read the full story:
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In
@CMBrookePinto
's own words, she states that the law would criminalize wearing a mask in public if the police believe that you INTEND to commit a crime.
There is no fact-based or non-discriminatory way to prove that someone "intends" to commit a crime in the future.
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Eighteen detainees have died in DOC custody at Rikers Island so far in 2022, which is the highest count since 2013.
Yet, Judge Laura Swain failed to consider a motion to turn New York City jails over to a federal receiver on Thursday, Nov. 17. Read more:
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TOMORROW (Nov. 17), Judge Laura Swain will decide whether or not to put New York City’s failing jails under federal receivership.
What can you do?
#PackTheCourtroom
and DEMAND RECEIVERSHIP.
Join us:
#RikersInCrisis
#ReceivershipNow
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Drop off is located at 225 W Read Street, and distribution will be prioritized for older and/or homebound citizens and those unable to travel to a pick-up location.
Please help
@BGoldsmithing
and the
#WestBaltimore
community by spreading the word!
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As of today, two amendments have been introduced that address portions of the face covering ban and the active duty status being hidden.
After today’s hearing, we will review all newly introduced amendments and follow-up.
🧵:
@MayorBowser
and
@brookepintodc
are proposing legislation that will not improve public safety in
#washingtondc
.
The devil is in the details ⬇️
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Civilians are filing more complaints against the
#NYPD
than they have in more than a decade, according to a new report from the city's police oversight agency.
That story leads the way in this week's
#NewsYouShouldKnow
⬇️
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(Thread)
Have you downloaded The Blackest Book Club yet? 📚
➡️
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@OmahaPolice
responded to a
#ShotSpotter
alert yesterday.
Gang Unit officers discovered the cause: band practice at
#OmahaNorth
High School.
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Two more major cities have rejected
#ShotSpotter
:
>> For the second time since 2018, the Atlanta PD has done a trial period and rejected the system.
>> Seattle officials have decided not to spend $1 million on ShotSpotter after critics questioned the technology's effectiveness.
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Michael Nieves—who was taken off life support on Tuesday—is the 13th person to die in city custody, or shortly after being released, at the Rikers Island jail complex this year.
#RikersInCrisis
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In Minneapolis, all employees have two days before they have to give a formal statement when they're investigated, giving them a couple of days to get their stories straight. Find out more about your city's police contract at
#NixThe6
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Does ShotSpotter make your community safer? No, not according to the research.
Tell your local officials to
#CancelShotSpotter
. Take action now:
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