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something gutting and perverse about thousands of people, including myself, waiting in suspense for Motaz to post that he’s alive this Christmas morning. these narrators we have attached ourselves to in real time. praying for him & all his neighbors whose voices we don’t know.
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BREAKING: University of Chicago students join nationwide protest by setting up encampment in solidarity with Gaza. The camp is called UChicago Popular University for Gaza, located on main quad.
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Ma’khia Bryant, 15, was killed by police moments before the Chauvin verdict was read. She called police for help because she felt threatened. Instead, they came into her home and killed her. Police do not know how to respond to crises without violence. Police do not keep us safe.
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amid the chaos,
@trinattrill
, M.S. in Public Policy from UChicago, hosted a graduation for fellow Black grads, so they could get hooded by
@nomadj1s
(+
@eveewing
w the assist).
she always makes room for joy within any ongoing struggle. let’s be a lil more like her this summer💫
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icymi, the $120M cop academy design includes $33M of Fake Housing for cops to train on home invasions etc. and, it’s a part of Lightfoot’s INVEST SOUTH/WEST initiative which has primarily funded real estate development and surely will be centerpiece of her reelection campaign :(
Kate Wagner (
@mcmansionhell
) discusses the implications of the Joint Public Safety Training Campus, a tactile teaching facility for police on Chicago’s West Side and what role—if any—architects should play in designing facilities for the justice system.
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WE WON TODAY! CITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO DELAY THE VOTE ON GREEN V. CHICAGO TO SEPTEMBER!
#ReleaseTheRecords
we got more time make sure the settlement INCLUDES releasing the documents. We're gonna hold them accountable to that in September. Thanks y'all, we did that together.
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chicago, our mutual aid work is in today’s
@nytimes
!! 1 year since the shutdown, i reflected w
@trinattrill
@niqjames
&
@Midyouthcrisis
on lessons from Grab n Go & Market Box, how ALL our mutual aid work is key in the
#DefundThePolice
movement.
support 🙏🏽
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i feel like the IL criminal justice world really stepped into a new era today: prison gerrymandering gone, cash bail abolished, speaker madigan out, second city cop is down. pour one out
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tired of people generally not knowing what to do after gun violence other than more police & cameras. we KNOW that police presence doesn't stop shootings from happening, they just deal with the aftermath (maybe).
what would actually make us safer?
Updates from UChicago safety webinar:
- UChicago police and CPD increasing traffic enforcement in areas with many pedestrians.
- More surveillance cameras being placed around Hyde Park.
- No evidence robbery/murder of Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng was racially motivated.
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them: what high school did you go to?
Me: oh I’m not from chicago but i have cried a few times on Lower Wacker unrelated to getting lost, so it’s definitely home
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Hyde Park is about to have way more traffic stops with ZERO transparency from UCPD on police stop data.
Worrisome how UChicago is calling it “Traffic Safety Mission” without defining how it’s diff than a traffic stop. 🚩 big red flag here that these stops will be racially coded
Q: What does increased police presence mean?
Brown: More police during class hours and business hours; more tickets for speeding, running stop signs and lights.
He claims violent "offenders" likely break traffic laws too. They're "people who break the law — they just are."
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UPDATE: within 12 hours of public release, the letter has surpassed 2000
@UChicago
alumni signatures.
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i see the Girl I Guess Not guide has arrived ha ha
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if your work wasn’t mentioned in the mayor’s email leak then what ARE you doing
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i'm still speechless at the cognitive dissonance you must have to reopen our schools,
@chicagosmayor
. we simply don't have the immunity to reopen. no one likes remote learning, it's painful, it's harmful, and yet, you still haven't grasped what mass death can look like, have you?
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I’m at the Chicago public safety forum at
@uchicago
and Lori Lightfoot begins by saying on day 1 she would call Eddie Johnson to support him on his “mission to serve & protect” and reduce gun violence. She does not want to get rid of Eddie Johnson, “like the crowds want.”
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calling for the release of this vid feels like acting out some empty familiar performance. the policy & system design of Chicago Police allows for the murder of 13 yr old child
#AdamToledo
. if your “split second decision” allows you to kill a kid running....we must disarm you.
Experts Say Lightfoot Can Release Police Shooting Video, Not Just Call For Its Release my story:
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Lightfoot just said she wants more training locations, and turn ~38 former/empty school buildings into police training centers. What in the absurd hell.
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Dang the settlement in Green v Chicago passed finance committee 21-8. It’ll be voted on in City Council this Wednesday 7/22 at 10am.
Rally to demand they vote no & release the police misconduct files TUESDAY 7/21 2-5PM MANDRAKE PARK.
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I’m confused
@chicagosmayor
. You knew about this. You’re furious with your own law department for trying to block this footage from release, right? And your police for this raid, right?
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Lightfoot clarifies she doesn’t support the cop academy AS IS, she instead wants more community engagement & “academic development” & “a facility we can monetize” to include state-level officers.
Lightfoot is not
#NoCopAcademy
, she instead wants a Mega-Cop Academy.
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i can never forgive chicago public schools & rahm emanuel & obama era education policies - for the kids they've given up on, our kids they've pushed to jails or alternative schools, not protecting them, just policing them, separating them from communities that could support them.
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the CDC is doing this because of labor shortages. capitalism is gonna (continue to) kill us 😔
The CDC shortened the isolation guidance for Americans who test positive for Covid-19 from 10 days to five if they don't have symptoms
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just a reminder that even if your belief about policing is focused on reducing the harm of police, your best bet is to move in an abolitionist framework.
it makes us safer than throwing more money at police. even if you don’t call yourself abolitionist, try to think like one.
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it’d be stunningly terrible if the FOP gets nearly all Chicago Police misconduct history destroyed during this pandemic. i wrote about this possibility for the latest
@SouthSideWeekly
w
@emmacperez
.
@chicagosmayor
PLEASE protect these docs during the current FOP negotiations 🙏🏽
Op-ed: To shape the future of policing, we must preserve its history. Against the Fraternal Order of Police's threats to destroy nearly all of Chicago’s police misconduct records.
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I’m upset that we’re over 1500 cases a day &
@chicagosmayor
is not pulling us back to phase 3 — instead we’re moving forward w reopening the insides of restaurants? this is demonic. i was once so relieved to live in IL during the pandemic. please make it make sense. please!!!!
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food sites in Chicago are continuing today as grocery stores in the South & West Sides remain shut down.
these food sites are direct action in solidarity with each other.
proud of our people.
support:
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WOODLAWN/5th WARD - i'm running for Local School Council at Hyde Park Academy! i've been in a classroom there for 4 yrs, learning from kids abt safety, policing & what families need. gonna take those notes & put them into ACTION ya feel me
commit to vote:
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the reputation of Chicago Police’s 11th district and tactical teams precede it. there’s plenty of public complaints to know it’s been sick. there’s no reason a team that killed Dexter Reed with 96 SHOTS should have been allowed to exist. endless & disgusting. there is no repair.
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CHICAGO MUTUAL AID: we need 9 more drivers this Sunday 5/16 to help deliver fresh produce, eggs, bread, and meat to families on the south side! sign up & follow marketboxchi on IG for updates 💞🚙
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i cant get over “my mansion in Sauganash”
who calls their house “my mansion”
was that to get protestors to stop going to Logan Square lmao
1/ Good morning from my mansion in Sauganash.
Seriously, though—our city doesn’t have any time for homophobic, racist and misogynistic rumors, today or any day.
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the art institute of chicago has unionized!!! with a 76% win!!! incredibly proud of
@AICWUtweets
. the influence this will have on other chicago institutions & US museums...nothing more inspiring than seeing a friend take up organizing their people
@Lofriendzo
2022 let's gooooo
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LSC ELECTION UPDATE: A couple days ago I received a call from a CPS Special Investigator saying my local school council election at Hyde Park Academy, which we won in a landslide, is being challenged. They claim I don’t live in the district.
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don’t despair over the chicago school board vote. this unelected school board’s 4-3 vote is closer than we’ve ever been. they voted to maintain the status quo, and unlike the destructive vote of closing schools, we will be back at this very same point soon. i believe in us.
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my mom just called me sobbing harder than I've ever heard. I never want to forgive half this country for hurting her so bad
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CHICAGO: if you have opinions about how CPD treated people during the uprisings, you should tell the court currently monitoring CPD.
send chaclyn
@invisibleinstitute
.com /
@ChaclynHunt
a letter in any format by Aug 18 & she will deliver that letter to the courthouse for you
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Lori Lightfoot’s support of Eddie Johnson is wild to me: “I don’t want to make him a lame duck and pander to the crowds that want him gone.”
The “crowds” want him gone because they want to hold him ACCOUNTABLE for his undeniable history of misconduct.
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let me brag about my colleagues
@invinst
real quick: in the past 4 years, this nonprofit newsroom of about a dozen reporters has won 3 Pulitzers and been named a Pulitzer finalist once. i am so proud. Chicago is the greatest city in the world, for journalism and much more.
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Obama Center groundbreaking is this Tuesday. tbh, i feel queasy ab it. At Hyde Park Academy for the past 5 yrs students have told me it's cool but they "know it's not for them" -- their families have been / at risk to be pushed out farther away, as prices rise bc of it.
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City Council says that it would cost $8 million to release all records from 1967 to present. That’s less than 2 days the city currently spends on the Chicago Police Department
#DefundCPD
and pay for transparency.
#ReleaseTheRecords
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Why in the world is the police response to a distressed young man, who is only barricading & endangering himself it sounds like, to SHOOT HIM. The amount of cops (UCPD, CPD, command center, helicopters) is a disgusting overresponse & misguided approach to a mental health crisis.
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I feel like this “why can’t we all get along” question from A Youth is fake cus lol have you met gen z
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FIGHT DISINFORMATION IN CHICAGO: (a thread)
Try to identify the organizing groups behind a protest before showing up. Ask your friends when they post “PULL UP” who’s planning it. Who’s gonna be there?
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ayyy exciting news, Hyde Park Academy's Local School Council just passed a resolution in solidarity w elementary teachers forced back/locked out of work, and to support CTU's demands for re-opening. it was fun to co-write w 2 teachers.
link to come cc
@CTULocal1
@ILRaiseYourHand
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A WIN IN CHICAGO!! yesterday the LSC at Hyde Park Academy approved a proposed holistic safety plan that removes 1 SRO (police officer) and replaces them with a Dean of Culture & Climate, who will oversee conflict resolution and restorative justice.
BREAKING✊🏿🎉💪🏿 - STOP youth + Not Me We Statement on yesterday's Hyde Park Academy School Council vote to remove 1 of 2 police from school and replace with restorative justice dean:
@StuStrikeBack
@mairaka
@DixonRomeo
@jasontumalan
@defundcpdchi
@BLMChi
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got on twitter to specifically tell
@UChicago
undergrads that i’m thinking of you. the rest of the world is not as cruel as UofC admin, and life is better on the other side. suicides are an epidemic in the college. i barely got through & i’m so glad i did. DM me if you need help.
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today i met w a group of 1st year students of color from UChicago. they waited outside a coffee shop for me, instead of inside, bc they “didn’t want to take up too much space.” they also didn’t speak unless spoken to.
had to give them a stern auntie lecture to TAKE UP SPACE 🗣
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today
@jamiekalven
said that we need to check on each other with the compassion of knowing that we're all operating with the mental health equivalent of a "low grade fever." i felt that.
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every year on his birthday, i remember again that trayvon martin is my age. he was killed at 17, immortalized in his sweet smiling photos. in the past 8 years, our peers have gone to school, fallen in love, felt heartbreak, fumbled into young adulthood. 8 years stolen from him.
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“We absolutely need a new [police] training facility. If you do it right it will be way more than $95 mil [if you compare to NYPD’s new $750 mil center].” -Lightfoot
NO! NEW TRAINING DOES 👏🏽 NOT 👏🏽REQUIRE 👏🏽A NEW 👏🏽FACILITY👏🏽 !
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tomorrow grad students of
@uchicagogsu
go on strike. no way would i have made it out of
@UChicago
without the support and teaching of amazing TAs. they deserve wages, benefits, childcare, all of that. the university couldn't run without em. don't be a strikebreaker.
#YesGSU
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chicago. there's a similarity btwn pushing the decision to remove Shotspotter to wards now & removing cops from schools to LSCs in 2021. there's cowardice of gov't unwilling to commit to a citywide promise or decision. localizing the win is a compromise that undermines progress.
SCOOP: Sources say the Police & Fire Cmte agenda for Monday will include an item that places the decision whether to keep ShotSpotter at the ward level.
Still unclear how that would work with regard to police districts, which are fewer and have different boundaries than wards.
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🥲 sometimes I’m shocked by our own wins
Chicago's Board of Education will order
@ChiPubSchools
officials to remove police officers from dozens of high schools next school year.
The decision follows
@ChicagosMayor
's approval to end the school district's $10.3 million contract with the
@Chicago_Police
last month.
#CPS
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ayyy rahm emanuel wasn't picked for biden's secretary of transportation, gonna log that as a win!
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there were some people who told me i was overreacting to Lori’s comment at the public safety forum about using closed schools. smfh.
so they're for real building a new police academy AND moving to use a closed public school as a police academy...
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settlements are a high-pressure bribe (and with economic injustice, hard not to take) so that the police system can stay the same
oh and the city borrows the money and goes into debt to banks for these bribes! it's NUTS the lengths the city goes so that *nothing* changes
NEWS: City of Chicago is expected to offer a settlement of $2.9 million to Anjanette Young for the bungled police raid on her home, sources told
@chicagotribune
. Mayor Lightfoot's admin tried to hide damning video from the public -- and from Young herself
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Poll watching at Alden Wentworth home on 69th where election judges ushered residents from their rooms & told at least 1 voter w dementia who said he didn’t recognize the names, to vote for Willie Wilson.
@ChicagoElection
needs to answer the hotline & send investigators out here
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anxiety about afghanistan, grief about squeak, dread about the pandemic
chicago feels like living in an emotional tornado
my love to everyone in it.
the stress manifests physically. gonna log off and stretch and breathe tonight. hope you can too.
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it’s hard to sustain mutual aid. every societal force pushes us to institutionalize or stop. 1 year in, our neighbors continue bearing the brunt of this crisis. we have to keep taking care of each other.
strengthen south side power as a recurring donor:
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SOUTH SIDE, CHICAGO -- volunteers with cars needed this sunday (and next) to deliver fresh farm food to major Black and low-income households. will take you less than 2 hours. there's a celebration for all participants coming up next weekend, too! sign up
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tonight at 5:30CT Hyde Park HS Local School Council votes on removing police (School Resource Officers). we'll be voting between 3 plans: 2 SROs vs 1 SRO vs 0 SROs. I'll tweet the link after we start, to make sure the voting members get in before it fills up (100 ppl max)
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Why are there no young ppl on this panel who have faced gun violence? When you center lived experiences, you realize that federal prosecutions aren’t going to prevent much. Many kids have no clue what’s in store for them in court, or they’ve accepted prison & death as inevitable.
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BREAKING -
@R3CoalitionChi
sent progressive demands via a survey to
@toniforchicago
&
@LightfootForChi
. Preckwinkle provided a complete set of answers; committing to take cops out of schools, re-open the closed mental health clinics, and more.
#FreeTheCity
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so did i get this right, WBEZ/Chicago Public Media acquired the money-draining Sun-Times a couple years ago to help save local journalism and the thanks is....WBEZ & Vocalo get gutted?
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most of these UofC prof signatures are from science depts. i see why they'd think this would be a good response from w/in their bubble - it flags that there needs to be more convos on policing & UofC history with science ppl, who wield a lot of $ in the Board of Trustees' eyes.
300+ UChicago faculty writing a letter to the president in response to the recent tragedies and devoting an ENTIRE paragraph to their rep before calling for more cops and more punitive measures is so revealing of how out of touch they are
Nothing they want is anti-violence 🤡
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“to reduce crime: most crime happens btwn 4-7pm. We need to invest in schools, in after-school. We allow kids who have the least privilege to have the LEAST invested in them. We have challenges & the root is our willingness to invest in children.” -Toni’s closing statement. ✌🏽
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I think the most infuriating part of this forum is not Lori’s extremely pro-police proposals, but the 4 panelists/interviewers who are not expanding the conversation thoughtfully to address substantive causes instead of only punishment.
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there’s a lot of power in NOT sharing pics & news from the “RE-OPEN” protests.
right-wing think tanks put in a lot of money & strategy to pay for small protests/tweets to catch fire, and slowly get more mainstream coverage & support bc it’s sensational.
#disinformation101
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election eve in chicago: ja’mal green’s bus sits in the middle of an empty parking lot on 83rd & cottage
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an urgent message from
@jamiekalven
: city council, DO NOT APPROVE the Green v Chicago settlement this week!
the $500k settlement would allow the City to buy its way out of releasing 175,000 police misconduct files to the public.
RT to signal boost 🙏🏽
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hey y’all The People’s Grab n Go is out at 53rd & King every Monday this summer, and we’re grateful for your supply donations to this mutual aid distribution.
🗣 RN WE NEED MORE EGGS. YOU CAN BRING EM STRAIGHT TO BURKE ELEMENTARY. thanks team 💓
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something out of a nightmare
HAPPENING NOW — NYC Mayor Adams is in Chicago today, meeting with Mayor Lightfoot to discuss gang violence and possibilities for collab.
However, the meeting is closed to the press and initially wasn’t included in Lightfoot’s public schedule for today.
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Whose mayor would Lori Lightfoot be? When discussing gun violence today, her proposals are just limited to increasing police and increasing FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS for gun cases. “We don’t have enough prosecutions. They’re more afraid of federal prosecutions.”
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if you’re protesting in Chicago, stay updated on incoming police presence or what they’re asking for on the scanner — including DHS/federal presence — by following
@scanmapchi
/ look at
helpful in real time + to document policing history this summer 👩🏽🍳💋
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thinking abt Daunte Wright, how the officer who killed him said it was a mistake. In this case, will the officer also claim it was a mistake? These mistakes can’t be allowed to happen. I’m sick of anxious officers with fingers on the trigger given the power to execute children.
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My big impression from today is Toni is talking about a variety of solutions to crime today, including improving how vacant properties could be turned into a public land bank, while Lori focused all her answers on the criminal justice system.
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we are tired. we really, really, really want you to vote. for toni. so we can move on to bigger changes.
#stopLightfoot
@trinattrill
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is there something cosmically going on cus the amount of loss in chicago rn feels like it might crush us. a hug to everyone in pain from grief. no more please 😔
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to search a Chicago police officer’s complaint history
file a complaint through
The person on the megaphone is searching up officers information on a web database and announcing how many complaints they have.
#Chicago
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last month chicago mag published their annual "best of chicago" list. out of 57 places, only 4 were in the south side.
@SouthSideWeekly
knows that's wack, so for six years running they've highlighted south side gems you didn't know you needed. check it:
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How do we get more counselors into schools? How bout trauma teachers face? Toni was a teacher, has been to students’ funerals. Q&A is more expansive & imaginative now. imo Toni’s range of experience opens up more imaginitive possibilities, compared to Lori’s focus on police 🤔
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fuck
@UChicago
Charles Thomas, the former UChicago student shot by UCPD in 2018, was not released on bond at a hearing despite developing symptoms of COVID-19.
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sending love to those enraged, and a prayer that you don't lose that. our protests couldn't force this system to deliver Breonna Taylor true justice.
our movement is a form of justice in itself, though.
the future we build can be justice in itself.
don't forget it.
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closing hospital amid a pandemic, 559+ kids off the grid in CPS, fed troops empowered to disappear people. 2020 too depressing. witnessing a country slip into a state of intentional dysfunction and fascism is traumatizing in a way we won’t have words to describe for a long time.
BREAKING: Mercy Hospital in Chicago plans to close in 2021. Mercy was one of four struggling hospitals that tried to merge, but didn't get extra funding from Illinois lawmakers to do so. Stay tuned for more
@WBEZ
.
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feeling conflicted & resigned, as the 21st ward alderman suggests schools go with private security instead of CPD. i prefer it too, in terms of immediate safety & training standards & scope. but the future embrace of private policing, which has no public oversight, terrifies me.
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RALLY & ART INSTALLATION TUESDAY 7/21 2-5PM MANDRAKE PARK. Police accountability requires transparency. Tell City Council: vote NO on the Green v. Chicago settlement. Reparations for Mr. Green means money & public records.
#DefundCPD
&
#ReleaseTheRecords
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proud of IL about to
#EndCashBail
but i'm worried abt what happens if a judge decides someone should be held in pretrial detention. if they'll use a risk assessment tool, can we get the algorithm?
[and can my anxiety let me celebrate this win? cus
#PretrialFairnessNow
is huge!!]
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