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If peaceful protests did nothing, the powerful wouldn't try so hard to silence them.
#TakeAKnee
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We remember Eric Garner, who died in police custody 3 years ago today.
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BREAKING: We're suing the NYPD on behalf of a transgender woman who was charged with “false personation” after she provided officers with both her previous and current legal names.
We can't allow the NYPD to continue criminalizing transgender people for existing.
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No 420 jokes or memes from us.
Just stats about how marijuana prohibition disproportionately hurts black and brown people. ⬇️
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People are gathering at the U.S. Army Career Center in Times Square to say
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
!
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This is your reminder that the daily budget for the NYPD is $29 million.
Imagine what we could achieve if we could divest from policing and instead spend millions on resources that would truly help New Yorkers, like housing, jobs, schools, mental health support, and more.
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Since
@NYCMayor
wants to teach New Yorkers how to film cops, allow us to teach cops how to respect New Yorkers who film:
- People have a right to film police work in public
- You can't order them to stop filming.
- You can thank them for doing their part to ensure transparency
“If your iPhone can’t catch that picture with you being at a safe distance, then you need to upgrade your iPhone. Stop being on top of my police officers while they’re carrying out their jobs. That is not acceptable & it won’t be tolerated”:
@NYCMayor
re public recording cops
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The NYPD is using facial recognition to target protesters.
This technology is notoriously inaccurate at identifying women + people of color. Given the NYPD’s troubling history of unlawful surveillance, their use of facial recognition tech must end now.
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Daniel Prude needed mental health assistance.
Instead he was handcuffed in near-freezing temperatures and killed by Rochester police.
His death was unjust, inhumane, and avoidable. We demand justice for Daniel Prude and his family.
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On the steps of St. Thomas Church: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like discrimination."
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Ahem. We asked.
You thought our demand to end stop and frisk made us extremists and compared us to the NRA.
Former NYC Mayor
@MikeBloomberg
tells
@GayleKing
"nobody asked" him about stop & frisk until he started running for president.
"I'm sorry. I apologize. Let's go fight the NRA and find other ways to stop the murders and incarceration. Those are things that I'm committed to do."
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Today the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group brought force and chaos to a vigil for Jordan Neely.
This militarized unit has no place in our communities, at vigils, or at protests. It must be disbanded.
Massive chaos. SRG ran into the crowd from the back, resulting in pushing, shoving, people getting stuck between layers of cops and shoved some more, pushed down, then grabbed while trying to help each other get up.
3 arrests here. Nothing unlawful.
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BREAKING: We've notified
@Columbia
that they must reverse the unlawful suspensions of two student groups (
@ColumbiaSJP
&
@JVPColumbia
) for engaging in peaceful protest and to reinstate both chapters by March 1.
If the university fails to respond by then, we're prepared to sue.
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BREAKING:
@NYCMayor
, New Yorkers are under attack from your police department.
If you extend New York City's curfew, we'll see you in court.
@LegalAidNYC
@theCCR
@HU_TMCRC
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CW: police violence
Intentionally hitting protesters with a car isn’t covered under “protect and serve”. This is inexcusable from the NYPD.
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What will happen if undocumented New Yorkers are allowed to obtain driver's licenses?
We don't have to wonder.
Let's just look at states that have already done it.
NM had a 24% drop in uninsured drivers.
CT saw a 9% drop in hit-and-runs.
CA drivers saved $3.5 million.
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Hello, NYC
#resistance
. It’s a beautiful day to march for our rights.
#WomensMarch2018
#WomensMarchNYC
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👨🏾 = black & Latino men, age 14-24
👤 = other NYers
NYC population:
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NYPD stop-and-frisks:
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80% of 👨🏾stopped by the NYPD were innocent.
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Pride is about protest - not a PR opportunity.
You can keep your hashtags.
During these challenging times, the 10th Precinct wishes everyone a happy
#LGBTQ
Pride month. The
#NYPD
& New York City celebrate diversity - that’s why we will, together, emerge united, stronger & better!
#PRIDE2020
#itgetsbetter
#loveisfreedom
@GayCityNews
@NYDailyNews
@nypost
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The officers that killed Daniel Prude were never disciplined and remain on active duty. The Rochester DA must open an investigation into what happened that night.
It's clear that the police can't be trusted to safely meet the needs of Black people. Our statement:
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The NYPD just announced that they have fired Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold five years ago.
It may be tempting to call this justice, but it's not.
We cannot lower our standards just because the NYPD has kept the bar so low.
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VICTORY: NY just passed legislation banning facial recognition and other biometric surveillance from schools - a critical win to keep students safer from a deeply flawed and racially-biased surveillance system.
Our full statement:
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Police terror against Black people is real and urgent, and New Yorkers are right to take to our streets against it.
The NYPD seems to be meeting demands for justice with provocation and violence. This is unacceptable.
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What if New York City didn't have to pit libraries against schools, or parks against homeless services?
What if we diverted one single day of NYPD spending - a whopping $29 million - to be used in ways to actually help New Yorkers?
🧵:
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BREAKING: New York just became the first state in the nation to ban the use of facial recognition technology in schools.
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Last month, we put Columbia University on notice that if they failed to reinstate
@ColumbiaSJP
and
@ColumbiaJVP
after unlawfully suspending them, we were prepared to take legal action.
Now, with
@pal_legal
, we're suing.
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BREAKING: A court just ruled that NYPD body camera footage can be made public.
(Yes, you read that right—the NYPD's largest union tried to argue that a NY state law prevents them from releasing body camera footage.)
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BREAKING:
@NYGovCuomo
has signed the
#ProtectOurCourts
Act, which prohibits ICE from targeting immigrants New Yorkers for arrest outside of courthouses.
Everyone deserves to have access to our legal system without fear of being snatched by ICE.
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If
@ShaunKing
's brutal piece on Pedro Hernandez doesn't convince you we need criminal justice reform, nothing will.
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The police don't get to decide who holds them accountable. Letting the NYPD decide who counts as the press is a slippery slope.
Let's be clear: yesterday the NYPD arrested protesters — including journalists — and needlessly escalated tensions at an otherwise peaceful protest.
It is being reported on social media that earlier today members of the press were arrested during a protest in Manhattan.
These reports are false.
All arrested individuals from today's protests have been verified to not be NYPD credentialed members of the press.”
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“Women of color are watching, and we are voting, and we will be heard.” -
@NLIRH
’s Elizabeth Estrada. 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
#WomensMarch2018
#WomensMarchNYC
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Freedom of speech includes the right to say "Free Palestine".
If this speech was the NYPD's basis for charging someone, we have serious concerns.
NYPD summons for one of the protestors: “Defendant stated in my presence: Free Palestine”
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At Albany Airport, never forget about THESE U.S. Customs: diversity, justice, freedom of religion, nation of immigrants.
#NoBanNoWall
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Our whole hearts are with Heather Heyer's family. Remember her name.
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BREAKING: judge grants emergency stay to temporarily allow people who landed in U.S. with valid visa to remain
#muslimban
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A badge isn't license to brutalize. Sucker-punching teens isn't professionalism. These officers must be accountable for abuse.
This is Jay St/Metrotech subway stop, downtown Brooklyn, Sunday 2:30AM. Police officers punching Black teenagers in the face and head, wrestling them to the ground, pinning them down and handcuffing them.
Because our subways have become a police state.
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NEW: Following a ruling from the Second Circuit, we have published the database of NYPD misconduct records from the CCRB.
The database contains extensive info about decades of misconduct complaints.
We are making them public for the very first time:
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BREAKING: We're suing on behalf of a 14-yr-old who lost consciousness after Syracuse police put him in a chokehold.
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NOPE
NYPD union releases jaw-dropping video decrying 'blue racism' against cops
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Last night at a protest in Bay Ridge, the NYPD and its notoriously violent Strategic Response Group put some of their most aggressive tactics on display, including arrests without warning, shoving people with no place to go and even attacking protesters.
NYPD created a horseshoe blockade, forcing the protest to a halt, then declared it unlawful and began making arrests as protestors had nowhere to go. *Nothing* happened prior to this.
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*looks right*
*looks left*
*whispers* Have you ever tried to get people to care about police reform when they're distracted by nuclear war?
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With
#ICERaids
looming, here are a few things everyone should know:
DO NOT:
-open your door to ICE
-sign anything
-lie to an ICE agent
DO:
-ask to see a warrant signed by a judge
-insist on your right to remain silent
-have someone document the interaction
-ask for a lawyer
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The right to vote gives us power.
That’s why people have tried to restrict it for so long.
And why we have to exercise it every chance we get.
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BREAKING: We've reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with the NYPD overhauling how America’s largest police force can respond to protest.
Here's what that means:
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NEW: Gov. Cuomo has signed the first-in-the-nation bill to ban facial recognition tech in schools.
Biometric surveillance is ineffective and risky, and particularly dangerous for Black and Brown students.
It has no place in our schools.
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This is horrifying and indefensible.
We’re looking into the incident that happened tonight, but one thing is for certain: violently forcing protesters into an unmarked van are the actions of a police force that think they can act with impunity. We won’t allow this in our city.
NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street
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There is no way to justify police pepper spraying a 9 year-old.
We called on the Mayor to take urgent, systemic action in the wake of Daniel Prude’s killing, and we'll do it again: Rochester police have no business serving as the first responder in a mental health crisis.
The police department in Rochester, New York, released body-camera footage showing a 9-year-old girl being handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by officers who had responded to a family disturbance call.
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On the anniversary of Kalief Browder's death, we ask lawmakers to pass Kalief's Law, which will ensure the right to a speedy trial in NY.
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#BREAKING
: Ravi Ragbir’s deportation has been stayed. We celebrate with him, yet understand the fight is far from over. NYers won’t stand for communities being torn apart. We’ll keep fighting Trump’s deportation machine because you can’t deport a movement.
#IStandWithRavi
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Memorial outside
@TheStonewallNYC
last year. Today we remember those who died in the Pulse shooting and pledge to
#HonorThemWithAction
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Police officers cannot continue to hide behind the lie that they are protecting and serving.
Read our full statement here.
In two hours, Buffalo Police have gone from “tripped and fell” to two officers suspended without pay. What would have been the result if there wasn’t cell phone video?
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Today, the NYPD apologized for raiding Stonewall in 1969, saying that "the actions and laws were discriminatory and oppressive."
But 50 years after Stonewall, the NYPD continues to harass trans women of color.
Apology without action means nothing.
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Marchers have circled around to join protesters on the other side of Trump Tower. Lots of families.
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What if Eric Garner's death wasn't recorded?
What if the video wasn't made public?
What if Garner's family hadn't —to the detriment of their privacy and health—tirelessly demanded justice for 5 years?
But those things did happen.
And yet, justice has not been served.
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Mayor de Blasio has stood by the curfew, even as police officers continue to attack and arrest protesters, essential workers, and bystanders – all under the guise of enforcing the curfew.
The curfew needs to end.
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New York, we’re proud to stand with you today as we continue our fight for the dignity, autonomy, and health of women.
Yes, ALL women.
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The escalation we saw at tonight's vigil from the NYPD and its SRG unit, including the arrests of non-violent protesters and at least one member of the press, is unacceptable.
New Yorkers should be able to mourn and make their voices heard without aggression from the police.
Massive SRG presence as protesters march on the sidewalk.
To reiterate: this was a vigil. SRG made three arrests, resulting in at least one injury.
Then they arrested a member of the press, prompting the group to march.
The only escalator here was the NYPD
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Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Happy
#TransWeekOfAwareness
💙💖
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The NYPD released their data on vehicle stops for the first time ever. We learned that:
🔴 90% of motorists stopped last year were Black or Latino
🔴 Police stops of motorists in 2022 were about level with pedestrian stops at the height of stop & frisk
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“This administration has made it a policy to separate black and brown families. Stay loud and stay consistent.” ~
@lsarsour
#NoMuslimBanEver
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Just analyzed the data: Turns out 99% of students handcuffed by NYPD in public schools were Black or Latino:
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Layleen Polanco should still be alive today.
Black trans women are targeted by police, and it can be deadly.
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New York is the first city in the country to completely divest its public pension funds from private prisons.
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Students protesting at private colleges still have the right to fair, equal treatment — and we are ready to fight that battle in court.
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It’s hard to feel hopeless after witnessing a sea of youth chanting: “This is what democracy looks like!”
#NationalSchoolWalkout
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The NYPD’s violent repression of pro-Palestine protests is chilling.
We’re deeply troubled by the link between the NYPD’s escalating actions at recent protests and a political climate where the mayor and other officials have taken to demonizing protestors.
Tonight the NYPD made dozens of brutal arrests at two different pro-Palestine protests, injuring several people in the process.
Now the NYPD’s SRG is arresting people at jail support and has reportedly knocked a person unconscious by slamming their head into the pavement.
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These student groups were peacefully speaking out on a critical global conflict, only to have
@Columbia
ignore their own rules and suspend the groups.
This is retaliatory and targeted, and it flies in the face of the free speech principles that universities should be defending.
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Trump’s move to "defund" New York is nothing more than an illegal stunt.
New Yorkers won’t stand for political grandstanding driven by racism and fear-mongering.
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Rochester may become the first city in New York with a civilian board that has the power to discipline police officers.
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The other side says "if you come for our students, you're gonna have to come through us."
#defendDACA
#heretostay
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We've heard some reports of ICE at subway stations, but none have been substantiated.
Here’s what you should know—ICE can be in public places asking questions, but if they do not have a judicial warrant, you have the right to:
-ignore their questions
-not show ID
-walk away
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Not only is there not a "migrant crime wave" in New York City -- there's no crime wave at all.
The NYPD's own data shows that crime is down this year, and there are no studies that demonstrate a connection between new arrivals and higher crime.
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Broken windows policing is an epic fail.
9 out of every 10 people arrested by the NYPD for marijuana possession in the first 6 months of 2018 were Black or Hispanic.
This fall, look at policing like never before.
Museum of Broken Windows
#ListeningNYC
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We have alerted the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) because this is clearly not okay. They will investigate and we'll continue to keep concerned New Yorkers updated.
#NYPD
#IStandWithRavi
Someone just sent me this compilation of this NYPD officer choking people at yesterday's protest over the arrest of immigration activist Ravi Ragbir.
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We're at
#QueensPride
, where people keep coming by to tell us the
@ACLU
is really important right now (we know) 💜.
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ALL students deserve to learn and feel safe no matter their political beliefs and religious practices. But NYU��s decision to call the NYPD in response to last night’s student encampment with
@WOLPalestine
put its own community of students and faculty in harm’s way.
THREAD:
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It is illegal for New York police to follow ICE's marching orders.
This means they CANNOT:
❌hold people in custody so ICE can come pick them up
❌hold a car on the side of the road to wait for ICE to arrive
❌make immigration arrests at ICE’s request
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