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People are being enslaved in U.S. prisons. Read their letters. Explore this new online archive. This is a testament to the courageous resilience of the 800,000 incarcerated workers forced to labor and a record of the continuation of slavery in the U.S.
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Jazmine Headley was at a public benefits office in Brooklyn. Waiting for several hours. Exhausted. She sat on the floor with her 1-year-old son. “A simple desire to rest ended up in me getting arrested ... [and] my son was violently removed from me.”
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Today in Charlotte cops arrested people who were providing support to protesters who were released from jail. Adding this to the list of reasons to
#DefundThePolice
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Police killed nearly 100 people a month in 2022. There were only 12 days police didn’t kill someone. The majority of killings took place in scenarios where no crime was alleged or where police were called for nonviolent offenses or mental health checks.
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Crime data is inextricably connected to policing practices. Police enforce only some laws, against some people, in some neighborhoods. And crime data necessarily reflects this.
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The casual brutality by police in this video is shocking. Video taken a few hours ago in Buffalo, NY.
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Police don't simply enforce the law. Police enforce only some laws, against some people, in some neighborhoods.
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A Georgia man stole a can of beer. The judge ordered ankle monitoring. The company administering it charged him more than $1,000. He sold plasma, but fell behind on his payments & the judge jailed him for non-payment. We need to stop criminalizing poverty.
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ICE agents went to homes in at least two neighborhoods in New York City today to arrest people. “The agents were rejected by people at the residences because they didn’t have warrants.”
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Today Portland State University police shot and killed Jason Washington. Witnesses say he was trying to break up a fight that was started when a man used racial slurs. After police yelled there was a gun, there was no hesitation before police shot him.
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Tonight hundreds of people in Brooklyn marched to protest NYPD violence against Black and Brown people in the subway and on the streets. People chanted: “Shut this racist system down!”
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Once you see who the "justice" system protects and who it punishes you can't unsee it.
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This may be hard to understand if you haven't been to protests in Portland, but when someone burns stuff in the street I don't feel unsafe. It's when police respond by indiscriminately using chemical & impact weapons against everyone in the area that it feels dangerous & chaotic.
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“Don’t be sorry, because this has been happening to my family for a long time. It happened to Emmett Till. Emmett Till is my family. Philando, Mike Brown, Sandra. I've been watching police murder people who look like me for years.” - Jacob Blake’s sister
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Federal law enforcement has started making threats of using violence and making arrests, but moms are up front and standing strong.
#PortlandProtest
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1. On February 9, 2017 a Portland police officer shot & killed 17-year-old Quanice Hayes. After Quanice was killed cops found a toy gun. Not a single police officer told the grand jury that they saw a gun before Quanice was shot. Nevertheless, the grand jury didn’t indict.
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The NYPD kicked off pride month by arresting a Black trans activist, Qween Jean, who organized a rally protesting anti-trans laws and violence across the country. The charges: using a megaphone without a permit.
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"Jailhouse video reveals California sheriff’s deputies watching and sometimes laughing as a schizophrenic man who had been strapped naked to a chair for 46 hours writhes on the floor of his cell, loses consciousness and eventually dies."
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Resistance to defunding the police is founded on the false assumption that police are necessary for public safety. Police are reactive, have low rates of solving serious crimes, shouldn't be a response to public health issues, and reinforce race and class inequalities by design.
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Last night police shot and killed 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin in Lafayette, Louisiana. Tonight people are marching in Lafayette and police in riot gear are threatening to arrest them.
#BlackLivesMatter
Now facing a police line in riot gear at Moss and W. Pine St.
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"If policing and incarceration really make us safer and healthier, we should be the safest society in history. We know that’s not the case."
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Inmates in St. Louis are screaming for help because they are suffocating from the heat.
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"We came dressed in t-shirts. They started gassing us. So we came back with respirators. They started shooting us. So we came back with vests. They started aiming for the head. So we started wearing helmets. Who’s escalating this? It’s not us."
#Portland
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Police shot and killed an innocent 28-year-old Kansas man, after two Call of Duty players fraudulently called a SWAT team to the man's home. This is our militarized police in action. This is Not OK.
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The time is now for advocates and activists in every state to be pushing to abolish qualified immunity. For too long police have been shielded from being held personally liable for their brutality and killings.
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Desiree Collins was attacked by a police dog in St. Paul, Minnesota. Right after it happened, she asked the cops, “What did I do?” "Nothing," the cops replied. The brutal attack was caught on video. Using police dogs to attack people is Not OK.
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“The Black Lives Matter movement has been eclipsed by this little war the administration has initiated in Portland. We need to get back to the real reason we are protesting which is Black Lives Matter.” - Navy veteran, beaten by feds at Portland protest
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Four public defenders, all people of color, have filed to run for San Francisco Superior Court judge — with the specific goal of unseating four longtime incumbents appointed by Republican governors. Yes!
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Jay-Z and Yo Gotti threaten to sue Mississippi over "inhumane & unconstitutional" prisons. People in the state's prisons "are forced to live in squalor, with rats that crawl over them as they sleep on the floor." And recent violence has left 5 people dead.
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Journalism becomes a justice issue when journalists rely on police, prosecutors, and pro-carceral academics without question. Cloaking pro-carceral reporting in faux objectivity is a political move that shapes the public's opinion on how we should address public safety.
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1. Yesterday afternoon I noticed a man who appeared to be homeless sitting on the ground by my office. I walked by him again later that night. I was startled when I noticed his pants were pulled down a bit. I just kept on walking.
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There are about 400 kids marching the streets of Portland right now in an anti-Trump protest.
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Policing is not the solution to homelessness in our communities, homes are.
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If there wasn’t a video many would think this is unbelievable. Spitting in the general direction of a group of cops (several feet away from them) isn’t a basis for arrest, but that doesn’t stop these Portland cops.
Person in dress crossing street who spat in the general direction of a cop van, then was singled out by one of the riot cops, only to be tackled to the ground moments later by 5 officers.
#ThisIsAmerica
#PortlandProtest
#PortlandProtests
#PoliceBrutality
#PortlandPolice
#PPB
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Greyhound is alerting passengers about their rights should immigration agents board buses. They're also advising passengers to contact Congress to change the law that allows feds to board without a warrant buses within 100 miles of an international border.
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I live downtown Portland. There are homeless camps by my apartment. My Lyft driver just said: “It’s kind of scary to have all that homeless crap there.” I have never been scared of my neighbors living on the streets. The hate and fear directed at homeless people makes me sad.
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Counter-protesters to an anti-trans rally in Los Angeles yelled “don’t shoot” at the police. A police officer responded by shooting a rubber bullet at a woman.
Woman was just shot by a rubber bullet as she asked to please put down your guns—
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"On one night, 24 protesters were arrested and several were maced [in Portland]. It barely made the news." While police violence is common at Portland protests, we must never get desensitized to it.
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“My ancestors fought for this shit. They got whipped for this shit. This is nothing. This is not going to stop me. I’m going to be back here until we get justice for George, Sandra, Emmett, Oscar, anybody.” - Courtney Taylor Mesidor (video by
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“Jay-Z once said, ‘Men lie, women lie, but numbers don’t lie.’ When you look at the startling numbers ... it’s very clear. If you are white & smoke marijuana you still go to Yale. But if you're black or brown & you smoke marijuana you get a summons to go to jail.” -
@DRichards13
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Since Ted Wheeler has been Mayor of Portland, the city's police have shot and killed 10 people. They have shot at 10 more people, hitting 6 of them. And last year they used "less-lethal" force against protesters over 6,000 times.
His name was Daunte Wright. He should still be alive. He had a family who loved him and his life ahead of him. We must remember his name as we work to end systemic racism in our public safety system.
#BlackLivesMatter
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2 New Hampshire cops bust out a man's car window and drag him out. Cops refused to tell him why, but later claimed car was stolen. But he was only charged with offenses against the cops. And the video shows the cops were the only ones committing assault.
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It shook me the first time someone I represented said they didn't want me to argue for their release because they didn't want to get out of jail. It was freezing and they were homeless. We are failing the most vulnerable in our communities when a cage appears better than freedom.
A woman I represented recently called me after being released and asked if she could go back into custody because she’s too cold and vulnerable on the street.
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"Bloody wounds. Seared skin. Broken bones." Weeks of protests in Portland against police violence and racism have often ended with police violence. “I would love to say that it was just a bad shot. But it does seem like the feds were aiming for my head.”
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Today Portland police violently knocked a protester off of his bicycle. This is what unchecked police power looks like.
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20. Portland is experiencing a homeless crisis. Think of ways you might be able to help our houseless neighbors. And when you are encountering people who are houseless, and can’t practically do much at that moment to help, remember to always treat people with dignity.
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If you are going to the far-right rally and count-demonstrations in Portland on Saturday, write an emergency contact number on your body with a sharpie. If you get arrested say: (1) I don't consent to a search, (2) I want an attorney, & (3) I'm going to remain silent. Stay safe.
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Ramsey Orta says he's been beaten by prison guards, thrown in solitary as retaliation for filming Eric Garner death.
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Portland is not burning. The city has not been "hijacked by dangerous homeless folk & window-breaking looters." But police & downtown business interests are engaged in a misinformation campaign fueled by national & local media uncritical of their claims.
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The police do not need more training. This is what police are trained to do.
Chaotic scene tonight outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department where it seems the police and military greatly out number protesters. They are shooting from tanks.
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A Portland police officer shot and killed Andre Gladen, a Black man who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was blind. He fell asleep on a woman’s porch and she called the police. "Instead of just getting help for the person, they just kill him."
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Today the Portland Police deployed riot cops on peaceful protesters grieving the loss of Quanice Hayes, a black teen killed by a cop.
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Portland protestor seriously wounded by flash-bang grenade fired by cops clearing way for alt-right marchers. According to his girlfriend, a trauma nurse at the hospital said, “The hit would have been lethal if he wasn’t wearing a helmet.”
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Video shows nurse screaming, being dragged into cop car after refusing to let cop take blood from unconscious victim
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Portland Mayor
@TedWheeler
says it’s “disgusting” that people destroyed property last night at the George Floyd protest. What’s disgusting is Portland police killed 10 people since you took office and it’s taken property destruction to get your attention for “meaningful change.”
Burning buildings with people inside, stealing from small and large businesses, threatening and harassing reporters.
All in the middle of a pandemic where people have already lost everything.
This isn’t calling for meaningful change in our communities, this is disgusting.
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Teens' recent fight for gun control is awesome and inspiring, but don't forget that it's exactly what young black activists have been doing for years. by
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Police reinforce race and class inequalities by design. This can be seen in how police enforce only some laws, against some people, in some neighborhoods.
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Sex work should be decriminalized. But until that happens, prosecutors should decline to prosecute sex work. This is something prosecutors have the power to do today.
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I'm considering running for Portland City Council in 2020.
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In February, I’m moving to NYC to work with
@BklynDefender
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@ScottHech
on a cutting-edge public defender and client-led media advocacy project. I’m excited to be expanding my work in the movement to end mass incarceration.
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I live in downtown Portland. I wish my houseless neighbors had homes, but they don't make me feel unsafe. The only time I feel unsafe is when the police are committing acts of violence against protesters.
Majority of downtown Portland merchants say city core is unsafe
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Night after night, Portland has been showing up for Black Lives Matter. “Do you hear that thunder? That's the sound of strength in numbers.”
#PortlandProtest
(video by
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Don’t underestimate the importance of simply showing up.
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Once again the Portland police are heavily policing counter-protesters to a far-right rally. Meanwhile the police let people with the far-right walk over a bridge the police had shut down.
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Police riot gear is never a good look, even when you put it on cute kids.
Thanks to all the community members who came to our open house at East Precinct this weekend! We had a great time showing you around!
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If the Portland Police really wanted to deescalate violence at protests they wouldn't show up.
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Sarah Wilson, a Virginia teen, committed suicide by shooting herself through the mouth, despite having her hands handcuffed behind her back, according to medical examiner. Police say one cop had a body cam, but it was knocked offline “during the struggle.”
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Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley just called to decriminalize sex work. It's great to see more politicians supporting the decriminalization of sex work — this is in no small part due to the hard work of the decades-long sex workers' rights movement.
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"The Squad" is growing—and so is its power.
@AyannaPressley
: “It’s not just about dismantling—we’re also intentional about building and fostering. The reality is anyone who is interested in building a more equitable and just world is a part of The Squad.”
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If you go to the counter-demonstrations to the far-right rally in Portland on Saturday, write an emergency contact number on your body with a sharpie. If you get arrested say: (1) I don't consent to a search, (2) I want an attorney, and (3) I'm going to remain silent. Stay safe.
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Don't vote for political candidates who have received campaign donations from police unions.
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Saying people should stay home from protests when the police are violent further shows the chilling effect police violence has on people exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Tonight protesters in Portland took 4.5 minutes of silence for Michael Brown to represent the 4.5 hours his body lay in the streets.
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Fiona Apple has been court watching. And now she is fighting for the public to have virtual access to courts in Maryland. Injustice happens in empty courtrooms. With greater public access to court comes greater accountability. Watch and take action!
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Homeland Security allowed Oath Keeper (right-wing militia) to assist in arresting a counter-protester at Portland alt-right rally. Not OK.
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A street medic in Portland is suing the city for police breaking her arm during a protest. "It didn't seem to matter who you were or why you were down there, they were just brutalizing people left and right. They were acting like a street gang."
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Two Portland protesters who doused cops with glitter and lubricant get sentenced to five days in jail. The judge said “you don’t have the appropriate amount of respect" for the police. Lack of respect for cops shouldn't be considered in sentencing.
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President Biden: "The answer is not to Defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities." This is not the answer. Policing reinforces race and class inequalities by design. Invest in communities, not police.
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Marion Humphrey Jr., a law student, was stopped and searched by Arkansas State Police for driving a rental vehicle while Black. Handcuffed for more than an hour. Nothing found. He is now seeking review of racial information about law enforcement practices.
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I'm sick of seeing the police In Portland harming our community & not making us safer. I'm sick of seeing my houseless neighbors sleeping on the streets. I love this city & want to help make it better for those who have the least. I may need to run for city council to do this.
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This is how journalism becomes a justice issue: (1) relying on law enforcement sources without question, (2) not interviewing people directly impacted by the criminal legal system, and (3) using dehumanizing and stigmatizing language to describe people.
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Cops can often justify a search with six words: “I smelled an odor of marijuana.” But a judge in the Bronx said that cops claim to smell marijuana so often that it strains credulity and called on judges to stop letting cops get away with lying about it.
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Remember why Portland is protesting: Black Lives Matter.
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How can a city prevent people who are homeless from peeing on the street? Increase access to public bathrooms, not using “pee repellent.”
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After a car chase, a Chicago cop chased Paul O'Neal on foot, & shot & killed the UNARMED black teen. As O'Neal laid mortally wounded the cop kicked him & yelled: “Bitch ass mother------, f------ shooting at us!” It has been recommend that the cop is only suspended for 6 moths.
Two Chicago cops should be fired for shooting at a moving vehicle without justification during a chase of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal in 2016, disciplinary officials ruled.
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LAWSUIT: A man's HIV-positive diagnosis devolved into AIDS died because a for-profit healthcare provider in the California jail where he was locked up denied him lifesaving medication even though they had his prescription and knew he needed it to survive.
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St. Louis police shut down a mall to violently arrest people peacefully protesting racial injustice. The arrests included State Representative Bruce Franks Jr. (
@brucefranksjr
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#BlackLivesMatter
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A Las Cruces police officer killed Amelia Baca. She was 75 years old, lived with dementia, and was experiencing a mental health crisis. She had kitchen knives in her hands. Rather than use non-lethal tactics to disarm her, the officer shot her twice.
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Know your rights in encounters with ICE. View and share the “We Have Rights” videos — four scenarios in seven languages:
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Jay-Z, Meek Mill friends to 21,000 concert fans: Vote for judges, prosecutors, and councilmen who want criminal justice reform. “We have the power to replace these people.” by
@mauraewing
via
@FairPunishment
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