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Will this be the moment of reckoning for @DCPoliceDept by the people of D.C? Or are we going to continue to pretend these are isolated incidents of police brutality by a "few bad apples"? The choice remains ours. #StopMPD #DefundDCPolice
This kind of brutality is not new for MPD, in D.C., and certainly not on Good Hope Rd. and 16th St. Southeast, but it is always unacceptable. It mirrors the experience of Derrick “Quan” Johnson at almost the same location on December 26, 2019. bit.ly/quanblmdc
We expect Chief Contee will do little more than give a measured response given his complicity in the misconduct by the Gun Recovery Unit against Black people. theappeal.org/dc-gru/
TOMORROW The DC Council’s Judiciary Committee will be holding an oversight hearing on the DC Police Department’s performance. So let’s see... how has the MPD performed over the last year? #DefundMPD #NoMoreStopAndFrisk
It stopped releasing data on stop-and-frisks, yet AGAIN violating the law. And again, when it was sued and forced to follow the law, it turned out MPD made a huge number of stops and a huge majority of those stops were of Black people. #NoMoreStopAndFrisk
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After working with the Oath Keepers and other far right groups to detain and try to convict 2016 inauguration protesters, DC police made no attempt to prevent or stop the violent attack on the Capitol by some of those same far right groups... 🤔
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Police overtime is a BIG deal in DC. You may have heard about @MayorBowser and @councilofdc robbing health care funds during a pandemic to pay a $43 million @DCPoliceDept overtime bill, but do you know how much overtime individual cops make? (1/11)
We’ve got a list of the highest overtime earners for FY2019. The 25 MPD officers with the most overtime all made over $100,000 in overtime that year! Some of them more than doubled their regular salary! Here are the highest earners: (2/11)
Coming in at Number 5 on the list is Kirk Del Po, a Detective Grade II. His base salary was $95,515 in FY2019. How much overtime did he make? $145,265. He went from a $96k a year job to a $241k job. (3/11)
ABOUT LAST NIGHT. @DCPoliceDept, which claimed to be offended and betrayed by the idea that it was in any way in need of reform, used pepper spray, rubber bullets, and flash bangs on protesters in order to take down mutual aid stations and tents provided for homeless residents.
There is no blaming everything on federal agencies this time. While US Park Police were also involved this was @MayorBowser's @DCPoliceDept leading the way. The police department she wants to give $19 million on top of the $560 million it already has. #DefundMPD #DefundDCPolice
Let's review what they did to DC residents... We often try to avoid tweeting out re-traumatizing images and videos of violence but we think it's important this time for people to know exactly what happened here on "Black Lives Matter Plaza."
