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The first weekend after the terror of the #MississippiRaids and the #ElPasoTerroristAttack, I’m reminded of a lesson a client taught me once. /1
He got cited for driving without a license. Pretty simple misdemeanor offense that really shouldn’t require a lawyer to handle. Go to court. Pay a fine. Take a class. Case dismissed. But he was in the process of regularizing his immigration status, so it wasn’t that simple. /2
Because ICE Officers had begun appearing in Nashville’s courtrooms, many folks in his position who had to go to court came to believe their citation could carry the possibility of arrest and imprisonment by ice while they fought their case, and if they lost, family separation. /3
After the three #MassShootings we saw last week, we're talking to David Zuckerman, a domestic terrorism expert. Here's why he thinks shutting down platforms like 8Chan, which 3 mass shooters have used to spread/share #WhiteSupremacist ideologies WILL NOT prevent violence
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@FOX40 Many of the young men behind mass shootings used 8Chan to share manifestos and post hate-filled messages hours before they carried out their attacks. The perpetrators in #PowayShooting #NewZealandTerroristAttack and the #ElPasoShooting all had that in common. @FOX40 
@FOX40 "Do your part and spread this brothers!...I'm probably going to die today. Keep up the good fight."
Part of the manifesto the #ElPasoTerroristAttack shooter posted to 8Chan a little while before he carried out the attack. Today the site was banned by its online host. @FOX40
Part of the manifesto the #ElPasoTerroristAttack shooter posted to 8Chan a little while before he carried out the attack. Today the site was banned by its online host. @FOX40
A recap of @just_security's recent coverage of domestic terrorism and right-wing extremism: #ElPasoShooting #ElPasoTerroristAttack
How News Media Talk About Terrorism: What the Evidence Shows by @KearnsErinM and @AmarAmarasingam justsecurity.org/63499/how-news…
New Approach After Charlottesville Violence Protects Public Safety While Preserving Rights by Mary B. McCord justsecurity.org/62056/approach…
Despicable how @adolfofrancoGOP is sitting on @CNNSotu with @jaketapper and calling the terrorist who carried out #ElPasoTerroristAttack a “nut job”. No sir, he is a TERRORIST! And @realDonaldTrump snickered when someone made a remark about shooting immigrants!
Don’t understand how men like @adolfofrancoGOP can sit there and refuse to call this a terrorist act. They need to wake the hell up and confront the radicalization of white men in America!
Disappointed that even @SenSanders is falling for the “mentally unstable folks become radical white nationalists after watching @realDonaldTrump’s” rhetoric. I disagree. Hateful, not mentally unstable people, carry out terrorist attacks like the #ElPasoTerroristAttack.
Trump's normalizing anti- immigrant rhetoric is important to note bf dehumanizing murder like #ElPasoTerroristAttack. But it's also important to look at the body, how BOTH Republicans & Democrats have devalued the immigrant body to the point of jailing, separating, dehydrating,
beating, deporting & exposing refugee child bodies to rape. If the bodies of refugees & migrants could speak for themselves, the picture & talk of government sanctioned white supremacist violence would implicate not just Trump, but Obama, Clinton & all those Democrats & their
allies who've had a hand in making destruction & devastation of the refugee & immigrant body a "normal, " everyday life" thing,like that cancer you don't always notice but is there quietly doing its daily work. At the level of the state, white supremacy normalization of violence
THREAD: Important to understand the undercurrent of the history bubbling beneath the #ElPasoTerroristAttack. You can see the workings of the genocidal culture--institutionally-sanctioned mass murder+white supremacy+devalued Mexican life--3 hours s of EP, in the town of Porvenir,
TX. Porvenir was the site of a massacre perpetrated by Texas Rangers at a time where 100s, possibly 1000s of Mexicans were being ethnically cleansed , displaced fr land in the region. A century after it occurred, I tried to interview a defendant of one bit.ly/2GLl8X0
of the victims. They were not ready to do so. What's known as "La Matanza" also included lynchings, shootings & other murderous violence in which whites mass murdered Mexicans w impunity. The fact that most in Texas, including Tejanos, don't know about La Matanza is a measure of
My heart goes out to the people of El Paso,Texas where 20 were killed by a cowardly white-supremacist terrorist. It also goes out to the people of Dayton,Ohio where 9 were killed by another barbaric terrorist.(1/4) #ElPasoShooting
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Hate-crimes have NO place in a civilised society and I condemn these killings. In Nigeria we know all too well what this is like because we see such racist, hate-filled and cowardly massacres and hate-crimes being carried out by Fulani terrorists and BH on a daily basis.(2/4)
They have subjected our people to genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder on a DAILY basis for the last 4 years and thousands, including innocent and defenceless women and children, have been raped, robbed, tortured, pillaged and butchered in cold blood. (3/4)
#ElPasoShooting UPDATE: #ElPaso police confirm
—Multiple fatalities
—Multiple people transported to hospital
—One suspect in custody
—NO active shooter
—Police are investigating several crime scene areas, Walmart and Cielo Vista Mall, Texas
via @MSNBC
—Multiple fatalities
—Multiple people transported to hospital
—One suspect in custody
—NO active shooter
—Police are investigating several crime scene areas, Walmart and Cielo Vista Mall, Texas
via @MSNBC
#ElPasoSHOOTING: 19 DEAD, 40 WOUNDED
I can’t help thinking abt families shopping at Walmart for school supplies being slaughtered like animals. El Paso like Gilroy has a large Latino population. Trump’s dehumanization & conflation of immigrants & criminals put targets on them.
I can’t help thinking abt families shopping at Walmart for school supplies being slaughtered like animals. El Paso like Gilroy has a large Latino population. Trump’s dehumanization & conflation of immigrants & criminals put targets on them.
“It’s about taking down immigrants. There’s a body count associated with these websites (8chan, 4chan) now”—Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) on #ElPasoShooting. 21yo shooter posted a white supremacist screed/manifesto citing neo-Nazi killers Brevik, New Zealand mosque massacre…
I’ve observed Colorado @SenCoryGardner since his election. What I’ve seen has left me dismayed. Rather than building bipartisan bridges to get things done, Cory became a supine Trump yes-man. There are 1000s reasons he shouldn’t be re-elected. Here are 101: #VoteCoryOut #COsen
#1: Even though he was elected by the narrowest of margins in 2014 in a state that has since voted for Hillary in 2016 & a democratic state govt trifecta in 2018, Cory continues to act as if he has a mandate from the white nationalist alt-right. #VoteCoryOut #cosen
#2: Cory Gardner has consistently voted for the extreme Trump agenda. During the 2019-2020 Congress, he’s voted with Trump over 90% of the time. During Trump’s 1st two years, Cory’s voting record was over 95% in line with Trump. #VoteCoryOut #cosen
