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Wow. Van Dyke guilty on 2nd-degree murder. More verdicts coming.
The jury found Jason Van Dyke guilty on all charges related to the fatal police shooting of LaQuan McDonald — save for official misconduct. Wow.
Correction: guilty on 17 of the 19 counts. They did not convict on 1st degree murder or official misconduct.
The way it was explained: they couldn’t convict on the second-degree murder charge unless they decided not to convict on the first-degree charge. So the first-degree rolls into the second and goes away.
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An old thread from @ashoncrawley that i wish i woulda read before.
I said i shoulda linked to this before bc it basically predicts the response i got to that admittedly spicy tweet — that i am talking trash bc i am not an educator or, as @ashoncrawley says, “some other individuated problem” that makes me just a hater or whatever.
But that WaPo essay in that link above is *much* more provocative and pointed than anything in my take, which was again about media credulousness and the starting assumptions about Black children and schools. And it’s written by an educator to boot.

You should read it.
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...ain’t you TFA tho?
This convo we’re this am is abt the problematic positioning of education-as-silver-bullet, that sufficiently rigorous/no-excuses schools can offset systemic racism. The most vocal champions of that have been Teach For America and its alums, right? How does one square that circle?
There's a whole economy built around "whatever-it-takes" approaches to educating Black kids, and while the schools wildly differ in practice they often fall back on the same rhetoric and the same kind of too-credulous press to bat away real concerns abt how they treat students.
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Co-signing @whstancil’s points...but this school also allegedly abused these kids, roughing them and making them kneel for hours “to teach them submission.”
it’s another example of how often the models at schools like this and “zero-tolerance” charters for Black kids really just look like formalized contempt.

People will countenance that abuse — actually praise it and call it *necessary* — if its targets are poor Black kids.
Also, those “Black kids got into elite colleges!” viral videos and news stories have always been icky for this and other reasons

They are far too credulous, whether we’re talking about this school or Urban Prep in Chicago or wherever else
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1. I just saw the footage that’s being spread around from a protest in Portland on Saturday that people are claiming shows antifa directing traffic and yelling a drivers who won’t comply.
2. I spent 5 minutes Googling and reading news articles to find out that the protesters seem to have been part of a protest following a fatal police shooting on 9/30/18 in which some claim the man was unarmed. Police say he was armed.

opb.org/news/article/p…
3. One of the videos going around doesn’t show that the elderly white driver who was chased down the street did so after driving through a crowd of protesters with one directly in front of his car.

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@TruGB83 @auroramyst @FlorenceCoEMD Thanks for the name calling, way to debate!

The facts are these: in 2015, the police shot 990 people, the vast majority armed or violently resisting arrest, according to the Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings.
@TruGB83 @auroramyst @FlorenceCoEMD Whites made up 49.9 percent of those victims, blacks 26 percent. That proportion of black victims is lower than what the black violent crime rate would predict.
@TruGB83 @auroramyst @FlorenceCoEMD Blacks constituted 62% of all robbery defendants in America’s 75 largest counties in 2009, 57% of all murder defendants and 45% of all assault defendants, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, though blacks comprise only 15 percent of the population in those counties.
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The Jason Van Dyke trial resumes this morning (for real this time). IF Van Dyke testifies it'll likely be today. Follow along with @agrimm34 and me, and check out live updates from @SeidelContent on our blog. You can also watch a livestream of proceedings. chicago.suntimes.com/news/van-dyke-…
Today's first defense witness: Dr. Laurence Miller, a psychologist who's expected to tell the jury what he believes went through Jason Van Dyke's mind before he shot #LaquanMcDonald.
Dr. Miller, a psychologist who evaluated Jason Van Dyke, says humans have a natural reaction to get away from danger. On the other hand, he says, "First responders ... they have to run into the danger." #LaquanMcDonald
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H/T @BabeReflex_8

Romanian Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Hacking of Metropolitan Police Dept Surveillance Cameras

@drawandstrike @ThomasWictor @HNIJohnMiller @catesduane @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @GodlessNZ @almostjingo

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WASHINGTON – Eveline Cismaru, a citizen of Romania, pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from her role in a conspiracy to illegally access approximately 126 computers associated with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) surveillance cameras...
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Romanian Woman, Eveline Cismaru,
Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in
Hacking of Metropolitan Police Department Surveillance
Cameras bit.ly/2MOTpoE
70% of the DC area cameras had been hacked, and was traced to a man and woman in London.
Hack of D.C. police cameras was ultimately part of a ransomware scheme
washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
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Dr. Blasey is requesting FBI investigation prior to testifying on Capitol Hill. #KavaNOPE
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