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BREAKING: Remember last week when new #Baltimore Police Commr ordered the arrest of a police officer for misconduct, assault & false arrest for the unjustified arrest of a pedestrian? baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-… Remember that the police union denounced the Commr? Here's the video.
When #Baltimore Police Commr. Harrison ordered the officer arrested, the police union publicly denounced the Commr in an open letter. baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-… Now we see the video. It thoroughly supports the Commr's action against the ofcr. This is how you change the culture.
A straight "attitude arrest." Black people have to fear beating and arrest simply for respectfully challenging the action of a police ofcr. These Black Codes - which deny Black people full citizenship in interaction w/law enforcement - must end.
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An honor to spend time yesterday w/Albert Woodfox in our D.C. office. Mr. Woodfox spent over 40 yrs in solitary confinement at Angola prison for a crime he did not commit. ⁦@NAACP_LDF⁩ Litigation Dir ⁦@SamSpital⁩ was on the team of attys that secured his 2016 release.
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Yesterday this young man was positioned as an “expert”- on what I do not know - and opined about the significance of racial disparities, entitlement of victims of Jim Crow to reparations rather than descendants of slaves, and racial divisions in America.
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I respect the opinions, views & experience of young people. But his views are not a counterpoint to Ta-Nehisi’s genuine expertise developed by years of study and scholarship on race in America and reparations. There is no equivalence here.
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It’s this passage....Millions of Americans have now seen @WhenTheySeeUs in which 16 year old #KoreyWise is convicted of a crime he did not commit & sent to adult jail. You know we have a criminal justice system that does not forgive Black & Brown boys. nyti.ms/2KmbjCj
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