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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Black residents around the country know abt "attitude arrests"- ofcrs assaulting & arresting unarmed Black citizens b/c they don't like their "tone" or don't like being questioned or challenged. Modern day Black Codes. This #Baltimore ofcr admits he's making an "attitude arrest."
Commr Harrison is to be commended for the arrest of this officer. Officers treating Black residents as non-citizens with no First Amendment rights, with no freedom to assert their rights is part of this culture of unwarranted violent domination that must stop. #Baltimore
.@wjz's @PaulGessler saw the entire video and reports that it shows that when a Neighborhood Services Officer tries to "intervene and de-escalate," Sgt. Newburg rebuffs him saying:
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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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.
Mr. Woodfox’s memoir tells his story.The only purpose of solitary confinement he says is “to break the human spirit.”The discipline & commitment to human dignity he learned as a member of the Black Panther Party & his deep friendship w/fellow inmates helped him remain “unbroken.”
Mr. Woodfox also spoke with reverence about his mother, her sacrifices, and the lessons she taught that remain with him. Sitting with his lawyer @SamSpital, he read a poem he wrote about her that appears in the book, Solitary. I love that Thurgood Marshall is looking on.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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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.
He is an undergraduate student in the Philosophy Dept at Columbia. But he has developed no expertise in matters that warrant study, rigor, scholarship and/or deep engagement. And yet he was invited to share his views w/a congressional subcommittee.
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
Boys whose family & life circumstances have left them in tough spots making decisions too weighty for their minds & souls.They are not forgiven. I know you know this @nytdavidbrooks.Could you have spared ink to acknowledge them in your defense of this young man’s moral journey?
How can this, whatever your view, result in a full-on debate from writers in the pages of our most influential papers, w/o the need to acknowledge the devastating reality of lives stolen & shattered by a society that denies childhood to so many Black children.
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