Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Radley Balko Profile picture
@radleybalko
Aug 19, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
My favorite example of outrage at any reckoning with our racial history is when Vanderbilt Univ. changed the name of Confederate Hall, and returned (with interest!) the money that Daughters of Confederacy paid to build and name the hall back in 1933. Critics accused ...
... the school of "white-washing history." But as @AuntB wrote at the time, the hall was on land that was formerly the site of a black college. That college closed after white supremacists shot at students and faculty, and burned two buildings . . .

nashvillescene.com/news/pith-in-t…
. . . to the ground. Including the building on the site of what would later become Confederate Hall. DoC raised funds to buy the land three years after the black college closed.

That history is pretty critical to put the name change in the proper perspective.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Radley Balko

Radley Balko Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @radleybalko

Radley Balko Profile picture
Oct 21, 2023
This is exploding on right-wing Twitter as if it’s some new revelation. It isn’t.

The thing is, there’s actually a nugget of truth here. But it doesn’t exonerate Chauvin. Instead, its an indictment of how cops are reflexively cleared for in-custody deaths.

A quick🧵
The Minneapolis ME’s office did indeed give prosecutors an improper, preliminary report that appeared to downplay Chauvin’s role in Floyd’s death. (A judge later scolded the DA’s office for this.)

This happens often with in-custody deaths.
They’re also right that public and political pressure may have altered the ME’s early analysis. But that pressure didn’t result in an incorrect manner of death determination. Instead, it turned what looked to be a false, knee jerk exoneration of cops too common in these cases.
Read 7 tweets
Radley Balko Profile picture
Jun 18, 2023
After spending 29 years trying to execute him for a crime he didn't commit, Arizona finally freed Barry Jones.

Yet as his family and legal team waited for him at the jail for his release, state officials dumped him at a Greyhound station. They didn't bother telling anyone. ImageImageImageImage
It's just a perfect illustration of the CJ system's utter lack of humanity. To find his family, Jones had to first navigate a city he hadn't seen in decades. His first human interaction as a free man was with a Del Taco employee, who refused to let him use the phone.
Read @LilianaSegura's moving story about Jones' release here:

theintercept.com/2023/06/17/bar…
Read 4 tweets
Radley Balko Profile picture
Jun 16, 2023
DOJ just released the report from its two-year investigation of the Minneapolis police department.

Here's a thread of notable excerpts.

This first one happened *while a DOJ investigator was on a ride-along.* Image
"Sit on the ground. I'm gonna mace ya." Image
Casually pepper spraying some folks who were concerned about a suicidal friend. Image
Read 27 tweets
Radley Balko Profile picture
Jun 15, 2023
Ohio says AEDPA bars a death row prisoner from challenging the bitemark evidence used to convict him.

The state is *not* arguing that bitemark evidence isn't bullshit. Only that AEDA prevents this prisoner from arguing in fed. court that it's bullshit.

bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglawne…
The specific, somewhat complicated issue here is whether the prisoner can make his case in district court or must take the more circuitous and difficult route of first getting permission from the fed. appeals court.

But the core problem is that AEDPA allows states to defend ...
... convictions won on garbage forensics like bitemark evidence without having to defend the actual merits of those methods. They can just hide behind procedural rules, and AEDPA instructs the federal courts to defer to them.
Read 4 tweets
Radley Balko Profile picture
May 26, 2023
🧵

So this is making the rounds again.

These were preliminary opinions from the ME, which he gave before final lab results had been completed.

The same ME later testified against Chauvin at trial, and clearly said Floyd's death was a homicide.

That said, there are definitely issues worth discussing here.

Why was the ME consulting with prosecutors before completing the autopsy? Why did he give prosecutors opinions that contradicted his trial testimony, and have since been thoroughly refuted by the medical community?
The answer is that many medical examiners treat deaths in police custody differently other regular deaths. They do more tests, more lab work. They look for reasons to let cops off the hook. And they're much more likely determine a manner of death as "inconclusive" ...
Read 11 tweets
Radley Balko Profile picture
Apr 6, 2023
The Tennessee legislature responds to the Tyre Nichols murder by . . . overriding police accountability measures passed by voters, stripping civilian review boards of their power, and making it more difficult to investigate abuse and excessive force.

This legislature is an abomination -- a body of reactionary, hypocritical, culture-warring ignoramuses with nothing but contempt for the people they claim to serve.

dailywire.com/news/tennessee…
Just going to post a series of articles about our god-awful legislature now.

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Read 10 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(