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In March, a jury in Allegheny County acquitted police officer Michael Rosfeld of the murder of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.

Allegheny County (which covers Pittsburgh) is known for police brutality and prosecutorial misconduct. Tomorrow, its DA Stephen Zappala is up for re-election.
There is stark racism in Zappala's prosecution of cases.

In 2016 and 2017, despite making up 20% of the population, more than 80% of children charged as adults in Allegheny County were Black, and 100% of children sentenced to jail or prison were Black.

theappeal.org/in-pennsylvani…
In the 20 years that Zappala has been DA, he has brought no charges in 18 of 22 police homicides.

post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou…
This will be the first time since 1999 that Zappala does not run unopposed. His challenger, Lisa Middleman, is a public defender, running as an independent, Zappala having won both the Republican and Democratic nominations. @taniel interviews her here.
appealpolitics.org/2019/lisa-midd…
@Taniel And here is his super useful cheat sheet as to what is on the ballot.

@Taniel Follow @Taniel for updates all day (and night) tomorrow on what is happening in Pittsburgh and across the county in DA elections.

@Taniel Tbh the chances of Zappala being ousted in Allegheny County tomorrow are slim, but it's because of cases like Antwon Rose's that we need to be following DA races and making sure that corrupt and racist prosecutors like him don't stay in power for another 20 years
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I don't know if people realize that the attack on the 12-year-old girl, Rodney Reed is accused of sexually assaulting, happened 9 years before Stacey Stites was killed. And Rodney was only ever accused of it AFTER he was on trial for Stacey's murder.

There's a reason for that.
That's because the ONLY way he could get the death penalty would be if the state showed "future dangerousness." And that would only be possible if they could show what are termed legally "prior bad acts," even if they were uncharged crimes.
As @helenprejean explains in this thread, the 12-year-old girl's case was never investigated and went cold for 10 years. That was until prosecutors decided they would test DNA evidence that had been stored in a police fridge all that time and it conveniently matched Rodney's.
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Ray Cromartie is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia in two days. He was convicted of murder in 1994, but DNA testing was never done on the gun that killed the victim, Richard Slysz. The victim's daughter supports halting the execution.

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OK, so we all know there is more than one Baby Trump balloon, this one will get fixed, it getting knifed is getting it way more attention than if it didn't, and some MAGA dude got charged with a felony, so it's all good?

Like all of these outrage tweets are a joke, right?
This picture is hilarious. It makes more of a statement about the Trump presidency than if it had flown over the stadium. MAGA dude is an idiot and people getting outraged are kind of buying into some sad irony.

I'll save my outrage for the impeachment hearings.
PS. #GoFundMe are not going to take down the page raising money for his legal defense, trust me. And again, tbh, who cares. Cops raised $200,000 for Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner, on GoFundMe. The page is still up. I'll stay outraged about that.
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