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Sickening: Bill Barr today. Politicizing antisemitism. Announced he’ll jail a woman w/ mental health issues now in treatment. Despite release in Brooklyn, charge her w/ a federal hate crime. All to inflict pain. Today, the victim called to stop exploiting what happened. He won’t.
Recall that William Barr made the call not to hold Eric Garner's killer accountable federally. Not to intervene. Claimed Eric Garner was not in a chokehold when he repeatedly gasped, "I can’t breathe." But a poor Black woman w/ mental illness, he’s all in: gothamist.com/news/bill-barr…
“The feds could take her as soon as her release from hospital & jail her. She will potentially be stable at that point. The worst thing you could do to somebody who's just been stabilized is to incarcerate them. Creates the exact problem these bail laws were designed to remedy.”
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Scott Hechinger
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60 years prison for marijuana.

The *Presidency* for bribing a foreign government to interfere in his own election.
Pretrial detention, federal hate crime charges, & potentially years in federal prison for a woman w/ mental illness whose victim want her to get treatment not jail.

The *Presidency* for bribing a foreign government to interfere in his own election.
Thinking about Crystal Mason. A mother of 3. Now serving 5 years in prison for mistakenly voting while on probation & not knowing she wasn’t allowed to.

Yet Trump keeps *the Presidency* for bribing a foreign government to interfere in his own election.
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Cynical forces against bail reform have been politicizing an antisemitic attack.

The Jewish woman attacked rejects the tactic: “Ive been dismayed to watch politicians exploit what happened against bail reform. I want her to get treatment. Not money bail.”nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
Elyse Maister, the Jewish woman allegedly struck by Tiffany Harris, is brave. Didn’t need to speak up & who knows what her community might think. She did what felt right bc using her is so wrong. “I feel like politicians are exploiting these incidents to roll back bail reform.”
While NY tabloids, police & prosecutors have been busy attacking Tiffany Harris, Maister, the young Jewish woman allegedly attacked by Harris, knew from the beginning she was in need of help: “In the moment she seemed like in some emotionally distressed state, just unwell.”
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Scott Hechinger
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Had thoughts on how police & prosecutors weaponize Black culture. "Prosecutors use creative expressions--hip-hop songs, videos & other content--against young people we represent to paint them as dangerous, violent gang members. Use it to justify harshness.”vibe.com/2020/01/bail-r…
“Police scour personal Facebook & YouTube pages looking for content to fit their narrative. Claim photos of young men on social media are ‘self-admissions’ of gang affiliation, which are then used by prosecutors to justify bail, pre-trial detention, & lengthy prison sentences.”
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