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🚨🚨Twitter Crowdsource: Chief Attorney, Maryland Office of the Public Defender - Baltimore City Juvenile Division needs an *epidemiologist* willing to help free children. 🚨🚨
Responses coming in! My sense is no to local. @jennylynegan?
Another. Hi Rene. Do you know what evidence is already out there? Studies etc?
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Scott Hechinger
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I repeat: There is currently a man sitting in a cage. In Brooklyn Criminal Court. Arrested on a warrant. For drinking in public. Held for hours. Waiting now for a Spanish interpreter to see a judge. Why is NYPD arresting people for this garbage ever, but especially right now?
There is another man that just was seen by a judge in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Arrested at 12:48am this morning. Charged w/ "obstructing government administration" for moving between subway cars & not obeying an order. 24 hours caged. Dismissal. Why did prosecutors even charge?
God help us all. A third year law student and soon-to-be heartless prosecutor with the Twitter handle "Eat Your Crooks" w/ this inhumane response to a man arrested and caged during a pandemic for not paying a ticket.
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Scott Hechinger
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Yesterday, Brooklyn Criminal Court arraignments we’re packed w/ people charged w/ misdemeanors & non-violent felonies, jammed like sardines (“standing room only” as one colleague described it) in cells, over dozen police officers, no hand sanitizer. When will this stop? More:
Colleague: “I met a person charged w/ misdemeanor trespass. Ended with an ACD & immediate sealing (read: dismissal). Seriously no point in having this client go through booking. Especially with Covid.”
Another colleague: “Were swamped. It is really really awful. I had to ask for them to clean up my clients vomit from the floor when the threw up on the record.”
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Scott Hechinger
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🚨🚨BREAKING: In midst of Coronavirus & heightened concerns about the susceptibility of exposure in jails, NY Governor Cuomo is pledging to kill 2 months old bail reform to send tens of thousands *back* to jail. Worse, hes doing so w/ decreased ability for advocates to speak out.
The same Governor who announced, proudly, with no awareness of the inhumanity, that people incarcerated were making hand sanitizer for 16 cents an hour (slave labor) for those on the outside, but would not themselves be allowed to use it. Also: no access to free soap.
In January modest bail reform went into effect. Ended cash bail for misdemeanors & nonviolent felonies. Thousands released. Jobs. Housing. Families. Coming back to court. Major felonies are continuing to decline since pre-reform. Taxpayers saving a fortune. And now public health.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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While all eyes are on the Kirwan bill, NAACP_LDF⁩ attys ⁦@AjmelQuereshi⁩ & ⁦@CaraMcClellan6⁩ remind everyone that we are in active litigation to compel MD to comply w/even greater constitutional funding requirements for #Baltimore City. baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/…
It’s important to know that there are limits to what #Kirwan can deliver for #Baltimore City schools.
Infrastructure must also be address. It’s a key part of our demand in the suit the @NAACP_LDF & @ACLU are pursuing on behalf of #Baltimore City students.
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Dear #Baltimore (a Thread)

300 murders this year. Same as last year. This high since the 2015 riots that rocked the nation.
Only 2250 officers currently serving the city. Down from 3350. And corruption found up and thru thr ranks. BPD Officers that I knew a few years ago were eager to retire. They were fed up with Baltimore crime. I don’t blame them. They’re only human. Everyone has a breaking point.
We won’t even talk about the GTTF and what a travesty that is on the BDP.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Gov Hogan continues to stiff the public transportation needs if #Baltimore City residents. The disparate racial impact of tgese policies is clear.
Transportation is a civil rights issue.
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So lets talk about #Baltimore: last year, I started hanging out in the #BlackButterfly neighborhoods doing an ethnographic study for my @afronews column and it broke my heart. #DispatchesFromBaltimore: These are THEIR Stories.
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“My father is dead. My brother is dead. I had two cousins, they got shot. My uncles are locked up. What do I want to be when I grow up? Nothing. I’m from Baltimore, I’m already dead.” - Jason, 9th grader, afro.com/im-from-baltim…
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“Dr. Kaye, we’re invisible to them. They don’t see us. They don’t hear us. They don’t care about us. You tell them that we’re not invisible. Tell them that we matter.” - Miss Janet
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#3 "Lets Tear Some Sh*t Down in Order to Get Free"
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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We’ve been pressing cities to stop water tax lien foreclosures that are devastating African American homeowners. Flint, where the water is not even drinkable, is among the most egregious. READ our letter to Flint officials. naacpldf.org/wp-content/upl…
To learn more about how water affordability is devadtating Black homeownership read the overview of our forthcoming report “Water/Color.” naacpldf.org/wp-content/upl…
Homeownership remains critical to building economic stability for African American families & communities. @NAACP_LDF is committed to challenging practices that hurt African American homeownership. Like water tax liens. This simply should not happen.
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Shay Castle
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OK, now onto the police oversight task force. Members are being recommended tonight. 48 amazing applications were received.

Here are the recommended members:
Carlene Hofmann, member of the Boulder Police Officer’s Association
Mike Rafik
Nami Thompson
Madelyn Strong Woodley
Michele Simpson
Sheila Davis
Selasee Atiase
Shawn Rae Passalacqua
James Hill
Shirly White
Todd Conklin
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Sophia Pelcanos
Plus Ex-officio members
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John Gifford, Public Defender’s Office
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