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1/ Thread: How we got here (in brief).
2014: #MichaelBrown killing sparks #Ferguson unrest, #EricGarner killing triggers #BlackLivesMatter #icantbreathe protests. #HowWeGotHere
2/ 2015: President #Obama's post-Ferguson task force releases a report on 21st Century Policing outlined specific improvements that can make policing more just, safe, effective and constitutional — and work better for everyone. nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opi… #policereform #HowWeGotHere
3/ Fall 2016: Colin Kaepernick kneels for 1st time, #Trump says he should find another country. nfl.com/news/donald-tr… #KaepernickKnee #HowWeGotHere
4/ 2017: Trump takes office, reverses Obama's police reforms, and says "fine people on both sides" at #Charlottesville Nazi melee. Pence flies to Indianapolis just to walk out of Colts game when players took a knee.
#RacistinChief #HowWeGotHere #Pence
5/ 2019: Minneapolis police union Prez (who may have ties to white supremacists) appears at #Trump rally clad in his red “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, gloats that the president had unshackled his officers from the #PoliceReform imposed by Obama. #HowWeGotHere nymag.com/intelligencer/…
6/ 2019 study by #MappingPoliceViolence found that African-Americans were 2.5 times MORE likely to be shot by police. #HowWeGotHere #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceReform #samswey
7/ Protests erupt after video of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd goes viral, on the heels of the deaths of #AhmaudArbery (investigated only after viral video) and #BreonnaTaylor. youtube.com/playlist?list=… #HowWeGotHere #BlackLivesMatter
8/ President #Trump's response to the protest, tweets of #LawAndOrder, a staged confrontation in Layfayette Park so he could do a photo op holding a bible outside a church. nbcnews.com/politics/polit… #HowWeGotHere
9/ After a week of protest, when asked what the administration planned to do to address systemic racism, #Trump's response was having "the strongest economy in the world" and to criticize the African-American reporter. businessinsider.com/trump-says-the… #RacistInChief #HowWeGotHere
10/ #Trump tries to inflame the Kaepernick culture war, criticizing #DrewBrees for apologizing for attacking #KaepernickKnee only to have Brees respond that we can no longer use the flag to distract from real issues facing black America. #HowWeGotHere cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/…
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DC #MayorBowser is invoking the 3rd Amendment to force out of state Natl Guard troops to leave the city. It is most obscure of Bill of Rights and only one never considered by Supreme Court. Only one appeals case and it found NG troops are soldiers. #3rdAmendment
The absence of any case law directly construing this provision presents a serious interpretive problem and little illumination can be gleaned from the debates of the Constitutional Convention. Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982). #dc #3rdAmendment
So if Natl Guardsmen are soldiers, is mere presence in DC sufficient or must they be on city property? businessinsider.com/third-amendmen… #dc #3rdAmendment
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1/ @SenToomey , it is hard to believe that is has been nearly 40 years since you and I made our first trip to Washington as part of #CloseUp_DC in February 1980, where for a week we would see Washington from the inside.
2/ @SenToomey, on our first night, the keynote address was given by former Congressman Brook Hays (D-AR), who lost his seat in Congress because he chose the right side of history in the battle over integrating Little Rock's Central High School. washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
3/ @SenToomey As he spoke that night, I remember how proud Congressman Hays was of the fact that President Kennedy said that "If I write a sequel to 'Profiles in Courage,' you will be Chapter One."
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Just to recap and circulate at a more visible time, early this morning I circulate a few threads making the case AGAINST #BernieSanders who is Trump's and the Republicans' Dream Candidate.
Thread #1: He is a #ZEALOT who gets nothing done and is #UNELECTABLE. #BernieSanders

Thread #2: He not only is #NotADemocrat, he HATES US. #BernieSanders #NotADemocrat
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