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@mollyhf
Jun 10, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
1/ I spoke with @AOC @MarkTakano and @RepChuyGarcia who are proposing a ban on police use of tear gas after #GeorgeFloydProtests latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/@MnDPS_MSP fired tear gas and rubber bullets at me and pepper sprayed my colleague @Carolyn_Cole during a peaceful protest. They have yet to contact us or confirm that they are investigating. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
3/The proposed ban on tear gas (part one): ImageImageImageImage
4/The proposed ban on police use of tear gas (part two) ImageImage
4/Things I learned in reporting this story: Tear gas is not a gas, it was developed during World War I, used in union-busting, colonial protests and more recently in Hong Kong.
5/Tear gas manufactured in the U.S. has also been used on protesters in the Middle East. I covered some of the effects during the #ArabSpring in Egypt. Now journalists there are messaging me with concern about the U.S. latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2…
6/The protester who I wrote about in Egypt who was attacked by police later died.
7/Numerous journalists have lost their eyes after police used "less lethal" weapons on them during #GeorgeFloydProtests including @KillerMartinis who's still having surgery #Journalismisnotacrime
8/At last night's #Berkeley #California city council meeting, a council member asked the police chief how he would disperse protesters if he couldn't use tear gas, he joked, "We could shoot them." The council then voted to indefinitely ban police use of tear gas.
5/Full Text of legislation to ban tear gas just released. “To stop us from protesting the death of a Black man who was suffocated by police, law enforcement is using a weapon that restricts our lungs - during a respiratory pandemic,” @AOC

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I spent time in small town #Texas with @AverieDanielle aka #MissTexas who handles rattlesnakes, eats Texas-shaped waffles and posts videos on her viral TikTok about her controversial platform: Diversity and inclusion. With @sflores photo, my video n links:
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2/Thanks to everyone who took time with us, especially folks in Fairfield, at Miss Texas and @AverieDanielle whose reign ends tomorrow. After watching prelims this week, I'll be watching the finals tomorrow livestreaming.
3/Can you spot the @washingtonpost reporter in her Fairfield TikTok? tiktok.com/t/ZT8efeUkL/
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The latest: Democrats surged to flip state legislatures, defying past GOP gains washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
2/Some extra: In Minneapolis’s outer-ring suburbs, Matt Norris, 33, a lawyer and policy director at a statewide youth non-profit, ran for the first time and won with 51% of the vote, narrowly beating a Republican incumbent who belonged to the Oath Keepers militia.
3/In a district with a population of 42,000, Norris said his campaign knocked on 39,000 doors, telling voters how he successfully lobbied to recently pass bi-partisan bills that ensured unemployment assistance for youth/seniors during the pandemic and youth workforce training.
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1/What happened to providers, patients and protesters at one #Texas clinic when #RoeVsWade was overturned latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/Dr. Alan Braid (right) and clinic executive administrator Andrea Gallegos (left) in the clinic lobby explaining what #SCOTUS ruling meant for patients: they could not get scheduled abortions today.
3/Clinic staff consoled patients, gave them handouts directing them to out of state clinics and web sites that distribute abortion medication by mail.
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Thread: A day in the migrant camp of about 14,000, mainly Haitians, near the border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
2/@CBP doesn’t allow press to enter the camp from the U.S. and closed the border bridge, so I crossed to the East, drove through Mexico and waded across the Rio Grande.
3/Haitian migrants I met spoke Creole to each other, but many also spoke Spanish, some French and English. These guys told me in French that they were deciding whether to return to the camp or stay in Mexico.
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I went up to Kansas to talk to folks at Trust Women clinic about the Texas abortion ban - including a woman who had to travel overnight. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/I also spoke with protesters outside the Wichita clinic who said they were encouraged by the Texas abortion ban. Image
3/“They told us to get ready because people are going to come from south and all over to get here,” said Joseph Elmore, 73, who was protesting outside the Kansas clinic. ImageImageImage
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A year ago, I met transgender migrant Mayela Villegas, 27, in a Mexican border tent camp before she crossed legally to claim asylum in Texas. At the end of May, a friend contacted me to say Mayela had died. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/ Mayela’s friend had a question for me after she died: “Is there any way you can help us find what happened to her?” Here’s what I found.
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3/Mayela’s friend Deisy Polanco told me she had struggled since arriving in Houston. Mayela lived with conservative, religious family members who called her by her male birth name and male pronouns. “For me, you’re Mayela,” Polanco would tell her. “I don’t know any other name.”
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