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9 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Meanwhile, white people are getting rich on the industry in other states. Legalize marijuana. End the war on drugs. Invest in communities. And then prioritize licenses for entrepreneurs ONLY from the communities the NYPD has devastated with costly & wasteful arrests like this.
Legalization is a civil & human rights issue. I don’t care if you don’t care for the smell of weed. Or buy into false narrative it is a gateway drug. Or oppose drug use on moral grounds. Prohibition is objectively, observably racist & destructive.
Meet Michael Thompson is 68. Serving 60 years in Michigan for a marijuana sale 25 years ago. Mom, dad, & son died while inside. Was cuffed at his mom's funeral. Her dying wish was he wouldn't die in prison. Was hospitalized w/ COVID. More:abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-in…
86% of marijuana arrests in NYC are of blacks & latinos. 100% of comments to this NYPD tweet agree criminalizing weed is also an enormous waste of time & money.
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9 Oct
Everyday, public defenders witness the dangerous lack of accountability for police. I think often about the officer I crossed examined who laughed when I asked him how many times he had been sued, how much the settlements were. His response: “I have no idea. City pays for me.”
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Meg is a current public defender running to be a judge in New Orleans. Here's just one example of what she would be empowered to change.
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BREAKING: Human Rights Watch (@hrw) out with horrifying investigation. The brutal NYPD attack on hundreds of protestors in early June in the Bronx wasn't just criminal & unconstitutional. It was *planned*. NYPD used the curfew to trap, assault, & arrest. hrw.org/news/2020/09/3…
"About 10 minutes before curfew scores of NYPD surrounded & trapped protesters–tactic called “kettling”–as they marched peacefully. W/o warning, they moved in, wielding batons, beating people from car tops, shoving, firing pepper spray into faces before arresting more than 250."
Human Rights Watch: “NYPD blocked people from leaving before the curfew & then used the curfew as an excuse to beat, abuse, and arrest people who were protesting peacefully. It was a planned operation with no justification that could cost New York taxpayers millions of dollars.”
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30 Sep
Update in P.G. County, MD. 3 months later. The jail population is up over 700. 200+ more than even the jail admitted in court was "safe" from COVID. New cases are spiking in Black overpoliced communities. Those arrested brought in. Courts just closed out Court Watch from Zoom.
Back when Fiona Apple read 1 of over 60 sworn declarations, local public defenders were banging their heads against the wall. Top prosecutor Aisha Braveboy (@SABraveboy) was doing nothing. And local judges were so cold they started issuing boilerplate denial decisions:
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28 Sep
Just blocks from where NYPD drove over protestors. Two state lawmakers with truth: The $300 million to settle NYPD lawsuits over the last 5 years could instead fund non-police violence interruption programs & summer youth employment in every NYC neighborhood for the next 5 years.
The $327 million per year that NYC residents pay for police in schools with no impact on public safety, could instead fund full four-year scholarships for over 4000 students to attend NY state colleges.
The $635 million NYC residents pay in just overtime for NYPD officers could instead house every single one of the 14,000 homeless families now living in NYC. And then pay a year’s worth of rent for 7,000 families out of work and at risk of eviction because of the pandemic.
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“Williams spent countless nights over 2 decades sleeping on the subway. Left him w/ a stack of $50 tickets he has no way to pay off.” We will pay NYPD $494 million in 2020 to police transit instead of investing in affordable housing.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt… nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt…
Taxpayers are paying $45 million in salaries for 500 new police to stop, ticket, & arrest people too poor to afford public transportation.

That’s enough money to pay for long term affordable, supportive housing for every one of the 2000+ homeless people now living on the subway.
The $635 million NYC residents pay in just overtime for NYPD officers could instead house every single one of the 14,000 homeless families now living in NYC. And then pay a year’s worth of rent for 7,000 families out of work and at risk of eviction because of the pandemic.
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