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26 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
HUGE NEWS TODAY: 24 people were assaulted by NYPD last spring during #BLM protests in the Bronx. Public defenders at @BronxDefenders are demanding a reparations fund for the people & communities subjected to police violence in the South Bronx. gothamist.com/news/protester…
Last spring, Mott Haven Bronx was Ground Zero for some of the NYPD's most brutal, violent tactics against BLM protestors. I watched those videos. Batons. Suffocating. Plastic cuffs. Poisonous spray. Atrocious human rights violations. Now the survivors are speaking out.
Human Rights Watch (@hrw) recently came out w/ 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…
This was the NYPD’s response. Deny deny deny. Lie lie lie. But it’s all caught on video. Analyzed, including audio of supervising officers making the orders. Dozens of interviews with witnesses. And Shea even acknowledged the plan the following day.

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22 Jan
Proud to be a signer on this letter to Biden. “We write to you as attorneys, judges, advocates, & Americans, urging you to begin w/ an act of mercy to carry our nation closer toward justice: immediately commute sentences of all those on federal death row.”static1.squarespace.com/static/5c894b6…
“In the last six months, we bore witness to the execution of thirteen people — more Americans put to death in those months than in the last six decades of this nation’s history. These thirteen deaths stand as an affront to the very legal system we operate in every day.”
“Obama halted federal executions, but did not commute sentences of all on federal death row, leaving the door open for Trump to pursue a death spree that hasn’t been seen in well over a century. The very existence of death row leaves many susceptible to the machinery of death.”
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20 Jan
Happy inauguration day. But right next door: Maryland incarcerates more Black people than any other state in the country. Also condemns children to die in prison. 83% of juvenile lifers are Black. Tomorrow this could change. Legislation would end juvenile life sentences. More:
70% of the Maryland prison population is Black. Even though only 30% of the Maryland population is Black. Juvenile life sentences disproportionately affect black defendants. All of Maryland's neighbors have abolished life w/o parole for juveniles. But Maryland hasn’t.
The Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA) would end life sentences for juveniles in Maryland. The legislation is based on the belief that no child is born bad. Tomorrow (Thursday) there is a hearing on the bill.
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18 Jan
On MLK Day, I always share this. Want people to know this as well as the “I Have A Dream” speech. Speechless at his wisdom and truth. "No other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. And then color became a stigma." Transcribed remainder below.
“America freed slaves in 1863, but gave them no land or nothing to get started on. Emancipation for the negro was really freedom to hunger. Freedom to the winds & rains of heaven. Freedom w/o food to eat or land to cultivate. Therefore it was freedom & famine at the same time.”
"When white Americans tell the negro to lift himself up by his bootstraps, they don’t look at the legacy of slavery & segregation. We ought to do all we can to lift ourselves up, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man he ought to lift himself up by his own bootstraps.”
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16 Jan
"After 17 years w/o a federal execution, the Government has executed 12 people since July." Last night Dustin Higgs became the 13th. "The Federal Government executed more than 3 times as many people in the last 6 months than it had in the previous 6 decades." Justice Sotomayor:
Sotomayor names them: "Daniel Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken, Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy Jr., Christopher Vialva, Orlando Hall, Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois, Lisa Montgomery, Corey
Johnson. [Just last night] Dustin Higgs became the thirteenth." Justin:
"This unprecedented rush of federal executions has predictably given rise to many difficult legal disputes. Against this backdrop of deep legal uncertainty, the DOJ
did not tread carefully. It scheduled five executions; eight would follow in the months to come."
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14 Jan
Death penalty isn't only way the state kills. Meet Jon Lancaster. Father. Grandfather. Suffered severe mental illness. Yet still caged in solitary. Covered in urine. Feces. Shot w/ pepper balls & pepper spray. Restrained for days. They let him “slowly die in plain sight." More: Image
Danielle Dunn, Jonathan’s sister, called repeatedly to request medical treatment for Jonathan. She called the morning of his death to inquire again & request medical treatment. She was told he was fine. Within a few hours, she received the call from an officer that he had died. Image
Jon was locked up for 7 years. For “robbery” for stealing $150 from a 7/11. Took only 2 months from the time Jon was sent to solitary for him to die. January 2019: Transferred to a punitive facility in far northern Michigan. Alger Correctional. Dead by March. Jon & his family: Image
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14 Jan
I always argue against calls for new harsh laws to punish even for those we despise--white, privileged, racist fascists among them. Because people who will be most affected by greater harshness are rarely if ever white, privileged, racist fascists. More:
Public defenders across the country see how the vast array of criminal laws, procedures, & practices that already exist-unique in their harshness & scope around the globe-play out in real life. Oppression, mass caging, prosecution, surveillance, policing of Black & Brown people.
So many laws get passed either in the wake of outlier high profile crimes or using outlier high profile crimes as justification. Nearly without exception these laws predominately affect non-outliers. Devastate Black and Brown communities. Undermine faith and trust in the system.
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