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2 Feb, 7 tweets, 4 min read
NEW: Today, Color Of Change and @ACLU are releasing a report on Fairfax Financial Holdings Company (@FFH_TO) — the last big insurance company still profiting off of the racist and exploitative system of money bail.

nomoneybail.org
Fairfax’s exploitative practices within the bail industry are underscored by their work to block reform. Their business model is to profit from trapping Black families in cycles of debt, while leaving other Black people to rot in jail because they are poor.
Rafiq Shaw’s story highlights the problems of the cash bail system: in 2015, Rafiq was arrested in error when he happened to be walking past police preparing for a raid. At trial, the jury found Shaw innocent after less than 30 minutes of deliberation.

baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-…
Shaw’s bail was set at $100,000. His fiancée & mother scraped together what they had & Shaw cleaned out his savings to pay the bondman $2,000 up front, with a promise to pay $100 a week until the amount is paid in full. Shaw earns $10.15 p/hr installing U-Haul trailer hitches.
Though he was innocent, Rafiq Shaw is on the hook for the $10K his family agreed to pay the bail bondsman for a crime he didn't commit.

Crum & Forster Insurance, owned by Fairfax Financial, is the company that backed Shaw's bail bond. These companies are profiting from his debt.
Crum & Forster has not only spent heavily to expand its presence in the U.S. bail industry, but has also spent heavily to fight ending for-profit bail that would stop people from being held pre-trial in the first place. Fairfax subsidiaries have spent $500K+ fighting bail reform.
Read the Color Of Change and @ACLU report on Fairfax Financial’s investment in the for-profit bail industry. Then, join thousands of Color Of Change members demanding Fairfax CEO Prem Watsa immediately divest from bail:

act.colorofchange.org/sign/fairfax-b…

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4 Feb
Police unions are one of the most powerful forces standing in the way of efforts to hold police accountable for violence and misconduct, and to transform the criminal legal system. We’ve studied all their tactics and strategies and now we’re exposing their playbook.
From campaign contributions to contracts to copaganda, here are the strategies police unions use to perpetuate harm in Black communities, protect violent police officers, and create barriers to officer accountability and policy change. Image
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The abusive monopoly power of @amazon has resulted in lost wages, dangerous working conditions, and even the deaths of Black workers.

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Again and again, Amazon abuses its monopoly power to crush Black and brown workers standing up for their rights.
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Deputy Fournier body-slammed a Black teenage girl, knocking her unconscious, and handcuffing her while she lay motionless -- -- he must face accountability.

@OsceolaSheriff has initiated an investigation but it's not nearly enough.
Let’s be clear: a grown man should never be able to body slam a teenage girl, especially under the guise of “keeping other students safe.” It’s unacceptable.

We're looking at @OsceolaSheriff Marco Lopez to ensure Deputy Fournier is fired from the police force for good.
Black kids, especially Black girls, deserve to go to school to learn & grow, not to be targeted by the police.

Black ppl are already over-policed, leaving Black kids more likely to be arrested or sent to juvenile detention for minor issues.
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3 Feb
1/ Last Friday, @RochesterNYPD responded to a family disturbance call. Just a few minutes later, body camera footage reveals the Rochester Police officers terrorizing & pepper-spraying a 9-year-old child.

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3/ America's policing problem has always been a threat to public safety. Mental health professionals should respond to mental health calls. Professionals trained to handle domestic disputes should respond to family calls. Cops shouldn't arrest, restrain or assault children, ever.
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2 Feb
1/ Newly elected District Attorney @GeorgeGascon is enacting major reforms led by LA communities to reduce harsh sentencing, shrink systems of mass incarceration, and stop the over policing of Black communities.

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Today, @Facebook released their civil rights audit, a product of years of pressure from our team and a growing collective of civil society, researchers and advocates. After years of pushing Facebook to prioritize the safety of Black users, here is our own audit.
First, a little background. @Facebook agreed to publicly release its civil rights audit after a meeting we had with @sherylsandberg in 2018, after it was exposed that FB hired a PR firm to malign our work with anti-Semitic and anti-Black stereotypes.
This is because Color Of Change has been pressuring Facebook since 2015, when we successfully pushed them to protect Black activists who were being doxxed by white supremacist groups after their failure to act.
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