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26 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I may get a lot of flak for mentioning this, but was chatting earlier with a friend about it:

How is it that in all the coverage of Tiger Woods, no one seemed to bring up his saying he was bothered when people called him African American and that he identified as Cablinasian?
It's relevant to his legacy. People can't be complicated now?
I mean I thought it was ridiculous to be talking about "his legacy" when he was alive, but that's what the coverage was and it was never mentioned.
I just think it's interesting. theundefeated.com/features/tiger…

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25 Feb
I have represented Black people charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident when they have driven just a few blocks so they can safely stop their car, but the South Dakota AG actually killed someone, drove home and returned the next day, and is charged with misdemeanors?
The penalty for this charge in South Dakota is up to 2 years in prison. Image
I believe the conduct here in fact makes out a charge of manslaughter.

Joseph Boever, the person Attorney General Ravnsborg killed, was carrying a flashlight, which detectives themselves said would have been like “a beacon of light” in the dark night. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02…
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11 Feb
Three days after George Floyd was killed, Derek Chauvin agreed to plead guilty to third degree murder and serve a term of at least ten years in federal prison, before the deal was revoked by Attorney General Bill Barr who was concerned it was too lenient.
nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/…
Chauvin's new trial on state charges is due to start in a few weeks, although prosecutors are asking for an adjournment and are appealing the court's decision to sever Chauvin's trial from the other officers involved in Mr. Floyd's murder.
The defense plans to put Mr. Floyd's character on trial.

In a series of motions filed this week, Chauvin's defense attorney asked the court to allow testimony about Mr. Floyd’s alleged drug use and to forbid anyone at trial from referring to Mr. Floyd as the "victim."
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30 Dec 20
In 2001, a jury convicted Stephanie Mohr of police brutality after she sicced her police dog on a homeless man as he stood face against a wall with his hands in the air.

It didn't make the evening news, but last week, Trump pardoned her for her crime. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
This wasn't a one-off incident, but rather a pattern of violence by Ms. Mohr. She had previously released her dog on a Black teenager sleeping in a hammock in his own backyard.
She had threatened relatives that she would let her dog attack their “Black ass” if they did not tell her where a person she was looking for was.
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29 Dec 20
A lot of things were glossed over in @nytimes story on the White cheerleader, Mimi Groves, many which suggest Jimmy Galligan wasn't the only classmate who had a problem with her using a racial slur.

First, she sent the video to one friend. That friend sent it others. Why?
Second, the video was still being circulated among her classmates three years after she made it.

That suggests there were plenty of people who thought it was controversial enough to hold on to.

Jimmy Galligan didn't have it for three years, but some people did.
Third, someone else (not Jimmy Galligan) commented on her Instagram page, after she proclaimed support for Black Lives Matter, “You have the audacity to post this, after saying the N-word."

That's when she panicked and things were set in motion.
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7 Dec 20
90% of people arraigned in criminal court in New York City are BIPOC. This isn't because they commit more crime. It's because police selectively enforce the law.

It's called systemic racism and it's not a "2020 trend."
This happens at every level of the system, but the example that is perhaps easiest to grasp is the disparity in enforcement of marijuana laws.

Marijuana usage is consistent across racial lines, yet 97% of people arrested or ticketed for weed possession in NYC are Black or Brown.
Here is the cite for the percentage of people arraigned in criminal court who are BIPOC. In Manhattan it is 93%, in Brooklyn 86%. brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/…
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7 Dec 20
The Staten Island bar owner who ran over a sheriff's deputy then dragged him for 100 yards was charged with 10 offenses, mostly misdemeanors, and released on his own recognizance.

One of the offenses was bail-eligible, but a judge chose not to set it.

apnews.com/article/new-yo…
This isn't how it works for Black people.

In Ohio, earlier this year, police shot Matthew Burroughs eight times, claiming they feared he was about to drive into them. He was already in his car and they had stopped him after he had paid a traffic ticket.

wfmj.com/story/41516826…
In Brooklyn, in 2017, a 15-year-old child was charged as an adult with attempt murder and held without bail when he unintentionally dragged a police officer with his car. nydailynews.com/new-york/teen-…
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