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Chris Vanderveen

29 Mar, 11 tweets, 4 min read

We found more than 100 people who died, facedown and handcuffed, as we looked into the prone restraint death of #GeorgeFloyd.

As the #DerekChauvinTrial begins... it's important to know the dangers of the position are well known.

#ProneRestraint #Prone

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As the video plays of George Floyd's death right now... I can't help but think of people like Anton Black...

19...

died while held prone in Maryland in 2018.

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Muhammad Muhaymin, 43,

died while held prone in Phoenix, AZ, in 2017

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John Neville, 56, died after prone restraint in North Carolina in 2019

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Deramus Lemuel, 38, died after prone restraint in Colorado Springs, CO, in 2018

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Daniel Turner, 40, died after prone restraint in 2018 in Farmington, NM

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David Baker, 32, died after being held prone in Aurora, CO, in 2018

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Robert Richardson Sr., 28, died after prone restraint in Ohio in 2012

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Chad Burnett, 49, died after prone restraint in Colorado Springs in 2020

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We found more than 100 of these deaths

and have found even more since our first story ran in November

this is a national problem

keep that in mind when considering the death of George Floyd

And pay attention to the words used by the prosecution in the Chauvin trial

This has been a well-known problem for decades

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Chris Vanderveen

@chrisvanderveen

26 Mar

FRIDAY #COVID19Colorado update

headline: "Hospitalizations continue to confound me. Went up -- by just a bit -- again. Everything else lookin pretty good tho"

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 319 (up 8)
Last week: 331

#9news

POSITIVITY

(Once again below 4%!)

3.88%

Good testing numbers too

CASES

Dipped below 1k again

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Chris Vanderveen

@chrisvanderveen

26 Mar

I often wonder, in the immediate aftermath of yet another mass shooting, if we in "the media" place too much emphasis on the types of weapons that are used in less than 5% of all gun homicides in this country...

this is NOT to diminish the loss of life in these events.

...but the ensuing coverage, with its emphasis on "assault weapons" pushes out critical coverage of the actual toll of overall gun violence in this country...

...which, as of late, has gotten worse.

time.com/5922082/2020-g…

Take 2020, for example.

Last year, according to gunviolencearchive.org, around 53 people died EVERY DAY in the US due to gun violence.

Think of it this way, if ten people died at 2:30pm in Boulder, it might haven taken another 4-5 hours for another TEN to die in the US.

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Chris Vanderveen

@chrisvanderveen

19 Feb

FRIDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Welp, we didn't get below 400 patients, but we got close. All metrics down. Good sign.

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

today: 404 (down 21)
last week: 430

(rate of decline has stalled. blip we saw midweek responsible)

#9news

POSITIVITY

down... by almost nothing... but still down... so that's good... and not bad... and yeah... I'm rambling

CASES

Still headed down

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Chris Vanderveen

@chrisvanderveen

18 Feb

THURSDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Blips be darned! Headed down again. Across the board. And check out positivity.

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 425 (down 15)
last week: 456

(*this jumped yesterday... good to see it headed back down)

#9news