THREAD: one of our clients was a 6-year-old Black child. DC police executed an illegal search warrant raid at his house without any probable cause. Cops forced his mother to watch as they grabbed the child and searched inside the little boy's underwear for "contraband." (1)
It turned out that DC cops got hundreds of such warrants for years that blatantly lacked probable cause, executed them without knocking, and at nighttime, searching for small amounts of drugs. 99.2% of these raids were of Black families (2) washingtonpost.com/sf/investigati…
We @CivRightsCorps sued DC seven times for raids on Black families. When we showed DC gov that over 99% of these illegal "training and experience" search warrant raids were for Black families and showed story after story of brutality, DC council/mayor increased police budget. (3)
The stories from our cases against DC cops were horrifying: (4)
https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1293935888058191875
Many "reformers" say DC police is a "model" of "community policing." Did you know that "community policing" is based on military counterinsurgency tactics developed by U.S. and European military for use against the "natives" in their colonies like Algeria? (5)
Since our cases years ago, DC police have more cops, more military tech, more money for "training," more body cameras, more tasers, a thriving "intelligence division," "predictive policing" algorithms, mock cell phone towers that collect your data, and facial recognition. (6)
If someone markets "reforms" to you like body cameras, more "training," tasers, community policing, or better identification of "bad cops," that person is not serious about police violence. We must shrink the size and resources of police bureaucracies. (7) slate.com/news-and-polit…
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