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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
DOJ planning all these investigations of police departments, I just want to know, what's up with the investigation into Mississippi's prison system announced more than a year ago?
washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02…
The number of people who died in Mississippi state correctional custody reached a record high in 2020. clarionledger.com/picture-galler…
The DOJ conducted a similar investigation into Alabama's prison system. The resulting report was horrific, but got very little mainstream media coverage. montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
It's not hard to feel disenchanted, to wonder what is real and what is window-dressing, to think it's all smoke and mirrors, that the emperor has no clothes.

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
27 Apr
An Alabama court ruled today that Evan Miller, who at 14 was the youngest child ever sentenced to life without parole, and who was the plaintiff in the landmark SCOTUS case, Miller v. Alabama, will never be released from prison. al.com/news/2021/04/e…
In Miller v. Alabama, SCOTUS ruled that mandatory life sentences for children were unconstitutional. Each sentencing decision had to consider the individual person, and LWOP sentences limited only to children who demonstrated “irreparable corruption.”
thenation.com/article/archiv…
Last week, SCOTUS issued a decision that essentially gutted Miller v. Alabama, and a subsequent decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana, ruling it was not necessary for a court to find a child demonstrated "irreparable corruption" to sentence them to LWOP.
nytimes.com/2021/04/22/us/…
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
26 Apr
Why is every cable news outlet having @amyklobuchar on to comment on the Derek Chauvin verdict?

Have they forgotten that as Hennepin County Attorney she declined to prosecute Chauvin when he shot and killed another man, Wayne Reyes, in 2006?

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
Literally, but for her decision not to prosecute, George Floyd might be alive today.

It's sickening.
Klobuchar did not prosecute any of the 29 police killings that occurred while she was Hennepin County Attorney. Not one. apmreports.org/story/2019/03/…
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
25 Apr
Many police shootings we only hear about because the victim has family who are able to get media to pay attention.

But most people shot by police live on the margins of society with no one to advocate for them, so we never learn their names or the circumstances of their deaths.
For instance, this story about an unnamed man shot by police in San Diego, which basically runs with the police narrative of the shooting: the cop shot a homeless man suffering from mental illness because he threatened them with a metal rod.

sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessn…
Who is going to advocate for release of the body camera footage? Who is going to retain the high-priced high profile lawyers to put pressure on government officials to even pay attention to the case.
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25 Apr
You know, the sheer fact that someone has accumulated 188 arrests over less than 20 years necessarily means that they have been arrests for low level offenses that criminalize poverty and addiction, like trespass, fare evasion and possession of a small amounts of drugs.
I mean, *what* someone has been arrested for in the past has no bearing on whether a cop is justified in shooting them, period.

But a person who is arrested, prosecuted and convicted of a serious crime is likely to do a substantial prison sentence and not picking up new arrests.
Working as a public defender, it was not uncommon for people to come through arraignments with rap sheets with 50 misdemeanor convictions, maybe 100. I would say maybe every couple of shifts, someone would come through with more than 100, some more than 150.
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25 Apr
So this survey that everyone is citing that shows 46% of Republicans think the Derek Chauvin verdict was wrong was done by @CBSNews and this is how they reported it.

Framing is everything.

cbsnews.com/news/chauvin-v…
Let me add, I don't think this survey means a whole lot of anything.

What does the question even mean: what if people agree with one part of the verdict but not others. Chauvin was found guilty of all three charges. Maybe someone thinks he should have been found guilty of two?
And someone agreeing that the Chauvin verdict was right really isn't that reassuring anyway. We last week a whole bunch of people who thought "justice" had been done in the Chauvin case, also thought a police officer shooting and killing Ma'Khia Bryant was justified.
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24 Apr
Body camera footage showing a sheriff's deputy shooting Isaiah Brown 10 times was viewed by his family yesterday.

At the time he was shot, Isaiah was on the phone to 911, and police claim that the sheriff's deputy mistook the phone for a gun.

nbcwashington.com/news/local/nor…
Even if one puts aside how one can mistake a phone for a gun - the excuse we hear time and time again in police shooting cases (Stephon Clark et al) - Isaiah was literally on the phone to 911.

How is the sheriff's deputy not in communication with dispatchers?
And, if you read the transcript of the audio from the bodycam footage (the footage itself has not been made public) it sounds as tho *maybe* the deputy thought Isaiah was going to kill himself (that he had a gun to his head).

So you shoot someone to stop them killing themselves?
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