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Peter Bonilla Profile picture
@pebonilla
Apr 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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Linfield University is in total meltdown right now, and it sure is something to see. You know what might have helped them? Some fidelity to their free speech and due process guarantees. Tenured professor they did this to. 👇
opb.org/article/2021/0… Image
Suffice it to say, summoning someone to a meeting in the morning and firing them before dinnertime is not the process of removing a tenured professor for cause at Linfield.
inside.linfield.edu/_files/academi… Image
The stuff of banana republics.
insidehighered.com/quicktakes/202… Image
Statement on the situation at Linfield University from @TheFIREorg’s @adamsteinbaugh, ICYMI. More to come from FIRE.
At least one alum writing @LinfieldUniv out of her will for its summary firing of tenured professor and critic of leadership.
oregonlive.com/education/2021… Image
That latest @Oregonian feature mentions @TheFIREorg’s letter to @LinfieldUniv, and you can read it here:
thefire.org/fire-letter-to…
In convo w/ @Oregonian, @adamsteinbaugh mentions the last time something like this likely happened in our experience, at Mount St. Mary’s U (in 2016, not 2006). What Linfield should have in mind is it very quickly cost MSMU’s President his job.

See: thefire.org/mount-st-marys… Image
Meanwhile, Linfield students/faculty, if you get in trouble for posting these flyers around campus, let @TheFIREorg know! (thefire.org/resources/subm…) It is safe to say they are not at all above trying to sanction you for this. Image
Super.
Press release from @TheFIREorg on the [gestures wildly] at @LinfieldUniv:
thefire.org/tenured-profes…
Linfield University's assault on free speech, academic freedom, due process, tenure, its own reputation gives us, via @tebartl & @jackstripling, one of the wilder ledes you'll ever read in the @chronicle.
chronicle.com/article/everyb… Image
If you've seen my thread on @LinfieldUniv but not @adamsteinbaugh's, do rectify that, starting with his coverage from today:
Also, ICYMI, several hundred faculty and counting have signed on to this open letter calling for Prof @pollackpelzner's reinstatement, and if you're interested in joining them you can do so here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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May 24, 2021
Lawsuit: Harris County Constable's office conducted trafficking stings in the form of fake bachelor parties at which female deputies were dressed as prostitutes, plied w/ alcohol, and sexually assaulted by male superiors--in the name of nabbing Johns.
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
Gets so much worse: despite having enough to arrest a massage therapist for sexual assault, one was sent undercover and told to let herself be sexually assaulted before signaling the bust, all so the chief Constable could have a splashy press conference
scribd.com/document/50910…
Another thing superiors made sure to do, according to the lawsuit: omit any mention of themselves from arrest reports and edit all the parts implicating the leadership out of any footage provided to the DA's office.
scribd.com/document/50910…
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May 5, 2021
Yet another lawsuit filed against Williamson County for the #LivePD antics of its deputies, this time from a motorist beaten, tased, and choked until passing out during a pointlessly escalated traffic stop triggered by him lacking a front license plate.
statesman.com/story/news/202…
More: “According to Mitchell's lawsuit, ‘Live PD’ told Chody that unless he could make encounters more entertaining, including use of force incidents, the show would stop filming in the county.”
statesman.com/story/news/202…
More: “It said deputies dragged him to the side of the road, where he later regained consciousness. A deputy then asked him to sign a media release form so ‘Live PD’ could air the video of Mitchell's arrest without having to blur his face, the lawsuit said.”
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Apr 28, 2021
Chaos, calamitous error, administrative nightmare -- all terms used by Mahanoy district's attorney in opening statements for why Tinker should apply off campus. #SCOTUS #Mahanoy
c-span.org/video/?510036-…
The ever-present subtext of the Mahanoy oral arguments is 'hot damn, we've sure made an incoherent doctrine on K-12 student speech, haven't we?' #SCOTUS
Kavanaugh: As a coach and a judge, a year's suspension from the squad for venting on social media seems pretty darn steep #Mahanoy #SCOTUS
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Jun 20, 2020
11th Circuit rejected qualified immunity for a drug detective who used an years-old uncorroborated claim he didn't bother verifying to get a drug warrant, which ended with a man being shot to death in his home, where no drugs were found.
13wmaz.com/article/news/l…
In same case, Sheriff (whose QI was upheld in this lawsuit), had previously admitted to lying about there being DNA evidence connecting man to drug theft
13wmaz.com/article/news/l…
Also in qualified immunity news: District judge in Kansas rejects QI & allows suit to proceed against officer who shot Andrew Finch outside his home in swatting case brought by Tyler Barriss' hoax call. Barriss is doing 20 years for his part in the crime.
kansas.com/news/local/cri…
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Feb 22, 2020
🔥🔥

A Pennsylvania jury acquitted a man charged with resisting arrest.

Then the judge absolutely lit into the police, slamming their violent arrest, their ugliness to his neighbors, and their demeanor at the trial, and straight accused them of perjury.
mcall.com/news/police/mc…
Not to mention some very choice words for the DA’s office for deciding to prosecute. This whole thing is just outstanding.
mcall.com/news/police/mc…
Twitter’s 280 character limit is great because you can fit some of judge Dantos’ most brutal slams of the Allentown police and their arrest/conduct at trial in a single tweet. 👉🏻
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Feb 9, 2019
This is just staggeringly awful. A basic traffic stop ended with a police officer tasing a man 11 times, the 11th by pulling down his shorts and tasing him in the testicles. His children saw the entire thing. Wanton, sadistic stuff. And there's more. kshb.com/news/national/… /1
Here's how that scene played out according to the lawsuit the man just filed. Just one of the many circumstances of being pinned to the asphalt while being tased: it was 108 degrees in Glendale that day. /2 ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/46/69/b3293a18…
More: Police arrested the man for resisting arrest and assault. (They also arrested his wife.) He was in jail for months because he couldn't afford bail. And it seems that once the DA's office finally saw the video, they couldn't drop the charges quickly enough. /3
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