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16 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is wild. Dude is regularly on CNN talking about how he has rejected the legacy of Robert E. Lee to become a symbol of racial reconciliation. Turns out it's all a grift.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I mean dude is convincing. I heard him and thought, wow this is kinda cool. And this is his website. Image
When you do look at his website tho, the grift is kinda apparent - I thought he was just a pastor, turns out he's written three books. So there's that. Image
It's amazing how you can just create an identity for yourself and no one questions it. He actually filed a lawsuit as a descendant of Lee, he has appeared before the Virginia House, written op-eds for The Washington Post (who wrote this expose), appeared on major cable networks.

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
15 May
Remember Trayford Pellerin, the young Black man who was shot and killed by Louisiana police, two days before Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake?

On Tuesday, a grand jury failed to indict the cops, despite the fact that they shot him 11 times in the back as he walked away from them. Image
DA Donald Landry says that he presented second degree murder charges to the grand jury, but that he feels their decision not to indict the officers was justified.

Which almost certainly means he charged the grand jury as to the defense of justification.
theadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
Grand jury proceedings are always secret. But the DA in this case has shown an extraordinary lack of transparency.

The names of the police officers have not been released. The body camera footage of the shooting has not been made public.

theadvertiser.com/story/news/202…
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13 May
In six days, Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas.

Quin was just 20 when he killed his great aunt while under the influence of drugs. The family have forgiven him and don't want him to be executed. They are asking Governor Greg Abbott for clemency.
Quin has been in prison for 21 years. "Through prayer, sobriety, reconciliation with his family, and longstanding correspondence with pen pals he has found a way to lead a meaningful life and even to enhance the lives of others."
nytimes.com/2021/05/10/opi…
Quin's clemency application details the shoddy legal representation he received. His lawyers missed key filing deadlines and failed to challenge the central arguments in the prosecution's case. chron.com/news/houston-t…
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
11 May
Why does @ChrisCuomo always have the worst defense lawyers on his show? This lawyer has been disciplined for professional misconduct for stealing client funds, making sexually explicit remarks to prosecutors and disparaging his own clients.

Foxitis is just a ploy for attention.
Mr. Hurley has been accused of demanding sex from an employee, has sent sexually explicit correspondence to prosecutors, made anti-Semitic and racist remarks to prosecutors, exhibited bizarre and grandstanding behavior in court and his demeaned colleagues.
delawareonline.com/story/news/loc…
In the @CuomoPrimeTime clip, he says he is not just a good attorney, but a superb one, and an honest one.

A good journalist would confront the lawyer with some of his record of misconduct. They would also make it clear to their audience.
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
8 May
Trying to think of a recent case where a police officer who killed a Black person has been federally prosecuted for violating their civil rights, and the only one I can remember is in 2017 when Michael Slager was convicted of killing Walter Scott. nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/…
The DOJ could have prosecuted the cops who killed Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and so many other people and didn't. They could have prosecuted George Zimmerman. They didn't.
Other than Michael Slager, I can't think of any other prosecution than back in 1998, when Frank Livoti was convicted of violating Anthony Baez's civil rights, although Mr. Baez was not Black. nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx…
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8 May
In 2018, when that White woman called the cops on her Black classmate at Yale, I tweeted about it a couple of times. Ever since then, she has used her Twitter account to wage a campaign of harassment against me. And not just me, a bunch of people. I ignored it until this.
I get it, this is someone who is suffering from mental health issues, but this now feels too much, because she will often tweet about me and other people multiple times a day for days on end for no discernible reason. There are also YouTube videos.
Maybe @TwitterSafety could take action to deactivate her account?
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7 May
So this Foxitis thing was a random line by a criminal defense attorney, who I guess thought it sounded clever.

(He also told the prosecutor he looked like Chris Hayes and boasted he knew Joe Biden.)

It wasn't pleaded as a formal defense. innercitypress.com/ddc51copelandi…
Many people also don't appreciate that "affluenza" was not pleaded as a defense in the Ethan Couch case. Couch pleaded guilty.

A psychologist "diagnosed" him with this "condition" in a pre-sentencing report and the judge used that as justification for giving him probation.
It's pretty unlikely someone would ever be able to use "Foxitis" as any sort of defense, except as part of some sort of insanity or diminished capacity plea, and even then I doubt it.
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