Thread by @m_mendozaferrer

The interesting thing about Nina Turner being part of the Ohio Task Force on Community-Police Relations established by Gov. Kasich in 2014 is that the guidelines they supported were LESS STRINGENT than MANY of Ohio's police departments at the time.

https://twitter.com/nomoremister/status/1299410317026430977

In fact, by 2020 only 443 of Ohio's 1000 police departments have been certified as complying with the "VOLUNTARY" standards (which many departments had already exceeded) outlined by Ohio Task Force on Community-Police Relations co-chaired by Nina Turner.
#OH11

Nina Turner talks the talk on police reform, but when she had the chance to actually push for stricter standards for police accountability her policies were LESS stringent than many already in place and she allowed adopting those weak standards to be VOLUNTARY. #OH11

Also, the majority of police departments in Ohio have still not complied with the voluntary police reform standards set forth by Ohio Task Force on Community-Police Relations which means nothing has really changed as the majority of Depts already exceeded these standards in 2014.

So in reality it seems that the success that is often touted by both Nina Turner and Gov Kasich regarding the Ohio Task Force on Community-Police Relations is just illusory.

So if this is Turner's legacy on social justice reform, it's not very impressive based on the facts.

Nina Turner penned a @CNN op-ed with Governor Kasich entitled "We know policing can be made more just, because we did it" just days after people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd were themselves subjected to terrible police violence.

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It's hard given what happened to Ohio protestors in the May 2020 not to read the @CNN op-ed by Nina Turner and Gov Kasich as pure gaslighting. Their recommendations to Ohio police departments were not mandatory and more than half still have not complied.

cnn.com/2020/06/02/opi…

"Though it is predictable that those whose pain and rights have been long ignored will seek increasingly stronger ways to obtain the justice and respect they deserve, it is not inevitable that violence is necessary to achieve a just resolution."

Framing here blames protesters.

Nina Turner 6/20: "Perhaps the most impactful change in the policing sys. has been the dev. of crucial standards to guide the interactions b/w officials & the community.This allows community members to have peace of mind and a sense of optimism when interacting with the police."

Look at any article about police violence in Ohio over the past twelve months and it's really hard to fathom how Nina Turner could write that community members now have "peace of mind and a sense of optimism when interacting with the police" a year ago. Who is she kidding? #OH11