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4 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
GUTTING: "I recall hearing bones cracking, people screaming, & just blood."

A year ago today, NYPD attacked 100s in Mott Haven Bronx. It was planned. NYPD used the curfew to trap, assault, & arrest. Today, 24 people who were attacked shared. Listen:gothamist.com/news/24-minute…
"We went there to protest police brutality and became victims of police brutality." Andom.
"I see one of the officers take his baton out and hit my brother. And I think that was the moment for me to realize that we’re being arrested." -Helen.
I was struck in the head, and I believe I lost consciousness. The next memory I had was a police officer dragging me by my hair, out of the crowd, face down." -Danny.
"As my hands were being put behind my back I was still being punched." -Jay.
"I saw officers in uniform climbing on top of cars with their batons beating into the crowd. I saw some of them smiling while they were doing it." -Ikaika.
At a news conference the next day, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea confirmed the premeditated nature of the operation saying, “We had a plan which was executed nearly flawlessly in the Bronx.” gothamist.com/news/nypds-amb…

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The @nytimes right now is doing more damage to social & racial justice than any carceral force out there. Legitimizing a blatant lie (police budgets up everywhere & still no health/safety) by the architect of racist overpolicing. This is outrageous & dangerous stuff.
Bill Bratton is the architect of mass surveillance, broken windows, & targeted, racist policing in 3 different major cities (NYC, LA, Boston). When NY finally passed much-needed reforms he came back to lie & fearmonger it away. Even @nytimes ed board called him out. Now this.
Look at this gushing headline & this professional legacy photo. Designed to make you think: Respected & venerated public servant! Personable. Likeable. Trusting. Just hanging out and “dishing” the truth with real talk. He’s a bigot responsible for devastating Black communities.
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29 May
“Mom, please call them,” Jane wrote in a letter. I haven’t felt the baby all day.”

A young pregnant woman was caged for months pretrial in Texas. Thrown in solitary. No calls. Deprived food. Had to order cough drops to numb her hunger. She lost the baby. theappeal.org/pregnant-women…
“Jane’s experience isn’t an anomaly in Texas.”

SheddingLight.in is a digital archive that shares letters & spoken testimonies of people incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic who have survived abuse inside the state’s jails. Some have been held pretrial for years:
Horror in Texas: "I have a 5 y/o little girl & a 4 y/o little boy. I've lost the rights to them since in jail." Kdee suffers mental health issues & seizures. Caged a year pretrial. Denied medication. Hogtied. Attempted suicide. This is not okay. Torture.
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28 May
“The Boat.” Otherwise known as the Vernon C. Bain Center. A massive ship thats part of Rikers Island just floating in the East River. Cages 600 people. Pretrial. Nearly all Black or Brown. 47,326-tons. 5 stories. As large as 2 football fields. $161 million to build.
To get in you walk across this metal mesh enclosed tunnel bridge over water. So strange looking down and seeing water. Inside they have a wooden model of the ship in a glass case. Last time I went had elaborate Halloween decorations in intake & stringed autumn leaves on the wall.
Far more foreboding in person. And I’ve heard from folks that you can’t tell you’re on a boat when you’re inside. Not true. You can feel the swaying of this massive prison ship.
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28 May
CRISIS IN TEXAS: 40,000 caged pretrial. State violence, denial of medical care, starvation, solitary, infection. Today, this young man's death ruled a homicide by jail guards. Yet *right now, Texas poised to pass a racist law to significantly expand pretrial caging.* Thread:
Jaquaree Simmons. You probably haven't heard of him. Just 23. Caged pretrial in TX. Called mom almost every day from his jail cell. Crying & begging for help. One week later, found dead. That was 3 months ago. His family still has not been given any info. click2houston.com/news/local/202…
The night before his death, Jaquaree was attacked by a "detention officer." Hit the floor. "He’s small at 5-foot-3 & 125 pounds." Jail saying there's no video. “We still haven’t seen Jaquaree." Texas's answer back to his family: we're gonna pass a law to cage even more.
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27 May
APPALLING: Cuomo just nominated Madeline Singas to be a judge on the highest court in NY. Singas hasn't just been brutally carceral as Nassau County DA. She also has been one of the most avid peddlers of fear & lies over justice reforms in NY. Just a few examples of many here:
After discovery reform passed in NY, Nassua DA & police were weaponizing a tragic murder to repeal it so they could continue to withhold evidence. Public defenders called them out. Forced to admit "no direct correlation." But the damage was already done.
After bail reform passed, General Counsel to Nassau DA Madeline Singas, one of most ardent opponents of bail & discovery reform, was training prosecutors around NY on tricks & loopholes “to jail people that otherwise would be released under the new law.”cityandstateny.com/articles/polit…
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum:

Hundreds are still imprisoned in Oregon based upon a Jim Crow era law designed to silence Black jurors. You have fought against every effort locally & in the Supreme Court for fair trials.

Their lives matter. Practice what you preach.
You rejected other state leaders and joined Louisiana in the Supreme Court to maintain the racist KKK stain of non-unanimous juries in Oregon. Even Justice Kavanaugh disagreed with your extreme position.
Despite your fight in the Supreme Court to maintain the racist status quo, you still claimed to be happy about the ruling striking it down. Stated Oregon would be able to move past "embarrassing stain on our progressive state." But you kept fighting.
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