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10 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Police officers should not be a protected class under hate crimes statutes.

sltrib.com/news/2021/07/0…
Hate crimes legislation is supposed to protect the marginalized - the protected classes are based on immutable characteristics not jobs.

Besides there are usually already sentencing enhancements in place when a crime is committed against a police officer.
And like all criminal laws, these sorts of enhancements - and in fact hate crime statutes more generally - end up getting used against the people they are supposed to protect. theappeal.org/a-black-man-ca…
See thread by @msolurin on this topic here.

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11 Jul
Why are news outlets describing this jail as a "floating prison" like it's a restaurant rather than a prison ship that is part of Rikers Island?

nypost.com/2021/07/10/man…
.@ava wrote about it recently. If I were imprisoned there I'd be smashing windows to get out.
But it's interesting that @nypost and other outlets are running with the correctional officers union line that this incident shows how understaffed the jails are and why they need to hire more officers.
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28 Jun
Wow. @CNN using a backwards graph that proves the opposite of what it says about violent crime.
To support this.
I'd love to hear @ChrisCuomo explain this one. I mean not really, but why even pretend to have credibility.
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27 Jun
People saying that Chauvin should have gotten a more severe sentence because he was a police officer. He did.

One of the reasons he got ten years above the presumptive sentence of 12 and a half years is because he "abused his position of trust and authority as a police officer."
The other was because he showed extreme cruelty to George Floyd.
The judge ended up saying the other two aggravating factors, that children were present at the time the crime was committed and the crime was committed as part of a group, were not as significant.
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16 Jun
So, Ocean City PD claim this video is inaccurate, because the teenager is 18, not 17 and the incident occurred on June 6, not this past Saturday.

I mean, thanks God they clarified those two key things, I guess we can breathe easy about the whole thing now.
Oh but wait, this is the part where the PD want us to disbelieve what we see with our own eyes: a teenager standing with his hands in the air, tased for no reason.

The PD claim he was disorderly, yelling and threatening to kill them and that is when they tased him.
And, according to the police he had a switchblade knife in his backpack. How did they get to looking in his backpack?

Under the city ordinance in question, vaping is not an arrestable offense, and it certainly does not give the police the right to search your backpack.
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14 Jun
People talk about the crack cocaine/powder cocaine sentencing disparity like it's a thing of the past. Nope.

It used to be 100:1.

It's now 18:1.
The weight disparity was reduced under the so-called Fair Sentencing Act, signed into law by President Obama.

I guess that was the best they could do adopting a "bipartisan" approach to lawmaking.
Allowing people already sentenced under the 100:1 disparity would seem to be a key part of any fairness argument, but today SCOTUS in a unanimous decision disagreed.
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13 Jun
Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday.
The teenager who had his hands up and was not in any way physically interacting with police (let alone physically resisting) when he was tasered, collapsed unconscious on the ground, was then hogtied, and placed in a police van.
Apologies this should have had a content warning for police violence.
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