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7 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
You’re being ridiculous. Samuel DuBose, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Botham Jean, Michael Crawford, Jonathan Price, Emantic Bradford, Atatiana Jefferson and so many more. Can I add in choking and tasing? Cause then there’s Philando Castile, Elijah McCain, Eric Garner & so many more.
Going about their business or trying to help others. When one man knelt to protest this injustice that you claim “no one denies” he was blackballed from a pro sports career. Protesters were accused of demonizing the police.
Over and over we were told “if they just complied” they would be alive. Have you read the transcript of the killing of Elijah McClain? None of these unarmed ppl killed were breaking and entering into the Capitol w/the intent of overthrowing the govt.
Legislation to deter unjustified police killings remains stalled in the Senate. The lead Republican negotiator says that changing the judge-made rule that works in most cases to immunize ofcrs involved in unjustified killings from civil liability is “demonizing the police.”

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11 Jul
So pleased to see this from @BrentNYT. In “On The Courthouse Lawn” I wrote extensively about the failures of the white press in its reporting on lynchings, leaving the Black press “to speak to & about Blacks, who experienced firsthand the consequences of lynching.”
The white press also used erasure to gaslight and minimize the truth about white violence. The day after Matthew Williams was lynched in Salisbury, MD in 1931, the local paper - The Salisbury Times - issued a “Statement” below the fold. It read:
“This paper is omitting the details of the demonstration here last night….for the very obvious reason that almost every reader of our paper had an opportunity to learn of them firsthand from eyewitnesses.”
Yes, DEMONSTRATION. Also, one of the publishers was an eyewitness.
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1 Jul
We are fighting against the most concerted state-based effort to undermine Black voting strength since the Civil Rights Mvmt. And in that context, the Supreme Court has again, & w/abandon, shredded a core provision of the Voting Rights Act.
The move is bold. The announcement of a new "test" for vote denial cases - jettisoning the "totality of circumstances" test that has been adjudicated by trial & appellate cts for decades in these cases & replacing it w/a test that put a hand on the scale for "state interests."
The test itself is deeply cynical. First, the bait & switch. While the Shelby Court insisted we must not focus on the past, but must take acct of the new voting landscape, the Court in Brnovich suggests a presumption of validity for voting measures that were in place in 1982.
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30 May
Bill Bratton knows for sure that this did not happen. In fact in many places, quite the opposite. But this narrative is a convenient one - diverting from the catastrophic failures of police leadership to make necessary changes & from the truth that recruitment is low b/c of that.
And I will keep saying, crime rises when 1) the root causes of violence are not addressed (poverty, joblessness, trauma & abuse) and 2) when violent crimes are not solved. Look at the abysmal clearance rate for murder in most cities.
Violent crimes are not solved by police acting on their own - no matter what you see on TV. It requires the engagement of community members working w public safety ofcrs they trust. Trust is at an all-time low. That’s why police lying, misconduct & brutality drives up crime.
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21 May
A nightmare. An absolute nightmare. 7 officers. Grand jury refuses to indict any. That’s how it usually happens. Charging & conviction (as in the case of the ofcr who killed George Floyd) is rare indeed. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
Can the feds try the ofcrs? They should certainly try. But the fed crim statute (section 242) has a high standard. That’s why the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would change the standard of illegal ofcr conduct from “willfulness” to “recklessness.”
Can the ofcrs be sued civilly for damages? Sure.Then they’ll raise the defense of qualified immunity. That’s why the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would end qualified immunity for law enforcement ofcrs, which would give families the chance to hold these ofcrs accountable.
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18 May
I’m gonna keep lifting up the students in our amazing first cohort of #MarshallMotley Scholars because I’m peacock proud and because we should all feel encouraged by the commitment and intention of these young people to the South and to civil rights lawyering.
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16 May
Sometimes when I’m enjoying a baseball game like tonight (Yanks clobbering the Os) I gasp thinking about how utterly disrespectful, outrageous & deranged it was for Billy Martin to call in Reggie Jackson from the outfield to replace him b/c he thought Reggie was fielding “lazy.”
Also racist as hell. Martin shld have been summarily fired & nvr hired again as a manager. To humiliate this Black man like this before a full stadium & TV audience. That Martin is so often described as “volatile,” & “hot-tempered” when he was unprofessional and out of control.
Just remembering Reggie’s confusion as he ran in; his embarrassment , and everyone just...couldn’t believe it was happening. Ugh.
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