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19 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Dude, There were three Black women who showed proof of vaccination and who were seated.

The two men who arrived later and attempted to join their party are not even mentioned in the initial reporting.

They certainly weren't arrested.
The additional information actually comes from @nytimes looking at surveillance video from Carmine's.

And lawyers for Carmine's agree with lawyers for the women about the sequence of events, altho obviously they dispute the characterization.
I'm also puzzled by your last statement. You know there are Black people working at Carmine's?

I mean let's assume there are, you think for a second this doesn't mean the hostess wouldn't be openly racist?
I mean dude, please.

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
19 Sep
So it turns out the incident at Carmine's in NYC didn't go down like it was reported.

The three TX women who were arrested are Black, they did show proof of their vaccination status, and the altercation started after the hostess called them a racial slur. nytimes.com/2021/09/18/nyr…
Lawyers for Carmine's don't dispute that the women showed proof of vaccination. Security footage obtained by @nytimes shows that the women were seated and that this was not a one-sided physical assault on the hostess.
Even from the cell phone footage people have been posting, it's pretty clear it was very much a mutual physical altercation and, without knowing the circumstances, people just decided to run with a certain narrative.
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15 Sep
This murder mystery is crazy, but let's not forget 3 generations of Murdaughs served as district attorneys for the 14th Circuit (covering 5 counties in South Carolina).

Think how many cases they set up or worse. Every one of them needs to be re-examined.
nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/…
I am not even going to try to fully explain the case here, Definitely google, but basically the mother and son were murdered (son had been facing manslaughter charges in death of friend on boat) and the father was embezzling money from his law firm
nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/…
So then they re-opened a homicide case from 2015 that is seemingly unconnected to all of this, but with which they think the family are involved. nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/…
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14 Sep
So cable news has decided the reason Greg Abbott can't "eliminate rape" is cause there's a "backlog" of untested rape kits.

I mean can we just not pretend elimination is possible?

But also the idea of a "backlog" is wrong.@meaghan_ybos @heathermarlowe theappeal.org/five-ways-the-…
Police have the resources and budgets to investigate sex crimes. They choose not to make them a priority, and instead to arrest people for low level offenses like jumping the turnstile and trespass.

The "backlog" narrative is a convenient way for police to ask for more money.
For instance, in 2019, the NYPD had almost 40,000 police officers and the biggest budget of any police department in the US - at $6 billion.

Yet it had only 67 detectives assigned to its Special Victims Unit to investigate 5,661 sex crimes that year. theappeal.org/the-appeal-pod…
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13 Sep
Police shot and killed Antwan Gilmore after he fell asleep in his car at traffic lights, but were able to arrest a white supremacist carrying a machete and bayonet "patrolling" DNC headquarters in a pick up truck with swastikas painted all over it. OK. nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
Police shooting and killing a Black man - almost no media coverage.

Police arresting a White Nazi - front page news.

Maybe it's because they do a whole lot more of the first than they do of the latter.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
PS - It's interesting @washingtonpost chose to use a photo of the MPD Chief at a press conference to accompany the second article.

There was no press conference about the police killing of Antwan Gilmore. That's a file photo.
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11 Sep
So @DonLemonTonight would have you believe that weed is being secretly laced with Fentanyl and sold on the dark web. They even had an "expert on to say so.

It's not. That's a myth that has been repeatedly debunked. See here. buzzfeednews.com/article/danver…
The "expert" they had on was a professor of cybersecurity and technology from John Jay College, Adam Scott Wandt. Here's his bio. He may know many things about the dark web, I'm not sure. I know he cannot speak about recreational use of Fentanyl. Image
Nevertheless he held himself out as able to do that and confidently stated that dealers do in fact cut weed with Fentanyl.

It's so problematic to go on national TV and pretend to be an expert in something you're not.
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Child Protective Services in the US operates just like the criminal legal system to uphold structures put in place during slavery - removing Black children from their families.

This is horrific.

buzzfeednews.com/article/nicole…
They removed Syesha Mercado's baby because she was having trouble producing breast milk and he was losing milk and she sought medical attention - and then they removed her ten day old baby.

There is intense pressure put on women to breastfeed.

huffpost.com/entry/breastfe…
I remember my mother couldn't produce enough milk when she was breastfeeding my baby sister and my sister lost weight where it was noticeable.

But no one would ever have suggested my sister should be removed from her custody because my mother is and my sister was White.
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