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11 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
When I read that part of this dude's "suspicious" behavior was reaching for his luggage, I felt this sounded off.

nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
Thinking a camera was a bomb would have been a terrible mistake to make on a flight across the Pacific Ocean.
Initial reporting made it sound like multiple passengers near this guy were troubled by him. Now it sounds like just this one woman.

Super problematic.
Don't know what race this person is - he looks White, but we know who is normally identified as "suspicious" on flights. if just one person can cause this sort of response...

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
11 Oct
Dayton PD coming up with every reason to justify horrifically brutalizing a human being.

Facts. First, you cannot search a vehicle based on someone's criminal history. That would give police a license to stop and search anyone with a record.

daytondailynews.com/crime/dayton-f…
Second, it means absolutely nothing if a police dog sniffs cash and supposedly detects it has been in the presence of drugs. 90% of US bills have cocaine residue on them. nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
Third, they claim they saw Mr. Owensby leaving a "known drug house" I guess to bolster their justification for the search.

Really? OK. So they must have seen Mr. Owensby had no use of his legs. This just makes it all so much worse.
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8 Oct
Police in Fairfax, Virginia, placed a 5-year-old child in a chokehold after his teacher reported that he was singing too loudly in Spanish class.

nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mo…
His mother, Pamela Ononiwu, who had come to pick up her son for a dentist appointment, actually witnessed the cop assault her son.
In a previous incident cops assigned to the school had dragged her daughter into a room, her shoes falling off so they remained in the hallway.
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
19 Sep
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?
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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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