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20 Oct, 10 tweets, 4 min read
2 years ago, Governor Cuomo hired *500 more cops* to exact violence & mayhem on the subways. The most recent example: last night maskless NYPD cops pushing a man our of the subway after asking them to wear masks. One of so many examples. More:
Gut wrenching. NYPD in subway surround woman selling churros. She’s crying. They’re telling her she stops or get arrested. Trying to talk to them in Spanish. Rolling their eyes at her. Lead out of station in cuffs. Cart taken away. This is police violence.
From April 2019: After NY Post called the head of Legal Aid Society “insane” for suggesting a moratorium on unnecessary police contact & low level arrests. Yesterday, a group of cops surround & grab a sobbing child for selling candy on the subway.
May 2021:
This is what you get when you view public health & safety only through a carceral lens: Thousands of taxpayer dollars, an army of an officers, arrest & cuffs, fingerprints & cages because a single young Black man couldn’t afford $2.75 for a subway ride. What if we: Paid his fare?
“Williams spent countless nights over 2 decades sleeping on the subway. Left him w/ a stack of $50 tickets he has no way to pay off.” We will pay NYPD $494 million in 2020 to police transit instead of investing in affordable housing. nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt…
“Officers were pointing guns into the subway. Some yelled in horror as they squeezed together on either end of the car. Adrian kept his hands in the air & asked officers whether he should stay in the seat or lie on the floor.“Call my mom,” He told someone. washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10…
I count 5 NYPD grabbing, pushing, & cuffing this man for not obeying social distancing rules because it’s impossible on the Subway platform. @NYCMayor, you good with this? A rhetorical question.
In the height of the pandemic. Arrested for moving between subway cars.
For now here’s the NYT demolishing the plan you know see causing havoc & violence on the subway. Wish we had listened. A thread also here if fact versus fiction.

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22 Oct
THREAD: I do not think that 20,000 NYPD will actually quit over vaccine mandates. I'd be surprised if any actually do. I hope they do, however. For a lot of reasons. This new article lays out several of them. I'll lead you through my thinking here. More:
qz.com/2076827/unvacc…
The fact that cops at NYPD, an agency tasked with "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way is not just telling, it's also *entirely consistent* with an agency that exacts state violence on a mass scale every day against mostly Black and Brown people.
The fact that an agency tasked w/ "protecting & serving" is so willing to put people in harms way, is *entirely consistent* w/ an agency Human Rights Watch found *planned* a mass assault on hundreds of protestors in the Bronx then praised their restraint.
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21 Oct
THREAD: Important reporting on the state of crime reporting. Here, Mother Jones carefully assesses FBI Data weaponized by police & amplified by media to scare & misinform public. Speaks w/ non-police experts, & debunks the myths. "Don't believe them." motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
A carefully worded first paragraph in this reporting. "Homicides across the United States rose by an estimated 30 percent in 2020, the largest one-year increase on record, according to recently released data from the FBI. But don’t jump to conclusions about what that means."
"As soon as the FBI shared this statistic, a flood of fear-inducing headlines made it seem like Americans are now living through a massive wave of violence. Police & journalists quickly speculated about causes blaming (w/o evidence) protests to stop police brutality."
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20 Oct
Furious. The NYPD Commissioner lies brazenly *for the purpose of* influencing law & policy. Law & policy gets changed bc of those lies. 1000s more get caged. Gets caught in lies. Keeps lying. Oh, & plans a mass assault on hundreds of protestors. Still keeps job. Fire Dermot Shea. Image
Receipts:
Receipts: NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea planned an assault on civilians.
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20 Oct
THREAD: Another death on Rikers. Violence. Self harm. Denied food. Medicine. Beds. Know this: This isn’t bc of a “shortage” of officers. This is bc police--enabled by media--lied about bail reform & alternatives to mass caging. Happening across the country.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
The horrors you are seeing on Rikers are the result of a coordinated campaign of fearmongering. Copes weaponized a handful of tragedies printed by a complicit media, to convince the public that commonsense bail reform was dangerous when opposite was true.fwd.us/news/new-repor…
History: In April 2019, NY passed widely popular bail reform. No jail for most misdemeanors, non-violent felonies & a few “violent” offenses that included no physical harm. It worked. Thousands who otherwise would’ve been caged were w/ families. Kept jobs & housing.
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19 Oct
Thread. Speaking to reporters past few days. Baffled how head of NYPD could so brazenly lie. In this case about tie btwn "reform" & "crime" w/o data. Answer: bc he can & media still buys it. Even now, reporters asking *me* for data to disprove *him.* Fine:newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/10/14/bai…
A NY Post analysis *of NYPD data* found that while there were 528 shootings through June 30, 2020, only one person released due to bail reform was charged with a shooting. NY Post found NYPD Chief had been lying for over a year. He kept lying. nypost.com/2020/07/08/nyp…
Since NY bail reform went into effect, there has not been a single month when more than 0.8% of released people were re-arrested for a violent felony. This number has not changed since before bail reform. courtinnovation.org/sites/default/…
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16 Oct
More copaganda & pro-carceral reporting from @nytimes. Buying police, corporate, far right, & brainwashed “Chesa Boudin recall” liberals talking points that Walgreens closures are signal of failures of reform. W/o asking basic questions or talking to experts. Thread w/ facts:
Walgreens is not just closing in San Francisco. Walgreens will close another 150 stores & increase annual savings target to $3.3 billion. This appears to be a public relations ploy to cover up for massive layoffs.
Crime is down in San Francisco.
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