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17 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Eric Adams announced yesterday that he would be bringing back solitary confinement to Rikers. And then he joked about it. politico.com/newsletters/ne…
One in 9 Black men in Pennsylvania will experience solitary confinement.
The way solitary confinement is used in the U.S. constitutes torture as defined by the UN. It is a federal felony crime to torture someone. In the U.S., the law is interpreted and enforced by elites, and they only enforce some laws against some people. yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-puni…
I encourage you to spend some time with this website listening to people's stories. silenced.in/michigan/

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19 Dec
THREAD: A young trucker whose brakes failed before a crash that killed 4 people just got sentenced to 110 years in prison--mandatory death in prison for a crash he didn't intend. There are several very important and hidden things going:
First, a great irony of US law is that it purports to set a high standard of evidence (beyond a reasonable doubt) to convict a person, but it allows human caging of millions without a shred of evidence that *the sentence* does any good.
In fact, most sentencing in U.S. is unconstitutional. Constitution requires judges to apply strict scrutiny when a "fundamental right" is taken away, and bodily liberty is such a right. This means sentence must be as narrowly tailored as possible to serve a compelling interest.
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19 Dec
He lost control of his truck and instead of a traffic ticket, the “progressive prosecutor” wants him to die in prison notorious for sexual and physical assault. Why? He had the audacity to say he was innocent and wouldn’t waive his right to a trial. thedenverchannel.com/news/local-new…
Compare the sneaky way this monstrous “progressive prosecutor” pretends that the jury sanctioned this outcome with what the actual jurors say:
The mentality of this “progressive prosecutor” reflects a deep (but intentionally cultivated) sickness in our society. When we see bad outcomes, we have been trained to look for a “bad person” to blame. This focus on individual blame is profitable for people who control systems.
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16 Dec
THREAD: Have you wondered about the secret targeting of Nipsey Hustle by cops before his death? Internal docs from LAPD now reveal a dystopian campaign to target Nipsey, and pervasive corruption to benefit real estate developers. Some of the stuff in here is chilling.
The story begins when Nipsey fulfilled his longtime dream of buying the Marathon Clothing Store. The City, developers, and police had other plans for the property, and they began a yearslong effort of surveillance and brutality to try to stop it.
In one internal document generated by Palantir (a corporation that profits by helping police cage poor people more efficiently with big data), LAPD records appear to show 58 stops and 7 arrests at the intersection outside Nipsey Hustle's store in the week after its Grand Opening.
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15 Dec
THREAD. Have you ever wondered exactly what it looks like when police work with real estate developers to target the poorest people in our society? Here is a story just revealed from City of Los Angeles emails that should shake you to the core.
The story starts when the LAPD's "Neighborhood Prosecutor" meets one of the leading developers in Chinatown. The two begin *strategizing together* about how to use cops to target a specific unhoused activist. Here's what the report says: automatingbanishment.org/section/3-real…
The "neighborhood prosecutor" offered city's powers to remove the unhoused person from the neighborhood. The real estate developer arranged for LAPD’s Senior Lead Officer for the area to tell the unhoused person that they would get court orders to banish him from a public park.
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14 Dec
Thread. One thing most people don't appreciate is how much money police spend on PR/marketing. Here are a few representative examples that should get you thinking.
Shortly after the racial justice protests last year, an investigation by the @latimes revealed that the LA Sheriff had 42 employees doing misleading PR in an "information bureau," costing millions. The strategic communications director made $200,000/year! latimes.com/california/sto…
The same investigation found that LAPD had another 25 employees doing propaganda work. That's 67 cops doing public relations manipulation across just two departments in one county (and LA county has almost 50 other municipal and state police forces who don't report this!)
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12 Dec
THREAD. I noticed something fascinating: many of the reporters concocting the new hysteria over "retail theft" are using the *exact same* words and patterns in each story. It's pretty wild. Let's take a look:
Let's use today's dangerous @chicagotribune article as an example. First thing to notice: who does the newspaper choose to use as sources? Here they are in chronological order: chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bi…
1. CEO of local retail lobby
2. National Retail Federation
3. Police
4. CEO of state retail lobby (5 paras!)
5. CEO of World Business Chicago
6. Pres. of restaurant lobby
7. CEO of Illnois Hotel lobby (7 paras!)
8. New hotel CEO (6 paras!)
9. CEO from earlier (7 more paras!)
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