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14 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A final thought on the recent young "joy riders" in our county. The 1st notice I had about why the drone was up over our neighborhood was a NextDoor post saying "Keep your doors locked the police are looking for someone with a gun thats why the helicopters are flying over." 1/
In NO law enforcement notifications that evening did it suggest that the 13yo suspect they were searching for was armed. I reached out to our deputy sheriff, who confirmed that their office never said the kid was armed or dangerous. 2/
I don't know why the neighbor who posted on NextDoor said the kid had a gun—what his source was. I do know this, however. Irresponsible escalation of LE advisories on social media puts neighbors, children, and suspects in NONVIOLENT criminal pursuits at risk. 3/
And if the reason someone said the suspect was armed was because he happened to be a young Black man, which I think is likely, that's just shitty. That mindset is one component of how young men like Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery die. Still pissed off today. 4/end

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13 Jan
Last night there were drones up over our neighborhood & nearby. For whatever reason, there had been a high-speed (100mph) car chase through the county. The car stopped near our development & the occupants ran. Driver was picked up quickly; a 13yo boy w/him got away. 1/
BOLO went out, & it was all over local social media: lock your doors, 13yo Black male in red t-shirt & hoodie w/gun in the area. In addition to the drones, they were talking about bringing out dogs to look for him. Fuck that. Just FUCK THAT. 2/
Whatever he might have done, in addition to riding in a speeding vehicle & PERHAPS possessing a firearm he was probably completely unqualified to use responsibly—he was still a CHILD. Our part of the county is semi-rural. It was below freezing out. 3/
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A little vignette from today's work: The Capital City Guards were (was?) a Black militia unit organized in Washington, DC in 1882. Three years later they would be merged w/other units into what is now the DC National Guard. But today's story takes place in 1883. 1/
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@JimLaPorta A sea story thread. So by year 19 of a 20-year career, I'd seen a total of maybe three EEO complaints filed. In every case, a (white/male) CO decided the perp was "just joking around" & they & the plaintiff should "shake hands & be shipmates." 1/
@JimLaPorta (I *had* heard of sailors calling an Iranian American seaman on our ship all sorts of awful names, & this was years before 9/11. But I digress.) I'd tried, in that awkward way that well-meaning & stupid white officers have, to check on how things were w/any Black sailors or 2/
@JimLaPorta Marines assigned to me. The answer was always, "Everything's fine, ma'am. Nothing to worry yourself about here." Not knowing any better—or, when I suspected "fine" meant the exact opposite, how to break through to an honest conversation—I took it at face value. 3/
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Here's a little thread on Black history and the @NavalAcademy for your Saturday. As background: No African Americans were admitted to USNA between Henry E. Baker of MS (1874) & James Lee Johnson of IL (1936). Wesley Anthony Brown '49 would be the 1st Black graduate. 1/
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James A. Parsons, Jr., born May 30, 1990, was the son of James A. Parsons, Sr., the butler to metallurgist and entrepreneur Pierce Davies Schenck. (In 1917, Schenck became one of 3 founders of Duriron Co. in Dayton.) 3/
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A little follow-on story about my Cousin Mike, whom we lost in a pedestrian/vehicle accident on Halloween. I mentioned that he was probably on the autism spectrum, & that he liked to sneak into a theater near the last group home he lived in to watch movies. The local police 1/
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The manager told him that if he was going to watch movies there without paying, he needed to at least do a little work around the place sweeping up. They gave him a broom and set him to work between films, & when he wasn't watching or sweeping 3/
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Spent a part of the day at @librarycongress reading letters from the secretary of the DC branch of the NAACP in the 1910s, a graduate of @fisk1866, to various (white) editors/publishers. In dignified, beautiful prose, he explained why certain words were racial slurs— 1/
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