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Jan 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Lesser black woman.” Image
.@CatoInstitute: You approve of this overt bigotry?
VP & Director, Robert E. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at @CatoInstitute. Image
Oh. @GeorgetownLaw too. Do you approve of your new hire’s bigoted statement? “Lesser black woman.” Not even to be bothered w/ a Capital B. Image

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Jan 29
THREAD: Melissa Lucio has maintained her innocence on Texas death row for over 14 years. Shell be executed on April 27, 2022. For murder of her 2 y/o daughter Mariah.⁠ *But Mariah wasn’t murdered.* She died after an accidental fall down steep stairs. More:innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop…
Texas is scheduled to execute Melissa Lucio for a crime that never occurred in less than 90 days. Melissa, like nearly 70% of exonerated women, has been convicted of a crime that never took place (events that were actually accidents, deaths by suicide, or fabricated).⁠ Image
Melissa is a survivor of sexual abuse and violence that she has endured her whole life beginning age 6. Her history of abuse makes her especially vulnerable to coercive tactics and falsely confessing.
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Jan 28
OUTRAGEOUS: Again from the @nytimes. Look at this headline. Makes it seem like Mayor's LIE is legitimate. If anyone actually opens the story, it takes 8 full paragraphs & 332 words before they state the truth: Bail reform has nothing to do with this. nytimes.com/2022/01/28/nyr…
Even worse: in the paragraphs leading up to the very clear statement that bail reform has nothing to do w/ this case, @nytimes continues to repeat the Mayor's cynical lie. Reprints his statement. In full! Describes wildly successful bail reform as "heated dispute."
Compare: "Mayor Eric Adams escalated his battle." "His most forceful comments yet." "Mr. Adams argued in his statement." "Mr. Adams said in the statement."

To: "Other elected officials and Mr. Williams’s lawyer said the situation was more nuanced than the mayor was suggesting."
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Jan 24
THREAD: An outrageous move in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot now wants to use funds police already stole from communities to sue (!) vulnerable relatives of people cops allege are in "gangs." This isn't gun violence prevention. It's more devastation. More:
chicago.suntimes.com/2022/1/19/2289…
New Chief Defender of Chicago, Sharone Mitchell (@SharoneMitchJr) knows well: The plan to sue alleged gang members & their families is "a distraction from proven solutions that our communities desperately need.”

The case against the measure is clear.chicago.suntimes.com/2022/1/19/2289…
In Chicago & elsewhere, cops use "gang" to sweep up anyone they want. In NY, if you wear any color on the color spectrum, you're gang involved. We've gone from "large gangs w/ well-defined leadership" to more than 800 small, loosely affiliated groups. Who'll wind up getting sued?
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Jan 24
THREAD: Mayor Eric Adams just announced he wants to kill NY bail reform. Cage 100000s more. Wants judges to try predicting "dangerousness."

Kalief Browder, symbol of need for change, would've been "dangerous." Rikers still would've killed him. More on dangers of "dangerousness:"
Allowing judges to try to predict "dangerousness" has never been legal in NY. For good reason. It is racist, flawed, & deeply dangerous. Caging someone pretrial based on a suspicion. On skewed data that'll replicate currently existing racial disparities. There is no crystal ball.
Since the 1970s, New York voters have intentionally and importantly decided to prohibit judges from jailing someone for months or even years because of a prediction of whether someone is dangerous based on nothing more than a judge’s suspicion.
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Jan 23
THREAD: As more details emerge about NYPD officer Jason Rivera's tragic death, I'm thinking about whether police were the right ones to respond at all. A verbal argument between mom/son over food. What if mom had a different option than to call 911? More:nytimes.com/2022/01/22/nyr…
I'm thinking about Officer Rivera. Dead far too young. It wasn't his fault he was there. It was his "duty" under current system. 911 called. He was deployed. But why did he have to be there at all? If we allow ourselves to imagine different, perhaps no one would've been harmed.
The man who allegedly shot Officer Rivera had moved in to take care of his mom. After heart surgery. They argued a lot. Unclear whether different from other moms/sons living together. On this night, like others, they were arguing. About food (turns out he was a vegan she wasn't).
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Jan 23
How fear spreads. In the midst of a misinformation campaign by police/prosecutors, this headline makes it sound like bail is to blame. Reality: Judges set over $100,000 bail on violent felony charges which weren’t close to being covered by bail reform.
It also appears as though the prosecution had yet to officially charge the underlying cases by securing an indictment or presenting sufficient evidence before grand jury. Both open cases appeared to be on track for dismissal.
Bail reform in NY represents exceptionally modest, commonsense change that only affects misdemeanors and non-violent felonies. If you’re charged w/ a violent felony, judges still maintain all their power to cage you on Rikers Island or other horrific, dangerous NY jails.
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