🚨After @Nettaaaaaaaa and I called for accountability for #CampaignZero, @deray is trying to forcibly take over the Mapping Police Violence database that I and my team have built for *years* - redirecting it to a COPY he has no capacity to maintain in an act of retaliation. 🚨
Before I even met Deray and before Campaign Zero existed, I began building Mapping Police Violence to give communities data to fight back against police violence. It has since become among the most cited resources in the space. The real site is still here: mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
I never thought his animosity over my leaving CZ would cause him to retaliate like this. The fact that we’ve been working on this database for months *unpaid* while he keeps fundraising $40M+ on our work - and on the movement - is shameful. AND on the first day of BHM!
I’ve worked with my team to refine our data collection over years & produce original research on police violence and solutions. Deray has not contributed to this project, other than trying to take credit for it. Now he’s trying to steal the entire project. I won’t stand for it.
My team and I have painstakingly collected, documented, analyzed and visualized some of the most horrific acts of police violence every day, every week, every year now for 7 years. They are disrespecting the work and the people who created this and are blatantly PLAGIARIZING.
The real database will now be accessible here: mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
DO NOT go to the domain mappingpoliceviolence.org until it is transferred to us. We CANNOT vouch for data posted on that domain now, and nobody at that org has proven capacity to do this work with integrity.
DO NOT go to the domain mappingpoliceviolence.org until it is transferred to us. We CANNOT vouch for data posted on that domain now, and nobody at that org has proven capacity to do this work with integrity.
This man even added his org’s donate button to the site and put out a fundraising email *today* to take even more. This whole time he’s been building a brand off of others’ work & research.
He’s even still touring using stats we produce and probably stating them inaccurately. Lord knows it wouldn’t be the first time. fsunews.com/story/life/202…
All this in retaliation for speaking out about how Deray and his friends have pushed out the other co-founders of Campaign Zero and tried to take the $40M raised largely from platforms he didn’t build and use it for who knows what, with no accountability. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
In the meantime, I will continue to do my work as best as I can despite these attempts. My team will continue collecting and publishing data to support frontline communities and researchers alike. We are not deterred, just obstructed. But Deray needs to resign for this.
If you are looking for data on police violence, you will still be able to find it at:
mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
And we still own & operate the largest database of police violence and accountability in the US, which was also made without Deray:
policescorecard.org
mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
And we still own & operate the largest database of police violence and accountability in the US, which was also made without Deray:
policescorecard.org
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