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Mar 12 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
🚨Video has just been released of deputies in Baton Rouge shooting and killing #DeaughnWillis through the door of his home in a case of mistaken identity. Read the details about this story. Police have been trying to cover this up for 2 months. A thread. wafb.com/2022/03/11/inv…
East Baton Rouge deputies showed up looking for Deaughn’s brother. They knocked, waited 15 seconds and then fired multiple shots killing Deaughn. Police refuse to release the body cam video. But video was captured by a Ring camera next door. That video raises even more questions.
The available video is split up, suspiciously missing key moments. It cuts off BEFORE deputies shoot and resumes AFTER the shooting already started. Deputies got to the video immediately after the shooting and say the missing part is coincidence. Where’s the rest of the video?
Deputies also claim Deaughn had a gun but that’s nowhere on the video and even the police admit *no gun was found.* The deputy had a semi-automatic rifle and shot at least 2 bullets through the door.
Louisiana has a policy encouraging officers to use the guns they’ve been trained the most on. The shooting deputy - Eno Guillot - is an ex-military sniper who ran combat missions in Iraq. So they let him use high-caliber weapons to raid homes in Black communities on a SWAT team.
AFTER the shooting witnesses say deputies threatened to arrest his for trying to provide him lifesaving aid. His body was cremated soon after by the coroner before the investigation was even completed. The deputy is already back on duty. A cover up. This is part of a pattern…
The East Baton Rouge Parish coroner has been known to cremate homicide victims in violation of state law - destroying the evidence needed to investigate these cases. soundoffla.com/has-ebrp-coron…
And the agency that shot #DeaughnWillis - East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office - is the worst sheriff’s office in Louisiana. A pattern and practice of racist, unaccountable policing with a corrupt coroner to go along with it. policescorecard.org/la/sheriff/eas…
After police killed Amir Locke and Breonna Taylor in no-knock raids, the killing of Deaughn Willis is more proof that stopping no-knock raids isn’t nearly enough. Police didn’t need a no-knock warrant - they knocked, waited, then killed Deaughn anyway. Now they’re covering it up.

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Feb 10
Here are some facts about no-knock raids from the data that’s available. A thread. (1/x)
First, data on police raids is extremely limited. Nobody knows how many raids there are, no-knock or otherwise. Like other forms of police violence, there’s no national database. Surveys of police suggest 20,000-60,000 raids/year. But the data isn’t public and over a decade old.
From the data on *fatal* police raids we’ve gathered at mappingpoliceviolence.us, at least 106 civilians have been killed in police raids executing search warrants from 2013-22. At least 31 were no-knock raids. That’s an undercount - police don’t always disclose details publicly.
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Feb 6
Minneapolis Police Department. policescorecard.org/mn/police-depa…
New York Police Department. policescorecard.org/ny/police-depa…
San Francisco Police Department. policescorecard.org/ca/police-depa…
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Feb 5
We just issued a Cease and Desist letter to #CampaignZero over their attempt to plagiarize our Mapping Police Violence platform. They have until next Weds to stop masquerading as Mapping Police Violence and misappropriating our work & site as their own. Here are the facts. (1/x)
I began building the Mapping Police Violence project in 2014, before I met @deray and before Campaign Zero existed. The first time he found out about my project was in this email on February 4, 2015.
Note that We The Protesters (which later became Campaign Zero) first became an organization after filing for incorporation on June 29, 2015. And Campaign Zero didn’t exist until August 21, 2015. There was no actual CZ/WTP organization when MPV was created and launched.
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Feb 4
There are more than 2,400 elected prosecutors in America. Keith Ellison is *1 of only 4 prosecutors* who has prosecuted and convicted officers in two separate incidents where police killed someone in the past 9 years.
The 4 prosecutors who’ve convicted officers in two separate police killings are Keith Ellison (MN), Faith Johnson (Dallas), Paul Howard (Atlanta), Steve Kunzweiler (Tulsa). 3 of them are Black despite fewer than 5% of all prosecutors being Black. 2 were elected out of office.
Source: the Mapping Police Violence organization (mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com)
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Feb 1
🚨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!
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Jan 25
The simplest explanation for this is that the high-profile murder of civilians by police traumatizes and destabilizes communities, which leads to increases in crime. Police violence periodically generates crime in communities.
This has nothing to do with police “pulling back.” It has to do with police aggression leading to catastrophic results for communities. Population-wide effects of police violence on community health, particularly in Black communities, are well-documented: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
What’s particularly pernicious about the “scholarship” on this issue is that a group of criminologists is advancing a theory that police are *not being aggressive enough* after murdering someone that that causes crime to increase. The exact wrong conclusion to draw from the data.
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