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Mar 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Three people who participated in protests after Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in 2020 have been indicted for first degree arson.

Meanwhile prosecutors have still *not* presented the case against Rolfe to a grand jury.ajc.com/news/crime/3-p…
This, after a new independent prosecutor was appointed to the case last July, after Fulton County DA Fani Willis applied to a judge to have her office recused from the case, ostensibly because of the actions of her predecessor Paul Howard.

theatlantavoice.com/new-prosecutor…
Rolfe was also reinstated to his position with the Atlanta PD last year.

nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/…
It is curious that the police killing of Mr. Brooks, which occurred just three weeks after the murder of George Floyd, seems to have all but disappeared from the the news cycle, while the Derek Chauvin case became the "trial of the century."

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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
Mar 12
Prosecutors pretty much control whether a case gets indicted.

They choose what evidence to present to the grand jury, what charges it considers and they make recommendations as to what it should do.
If a grand jury votes not to indict a police officer because they believe their actions were justified, the prosecutor probably presented evidence that supported that position and recommended that they make that finding.
Mostly we never find out because grand jury proceedings are secret, but in the cases where we do, it's pretty illuminating.
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Mar 12
A grand jury has voted not to indict the cop who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant.

The special prosecutors handling the case said afterwards that police officer Nicholas Reardon's actions were justified, which suggests that was their recommendation to the grand jury.
Ma'Khia was killed in Columbus Ohio last year just 15 minutes before the jury in the Derek Chauvin case handed down their verdict, undermining any argument that that case marked real change to the system of policing in this country. nytimes.com/2022/03/11/us/…
The Columbus police department has killed more children than any other police department in the country since 2013, except the Chicago PD, despite having some 1,800 police officers compared to Chicago's 12,000.

mappingpoliceviolence.org
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Mar 12
After secretly shutting down an investigation into the trooper unit that killed Ronald Greene, Louisiana state police have now hired an outside consulting firm to conduct a review of the agency.

I'm -sure- this will be completely independent and unbiased.
cnn.com/2022/03/12/us/…
The announcement may have been prompted by the fact that a state senate committee is currently conducting an investigation into the department - in particular the death of Mr. Greene - and things have not exactly been going well for them. wafb.com/2022/03/11/exp…
On Friday, a trooper testified that a superior officer did not follow his recommendation that a fellow trooper be arrested in connection with Mr. Greene's death. He was also instructed not to speak to the DA about the case.
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Mar 12
The same Louisiana police who brutally beat and killed Ronald Greene during a traffic stop in 2019, then claimed he died in car accident, shot and killed 26-year-old Deaughn Willis during a no-knock raid 2 months ago - and since then have done everything they can to cover it up.
Read the full details of the Louisiana State police's cover up of their murder of Deaughn here.
Of Ronald Greene here:
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Rebecca Kavanagh Profile picture
Mar 10
Hear me out, no one should go to jail for driving with a suspended license, even Madison Cawthorn.

Black people are disproportionately stopped, charged & convicted of traffic infractions. They're more likely to have their licenses suspended. The crime is usually one of poverty.
It's one reason that a number of states have introduced reforms that will lift suspensions based on inability to pay tickets (there are certain conditions). finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/2021/06/28/new…
Which doesn't mean Black people aren't still being arrested for DWB, including for driving with a suspended license, just that they can apply to have the suspension lifted.
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Mar 9
BREAKING: Police investigators now say that Thomas "TJ" Siderio, the 12-year-old boy Philadelphia police shot in the back as he was running away last week, was likely *not* carrying a gun when he was killed, and that the plainclothes cops chasing him never identified themselves. Image
The cops were not wearing body cameras, but video footage was obtained from neighbors' video-equipped doorbells.

inquirer.com/news/philadelp…
The incident started when a bullet was fired through the back windshield of an unmarked police car, shattering the glass.
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