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Jun 1 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
There’s a reason the far-right wanted @BetaCuck4Lyfe in a cage.

Now free of the shackles of eMonitoring (‘prison by an another name’), the PDX activist who took on an armed Nazi sent me

A LIST OF EVERY SINGLE CITY OF UVALDE EMPLOYEE — INCLUDING THE COPS

govsalaries.com/salaries/TX/ci… Alexander Dial (aka Beta) p...
The Catch:

The latest info on the City of Uvalde website is 2 years old

When you click on an employee on the list, it doesn’t tell you their position — only their salary

When you click on the ‘full profile’ button, it takes you to a 3rd party data broker

Was this true May 23? the year filter option, dis...The 2020 employee list on t...An example of the employee ...A screenshot of what happen...
The entire Uvalde police department — now refusing to cooperate with state police — must be held accountable (@TENDEMANDS 4)

But even that won’t solve our problems.

Cops are not the answer to mass shootings or hate crimes — in spite of the copaganda
Not only did Uvalde police knowingly allow the massacre of 19 children, they openly lied about it, obstructed the state investigation, and are threatening journalists uncovering the truth (doing their jobs).

The Buffalo PD? They’re doing the same thing.

freedom.press/news/exploitin… Image
Have I mentioned it’s the whole prison industrial complex — and not just the cops? The prosecutors, the judges, the jails and prisons — they’re not just complicit.

Meet the District Attorney of Uvalde County

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As we spread info on the corruption of the Uvalde police and DA, and struggle to compute how one nation could be filled with so much hate and violence:

Far-right extremists are using their platforms to *urge* their young followers to copycat the massacre

abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-warns-d… Image
Do they *really* think increasing school “security” is the solution?

Or is it just all they’re willing to do?

Cause — icymi — this is what school “safety” officers do: Image
In addition to hiring a law firm to prevent an investigation into town police misconduct

In addition to journalists being threatened for doing their jobs

There’s this:

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Trust me when I tell you…
No and no Image
Of course, it’s not enough for #UvaldePolice to threaten journalists and obstruct justice

The grieving parents are being targeted for merely asking for answers — and now feel as unsafe as their kids in school



#UvaldeCoverUp
Organizer and gubernatorial candidate @DelilahforTexas on the #UvaldeCoverUp
@DelilahforTexas After the longest period of sustained protest in US history

Against police violence

Police funding *increased* in 2021.

And after Uvalde police watched children get massacred, and then lied about it

The city council voted to *increase* their budget too

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Jun 28
Ever hear of the School of the Americas (SOA)? It’s at the US military base in Fort Benning, GA.

This American school is where we train South American soldiers to slaughter their own people…

And where we trained Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd

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May 26
When it comes to police violence and the prison industrial complex, I share a lot of data, smart ideas from people smarter than me, and stories from/of those deserving amplification.

But here’s how I *know* what I say is true 🚨🧵
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We were on our way to Maine, driving north in Massachusetts. I, a working class Jew in a Yankee hat, and she, a poor Latina. We didn’t know the road
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And suddenly, without warning, the lanes shifted and traffic halted nearly to a complete stop. I quickly switched lanes to avoid rearending another vehicle.

And then came the lights and sirens.
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May 14
Story: When I was 20 or 21 I applied successfully for a grant to work ‘pro bono’ at an alternative to incarceration center.

The counselors were glorified probation officers.

The Black and brown kids were expected to be there daily — for GED class, and a lot of surveillance.

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Outside time was one hour. Basketball or nothing. And only I played with them.
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When really they feared a mutiny of newly empowered subjects.

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Apr 9
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Dec 24, 2021
LAPD murdered a 14-year-old girl today

LAPD has killed at least 1 person per week for the past 20 years

LAPD has cost taxpayers $245+ million in the past 5.5 years to settle legal claims Image
LAPD has a habit of killing innocent bystanders

And then asking for a budget increase Image
LAPD kidnaps a Black man in front of his home
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Dec 21, 2021
Rachel Herzing says there’s a “symbiotic relationship between public and private interests that employ imprisonment, policing, surveillance, the courts, and their attendant cultural apparatuses as a means of maintaining social, economic, and political inequalities”

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While we cheered Biden saying "the federal government should not use private facilities for any detention”

Within months of taking office there were thousands more people caged than under Trump

He was further privatizing ICE detention and trying to send more people to prison
While well intentioned, the campaign to end prison privatization is a distraction — and typical of reformism:

It doesn’t weaken the carceral state; it strengthens it by assuming caging is the solution to crime

Those leaving private cells would merely be relocated to public ones
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