Thank you @yellowscenemag for giving us the publicity. Putting out a story that says we are affiliated with Safer Boulder because @lsweeneymiran told you is not reporting, it’s gossip. Feel free to reach out to all parties when you are running a story. Because credibility.
As for the claim that I am pro police. I’m not even sure how to parse that. I can tell you we need police and I can tell you I held the first rally for #GeorgeFloyd in Boulder. We knelt for an hour and all went to Mateo afterwards. I don’t believe @yellowscenemag covered it.
Unsatisfied with my efforts, I went on to make prints for the community to purchase. All proceeds went to the @NAACP : icantbreatheprint.com
Thank you to @boulderweekly for having the husband of Lyon’s Mayor, Hollie Rogan, Patrick Cullie donate them artwork. I am the proud owner of this original: boulderweekly.com/news/i-cant-br…
@yellowscenemag as part of the media you have to hold yourself to a higher journalistic standard if you want to be taken seriously. Again, happy to do an interview any time. 🙏🏼
And for the reader who may not know what is happening. Citizens are being labeled “pro-police” for wanting the #Boulder police oversight panel and city council to follow the law. It’s so simple, it’s insulting: you can’t have police abolitionists on an oversight panel.
Here are some of the @lsweeneymiran (now deleted) Tweets. If she is so firm in her position, why did she scrub her page before her POP interview? That’s the question. I’m not running for a leadership position. I’m reporting on leadership. Someone ask her, I’m not the subject.
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In her post vote plea, city council member @SpeerBldrCC
“wanted everyone to think about how easy it is to confuse disagreement and criticism with bias.” She then went on to invoke some true scenarios around the systemic state of policing. 🧵1/
Unfortunately she’s making the wrong argument and it is she who doesn’t understand the legal difference between the terms. Time stamp: 2:15:44 2/
Once again, the #Boulder Police Oversight Panel Ordinence clearly states, “members of the police oversight panel shall be volunteers who, immediately prior to appointment, shall demonstrate: an absence of any real or perceived bias…” 3/
As you can read, a John Neslage of #Boulder was named as filing the ethics complaint violation. He was the gentleman (flanked by the 1100 police calls) who spoke a couple of weeks ago about his daughter being sexually assaulted by a man in the @boulderlibrary
Cc: @annie_mehl
Neslage pressed @boulderlibrary Director David Farnan after this city council meeting on the claims that the perpetrator had been reported and all due diligence within the scope of the library performed. Farnan was 💯true to his word and all actions were performed.
I love this Joni Teter & Matt Appelbaum Housing Legacy Day declaration! As an affordable homeowner for 17 years, I am grateful for this concept and this program. What a beautiful moment! @AaronBrockett12 🙌🏼
Beautiful words from Rabbi Soloway as he notes this International Holocaust Day declaration. Anti-Semitism is an evil that should have never taken root. I recommend the new Ken Burns documentary on the subject that shows, in particular, America’s complicity in the genocide.