Police have killed at least 3,530 people in the U.S. since 2020.
They kill Black people at disproportionate rates — nearly 300% more than white people — despite Black people being just around 14% of the U.S. population.
These are some of the unarmed people killed by police. 🧵
Clando Anitok, 25
William Howard Green, 43
Jaquyn Oneill Light, 20
Lindy Bowie, 30
Stephen O’Brien, 20
James Salazar, age unknown
Manuel Ellis, 33
Christopher Palmer, 37
Barry Gedeus, 27
Kenneth Mullins, 32
Brian Marksberry, 31
Aaron Tolen, 37
Pablo Elias, 44
Donnie Sanders, 47
Breonna Taylor, 26
Jorge Martinez, 30
Mycael Johnson, 31
Bryan Pena, 28
Daniel Prude, 41
John Mark Hendrick Jr., 32
Jose Soto, 27
Zachary Shane Gifford, 39
Giuseppe Particianone, 33
Fred Brown, 34
Michael Ramos, 42
Nicholas Bils, 36
Shaun Lee Fuhr, 24
Tyler Hays, 29
Maurice S. Gordon, 28
Dion Johnson, 28
George Floyd, 46
John Allen Dunaway III, 61
Channing Lamar Spivey, 34
Rayshard Brooks, 27
Hannah R. Fizer, 25
Robert D’Lon Harris, 34
David James Pruitte, 36
Jeffrey Scott Haarsma, 55
Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, 60
Josh Sarrett, 32
Kurt Andras Reinhold, 42
Angel Benitez, 21
Mickel Erich Lewis Sr., 39
Jonathan Price, 32
Christopher Ulmer, 30
Juan Adrian Garcia, 47
Anthony Michael Legato, 25
Anthony Jones, 24
Paul Matthew Bailey, 21
Ethan Freeman, 37
Marcellis Stinnette, 19
Emmett Cocreham, 44
David Angel Villalobos-Baldovinos, 30
Frank Murphy Jr., 43
John Pacheaco Jr., 36
Jeffrey Laudermilt, 37
Stavian Rodriguez, 15
Dylan Ray Scott, 27
Evatt Hernandez, 27
Julian Avell Rose Cole, 28
William A. Riley-Jennings, 34
Andre Maurice Hill, 47
Jordan Crawford, 30
Trevor Seever, 29
Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., 52
Bradley Alexander Lewis, 19
David Tovar Jr., 27
Richard F. Thomas, 58
Jenoah Donald, 30
Daverion Kinard, 28
Timothy Daniel Statham, 37
Chad Curtis Loynachan, 29
Eduardo Parra, 24
Daunte Wright, 20
Lindani Myeni, 29
Richard Solitro, 34
Edward James Shadder, 55
Virgil-Lee Taylor, 31
Neida Guadalupe Tijerina, 29
Joseph John Howard, 35
Che Noe Zuniga Jr., 21
Luis Manuel Garcia, 39
Juan Luis Olvera-Preciado, 59
Unknown, 31
Tory Brown, 22
Christopher Corey Moore, 41
Fanta Bility, 8
Manuela Rodriguez, 18
Michael Craig, 61
Daniel Garcia, 43
Deandre Johnson, 30
Marcus Mann, 42
Mario Armando Diaz, 41
Guadalupe Zavala, 55
Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14
James Lowery, 40
JD Javier Lane, 28
Dyonta Quarles Jr., 20
Daniel Vallee, 34
Daniel Patrick Knight, 39
Louisson Pierrot, 38
Collin Neztsosie, 33
Clesslynn Jane Crawford, 2
Patrick Lyoya, 26
Ralph Sebexen, 27
Tayler Shannon Osborne, 28
Jeffrie Glover Jr., 34
Rafael Mendoza, 49
Arthur C. Page II, 58
Unknown
Joseph Maverick Nagle, 22
Unknown
Jayland Walker, 25
Shane Netterville, 28
Kyle Dail, 30
Donovan Lewis, 20
Maalik Roquemore, 32
Tyler Woodburn, 30
Marcus Adam Fuentes, 36
Donna M. Bailey, 23
Lee Roy Villarreal, 36
Eric Holmes, 19
Robert Allen Vancleave, 55
Tyre Nichols, 29
Christopher Lee Mercurio, 50
Unknown
Jackson Lieber, 21
Billy DeWayne Couch, 51
India used emergency powers to ban a #BBCDocumentary critical of PM Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which about 1,000 Muslims were killed.
A UK govt report said the riots had all the "hallmarks of an ethnic cleansing" and held Modi "directly responsible." 🧵
The 2002 Gujarat riots broke out after 59 Hindu pilgrims died in a train that caught fire.
Violent Hindu mobs blamed Muslims and:
▪️killed ~1,000 Muslims
▪️destroyed 20K Muslim homes + businesses
▪️displaced 150K
One Indian govt investigation said the fire was an accident.
Hindu rioters carried out mass rape of Muslim women during the protests, per an unpublished UK report highlighted by the BBC doc.
11 men serving life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during the riots were released in 2022. They killed 14 members of Bilkis Bano’s family.
Israeli forces killed at least 9 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including an elderly woman. The raid at the Jenin refugee camp is one of Israel's deadliest in years.
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces this month, including at least 5 children.
Israeli forces blocked ambulances and fired tear gas at a hospital, choking children, health officials say.
At least 9 Palestinians were killed and 20 others wounded.
Jenin is the target of near-daily Israeli raids. 15 of 29 Palestinians killed this year were from there.
Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians in 2022 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
They include journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh, who soldiers shot in the head, and at least 13 children including:
▪️ a girl, 16, shot while looking for her cat
▪️ a boy, 17 walking to school
SCOTUS recognized a woman’s right to bodily autonomy 50 years ago today with Roe v. Wade.
Last year, it overturned its landmark ruling, pushing the fight for those rights back half a century.
It’s been 7 months since the #Dobbs decision. This is how women have fared.🧵
At least 13 states have banned or severely restricted abortions since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Legal abortions dropped 95% in states with strict laws, especially affecting women of color who:
▪️have high abortion rates
▪️face many pregnancy-related deaths & health risks
Poverty and poor access to maternal care can kill up to 4x as many Black women as white women during childbirth/labor.
Limiting access to abortion disproportionately affects Black people, causing poverty rates to spike by up to 20%, per @blkwomenshealth.
Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to power on Jan. 1.
Who is #Lula? And what might his return to the presidency mean for low-income people in Brazil, Amazon deforestation and even Palestinian statehood? 🧵
Lula first came to power in 2003, after decades as a union organizer.
The son of farmers, he was a metal worker by 14.
His first presidency's social welfare programs lifted millions from poverty, targeting high-poverty groups, farmers and Indigenous/Afro-Brazilian communities.
Poverty fell 55% when Lula's Workers' Party controlled Brazil from 2003-2016: from about 22 million people in poverty to under 10 million.
By the end of Jair Bolsonaro's 2019-2022 term, the poverty rate skyrocketed — from 4.8% when the Workers' Party left power to almost 30%.
Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation:
▪️ West Bank: surrounded by 200+ illegal settlements, 700+ barriers/checkpoints
▪️ Gaza: blockaded for 15 years, 50% live in poverty
▪️ East Jerusalem: face forced displacement
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians face huge restrictions on movement, surrounded by illegal settlements, checkpoints and Jewish-only roads.
Israeli forces:
▪️ conduct near-daily raids
▪️ killed 140+ Palestinians in 2022
▪️ destroyed homes of 3,100+ Palestinians since 2020
Palestinians in occupied Gaza have been under Israeli land/sea/air blockade since 2007.
Infrastructure is ravaged by Israel’s airstrikes and blocking of construction materials:
▪️ 50% live in poverty
▪️ 97% of water undrinkable
▪️ 33% of exit requests for medical needs denied