Celebrate the community's victories in establishing the #Charlottesville Civilian Review Board & speak out on its mission at the City Council public hearing.
WHEN Tonight*** May 21, 5PM
WHERE Freedom of Speech Wall (in front of @CvilleCityHall)
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@CvilleBLM kicking off rally celebrating wins of CRB: “We demanded a better resolution & it passed. We demanded a public applicant forum &we had it. We demanded that City Council dissolve the ineffective citizen advisory panel &they did,”
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We need a CRB with “real investigative powers,” calls for the abolition of white supremacy, abolition of the institution of policing.
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How are we supposed to trust this new chief of police?” Katrina of @CvilleBLM asks.
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@socialistdogmom: “What about everyday abuses of police in this town? Not just a11 & a12. Standing at this very spot a few months ago, an older homeless gentlemen was assaulted by CPD. His blood was all over the ground,”
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“We will not and cannot accept a half assed review board.” We will not be a cover-up for them.
The Civilian Review Board must be independent of Cville PD.
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Officers did not violate policy b/c police don't have policy to review their own misconduct. “We have a lot of fights ahead of us.”
“Im calling out Pleasants, Otis, Thomas, Thomas, Hickey...I have you all in my mind. I have your name & I will have your badge number.”
Independent report of CPD determined Pleasants was not authorized to order VSP to use tear gas on J8. His response, now infamous, "you're damn right I gassed them,"
Rosia points to the great debt that #Charlottesville and its major institutions owe Black people: “Cville was built on the backs of Black slaves.”
Doesn’t matter that this chief is a Black woman. What matters is transparency and relationship to community.”
#BlackLivesMatter
Black residents of Cville have the right to complain but the decision comes back that the citizen is Wrong. 1/2
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The crowd chants "#BlackLivesMatter."
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