TAKE ACTION: Rodrigue Popo, a husband, father, grandfather & New Yorker, is at risk of being separated from his family & deported amid COVID-19 to Haiti—a country he left +40 years ago. @NYGovCuomo can help stop it, but he needs to hear from YOU.

✒️ now: chng.it/z2yMQfvK Rodrigue Popo has been a New Yorker since he was a child, but he faces deportation based on 26 year-old convictions. Are you the same person you were in 1993? Neither is Mr. Popo, who got treatment, served his sentence, and totally turned his life around. chng.it/z2yMQfvK

cw: sexual abuse by police

NYPD’s Vice Squad must be disbanded. Sex work must be decriminalized. These disturbing police actions, including sexual abuse and the secret recordings of targeted people, demand an investigation.

Must read from @propublica:
propublica.org/article/nypd-c… The NYPD Vice Squad coerces people into sex, orchestrates arrests after they have been gratified, separates families, takes humiliating pictures and secret recordings of victims, entraps New Yorkers, and disproportionately targets Black, Brown, & Asian people for arrest.

THREAD: As #COVID19 spreads like wildfire through Rikers Island, we worry every hour that passes brings us closer to disaster & death. Officials must take immediate action to initiate mass release and halt new admissions before it's too late. Conditions are dire. In recent days, people incarcerated at Rikers Island have reported to us many accounts of disturbing and dangerous conditions inside of the jails:

Yesterday we received news that a detained immigrant mother of three young children rep'd by @RAICESTEXAS was to be released and reunited with her sons in NY. She has been detained over two months despite being an asylum seeker who passed the credible fear interview. Her youngest child turned 3 on July 2nd, in federal custody WITHOUT HIS MOTHER.