1/4 Every time we hold prosecutors accountable, we are transforming our criminal justice system and building power for our communities.

#WinningJustice 2/4 Our criminal legal system is racist, violent & unjust. Collectively, no decisions fuel mass incarceration & criminalization of Black communities more than the decisions of prosecutors.

This means they can also play a critical role in transforming the system.

#WinningJustice

#HeyGoogle, you said you’d delete location data for health care visits, like abortion care. But @accountabletech found you’re still retaining this data.

Join us in telling Google to stop collecting & retaining location data & aiding abortion prosecutors: coc.is/42G1fIf At COC, we've also been advocating for these protections for a while.

In 2021, when anti-abortion extremists launched TX SB8, which provided a financial incentive for private citizens to become abortion bounty hunters, we said no.

act.colorofchange.org/sign/txsb8/

Today, COC is launching our #BreakUpBigTech campaign. With all of the recent @Facebook news, it’s urgent #Congress pass #antitrust reform.

An outage at 1 company shouldn't knock out 3 of the largest social platforms. #BigTech monopolies put economic justice at risk. A thread 🧵 Without #antitrust regulation, #tech giants like @Google, @Facebook, @Amazon, & @Apple allow the civil rights of Black people to be violated. Corporations use surveillance networks that span across the #Internet to collect information about you that's sold to advertisers.

Last night, @atlcouncil voted YES on plans to raze Atlanta Forest to build a $90MM cop training facility. 70% of the public opposed the plan.

The fight to #StopCopCity isn’t over. But this isn’t the 1st time @atlpolicefdn used backroom deals to expand violent policing. A thread:

https://twitter.com/mainlinezine/status/1435920930711252997

Founded in 2003, Atlanta Police Foundation (@atlpolicefdn) is a private, corporate-sponsored organization. Behind closed doors, police foundations and their corporate sponsors privately fund the ongoing militarization & expansion of policing, targeting BIPOC communities. #gapol

Texas Governor Greg Abbott just signed a racist voter suppression bill into law. Texas may have been the epicenter of harmful legislation this past week, but it isn't the only state passing dangerous laws that disproportionately affect Black people. We’re seeing this happen across the country. Following the 2020 election, 14 states have already passed laws that have shortened the window for absentee voting, restricted the eligibility of early voting, or made it easier to contest the results of election.

40 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to life in prison after an unjust trial, including evidence of misconduct committed by police investigators and the DA’s office against him. Now, he is awaiting heart surgery – but dangerous treatment, including the barbaric act of shackling prisoners onto the hospital bed, is threatening his life.

As more stories come out of Brooklyn Center, one critical detail has been buried in the coverage: Kim Potter, the police officer who murdered Daunte Wright, was also involved in helping fellow officers cover up the murder of Kobe-Dimock Heisler in 2019. newsweek.com/daunte-wright-… Potter was the police union president at the time, and one of the first officers to arrive on the scene. Kobe Dimock-Heisler, who was on the autism spectrum, was shot by police 6 times. Potter counseled the officers so no criminal charges were filed. facebook.com/watch/?v=73528…

For some reason @LeaderMcConnell thinks the filibuster has no racist history. Here are some of the times the #JimCrowFilibuster has been used by racist senators in the past. (Thread) The filibuster was first used by John C. Calhoun, a racist senator who believed that the institution of slavery was a “positive good”. He used the filibuster to delay bills that threatened the power of slave states, including the establishment of Oregon as a free state.

The culture of white supremacy in Police Unions starts with its leadership and trickles down. This is how we break the power that police unions have over our government and our justice system ➡️ [A THREAD] Police unions are one of the most powerful forces standing in the way of efforts to hold police accountable for misconduct and anti-Black violence. They perpetuate harm, protect killer cops, and create barriers to officer accountability and policy change.

Daniel Prude should still be alive. He needed care.

Instead, #ROC police put a hood over his head & pushed him into the ground until he stopped breathing.

No charges for the cops who killed #DanielPrude. No accountability. No justice. We are outraged.
apnews.com/article/no-cha… We’ve been here before — demanding justice when police murder our people with impunity. And when justice is denied to Black people and our families, we're left heartbroken and outraged all over again.

The white supremacist status quo is killing us. #JusticeForDanielPrude #BLM

Did you know that until recently Oregon was 1 of only 2 states that allowed non-unanimous verdicts, meaning that only 10 of 12 jurors had to agree to get a conviction? The Supreme Court struck it down last year. Passed in 1934 with support of the KKK, non-unanimous convictions reinforced white supremacy by eliminating the influence of Black jurors.

Police unions are one of the most powerful forces standing in the way of efforts to hold police accountable for violence and misconduct, and to transform the criminal legal system. We’ve studied all their tactics and strategies and now we’re exposing their playbook. From campaign contributions to contracts to copaganda, here are the strategies police unions use to perpetuate harm in Black communities, protect violent police officers, and create barriers to officer accountability and policy change.

The abusive monopoly power of @Amazon has resulted in lost wages, dangerous working conditions, and even the deaths of Black workers.

To mark the end of Jeff Bezos’ reign as CEO, here are just a few of the horrific practices his successor needs to address. A THREAD 📜 Poushawn Brown tested other Amazon workers for 9 hrs/day - without adequate PPE and only one #COVID19 test for herself.

One day, she complained of a headache. She died the next morning.

This is just one example of Amazon failing to protect its workers.

https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1353877287276605443?s=19

Deputy Fournier body-slammed a Black teenage girl, knocking her unconscious, and handcuffing her while she lay motionless -- -- he must face accountability.

@OsceolaSheriff has initiated an investigation but it's not nearly enough.

https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1356281170153984002

Let’s be clear: a grown man should never be able to body slam a teenage girl, especially under the guise of “keeping other students safe.” It’s unacceptable.

We're looking at @OsceolaSheriff Marco Lopez to ensure Deputy Fournier is fired from the police force for good.

1/ Last Friday, @RochesterNYPD responded to a family disturbance call. Just a few minutes later, body camera footage reveals the Rochester Police officers terrorizing & pepper-spraying a 9-year-old child.

refinery29.com/en-us/2021/02/… 2/ This story comes less than a year after bodycam footage showed Rochester Police murdering Daniel Prude, a Black man suffering a mental health crisis. Instead of offering him the help he needed, 3 cops pushed Daniel’s face into the pavement and suffocated him.

1/ Newly elected District Attorney @GeorgeGascon is enacting major reforms led by LA communities to reduce harsh sentencing, shrink systems of mass incarceration, and stop the over policing of Black communities.

politico.com/news/2021/01/2… 2/ In response, Los Angeles rank-and-file prosecutors and California electeds are now engaged in a fear mongering campaign against him, waging battle against reform with the same tired racist dog whistle tactics they have used for years.

NEW: Today, Color Of Change and @ACLU are releasing a report on Fairfax Financial Holdings Company (@FFH_TO) — the last big insurance company still profiting off of the racist and exploitative system of money bail.

nomoneybail.org Fairfax’s exploitative practices within the bail industry are underscored by their work to block reform. Their business model is to profit from trapping Black families in cycles of debt, while leaving other Black people to rot in jail because they are poor.

Today, @Facebook released their civil rights audit, a product of years of pressure from our team and a growing collective of civil society, researchers and advocates. After years of pushing Facebook to prioritize the safety of Black users, here is our own audit. First, a little background. @Facebook agreed to publicly release its civil rights audit after a meeting we had with @sherylsandberg in 2018, after it was exposed that FB hired a PR firm to malign our work with anti-Semitic and anti-Black stereotypes.

Today is the 1st day of #BlackMaternalHealthWeek! We <3 all the Black moms out there, so we're going to shed light on some healthcare issues Black women may experience during childbirth, along with ways to take action to ensure they're given the respect + humanity they deserve. Black maternal mortality & morbidity rates are some of the most urgent health issues in our country, regardless of income level or social status. Black women in every socioeconomic status are impacted by maternal mortality & morbidity. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek

This year, we continued to hold corporations accountable for enabling organizations, policies, and policy makers threatening our freedoms, and for profiting from the spread of hate and violence against POC. #COCIn2018 This fall, we delivered over 200k petition signatures to the @GreyhoundBus HQ to demand they stop enabling the current admin's racist + xenophobic deportation scheme by allowing @CBP on their buses. Tell #Greyhound #TransportationNotDeportation act.colorofchange.org/call/Greyhound… #COCIn2018

.@facebook’s response to us challenging them 2 create safe conditions 4 Black ppl & marginalized groups on their platform? Fanning the flames of anti-Semitism resulting in a pipe bomb on George Soros’ doorstep & campaigning against us using alt right media nytimes.com/2018/11/14/tec… This @facebook story shows that while we were operating in good faith, trying to protect our communities, they were using the hateful tactics of the exact same far right actors they were enabling on the platform.