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Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks Profile picture
Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks
@CornellWBrooks
Prof., Harvard Kennedy School; Vis. Prof., Harvard Divinity ; Dir. @harvard_trotter; Min.; Attny; & 18th NAACP pres. & CEO.For speaking: https://t.co/X2Zm4Uw82G
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Apr 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My beloved cousin Rev. William Brooks was found dead, asphyxiated, propped on a cinder block, his body jammed halfway thru a shed window, WITH keys to his shed door in his pocket. A SC police dept,, with racist history, says NO foul play. The family seeks state/fed investigation. Our family seeks prayers, justice, and answers. walterborolive.com/stories/civil-…
Mar 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Police: “If YOU PEOPLE would COMPLY you wouldn’t be killed.”

The people in the crowd COMPLIED by morally begging, #DerekChauvin not to murder #GeorgeFloyd—WITHOUT physically interfering.

He STILL killed Floyd—AND the crowd’s souls with racial trauma. What does it say about policing that what you demand most from Black people is COMPLIANCE & what you expect most from police is maintaining CONTROL?

The police code of ethics is the same value system of slavery. #CharlesMcMillian #DerekChauvinTrial Image
Nov 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Painful #DrivingWhileBlack Story

1) I visit a former US AG for advice on a law to help people with criminal records—which I didn’t have then. I get a parking ticket, which I forgot to pay. A policeman later pulls me over, demands cash $$, cuffs & arrests me for the old ticket... 2) Cashless, I ask to go to an ATM. He puts me cuffed in a police car and drives me to an ATM for cash to pay the ticket. He THEN drives me to the police station and cuffs me to a bench—with 1 arm free
—presumably since I wasn’t “threatening.”
Aug 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#RACISM FACT CHECK:

1)Nikki Haley says America is NOT a #racist country & cites SC as an example.

I led a @NAACP 800 mile march against #PoliceBrutality that turned into a 1000 mile march.

Why? Because her staff demanded we march an EXTRA 200 miles AROUND the KKK—
in SC. 2) Then Gov. Haley & her law enforcement went out of their way to provide security—after the Charleston 9 assassinations. They insisted we avoid the original march route because our safety could not be assured. The VIOLENT threat of racism was said to be real—in America and SC.
Dec 9, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Why must #CyntoniaBrown be LOCKED up for 51 YEARS for a murder committed as sexually enslaved 16 yr. old?

And millionaire #JeffreyEpstein serves 13 MONTHS for molesting dozens of girls her age?

If our criminal justice system punished HYPOCRISY,

it would get the DEATH PENALTY. What would happen if each of the 76,000 children going into the juvenile justice system every year had lawyers and wealth OR better yet education and opportunity?