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Lawyer, activist, and policy expert. Views are my own.
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Apr 15, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
I want to be honest—I don’t want to sound like a politician. It’s my birthday. I’m tired. I’m tired of waking up to news of people who look like me killed by police.

I’m tired of seeing Black men dying over an expired plate, a fake $20 bill, or a broken taillight. I didn’t plan to run for office. I’ve already been successful creating change in my community as a racial justice activist.

Black people are constantly being brutally attacked and murdered. Politicians talk about diversity and reform, but we don’t have time for just talk.
Feb 21, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
A lot of folks want to know exactly what the Trump case that I quit over was about.

It's a story that highlights the early warning signs that Trump was a far-right extremist making his way to power.

I was supposed to represent Trump in a suit against @chefjoseandres. 1/6 The two had made a deal to open one of Chef Andrés' new restaurants in Trump's DC hotel.

Once Trump announced he was running for president, and began attacking Hispanic communities with racist, dehumanizing rhetoric, Chef Andrés wanted no part in his hotel. 2/6
Nov 9, 2020 14 tweets 3 min read
Story Time: This story about the GSA appointee who refuses to hand off the transition resources is one to watch.

I was 1 of 3 investigators investigating GSA at the beginning of the Trump administration.

The agency seems corruptible. (1/14)

google.com/amp/s/www.wash… During my time on the oversight committee, after Trump was elected but before he took office, we were already investigating GSA. (2/14)
May 5, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
/1 I joined African American leaders from across the Commonwealth on a zoom call with @MarkWarner yesterday to discuss the pandemic.

That meeting and news about easing restrictions has left me to conclude that we have given up on reopening safely. /2 I asked him when can we expect to open safely considering that all medical professionals seem to state we can’t open without testing and PPE and there’s no coordinated federal response for either.

The Senator was honest and said “we’re on our own for PPE”
Feb 13, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
I want to speak less about Mayor Bloomberg and more about the program he misused and the people it impacted.

People often refer to #stopandfrisk as if it were simply a misguided police tactic. I believe they envision it as an unpleasant but brief encounter with the police. Even the name “stop and frisk” sounds like it could be a children’s game like hide and seek. I want to dispel that.

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY. I was never stopped and frisked in my neighborhood but I’ve seen it done.
Jan 27, 2020 15 tweets 3 min read
Last week, I was invited on a radio show to discuss environmental justice and the Dominion campaign finance bill that failed. Unfortunately, we never covered it.

Allow me to do so here. Buckle in this long bc the problem is HUGE. For those not in the know, SB25 would have prohibited candidates from “soliciting or accepting a contribution from any public service corporation," For those outside of Virginia, this directly affects Dominion Energy (the electric company for most ppl)
Dec 20, 2019 10 tweets 2 min read
I see a lot of tweets in Virginia politics talking about the resolutions declaring sanctuary cities for guns.

These tweets often compare so called 2nd Amendment Sanctuary cities to sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

This is absurd as are those 2A resolutions. 1/10 For those outside the Virginia politics perpetual circus, after Democrats won a majority at the state level, gun lovers started writing resolutions to declare their county or town a sanctuary from gun laws.

No, seriously this is happening. 2/10
Dec 2, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
Hearing @mikemullin4VA will be appointed chair of Courts of Justice Committee.

Virginians interested in criminal justice reform should contact Speaker @EFillerCorn and let her know they oppose this appointment.

A couple of things about Mullin /1 -he opposed raising the felony threshold to more than $1,000 even though Virginia has one of the lowest thresholds in the country
-as part of his opposition, he claimed gangs were committing organized burglaries under the threshold (imagine a band of criminals w a calculator & /2