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Gideon Orion Oliver
@gideonoliver
NYC-based lawyer. Mostly police misconduct, civil rights, criminal defense, and FOIL work. Past Pres. @NLGNYCNews. Law/nerd/parenthood/cat tweets. He/him/his.
Jan 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This calendar used to feature some nice elephants...then it encountered Freddie, Age 2.5 She really likes to put stickers next to each other or so they they overlap a bit or on top of each other or all of the above as here. These Grogus are on top of an Elmo
Jan 23, 2021 • 102 tweets • 44 min read
☕️In 2010 the NYC Law Department made a motion to disqualify me in a civil rights lawsuit for Critical Mass bicyclists, claiming I was a necessary witness to support the NYPD's defenses based on allegations like "Mr. Oliver represented too many hundreds of arrested protesters" 🤣 Another reason they offered was that I allegedly made too many formal efforts to retrieve my clients' bicycles, which the NYPD had seized and the Manhattan DA's office was retaining as "arrest evidence" to use in prosecuting the cyclists 🚳
Jan 21, 2021 • 31 tweets • 26 min read
🚨Today, @LegallyFemme @j_remy_green and I, @wylielawfirm, and @DaveRankinNYC + other Beldock, Levine & Hoffman lawyers are filing a major class action against the New York City and City policymakers challenging the NYPD's ongoing, brutal policing of #BlackLivesMatter protests 🚨 Please join us at 1PM EST for a virtual press conference via Zoom:

fordham.zoom.us/j/81677027179?…

Meeting ID: 816 7702 7179
Passcode: BLM
Jan 14, 2021 • 84 tweets • 63 min read
Heres' the lawsuit @NewYorkStateAG @TishJames filed today against NYC, Mayor de Blasio, and the NYPD seeking prospective relief to challenge NYPD use of force and protest policing policies/practices, including around the recent George Floyd protests:

ag.ny.gov/sites/default/… Here's the @NewYorkStateAG press release about the AG's lawsuit:

ag.ny.gov/press-release/…
Dec 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The NYC Corporation Counsel's report on the NYPD response to the #GeorgeFloyd protests - written by the lawyers who defend the NYPD over NYPD protest policing for a living with zero input from impacted communities or the civil rights bar - is, predictably, a complete whitewash Here's the report:

www1.nyc.gov/assets/law/dow…
Dec 29, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
The decision is embedded here: scribd.com/document/48939… Here are a few nuggets from this 50-a decision:

After an "in a nutshell" history of 50-a, the Court summarizes the "sweeping statutory reforms" that were "enacted in combination with the complete repeal of" 50-a including specifically changes to the FOIL
Dec 28, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Some very bad news for civil rights litigants:

Per today's decision in Tangreti v. Bachmann, supervisory liability under Colon v. Coughlin is dead in the Second Circuit

#lawtwitter #appellatetwitter

ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isys… ImageImageImageImage Following are the five ways Colon v. Coughlin, 58 F3d 865, 873 (2d Cir 1995), recognized to establish the personal involvement of a supervisory defendant.

After yesterday's Tangreti opinion, only the first and arguably part of the third are still viable in the Second Circuit
Nov 1, 2020 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
This NYPD response is itself false.

Neither the First Amendment nor the NYPD Patrol Guide make the self-serving distinction the NYPD seeks to make below between "members of the press" who are bystanders/observers without NYPD credentials and those credentialed by the NYPD. NYPD Patrol Guide 203-29 applies to encounters w/an "Individual Observing, Photographing, or Recording Police Activity + says: “Individuals have a right to lawfully observe and/or record police activity including, but not limited to detentions, searches, arrests or uses of force"
Jun 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The NLG-NYC has confirmed: The NYPD’s Intelligence Division & the FBI are questioning people arrested at the recent New York City protests about their political beliefs and affiliations, among other things.

REMEMBER: YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO REMAIN SILENT AND TO TALK WITH A LAWYER YOU HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO SUBMIT TO SUCH LAW ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONING, AND IT IS DANGEROUS TO DO SO.

To exercise your rights, SAY ONLY:

I AM GOING TO REMAIN SILENT
I WANT TO SPEAK TO A LAWYER
I DO NOT CONSENT TO A SEARCH

Then, remain silent, and do not answer questions.
Jun 4, 2020 • 46 tweets • 9 min read
I'm seeing videos of NYPD officers taking peoples' bicycles without arresting them. They're not allowed to, but they have a history of doing that to punish protesters.

A short thread on some of that, involving one of the first cases I lawyered on: nypost.com/2004/10/21/ste… After the 2004 RNC, around which the NYPD made over 1800 arrests, the NYPD began a years-long crackdown on Critical Mass bicycle rides in New York City. The opening salvo in that crackdown came on the September 24, 2004 Critical Mass ride, when the NYPD trapped cyclists...
Feb 2, 2019 • 18 tweets • 11 min read
PLEASE SHARE:

In a colleague's case, US Dist. Judge Analisa Torres has ordered the US BOP to appear at 11AM on 2/5/19 for a PUBLIC EVIDENTIARY HEARING about the recent conditions at MDC Brooklyn, including lack of heat and electricity.

Tues., 500 Pearl St., Room 15D. FYI @TMLuongo @bradlander @NydiaVelazquez @CoreyinNYC @JustinBrannan @anniecorreal @PPVSRB @messagetime @KlasfeldReports @SamAdlerBell