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Leslie Alexander
@lesliemalex
Historian. Activist and Professor of History and African Diaspora Studies.
Oct 18, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...

This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16 The officers stood in a circle--towering over the petite girls, clearly intimidating them. One girl was in tears. The other was hysterical, repeatedly yelling at the cops that they had no right to touch her. "I've done nothing wrong!," she kept screaming. 2/16