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~ Bilingual reporter covering public safety for @WNYC @Gothamist ~ Past: @WPLN ~ @Report4America alum ~ @MedillSchool 2018 ~ Baltimore born and bred ~
May 3, 2023 16 tweets 8 min read
I’m at the Broadway-Lafayette station, where a crowd of people is protesting the killing of Jordan Neely on an F train yesterday. ImageImageImageImage
Aug 13, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Yesterday, TN lawmakers passed a bill that makes it a felony to camp on state grounds — a direct response to a 60+ day movement protesting racial inequality & pleading w/ Gov. Bill Lee to discuss police and criminal justice reform. 1/x wpln.org/post/anti-prot… My colleague, @SergioMarBel was tracking the developments inside the Capitol as lawmakers went back and forth about the bill, which also imposes harsher penalties for assaulting law enforcement officers & damaging state property. 2/x