🧵 More like accurately defining burglary when cops don’t know the law or worse try to fear monger like in this exchange. Burglary in the 3rd Degree is a *non-violent* felony. The definition of a burg is a trespass w the intent to commit a crime therein. Let’s break that down…

https://twitter.com/johndmacari/status/1789284765285109985

The trespass element is a misdemeanor. A low-level misd. The intent requirement is intent *at the time* of trespass meaning the accused has to intend to commit a crime upon entry (other than the trespass itself) for it to be considered a burglary under the law…

My statement in response to last night’s crackdown on student protests by @NYCMayor’s @NYPDnews, threaded below for accessibility Last night's authoritarian conduct by Columbia University administrators and Mayor Adams' NYPD were a colossal disgrace, a horrifying affront to democracy and free speech, and an abject failure of public safety.

Public safety hearing happening now. The copaganda, yall. Let’s put some of the info in context. Testimony trying to scare the public talking about individuals with 100+ arrests is misleading… Any public defender will tell you that looking at the RAP sheet of someone with that many arrests means one thing - they have dozens of arrests for misdemeanors and violations born of poverty, namely jumping the turnstile, trespassing, petty theft…

People experiencing homelessness, mental illness, hunger and frustration need and deserve compassion and trauma-informed care.

Officials and media outlets have instead told us that they are threats to be contained by force.

Jordan Neely’s murder is the inevitable result. When those with the most power and the biggest platforms choose to stigmatize the poor and criminalize the desperation poverty fuels, they end up condemning our neighbors to death.

Homelessness gets classified under “crime,” but lethal vigilante violence doesn’t.

This weekend, the @nypost published two hit pieces against me, including one about how my district office is never staffed, which is a shameless lie.

Normally when they pull this nonsense, I just ignore them, but this time they insulted my staff, and that’s going too far. 🧵 First, check out some of the disgusting messages that came flooding in last time they ran a rapid-fire series of 💩💩 articles against me. (CW: violence, sexual assault, racism, queerphobia and more.)

Nice readers you got there!

🧵 NYPD “addressing” overtime now. Saying if they had more officers they would use less overtime. FALSE. We have the largest PD in the country. Gonna use my years long experience as a public defender to debunk this… Folks in the criminal legal system ( & those targeted by that system) know about something colloquially called “collars for dollars.” Officers will look to make an arrest at the very end of their shift to create overtime.

🧵Public Safety hearing has started. NYPD commish talking about “brazen recidivists,” citing a small # of ppl responsible for retail theft. They’re cracking down & advocating for “making changes to our laws to ensure they’re impeded from reoffending.” Lets talk about recidivism… Retail theft & theft in general are overwhelming crimes born of poverty. How does continued criminalization and jailing poor people who can’t afford to meet their basic needs leave them in a different position post-incarceration? It doesn’t. It ensures the same cycle repeating…

The right wing loves moralizing about “victims of crime,” but they actually couldn’t care less about whether they live or die.

How do I know?

Let me tell you what happened at City Hall last week.👇🏽 The City Council passed a bill I introduced to create a fund to meet the urgent needs of survivors of domestic, intimate partner, and gender-based violence.

As far as I know, it’s the first of its kind in the country.