The city of Vallejo destroyed key evidence in six police shootings (purging firearm evidence, fingerprints, witness interviews, victims’ clothing, detective case files), emptying box after box into a large dumpster.@OpenVallejo @laurencedsault @geoffwkinghttps://t.co/Gyce9mAR75
— Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) February 6, 2023
abuse of power
Surveillance video showing the death of Irvo Otieno was released Tuesday. 10 officials were charged with 2nd-degree murder after Otieno was “smothered to death” while handcuffed and shackled. Warning: video contains disturbing images
“Imagine if people in the US protested like this” THEY DID! In 2020! The police beat the shit out of us! You all were there!
— Hire Rodney Terry! (@chadstanton) March 17, 2023
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A young Black man told his mom he was being followed by white men in three pickup trucks — then his family says he was found “dismembered.”
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 14, 2023
Rasheem Carter’s family believes police in Taylorsville, Mississippi, are hiding details about his death.https://t.co/B47V8IA3sT
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11 Cops From Same Department Charged With Brutalizing Citizens https://t.co/3GaRYMxjLS via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) March 14, 2023
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The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office has indicted 16 East Cleveland officers with public corruption and civil rights violations for incidents between June 2018 and July 2022. https://t.co/uThbIuIAvF
— The Black Wall Street Times (@TheBWSTimes) March 13, 2023
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Seven law enforcement officers and three hospital employees have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a Black man at a state psychiatric hospital last week.
— NPR (@NPR) March 16, 2023
Prosecutors say 7 deputies held the man on the ground for some 12 minutes. https://t.co/XHMyzfIcGs
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A Louisville police officer let his dog attack a 14-year-old Black child who was not resisting. As the dog ‘gnawed’ on the child’s arm, the officer said ‘stop fighting my dog,’ DOJ said in bombshell report https://t.co/NbOL8DAFpr
— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) March 18, 2023
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Simply put, I’m a Black parent raising Black children in a neighborhood adjacent to the Forest. It’s because I love my children, and my neighbors that I oppose the construction of Cop City, a police training facility.
— #StopCopCity (@JalessahJ) March 17, 2023
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BREAKING: A Dinwiddie County grand jury has indicted 7 Henrico County deputies and 3 Virginia hospital employees with 2nd-degree murder for their involvement in the smothering death of Irvo Otieno. pic.twitter.com/RICA2qRErU
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) March 21, 2023
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Surveillance video showing the death of Irvo Otieno was released Tuesday.
— The Black Wall Street Times (@TheBWSTimes) March 22, 2023
10 officials were charged with 2nd-degree murder after Otieno was “smothered to death” while handcuffed and shackled.
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DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
DEVELOPING: Twitter suspends several high-profile journalists who have been covering the company and Elon Musk. https://t.co/LPC3iAdqTa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 16, 2022
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post’s @drewharwell.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 16, 2022
Rupar tells me he has “no idea” why it happened.
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Apparently it’s “Free speech for me. Not for thee.”
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) December 16, 2022
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Elon is a whiny little asshole who bought this platform so he could treat his critics like he’s been treating his employees – doesn’t seem much more complicated than that.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 16, 2022
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Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange pic.twitter.com/wVA9Gb5MVJ
— Bradley Eversley (@ForeverEversley) December 16, 2022
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looks like both @mattbinder and @donnie were suspended for sharing this on-the-record statement from LAPD about Elon Musk. This is the most basic type of reporting – apparently no longer safe on Twitter pic.twitter.com/0nRbNvSBnq
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) December 16, 2022
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Wait, is this a joke. I tweeted my Post & Mastodon social media links to @HC_Richardson to also connect with her there, and Twitter labeled them “sensitive content.”
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 12, 2022
No idea if this is Twitter breaking down or new ownership discouraging people from leaving Twitter. Smh pic.twitter.com/ma6KV0RNaF
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Any post with a link to a Mastodon profile is being deemed “unsafe” by Twitter, and prominent technology journalists who write about Twitter have just been banned.
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) December 16, 2022
That’s one way to deal with critics (& competing platforms) I guess.
But it sure as hell isn’t freedom of speech
America is terrifying. #abuseofpower #policebrutality
School Resource Officer Fractures Student’s Skull In Hallway https://t.co/JtDi4jLUv4 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) October 13, 2022
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Incarcerated Army veteran dies after Florida prison guards broke his neck and left him paralyzed and in excruciating pain then walked past his cell 170 times over five days, ignoring his screams. https://t.co/erowCsHXfy
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) October 12, 2022
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Another miscarriage of Justice. Another day in America. Officer Delacruz found NOT guilty in the murder of #PamelaTurner. #BlackWomenMatter
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 11, 2022
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The Texas police officer who killed #PamelaTurner in 2019 was found not guilty of aggravated assault.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 11, 2022
Juan Delacruz shot her 5x in the face, chest and stomach, claiming she evaded arrest and grabbed his Taser. Family says he routinely harassed her and knew of her mental illness. pic.twitter.com/JssavqWKSv
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Cops Paralyze Arrested Man, MASSIVE Lawsuit Follows https://t.co/vgbriQAqM5 via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) October 8, 2022
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This system of disciplinary appeals, arbitration and reinstatement is 1000x more consequential to police accountability than qualified immunity. But you rarely hear anything about it, much less see actions to actually change it. https://t.co/qsWnjDhLLv
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) October 6, 2022
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America is terrifying. pic.twitter.com/0F0dRDWTsu
— I am (@mackio_) October 11, 2022
Has anyone seen all the breathless news coverage of the epidemic of NYPD officers arrested so far this year? No? Hmm? I wonder why there is so little coverage of the many cases below?
If the police can’t get their story straight two days after a tragic mass murder that’s drawn international news coverage, that should teach us to be more skeptical of official police reports in many other cases when the world isn’t watching.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 27, 2022
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Just a few bad apples. https://t.co/jq5hWnhmI5
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 12, 2022
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If I had to pick one thing journalists miss in police reporting, it’s that cops have tried to surveil, infiltrate, and violently crush every major social, economic, labor, environmental, and racial justice movement since 1900. It’s what they spent their budgets on in every city.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) May 23, 2022
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The missing context is that 444 of these were covid deaths. pic.twitter.com/Jgiz3Wuuql
— Read Wobblies and Zapatistas (@JoshuaPotash) May 22, 2022
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Has anyone seen all the breathless news coverage of the epidemic of NYPD officers arrested so far this year? No? Hmm? I wonder why there is so little coverage of the many cases below?
— Alex Vitale (@avitale) May 24, 2022
Here in “Liberal” Cali Stockton Police killed a 54 year old African American Grandmother who had back into a Patrol car. She was shot 30 times after the office chased her car down and blocked her in!
“Abolition can’t happen overnight.”
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 27, 2022
Uhhh, if we simply decriminalized drugs & took cops off traffic enforcement we would have a drastically different world — overnight.
77% of LAPD-initiated stops use a SUSPECTED traffic violation as the excuse to stop people.
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Also? Cops make more arrests for drug possession than for any other crime in the US.
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 27, 2022
We CAN do a lot overnight through abolitionist strategy. We can finally fucking end the war on drugs AND we can make sure no one else gets killed during a traffic stop.
Let’s do it.
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My name is Albert Corado and I’m running for City Council in LA CD 13 representing Historic Filipinotown to Hollywood and more.
— AL For LA (Albert Corado) (@ALforLA2022) April 30, 2021
I was thrust into social justice organizing after the @lapdhq killed my little sister, #MelyCorado at the Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake. pic.twitter.com/gxFtSGSWOX
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Today, @mnhumanrights found a deliberate “pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act” by the Minneapolis Police Department
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 27, 2022
Below are just a few of the most egregious findings.https://t.co/T8YGGPmcfQ
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Two years after George Floyd’s murder, we have yet to see meaningful change from the Minneapolis Police Department.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 27, 2022
I have to ask: what will it take?
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Nationally, but especially in Mississippi, corporal punishment is disproportionately administered to Black students. Black youth in Mississippi are 50% more likely to be corporally punished than white kids.
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) April 28, 2022
Sign this petition to #EndCorporalPunishmenthttps://t.co/xEslsA3oG5
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Police kill Black people at higher rates than white people per population in 48 of the 50 largest US cities. Minneapolis police kill Black people at 22x higher rate than whites – one of the worst disparities in the nation. https://t.co/G3YiCYZoEi https://t.co/9gWhP96Xyl pic.twitter.com/vJVzYMXg9g
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 27, 2022
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“Police stopped Philando Castile 46 times and issued him over 85 violations, almost exclusively for non-moving offenses. Though half the violations were dismissed, the remaining violations cost Mr. Castile over $6,000. Police shot and killed him during the 47th stop.” (cont.)
— Adam Bojak (@AdamBojak) April 21, 2022
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Here in “Liberal” Cali Stockton Police killed a 54 year old African American Grandmother who had back into a Patrol car. She was shot 30 times after the office chased her car down and blocked her in! https://t.co/rvrLcwbf32
— Anita Wills (@bwdn2008) April 26, 2022
Behold what the $100 BILLION that our nation spends annually on policing has wrought
Behold what the $100 BILLION that our nation spends annually on policing has wrought (cw) pic.twitter.com/rrVirj50BM
— Kumar Rao (@KumarRaoNYC) May 31, 2020
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Report Documents 32,542 Police Killings in U.S. Since 2000 with Vast Undercount of People of Color https://t.co/gvap7ZIxtb via @democracynow
— Fund the people – Divest from policing (@glncv) June 1, 2021
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NBC News says Alabama law enforcement gave a violent abuser (and former police officer) his gun back – simply because he texted and asked for it. There was an active a protective order against him.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 5, 2021
Two weeks later, he used the gun to kill his wife. https://t.co/UGLNhfXYX7
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California is 1 of only 4 states that does not have a process to decertify abusive cops.@SenatorUmberg@SenHenryStern @BobWieckowskiCA will you VOTE YES on #SB2 & support communities impacted by police violence? #LetUsLive #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QK7kNzIJbt
— Youth Justice Coalition (@YouthJusticeLA) April 27, 2021
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“We’re not funding drug intervention.
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) June 6, 2021
We’re not funding violence interruption. We’re funding violence & oppression. And the FOP protects these MFs”@ReddIsAri w/facts and 🔥on why DC must #DefundMPD #DefundThePolice pic.twitter.com/VWeXt9kNCj
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How tf y’all gonna reform this?#DefundThePolice https://t.co/HwPIOLhSCt
— Tinu, Empress of Twerk, Thirst of My Line. (@Tinu) June 7, 2021
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A new report finds far more people of colour have died in police custody than previously known. The report also documented the deaths of 32,542 people who have been killed by police since 2000, 60% of whom were people of colour.https://t.co/wGdwc4yDMR #DefundThePolice
— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) June 2, 2021
The way the police punish survivors of domestic violence instead of supporting them.
Around the world police safely disarm men, women, and children who are in the middle of a mental health crisis. U.S. police are trained to shoot to kill any time they get the heebie-jeebies. Walter Wallace needed an ambulance. Instead, he got bullets.
— The Breakdown with Shaun King (@TheBreakdown) October 27, 2020
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A reminder that Philadelphia Police Department was notified that 328 of their officers posted white supremacist and other hateful content online and decided to keep 96% of those officers on the force, where they continue to patrol communities of color with almost total immunity.
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) August 6, 2019
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“A training slideshow used by the Kentucky State Police (KSP) — the second largest police force in the state — urges cadets to be ‘ruthless killer[s]’ and quotes Adolf Hitler advocating violence.” https://t.co/wO949qCeqi
— Jason Riley (@JasonRileyWDRB) October 30, 2020
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Alabama police captain threatens to execute every Biden voter with a “bullet in their skull.” https://t.co/iPg7oeZZwe
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) November 5, 2020
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She was too afraid to testify at her ex’s domestic abuse trial. So she was assaulted by police and jailed instead. This is a horrific example of the way the police punish survivors of domestic violence instead of supporting them. https://t.co/W1kz8yHgnC
— Angela Marie MacDougall (@_AngelaMarieMac) November 10, 2020
Mass. State Police Tested Out Boston Dynamics’ Spot The Robot Dog. Civil Liberties Advocates Want To Know More
When police in CA kill people – like a #Pittsburg cop did in 2016 with a "sleeper hold" that turned deadly – nothing requires that departments investigate whether use of deadly-force polices were followed. #SB1421 @SukeyLewis#californiareportingprojecthttps://t.co/VyIEPari1n
— Thomas Peele (@thomas_peele) November 17, 2019
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Cop in California legit tried to arrest a black man bc he was “illegally eating.”😳
My mind can’t even begin to comprehend the arrogance needed to justify this nonsense
https://t.co/cwlobWkRo2— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) November 10, 2019
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A cop said Pedro Barbosa tried to run him over w/ a car. Faced 15 years. But it was a lie. Investigators from @BklynDefender got video proving the cop fabricated the charge. They saved his life. Mr. Barbosa now free. Officer pled guilty to perjury & fired. https://t.co/suesK2g7oI
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 21, 2019
Some California police departments don’t investigate their own officers’ use of deadly force https://t.co/x2BNTCgptw
— Mercury News (@mercnews) November 17, 2019
#MarquisJefferson has died, weeks after the murder of his daughter #AtatianaJefferson.
There is something worse than losing a child—losing a child at the hands of someone sworn to protect her and having to hear racists blame your child for her own death. https://t.co/CRW3q859k6
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) November 10, 2019
Mass. State Police Tested Out Boston Dynamics’ Spot The Robot Dog. Civil Liberties Advocates Want To Know More https://t.co/8AVjqrN05Z
— Johnetta Elzie (@Nettaaaaaaaa) November 26, 2019
“Broken Windows policing is another racist tactic of the NYPD that must be stopped”
WATCH: The routine casualness of undercover NYPD officers as they stop, approach, & frisk a young black man w/ zero justification. In full violation of constitution. They know they’re on camera. This is why people feel imprisoned in their own communities.pic.twitter.com/bEUQxU6TPx
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 10, 2019
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I just want to remind ppl that the NYPD runs undercover entrapment operations like "lucky bag" or like today .. selling phones they own to bodegas to then entrap them for alleged Crim possession of stolen property later. We need to start divesting – they have time to creat crime
— jdubs (@jwo84) November 12, 2019
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And let’s not forget the NYPD undercover operations that start right around Christmas time to entrap people into buying iPads and charging them with possessing “stolen property.” Your tax dollars hard at work. https://t.co/WIyKC1hrwd
— Tiffany Cabán (@CabanForQueens) November 12, 2019
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Add selling candy to the list of excuses that the NYPD uses to excessively police black and brown New Yorkers. https://t.co/yDAQjEvV3B
— NYCLU (@NYCLU) November 14, 2019
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For years, NYPD denied illegally saving kids’ fingerprints. Now it vows to destroy the data. https://t.co/lXxTso5xbJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 14, 2019
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For those keeping track, a running list of how NYPD and @NYCMayor are using our city's resources in our subways:
-Surveilling homeless New Yorkers
-Policing turnstile jumpers
-Handcuffing churro vendors https://t.co/BcTblVOEaZ— NYCLU (@NYCLU) November 12, 2019
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Statement from Anthony Beckford:
"Broken Windows policing is another racist tactic of the NYPD that must be stopped. Black, Brown and Poor people are targeted daily. This is an example of the gang culture of the NYPD that must be brought to heel."#ItsOurTime pic.twitter.com/OcZgaKrKgo
— Anthony Beckford (City Council Candidate) 🌹 (@Vote4Beckford) November 10, 2019