Please read & share my piece linking the birth of the professional #police force in the South to #emancipation.
— Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D. (@KeriLeighMerrit) May 31, 2020
Police in America have always been a tool of racial, class, & labor oppression. There’s no choice but to abolish them in their current form.@BlkPerspectives @AAIHS https://t.co/PCqpv9WHHo
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“We must recognize that ICE and the police are related institutions of militarized racial terror.”@DetentionWatch#BlackLivesMatter#DefundHate#DefundPolicehttps://t.co/cwR7oNYhSN
— Freedom for Immigrants (@MigrantFreedom) June 15, 2020
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Funny how a taser transforms from “less than lethal” to a “deadly weapon” the instant a civilian is holding it instead of a cop.
— 𝐵𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑜́𝑟 (@BikeSlutty) June 18, 2020
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Plainclothes officers are 6% of the NYPD and are responsible for 31% of NYPD shootings since 2000. Instead of firing them, they are being “immediately reassigned to the detective bureau and the neighborhood policing initiative.” https://t.co/oMMLSxf5mh
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) June 16, 2020
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I’ve spent last 5 hours analyzing footage of NYPD brutality against protestors. A lot on my mind, but forefront: If anyone I represented were accused of anything close to the indiscriminate savagery perpetrated by cops, they’d face violent felony charges & years in prison.
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) June 14, 2020
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The United States, Australia, and the U.K. are all industrialized G7 nations.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) June 14, 2020
But Americans die in police custody at more than twice the rate of Australians and 6 TIMES the rate of people in the U.K.
Congress must move quickly on passing the Justice in Policing Act. pic.twitter.com/t3pNHDO2Y5
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This deserves to come back to the timeline. #BlackIdentityExtremists https://t.co/kVIhZFGdBt
— Kendra Ross (she/her) (@lolaschild) June 8, 2020
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Despite the narrative they’re pushing, the police are not “pulling back.” They are continuing to kill as many people as in past years. They didn’t stop killing during the lockdown and may have actually increased killings during June’s protests. https://t.co/WJFKOMh4Cv pic.twitter.com/DxvlRRAPaI
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) July 16, 2020
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Police used ketamine to sedate Anita Springsteen’s boyfriend.
— Grassroots Law Project (@grassroots_law) July 13, 2020
In 2019, Elijah McClain died after police injected him with ketamine.
This is a crisis.
Anita Springsteen isn’t being silent anymore: it’s time to END police use of ketamine in Colorado.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Mg7Q4Zqcat
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When we investigated police union expenditures in California, we found 98% of all state legislators had taken police union money. Police unions also spent *9x more* in lobbying expenditures than the NRA did and spent far more than any social justice org. https://t.co/J9d4DF3yl1 https://t.co/C7eBRCqFID
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) July 2, 2020
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— glenn robinson (@glncv) June 30, 2020