Policing is based on race. You cannot train “implicit bias” out of an institution whose primary purpose and function is racist. You can attempt to make individual cops more polite, but the job is racist
— derecka (@dereckapurnell) August 24, 2020
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50% of deadly #police encounters in #Minnesota involve a person having a #MentalHealth crisis.https://t.co/odanSENVGH
— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) August 5, 2020
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CA lets abusive cops hide behind their badges. Keep abusive cops out of our communities, pass #SB731. https://t.co/XZPcMxTT0X
— glenn robinson (@glncv) August 2, 2020
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Vallejo Police Officers Performed Ritual to Celebrate Each Time They Killed on the Job | Colorlines https://t.co/t4fgfFRDuo
— glenn robinson (@glncv) August 6, 2020
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Sixteen year old Cornelius Fredericks, died on May 1, 2020, after being restrained by Lakeside Academy staff. He screamed: “I can’t breathe.” His killers are Michael Mosley, Zachary Solis and Heather McLogan, now charged with involuntary manslaughter + second-degree child abuse. https://t.co/B41pmgVCDk
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 28, 2020
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Qualified immunity makes it almost impossible for a victim of excessive force by a police officer to hold that officer accountable. That must end.
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) August 25, 2020
We need a nationwide ban on qualified immunity.
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In excessive force lawsuits, courts in some parts of the U.S. are more likely to grant police officers qualified immunity than others, @Reuters reports.
— The Trace (@teamtrace) August 25, 2020
“The regional differences only add to arguments that the doctrine is unfair.” https://t.co/SxcBxYADs8 pic.twitter.com/RABsqIa09Q
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109 people were fatally shot by Wisconsin police between 2013 and 2019, and 99% of those killings did not result in officers being charged with a crime. Black Americans are shot and killed by police at three times the rate of white Americans. #JacobBlake https://t.co/IR4yWahzYL
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 24, 2020
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There have only been 12 days in 2020 where police did not kill someone. The police killed 751 people in 235 days. pic.twitter.com/iz7HqE60rG
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) August 24, 2020