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