#Policing

Rediet Abebe ረድኤት አበበ

red_abebe

I appreciate that we're having long-overdue convos about work-life balance in academia, but I find some of the conversations pretty alienating. As a student, I worked... more than forty hours.

Andrew Parsons

adrparsons

Please do not use "hearing impaired" in my mentions.Deaf people have been blunt for as long as recorded history. And we have consistently asked everyone to call us "deaf" since

Lee-brarian ✨ (of boners)

bnrlibrarian

another aside: I’m not entirely comfortable seeing transmasc & nb folks policing play with femme genderswap or gender signifiers for otherwise masc folks as ‘inherently transphobic’ when I also know

Kushal Kumar Sinha

KushalSinha001

I may not be able to substantiate my claim as I've lost track of my readings of Criminology but it is said that the most influential police force (as in,

Natalie Jean

thenattiejean

(1/9) I don’t like Jacob Blake. He’s arguably not a good person, dangerous even. Frankly I don’t care if he’s handcuffed to his hospital bed, he has warrents out for

Ryan J. Reilly

ryanjreilly

Great story from @johnshiffman and @bradheath on the Trump DOJ’s retreat from police reform. The U.S. Attorney in St. Louis wanted to launch a broad "pattern or practice” investigation into

Omar Wasow

owasow

Studies find ”between one-third and one-half of total police killings each year are of people with disabilities or of people who are experiencing episodes of mental illness.”https://time.com/5857438/police-violence-black-disabled/ In Ma

Rhonda Mary

rhondamaryvids

Instead of Republicans ever talking about how police brutality is actually an extension of corruption, tons of unconstitutional laws, over dependence on the nanny state, and a burden on taxpayers

Andrew Yang🧢🗽🇺🇸

AndrewYang

There are 18,000 police departments in the US. How is reform possible? One approach would be a new George Floyd Police Misconduct division of the DOJ with a budget of

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Russian_Starr

It's plenty of black people whose minds to be decolonized out of white supremacy as much as white folk when I comes to policing. I've read the police reform proposals

Andy Mannix

AndrewMannix

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is holding a press conference in S Minneapolis, down the street from Third Precinct. She said she is working on starting a new independent federal agency

Mayor of London (gov.uk/coronavirus)

MayorofLondon

I take any allegation of racial profiling extremely seriously and have raised Bianca Williams’ case with the Met Police. 1/4 It is absolutely vital that our police service retains the

Steve Campbell

ReformedWriter

Want to make serious inroads in decreasing the dangerous police confrontations instead of just having everybody yell at each other? Assemble a blue-ribbon panel of 15-20 athletes, entertainers, etc. --

Droll Embiid.

GeeDee215

the official police account in the #GeorgeFloyd case was v. diff than what the cellphone video showed. but police are incentivized to lie as a matter of course, bc every

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

I remember that show “what would you do?” did an experiment once where they had 2 groups of kids—one Black & one white—perform the same behavior of vandalizing a car.

Ben & Jerry's

benandjerrys

Justice requires accountability, but accountability alone must not be confused with justice. Derek Chauvin now faces accountability. George Floyd was denied justice the moment Chauvin’s knee took his last breath.