#Policing

(1/4) This week, I’ve seen 10k tweets w/out seeing 1 tweet suggesting for how we can create positive change (besides rioting/ protest).Just spitballing, but here are a few of my
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1. The desire to denigrate the “defund the police” movement – an important goal of reactionary-liberal media-commentators who enjoy punching left – erases the massive value and deep insight that
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Which Black experience is that again.https://twitter.com/FiveFootFine/status/1252945623474634752 Also, which voice. All the gatekeeping. I'm TIRED. You know what I learned in my 20s? That monolithic Blackness is the damn Matrix. I
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Back from researching slave patrols at the Guadalupe County, TX clerk. I'm beginning to get a clearer picture of the relationship between slave patrols and early Texas policing. (Thread)https://twitter.com/Grits4Breakfast/status/1306211
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Comments that add nothing of substance to the conversation and often serve to derail it:1. Not all2. No True Scotsman Fallacy3. Whataboutism4. Making light of the topic or doing the
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JOHN JAMES BELIEVES IN TORTURE JOHN JAMES SUPPORTS POLICING WOMENS BODIES JOHN JAMES WANTS TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD JOHN JAMES DOESNT CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND WANTS TO DEREGULATE JOHN
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1/3TODAY IN HISTORY1968 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act2021 - Senate GQP filibuster the For The People Act2021 - Senate GQP filibuster the Violence Against Women Act2021 -
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I want to point out that if ANY of the 40+ docs that missed my Addisons Disease had used a curse word in front of me I wouldn’t have given
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Follow my thinking here:1 - If you act as a gatekeeper for information you have some greater or lesser responsibility for the quality of the conversation or information.2 - Platforms
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Today we farewelled our Papou. He always wanted a small funeral but he wouldn’t have wanted this. Ten of us, separated into individual pews. Two uniformed police officers watching our
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Why is Japanese Police considered to be one of the most professional police force in the world ? Many would say including my dear friend @KSingh84856557 that they don't
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Policing in the US is fundamentally broken and has been for decades. Many police forces are lawless and unaccountable. Our military defer to civilian authority but our police do not.
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When you know nothing about Ayanna Pressley’s work on the Boston city council.https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1192145363412508674 As a councilor, Pressley wasn’t afraid to criticize racist policing, she fought and won crucial reforms to
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This is what I meant when I said Millennials are fucking stupid because its literally as if they don’t read nor do they give a fuck about reading. The Democrats
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US police brutality stories raise a lot of important structural questions about how policing works here. How can a law-enforcement system repeatedly produce so many spectacularly lethal outcomes? What kind
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Dems: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities.Reps: Dems hate police.D's: Women should have the right to choose.R's: Dems want to kill babies.D's: We need reasonable immigration policies.R's: Dems want
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