#Policing

A thread on how the Trump administration helped enable the death of George Floyd and countless others because I am so tired of people defending this administration and supporting it
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people going after @thoughtslime for hyperbole when the guy he's criticizing has been:*explicitly ableist*calling trans ppl mentally ill*fetishising and dehumanizing trans ppl*blocking trans people who call him out*all the while
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The questions around vaccination in India tells me that the plan of reducing Indian institutions to nothing has come to fruition. When the dust settles, history would count this bulldozing
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We need to talk about Twitter's child porn problem.I think everyone is aware that Twitter is infested with child pornography, pedophilia, zoophilia, & rape, and the fact that so many
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Of course Democrats are losing their minds over federal authorities stepping in to restore law and order in Dem cities. They desperately need the American people to think submitting to
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When i read Police were been given additional powers under #CoronavirusAct+the impact this would have on Black&Brown ppl-I dug out 'Policing Against Black People' evidence compiled @IRR_News (1987)as a reminder
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When the assault on Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker’s character comes (and it already has), I want y’all to remember a few things: • Nobody deserves to be murdered in
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When we mourn for people whose lives are "destroyed" by a social media kerfuffle around a recorded incident of racism, we often ignore how much the life that they enjoyed
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There is actually a serious point behind this. Policing is by its very nature an inherently unpredictable activity. Something always comes along to test & stretch the service. G8, NATO,
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I live in a small NYC apartment in Queens with a 7 year-old. To cope in the times of COVID we have taken to getting outside our building through the
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Remember when the asshats on Fox Entertainment (news) complained about the “exorbitant cost” of policing the Women’s March?Allow me to systematically call bullshithttps://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article242675516.html We keep hearing
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My dental office in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis is boarding up their windows this afternoon. We are a long way from the protests, so let's be clear
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im convinced the central argument for defund being "more money for social services" is the result of the left internalizing constant cries of "how we gonna pay for it??"https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/12726838498
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Scotland has lowest mortality and cases proportionate to population. Why? It isn’t because we have a healthier base, our life expectancies are lower. It isn’t because we have more resources,
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More on Ordinance 33,021 and local resistance to surveillance, of interest to anyone who would prefer to move about the city without being treated as a prospective criminal. http://antigravitymagazine.com/column/new-orleans-looks-to-ban-fac
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This white woman said to me that the late recording artist Prince is “her boy.” I said “please no, you don’t understand the implications of that phrase.” She said “no
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