#Policing

Agnes Callamard

AgnesCallamard

POLICE USE OF FORCE IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY: The numbers of allegations of police killings and their excessive use of force are deeply concerning. Graphic accounts of police cruelty,

Aoife Simone

aoifesimone

This exemplifies the BS of GC discourse about "gender abolition". How is it a social conservative who upholds traditional marriage can come to publicly proclaim "gender abolition" with a straight

AMA

AmerMedicalAssn

In any season, police violence is an injustice, but its harm is elevated amidst the remarkable stress people are facing amidst #COVID19. Even now, there is evidence of excessive police-initiated

Resita Cox

ResitaCox

Someone stole my wallet last week. I lost everything. They went shopping on Karma Loop (yes that still exists) and bought like $60 worth of food at a restaurant. In

Amanda Alexander

A_S_Alexander

What books, articles, films, & other offerings have most shaped your thinking on abolition? @lawyergrrl asked us to tweet our recs! I’ll start: Ruthie Gilmore’s work, Angela Davis’s Are Prisons

Cite Black Women.

citeblackwomen

This #CiteBlackWomenSunday we are sharing resources that support the struggle to preserve and protect Black life. ICYMI here's Ruth Wilson Gilmore's three part interview with @haymarketbooks on decarceration. Covid-19, Decarceration

Valerie Halla

valeriehalla

my sincere wish is that people would chill the ever-loving heck out about policing the boundaries of identity labels. terms of queer identity are self selected!! they are not concrete

Paul Tonko ⚫️

RepPaulTonko

I am enraged and heartbroken to see this violence from a Schenectady police officer. I have been told that police departments across our region do not teach or use these

Flavia Dzodan

redlightvoices

your favorite white liberal is talking about "how things are in the US" with ZERO words about how things are in The Netherlands?! the country where local fascists self deputize

Robyn Tannehill

RobynTannehill

Lies hurt everyone. Trust is so hard to earn. I woke up to a tweet from Fred Nettles yesterday claiming that after an experience in Oxford, Mississippi recently he was

Barb McQuade

BarbMcQuade

THREAD1/ All police departments in America are legally required to uphold the constitutional rights of the people they serve. We have seen too many violations to tolerate. How can we

Jane Recker

janerecker

Mayor Bowser says DC is at 13 days of sustained decline as of today. We need to see 14 days to begin Phase 1 of reopening. The District is also

Tim Dickinson

7im

This story makes me tired:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/portland-protests-mayor-ted-wheeler.html The abuses by the Portland Police Department are so pervasive and systemic that simply describing them sounds like editorializing. The

jenn m. jackson

JennMJacksonPhD

I'm super disturbed at how (even before this moment) I had gotten used to seeing police in full riot gear. Heavily armed policing was the norm growing up in Oakland

Visibly Concerned Jinki

g4jinki

I don't know who needs to read this but being a fan of something whether you're fully invested or casual about it, is not and will not ever be a

Daniel A. Horwitz

Scot_Blog

I don’t know how to quantify this, but Democrats lose elections because of this certifiable insanity.https://twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1273458438773903360 Some of you fucking people do this kind of preposterously irritating speech