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News reports indicate over a thousand protesters have been arrested in the #GeorgeFloyd protests. The racist mechanism of cash bail (which disproportionately affects Black people) deprives them of their liberty by keeping them in jail indefinitely until trial.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
Read more about cash bail and how it targets Black people (and other convenient targets!): https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-cash-bail-works
Consider donating to one of many community-based cash bail funds: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory
#BlackLivesMatter
Consider donating to one of many community-based cash bail funds: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory
#BlackLivesMatter
Even if a protester makes bail, and didn't actually commit any crimes, that won't stop the government from inventing a pretext for prosecution - inauguration protests in 2016 demonstrated that. Did you hear about the J20 trials?
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/14/inauguration-protest-prosecutions/
#BlackLivesMatter
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/14/inauguration-protest-prosecutions/
#BlackLivesMatter
If you believe in free speech, then you should be able to recognize that this power structure is built to quash dissent and erode the free speech of protesters, especially Black protesters and those who oppose the violence-based authority our government wields.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
