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Iowa is a living metaphor right now.
This THREAD includes
Voter disenfranchisement
@KimReynoldsIA intentionally running over @DesMoinesBLM with her car
Police raiding protestors in their homes for talking to the press
and more.
Happy #4thofJuly2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protester-hit-by-iowa-governors-suv-sure-it-was-intentional/2020/06/30/a7110f64-bb3b-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html
This THREAD includes
Voter disenfranchisement
@KimReynoldsIA intentionally running over @DesMoinesBLM with her car
Police raiding protestors in their homes for talking to the press
and more.
Happy #4thofJuly2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protester-hit-by-iowa-governors-suv-sure-it-was-intentional/2020/06/30/a7110f64-bb3b-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html
The @DMPolice have been out of control, instigating violence and lying about it.
Out of the gate, they tear gassed protestors unprovoked.
" @dmregister reporters did not witness any violence or vandalism from the crowd the entire evening." https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/06/02/monday-protest-des-moines-largely-peaceful-but-ended-tear-gas/3125102001/
Out of the gate, they tear gassed protestors unprovoked.
" @dmregister reporters did not witness any violence or vandalism from the crowd the entire evening." https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/06/02/monday-protest-des-moines-largely-peaceful-but-ended-tear-gas/3125102001/
But the @DesMoinesBLM have made incredible progress.
Iowa is the last state in the country to strip all former felons of voting rights for life. In response to protests, @KimReynoldsIA committed to signing an executive order on voting rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/us/politics/iowa-felons-voting-rights.html
Iowa is the last state in the country to strip all former felons of voting rights for life. In response to protests, @KimReynoldsIA committed to signing an executive order on voting rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/us/politics/iowa-felons-voting-rights.html
Despite her commitment to @DesMoinesBLM, @KimReynoldsIA is dragging her feet on voting rights restoration to ensure that it won't take effect in 2020.
Why? Because Iowa is newly competitive for Trump and @joniernst's and polling is bad. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/iowa-polls-trump-biden-ernst-greenfield.html
Why? Because Iowa is newly competitive for Trump and @joniernst's and polling is bad. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/iowa-polls-trump-biden-ernst-greenfield.html
So with time running out for @KimReynoldsIA to make good on her commitment to restore voting rights for 2020, @DesMoinesBLM demanded answers.
Did she give a date for the EO that would allow people to vote in 2020?
No. @IAGovernor hit them with her car. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/30/igovernor-kim-reynolds-vehicle-strikes-black-lives-matter-protester-jaylen-cavil-while-leaving-event/5349588002/
Did she give a date for the EO that would allow people to vote in 2020?
No. @IAGovernor hit them with her car. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/30/igovernor-kim-reynolds-vehicle-strikes-black-lives-matter-protester-jaylen-cavil-while-leaving-event/5349588002/
10% of Black people in Iowa can't vote. Protestors had been to the Capitol multiple times to negotiate the voting rights EO from the Governor.
When @DesMoinesBLM returned to the Capitol the police had pictures of organizers to target them for arrest. https://twitter.com/aaronpcalvin/status/1279074669325365248
When @DesMoinesBLM returned to the Capitol the police had pictures of organizers to target them for arrest. https://twitter.com/aaronpcalvin/status/1279074669325365248
The @DMPolice reacted to young voting rights activists at the Iowa state capitol (including minors) by suddenly and violently lunging at the crowd, tackling and dragging people to the ground, pepper spraying, and arresting 17 people. https://twitter.com/shelbyfleig/status/1278398526888783877
If that wasn't crazy enough, last night a battalion of @dmpolice raided the homes of the organizers while they were sleeping, 20 police with guns drawn descended on this 21 year old's house.
Because he wanted to check in on that voting restoration EO. https://twitter.com/King_Awwal/status/1278718770081562627
Because he wanted to check in on that voting restoration EO. https://twitter.com/King_Awwal/status/1278718770081562627
The police targeted and arrested the person @KimReynoldsIA hit with her car, @jaylencavil.
The activist whose house was raided in the middle of the night by 20 police with their guns drawn was charged with talking to a reporter (Dissemination of Intelligence Data).
The activist whose house was raided in the middle of the night by 20 police with their guns drawn was charged with talking to a reporter (Dissemination of Intelligence Data).
Voting rights activists in Iowa are being arrested for talking to reporters in an election year, in a swing state, with a competitive Senate election.
And IA 2020 is competitive because of the homicidal incompetence of the Republican #COVID19 response.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/02/us/coronavirus-cases-increase.html
And IA 2020 is competitive because of the homicidal incompetence of the Republican #COVID19 response.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/02/us/coronavirus-cases-increase.html
As we celebrate "Independence Day" think of Iowa, the last state in the US to hold up an unjust voter suppression law, deputizing local police to violently attack voting rights activists in order to keep people from voting against a President and Senator who are letting us die.
