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Samuel Sinyangwe
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Black Activist. Data Scientist & Policy Analyst. Stanford Alum. Creator, Police Scorecard | Mapping Police Violence. Co-Founded Campaign Zero samswey1@gmail.com
New York, NYpolicescorecard.orgJoined August 2012
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Deedy
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There's ~5.5k Thai restaurants in the US but only 300k people. Why? The Thai govt offers up to $3M in loans for nationals to start restaurants abroad since 2002. ~10k have opened abroad since. Max fixed cost = $30B. Tourism went up 6.5x in value to $65B netting +$55B recurring
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@mixtapeminimusic
@mixtapeminimus1
Notice how he was not treated like a criminal through the entire video. No handcuffs, no threats, not being roughed up and if I’m not mistaken was found with drugs and paraphernalia but still able to leave the scene without being arrested. White Privileged, must be nice.
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Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Republican City Council member Matthew Reilly of Cranston, RI was arrested after he was found behind the wheel passed out holding a crack pipe with crack and fentanyl in the car.
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Bring Our Neighbors Home ⚖
@BONH_Coalition
Denver students were ticketed or arrested 4,929x in 6 years 2014-2020. 87% of those were students of color. In the 2 years since SROs were removed from Denver schools, students have been ticketed/arrested just 175x — a 90% reduction.
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co.chalkbeat.org
Denver school board to discuss police ban after superintendent proposes rolling it back
Superintendent Alex Marrero has proposed allowing schools to decide whether they want police officers. Current school board policy bans police in schools.
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Bianca
@BiancaTylek
We have tried so hard to include video calls and electronic messages in every one of our #connectingfamilies bills since our success in CT, but time and time again states have removed them — CA, CO, MN. I hope others read and learn. All communication in prison and jail is vital.
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Worth Rises
@WorthRises
We won big in CA when we made prison calls free, but the legislature cut out major provisions in our initial bill: video calls, electronic messages, and jails. @TheProspect covers the importance of these omissions. The fight to #connectfamilies continues! prospect.org/justice/2023-0
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@samswey
So when a police officer makes someone feel uncomfortable or harasses a person on the subway, the “Good Samaritan” approach is to intervene and choke that officer to death?
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National Police Association
@NatPoliceAssoc
NY subway good Samaritan Daniel Penny head held high, shoulders back. @ManhattanDA Alvin Bragg used the escorting officers, who had no choice, for a shameful photo op. Bragg has stopped good Samaritans from stopping criminals. Penny's defense fund is here givesendgo.com/daniel_penny
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Joshua Benton
@jbenton
Astonishingly racist: The Louisiana House votes to make juvenile records PUBLIC — but ONLY in the three Blackest urban parishes that include New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport.
Kids as young as 13 could have criminal records released in 3 majority-Black parishes Supporters say they're addressing crime with transparency. Opponents question the parishes selected. By JAMES FINN | Staff writer
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James Finn
@rjamesfinn
Story from a very long House floor session last night: Louisiana House approves releasing youth crime records in majority-Black parishes #lalege #lagov theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne via @theadvocatebr
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PeggyHatesLongCovid
@HatesTech
“increased gun arrests have not resulted in reducing or solving homicides or nonfatal shootings. “The current intense focus on illegal gun possession without a license is having no effect on the gun violence crisis,” the Philadelphia District Attorn”
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko
After one of the most jaw-dropping police abuse and corruption scandals in city history, Baltimore disbanded its elite proactive policing units, then started them back up under a different name. baltimoremagazine.com/section/commun
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Eric Umansky
@ericuman
NEW: We got something you rarely see: internal investigation into police killing, w/ audio interviews of officers They don't tell truth: A cop repeatedly told his partner not to fire. Police investigators never ask about that, even though it was on film
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Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Now We Know Police Investi...
We obtained the NYPD’s full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers. The records provide a rare window into how exactly a...
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko
After one of the most jaw-dropping police abuse and corruption scandals in city history, Baltimore disbanded its elite proactive policing units, then started them back up under a different name.
baltimoremagazine.com
After The GTTF Scandal, BPD Set Up More Plainclothes Units. Are They More of the Same?
“We establish our own probable cause,” a District Action Team officer said in a piece of video footage captured after a 2022 arrest.
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David Menschel
@davidminpdx
Perfect example of how the press creates moral panics around crime and then the politicians – who have the actual data – dismiss the data and respond instead to the moral panics the press created.
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Martin Austermuhle
@maustermuhle
"We can say the number is down, but it’s about how people feel," says Contee, noting that in 2015 there were more than 6,000 violent crimes in D.C., while in 2022 there were less than 4,000.
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The Washington Post
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Jonathan Eig was deep in the Duke University archives researching his new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. when he made an alarming discovery: King’s harshest and most famous criticism of Malcolm X, in which he accused his fellow civil rights leader of “fiery, demagogic… Show more
Black-and-white photo of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, and Malcolm X at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 1964., alongside text that reads "MLK's famous criticism of Malcolm X was a 'fraud,' author finds.
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Chris Vanderveen (yep…me)
@chrisvanderveen
We’ve found nearly 100 cases around the US where EXCITED DELIRIUM was used as an explanation for the death Almost all deaths involved law enforcement Now the coroner’s guiding association says it can no longer endorse use of the term. Big deal folks
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Coroners' group drops support of 'excited delirium,' placing coroners' offices in awkward position
A national group of medical examiners recently dropped any endorsement of the term "excited delirium," focusing attention on the continued use of the term.
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Grits for Breakfast
@Grits4Breakfast
Cops are out in force today at the #txlege, lighting up the phones to sway Republican offices to reconsider this vote. The bill would gut civilian oversight in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Fort Worth, including overturning Austin's Prop A, which passed by a 4-1 margin.
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Grits for Breakfast
@Grits4Breakfast
The police-union bill to roll back Austin's Prop A died yesterday evening in the House Urban Affairs Committee on a 2-7 vote. Rumor has it the Governor is mad about it and may demand a re-vote, but that's a decent margin to overcome, and time in session is growing short.
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Alexander Agadjanian
@A_agadjanian
In case you were wondering whether the inability to distinguish parties on policies (even major ones like abortion) like in the quoted tweet here is rare -- even right after the 2020 election, ~1 in 3 voters could not correctly distinguish Biden and Trump's positions on abortion:
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd
Converse (1964), Zaller (1992). Two citations that are still putting up W's. twitter.com/EricLevitz/sta…
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Samuel Sinyangwe
@samswey
Both my grandparents in Tanzania were alive when slavery was abolished there. The slave trade in East Africa continued for decades after slavery was formally abolished in Europe/the Americas. Very recent history.
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@historyinmemes
Slave shackle being removed by a British sailor, 1907. The son of the man who took the photograph wrote the following account of what happened:
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melanie lynskey stan
@jennylynegan
This cop testified under oath the LAPD’s SWAT team summarily executed people & says he was fired for blowing the whistle.
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Kevin Rector
@kevrector
NEW: A longtime LAPD SWAT insider turned whistleblower who alleged the elite tactical unit is controlled by a violent inner circle known as the “SWAT Mafia” has further detailed his claims in a startling new deposition. STORY w/ @LAcrimes @liborjany: latimes.com/california/sto
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jon ben-menachem
@jbenmenachem
This is one of the most alarming trends in US politics: the Right is just removing political opponents from office, and it's happening quite a lot with reform DAs or other people trying to scale back criminalization
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Taniel
@Taniel
Georgia's GOP is on brink of adopting a law to enable them to remove locally elected DAs who are not charging certain cases, like abortion or marijuana. I talked to one of their main targets, Athens DA Deborah Gonzalez: "I have a target on my back." New: boltsmag.org/georgia-bill-w
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Taniel
@Taniel
JUST IN: The Minnesota governor just signed a law that sets up automatic voter registration in the state. AVR has been quickly adopted by blue states over the past 6-7 years, and Dem captured control of the state government after cycles of falling short in November.
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