Piper French

reporting @boltsmag, other work in @nybooks @nymag @readlux @thedrift_mag etc. en/es/fr

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

In January 2024 I got a one-line email from a woman I didn't know: "Jimmie Duncan an innocent man on death row is looking to get into contact with you." I've been working on the story ever since. Here it is, finally : a @boltsmag / @MotherJones collab.

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

As Israeli war criminals parade in NYC alongside our public officials, the Gaza flotilla's participants are recovering from the extreme violence inflicted on them at sea. I wrote about the history of the flotilla movement's efforts to break the blockade: https://t.co/DDQF1TfSYn

[Elizabeth Kim @lizkimtweets]

NYPD Commissioner Tisch told City Council today that she’s been budgeted to hire nearly 600 more cops. That would give her a larger police force than under Mayor Eric Adams. https://t.co/vby9UzkgtJ

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

@enoughformethx @elusivecorporal Thank you Alex ! Hope you're doing all right and getting some well deserved rest

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

As Israeli war criminals parade in NYC alongside our public officials, the Gaza flotilla's participants are recovering from the extreme violence inflicted on them at sea. I wrote about the history of the flotilla movement's efforts to break the blockade: https://t.co/DDQF1TfSYn

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

@AlexBores weren't you also at this parade?

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

@TylerMcBrien @boltsmag insane history that i was not aware of, thanks for posting! im looking forward to reading the full baffler piece

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

Great @PiperSFrench piece on what a Mamdani-era Civilian Complaint Review Board might look like.

In my @thebafflermag article on hollow point bullets last year, I recounted a strange bit of CCRB history from 1997, when commissioners took a field trip to an NYPD shooting range...

[Eamon Whalen @EamonWhalen]

an incredible detail about i love boosters from the new yorker boots riley profile

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

This is URGENT 🚨🇨🇺 All signs now suggest that the Trump administration is preparing an imminent invasion of Cuba.

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

This in @Equatormag by Nasser Abu Srour, about surviving three decades in Israeli prison, is a genuinely important piece of writing.

https://t.co/mBk6Pa68Zl

[Jasper Craven @Jasper_Craven]

My beloved @thebafflermag has the first excerpt of my book, on the psychosexual abuse endured by West Point's first women: https://t.co/Zv5YeUVnsQ

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

I was at a q&a recently where Kelly Reichardt said "my friends and i don't talk about art" lol

[alex lei @alexL_E_I]

thinking about the time i was at a Wendy & Lucy Q&A and Kelly Reichardt called winning the Palme Dog “the stupidest day of my life”

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

Reminder that SF DA Brooke Jenkins dismantled the police accountability unit Chesa Boudin had built up and dismissed its open cases: https://t.co/tuMFWgeaZj

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

A San Francisco woman went out drinking with a group of cop friends. She blacked out and woke up in a hotel room naked and drugged with four cops. The rape kit tested positive for all of their DNA but the D.A refuses to bring any charges.

https://t.co/qEs0ApOcyk

[Jake Romm @jake_romm]

Please donate to the Sameer Project

https://t.co/ulPkALmq7P

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

the lead plaintiff in the Callais case that just gutted the voting rights act is a J6er...

https://t.co/Irgoz233Bo

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: By the time Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry suspended ongoing elections to give lawmakers time to redraw the state’s congressional map, roughly 42,000 Louisianans already cast their votes — and it’s likely many voted in the House primaries.

Now, their ballots are at risk of being thrown out. https://t.co/YGCUUE3UKX

[tanvi @Tanvim]

Earlier this year I followed a few different groups who were court watching and ICE watching on the streets of NYC and Chicago. That story, in the latest print issue of @readlux, is now online: https://t.co/HXxxJ0xMtf

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

last summer in crown heights i saw 2 uniformed nypd officers chilling each grasping their own personal COCONUT. sucking on the straw and everything

[jordan @jordansarge]

if you, an nypd officer, feel comfortable enough while on patrol to eat an ice cream cone, then i question the need for you to be out on the street in bed stuy, given that you clearly don't think you will need to be doing your job any time soon. i could not believe this shit

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

Thrilled to report that Orgullosa and her children are safely back in Louisiana

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

In July, an ICE agent told Orgullosa Pitillo: self-deport or risk losing your children. She knew it wasn’t an empty threat: in 2018 Orgullosa was one of 1000s of parents separated from their kids at the border.
Now, Trump is coming for these families again. I reported for @nymag: