Puneet Cheema

Short-tempered melanated immigrant, parent. @NAACP_LDF. She/her. Views mine.🏳️‍🌈

[The Black Wall Street Times @TheBWSTimes]

The DOJ has opened its first-ever federal probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. A step toward justice for survivors and descendants. #TulsaRaceMassacre #Justice #DOJInvestigation https://t.co/UiZeyutFS6

[Puneet Cheema @PuneetCheemaDC]

The dehumanization is the point. So incredibly traumatizing.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

In order to determine whether a 15-year-old volleyball player was transgender, Florida police sought out her medical records to determine any changes in her body weight and asked her teammates if they had ever seen her nude. One detective referred to the girl as "it"

[Witness to Innocence @WTIUSA]

Herman Lindsey, himself an exonerated death row survivor and Executive Director of Witness to Innocence, says of this case - "This is example of how the death penalty becomes not about truth or justice, but about a small group of people wielding their power."

[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

The criminal legal system has already failed Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams multiple times. We cannot let it fail him again.

LDF has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt tonight's execution of Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams.
https://t.co/3MhxmNKcWO

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Prosecutors believe Marcellus Williams was wrongfully convicted. Missouri is still set to execute him this evening unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

“He hasn’t given up hope”

https://t.co/EOeXwXPtJr

[Innocence Project @innocence]

We wish we had better news. But as of now, #MarcellusWilliams is still scheduled to be executed by Missouri tonight at 6 p.m. central for a crime he is totally innocent of. ⁠

Don’t stop sharing his story. It’s not too late to save an innocent life.⁠ https://t.co/eofSDX66tC

[Black Therapist 💕 @NicoleLewisLCSW]

Warm lines that DON’T call the police.

[Innocence Project @innocence]

BREAKING: Today, Marcellus Williams asked the United States Supreme Court to stay his execution based on newly disclosed admissions by the trial prosecutor that he removed at least one Black prospective juror based on his race.
https://t.co/2i8iuPYAIQ

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

Given the U.S.'s long history of intervention in Haiti—plundering its wealth and undermining its self-determination—it's especially bigoted and cruel to now demonize Haitians for seeking refuge.

From Charleroi to Springfield, we should welcome immigrants with open arms.

[Tiffany Cabán @tiffany_caban]

Heartbroken doesn’t cut it. The subway should be safe and free. The NYPD committed a mass shooting over $2.90, now Gregory Depelche is brain dead. We need to lift people out of poverty, not criminalize it. The NYPD put every person on the train in danger. NYC needs care, not cops

[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

8 years ago, Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by former police officer Betty Shelby. He was unarmed. He needed a helping hand. His life mattered.

We are fighting alongside the @Crutcherfdn for a system of public safety where Black people can thrive.
https://t.co/H9dFAAat70

[Puneet Cheema @PuneetCheemaDC]

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread https://t.co/xNmU6R8TtD

[Spencer Reynolds @sreynoldsLDF]

Necessary reading: New study showing the proliferation of state "domestic terrorism" laws. They're often vague, elastic, and used to crush dissent or intimidate government critics. Some shocking examples in the thread below... 👇

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

10 years later & the tragic dimming of this young man’s light & the deep-seated pain it released still hit hard. #MichaelBrown’s murder is 1 of legions of catalysts for change in how we think about public safety and our racist system of law enforcement. The work is far from over.

[Spencer Reynolds @sreynoldsLDF]

NEW: 2,300+ pages of Atlanta Police Dept intel reports & emails, obtained by @BrennanCenter, show sustained targeting of #StopCopCity political events—town halls, canvassing, reading groups, pizza nights. APD intel supercharged politicized crackdowns: https://t.co/Cim67m7OBf 1/

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Democracy in crisis is more important than poll numbers. We seem unable, even now, to shift news coverage consistently towards the unprecedented unrolling of democratic and constitutional norms and the impending cataclysm. We should be listening not to pundits but to scholars of authoritarianism, historians, journalists from other countries that have seen democracy erode. We must shed the hubris that tells us we know how to cover this because we’ve covered politics before, and the belief that we must maintain old norms even in the face of an unparalleled moment in US history. Otherwise, we are not journalists but accomplices. The winners and losers here are not Democrats or Republicans, but democracy itself.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Y’all better listen to this icon’s stories. Some of you want to engage in a nostalgia that erases the horrors and degradation of American apartheid in order to tell a feel-good story of progress. Reggie Jackson refused to allow it. We cannot move on as so many want until we tell the truth and until we make repair.

[Deborah Archer (threads: DeborahNArcher) @DeborahNArcher]

Of the 467 summonses for jaywalking that the NYPD wrote in 2023, 92% were received by Black or Latino New Yorkers, while “fewer than 6 percent … were issued to people identified as non-Hispanic white.” https://t.co/bMQXDGVxjX

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

You see, this is the microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.

ID a vulnerable person/community that’s easier to break the rules towards, normalize it (often w/ “both sides” rhetoric), and then use that rule-breaking to undermine deeper processes and rule of law.