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A draft policy set to be voted on next week would cement SFPD's authority to use robots for lethal force.
“This is not normal,” said civil rights attorney Tifanei Moyer. “No legal professional or ordinary resident should carry on as if it is normal.”
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Today, with this vote, I am livid about how seamlessly the system of civil rights litigation supports and encourages the expansion of a carceral system, a system born from this country’s institution of slavery. It is reprehensible, irredeemable. end/
Lawyers make decisions about what’s best for the carceral system in your county/city without consulting with the community it will impact. And most of them do it with an undeserved sense of righteousness, citing the law and tradition. Do better. 7/
We are giving public comment at this morning's Sacramento Board of Supervisors meeting.
The problems in Sacramento’s jails represent a larger public health crisis, and the answer cannot be to build bigger jails.
Our full letter: https://t.co/HIYrTaQdEI
Today we held a press conference in front of the lot where a $450Million jail expansion project is proposed for Sacramento County… holding a big ole check asking the Board of Supervisors to imagine what’s possible if they put that kinda money into COMMUNITY.
We should be outraged at San Francisco's failed approach to the homelessness crisis. Decades of refusing to invest in affordable housing, forcing Black and Brown families out onto the streets, and now they want to scapegoat their residents for a crisis they started. Do better.
At the two-year mark of the day we all learned of George Floyd’s life and death, our feeds were all saturated with compounded grief, imbued with news of more violent tragedies.
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