🧵We've pulled together some of the false claims about crime and incarceration you're most likely to hear at the Thanksgiving dinner table, and the data and facts to help you push back:
Woman making a 7 figure salary uses virtually unlimited legal resources to defend a bajillion dollar corporation in a system set up to allow corporations to do terrible harm with impunity, snatches victory from the jaws of victory ✨against all odds!✨
You get wrongfully arrested. What's the remedy? The case gets dismissed. That's all. You don't win anything and you aren't even reimbursed for legal fees, bond fees, or pain and suffering. When we say police have no checks, this is proof
1/ Utterly despicable abuse of power in CO, where school admin is facing child porn charges for recording evidence on his phone during bona fide sexting investigation. Prosecutors are threatening 32yrs while offering misdemeanor obstruction if he pleads.
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Right now Joel Embiid is the best player in the NBA. Has such an advantage over Giannis because HE CAN MAKE FREE THROWS. In tonight's blown-lead loss at Philly, Giannis went 4-15 from the FT line.
BREAKING: The Tennessee Supreme Court in a 3 to 2 ruling has decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of homicide violates the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment to the US constitution. 🧵 1/3
Instead of asking Public Defenders, "how can you defend those people?", you should be asking prosecutors and police, "how can you prosecute and arrest those people?"
Here is a reminder of who "those people" that prosecutors and police, rarely ever have to account for: