Charlottesville BLM

Black activists organizing in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Movement for Black Lives. 📷: @ezeamosp

[Charlottesville BLM @CvilleBLM]

In #Charlottesville, @JSAAHC, a Black organization, is melting down a hundred year old anti-Black statue. Based.
https://t.co/W86IDRnzvj

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

Giving the police immunity

[NDN Collective @ndncollective]

(1/7) Oglala Sioux Tribe Invokes Treaties to Hold Police Accountable. For almost two years, we have called for the Department of Justice to investigate the Rapid City Police Department's pattern of discrimination against Native people.

[New York Times Education Pitchbot @GreyLadiesNYC]

Eric Adams Suddenly Really Into Bail Reform, Restorative Justice, Prison Abolition

[Dave Biscobing @DaveBiscobing15]

This letter was just posted on the Phoenix police union's Facebook.

Seems like we now know how @RubenGallego got his surprising endorsement yesterday in his race for U.S. Senate.

[SQUASH B’GOSH @otherjrobbins]

This is gonna destroy the police force

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

LAPD arrested an 83-y/o grandma on Mother's Day for selling flowers without a permit. The arrest was streamed live on social media and people arrived and bought all of her flowers, offering to pay her fines, too.
https://t.co/W7OWU9haSU

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year.

A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” https://t.co/KG8NB6OnEw

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Last night, the White House quietly sent out a press release notifying reporters that Biden would be seeking $37 billion for, among other things, 100,000 new cops. This is one of the most dangerous developments imaginable.

[Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 @tariqnasheed]

South Carolina police have released a gruesome bodycam footage of two cowardly suspected race soldiers officers Dante Ghi and Katherine Kirkland brutally arresting a 13-year-old Black boy as he was selling flowers outside a Walmart store in Summerville.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

SATURDAY - A San Bernardino county sheriff’s department deputy shot and killed Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old boy who was holding a gardening tool

JUSTICE FOR RYAN GAINER https://t.co/bSD52GrNZB

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

A white police officer who was convicted of killing Greg Gunn, an unarmed Black man, in 2016 has been released from prison less than two years into his sentence following an unprecedented intervention from Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. https://t.co/Hd9uK21Jh3

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — Judge says Texas school’s punishment of Black student doesn’t violate law banning race-based hair discrimination.

[Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @_AshDashLee_]

Pay attention, good people...

Read this: https://t.co/CMak34tqGZ

[Charlottesville BLM @CvilleBLM]

The latest death from cop malfeasance. #sayhername

[ChudsOfTikTok 🖥️ @ChudsOfTikTok]

Meanwhile I'd like to highlight actual reporting on the incident, that actually has Tabitha Smith's name & testimonials from her friends.

“I hope they remember her by her name Tabby Smith, & I hope she’s remembered by more than the girl in the back seat,” said her friend Emilie Neusel. https://t.co/iR63aTPfSc

[Charlottesville BLM @CvilleBLM]

This is your occasional reminder that UVA police chief Tim Longo testified as an expert witness in defense of the Baltimore cops who killed Freddie Gray.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

One of the six police officers charged after the killing of Freddie Gray has been tapped to oversee the Baltimore Police Department's Public Integrity Bureau, a unit that handles misconduct investigations https://t.co/q3JJc1yjln

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

New bodycam footage shows Okaloosa County, FL Deputy Jesse Hernandez declaring "shots fired!" and "I'm hit!" and shooting at the handcuffed, unarmed suspect inside of his police car.

He had not been shot, rather, it was determined that he heard an acorn drop onto the car.

[Chelsea Higgs Wise @ChelseaWiseRVA]

Federal judge found that the Richmond Police Department engages in discriminatory stops of Black drivers, according to an opinion released on Monday afternoon.
https://t.co/KqupBZVaiq