Killer mom Susan Smith's parole hearing is this morning in South Carolina.
She will ask the parole board to free her after 30 years.
Smith initially said a black man kidnaped her sons, but then admitted she drove her car into a lake with them strapped in their car seats.
With a #Dunwoody case being featured on 20/20 this week, seems like a great time to remind the world how the City of Dunwoody spent over a million dollars protecting the Police Lieutenant that we spoke out against.
Just In: The NBA is in serious discussions on a new, four-team tournament format for the 2025 All-Star Game, sources told ESPN.
Details here: https://t.co/FWMeuefOKC
My latest for @MarshallProj:
It often starts with suspicion: Why didn’t she call for an ambulance when the bleeding started? What if she didn’t want the baby? Maybe she took something — or inquired about abortion pills?
https://t.co/AZHuTnfqss
1/ One moment, 11-year-old Junior was enjoying a family birthday at a restaurant in Chattanooga. The next, he was being handcuffed and forced into a police car.
The officer cited a new state law making threats of mass violence at school a felony. https://t.co/Qd5uOs3CNt
“The people that came in, they’re eating the cats... They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
⬆️ Trump made this claim.
@dd_writes fact-checks it: https://t.co/OCsJX3TjJX
When prisoners were being abused under his watch, a fed warden was referred for discipline -- then appointed director of a national training academy https://t.co/leTZU9HvB2
1/ Haitian and Latin American immigrants have played a key role in revitalizing Springfield’s economy, driving business growth, and stabilizing local industries. https://t.co/XicKB99vkV
NEW: Hospitals around the US are using inaccurate pee-in-a-cup drug tests to report new mothers to child protective services, prompting investigations and even the removal of newborns from their families over false positive results. My latest: https://t.co/BXI3ZFwHat
From @dd_writes for @MarshallProj: "We live in a world where every time you speak up, people tell you that you’re not supposed to, that it’s not the right time, or that it’s not the right place." https://t.co/zXm51tNQcE
I'm really proud of how the @IRE_NICAR community has come together to make our training more affordable to early-career, freelance & laid-off journalists. Thank you to @sylvesterd for covering our efforts and to all the IRE Board/staff for leading the way https://t.co/jJTrTYlko3
Grateful to @dd_writes for highlighting my challenges faced as a police #whistleblower in the @MarshallProj.
We need real protections to ensure officers can safely report misconduct w/o retaliation and to drive positive change and reform in policing.
https://t.co/uzicJ2oxXM
Problematic officers are allowed to “wander” from one department to the next while officers who blow the whistle on police misconduct are blacklisted. https://t.co/xqR0uRIl44 via @MarshallProj Reporting by @dd_writes