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[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

It’s HORRIFIC how we treat people with a mental illness. LaShawn Thompson was found dead in his Fulton County jail cell, allegedly eaten alive by bed bugs, just months after he was arrested for a misdemeanor. https://t.co/MfqUQ0uxhd

[Attorney Alex Taubes @alextt]

Restore the Connecticut Commutation Process Immediately - Sign the Petition! We need to continue to be a Connecticut of second chances. For so many of our fellow citizens who are incarcerated, a commutation is their only hope for reentry. https://t.co/3hmmCeD4kF via @Change

[NPR @NPR]

If you are in your 20s, 30s and 40s, you need to know the signs to watch for colorectal cancer — and when to seek screening or treatment. https://t.co/CoSTBiOFb0

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A 60-year-old woman died of a stroke after Knoxville (TN) Police refused to get her medical help, instead accusing her of FAKING an illness and laughing at her! The lack of compassion for a woman pleading for help displayed in this video is just appalling! 🎥: @thetnholler

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A school police officer in Las Vegas slammed a HS student recording police to the ground and PINNED him underneath his knee. This officer could have killed this student with his violence. He escalated this encounter and further tarnished public trust!

[Attorney Alex Taubes @alextt]

STOP HITTING HIM IN THE HEAD
Waterbury, Connecticut
☹️

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Tyre Nichols was killed by Black, college educated cops who received extra training & passed required psychological exams

How’s that “We-don’t need-to-defund-the-police-we-just-need-a-better-trained-more-educated-more-diverse-police-force” thing working out?

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

When the police break the laws, the proposed solution is always to give them more money & training.

Why isn’t that logic applied to so-called “high crime areas”?

Why don’t they get more money & education as a solution??

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

In the first two years of the pandemic, two-thirds of all the new wealth created went to the top 1%. That’s not inevitable. That’s because of how the rich & powerful have rigged the rules. So I’m fighting to un-rig those rules & level the playing field. https://t.co/fPCNo1VKAi

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Hold on: House Republicans want a national 30% sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline? They want to raise taxes on working-class & middle-class families while slashing them for millionaires & billionaires?

Are they TRYING to show exactly how out of touch they are?

[Black Lives Matter 860 (Hartford CT) 🍉 @blm860]

Today is Martin Luther King Day.

#reclaimmlk
#BlackLivesMatter

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Please stop saying people “died after encounters with police.” They died because THE POLICE KILLED THEM

[Black Lives Matter 860 (Hartford CT) 🍉 @blm860]

Details you should know:
1) This happened 12/29/22 in Shelton Connecticut
2) Luckily his wife filmed, they refuse to release body cam footage
3) police ignored the children in the room, clearly we established mom was forced to film and lucky she did.

[emily @emmycee724]

@TweetsOfCats Lmao

[ChristopherBlackwell @ChrisWBlackwell]

Another person died by suicide at my prison this week. My neighbor down the hall. He was always tutoring guys in the college program. They moved him to solitary "for his own protection" and he took his own life during that torture. The second suicide here in the last few months.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

A 31-year-old man named Jacoby Pillow has just died inside the jail in downtown Houston. 28 people died there in 2022, most of them because their families didn't have enough cash to pay what local judges and DAs demanded. Jacoby was accused of misdemeanor trespassing.

[Black Lives Matter 860 (Hartford CT) 🍉 @blm860]

Many times in Connecticut higher density housing and low income housing units don’t fit into the “character” of the town because Connecticut was segregated by federal law.

Anything beyond keeping low income residents out the town probably won’t match the town.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

So... will this moment be one in which we push for football to be safer? To pressure the @NFL to make the game less brutal for its players?

We will see.

[emily @emmycee724]

This person cannot continue to be a cop. This is a dangerous hate crime. #firenesto

[Attorney Alex Taubes @alextt]

A New Haven police officer threatened to “snap” a child’s neck. This is months after New Haven police did break a man’s spine causing him to be paralyzed. When will Mayor Justin Elicker do something about out-of-control cops who fail to keep us safe? https://t.co/8me5Y2FYuc

[Attorney Alex Taubes @alextt]

Outrageous @CTCorrections contractor @JPay_com charges $2.95-$8.95 to electronically transfer $5-$200 to the prison "within one (1) to two (2) business days," where it "may take additional time in posting ... to the incarcerated individual’s account," to pay for JPay music or TV.