Ethan Lowens

Queens Community Board 1 Member (Astoria), Public Defender at Queens Defenders

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

If I can get to Truist park in the next seven minutes @Mets will you let me play???

[Jocelyn Simonson @j_simonson]

Don't look away from what is happening in Atlanta today, a new & frightening level of suppression & criminalization of bail funds & mutual aid via the prosecution of three @ATLSolFund organizers:

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

@THECITYNY Have any other Grand Jurors in Queens had similar experiences? Please share your stories!!!

[dsa.nyc/vote by June 23rd! @aaronnarraph]

This January, I served as a grand jury foreman in Queens.

When I spoke up about blatantly illegal behavior by court officers. they removed me from the room & tried to intimidate me into shutting up.

I filed an affidavit to dismiss one of our indictments. @haideechu has more 🧵

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

In NY right now, a Democratic Supermajority is on the cusp of giving judges who already abuse their power historic new powers to jail even more Black & brown people. Why? Not data or studies. Those all say the opposite. But bc the Dem. Governor is afraid of bad press. Vote NO.

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

Agreed - no changes to the bail laws will keep the New York Post from sensationalizing and fear-mongering. Hochul is punishing thousands of low income people with no benefit - political, safety, or otherwise.

[Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr.bsky.social) @votejgr]

In an 11th hour move there are now attempts to rollback discovery reform. The proposal will encourage the withholding of discovery & lead to wrongful convictions. I urge leadership to hold the line on this. The legislature made vital civil rights gains in 2019.

We can’t go back.

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

@AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie Please DO NOT give in to @GovKathyHochul's turncoat discovery and bail changes! Every year, the data and your voters send the same message -- these reforms important and they are working! Stand strong!

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

While the GOP is criminalizing reproductive choice throughout the country, in Democratically controlled NY, Democrats are scheming with the GOP on how to loosen evidence laws to allow prosecutors to withhold evidence until the day of trial.

Innocent people will get convicted.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

While Black representatives are being expelled by the GOP in Tennessee, in Democratically controlled NY, right now, the Dem. Governor is holding the state budget hostage to dramatically change the state's bail laws to lock up thousands of Black & brown people. Needlessly.

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

Are they really trying this again??!? When prosecutors couldn’t win the fight about discovery reform in public, now they’re trying to do it secretly. New Yorkers support #kaliefslaw - do not change it!

[New York County Defender Services @nyc_defenders]

We are appalled to learn that NYC prosecutors have waged a covert campaign to sneak in disastrous rollbacks of NY's historic, long-overdue 2019 discovery reforms in this year's budget. Our elected leaders must reject these duplicitous attacks on justice. Our full statement 👇

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

@nypost What a coincidence that giving judges and defendants more evidence resulted in more dismissals! Maybe some of that evidence (videos, sobriety tests, police reports) shows that people aren’t guilty. Also, the 15 and 35 day discovery deadlines the article cites are never enforced.

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

Eye opening study: kids taken off government benefits in the 90s were 60% more likely to spend time in jail. https://t.co/HYtML25yQ0

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

@susanleenyc For many NYers, driving is necessary to get to work, doctors, etc. If they can’t afford to register/insure, what is it other than penalizing poverty? I want everyone to register/insure. But this “crackdown” on poor working people neither solves that problem nor reduces violence

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

I have an op-ed in this morning's @amNewYork! Mayor Adams is wrong: People have fake license plates because they can't afford real ones. Arresting them WILL NOT reduce violent crime. There are far better uses of police resources. https://t.co/I9V2p8Gn48

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

My op-ed went live in AM New York!!

[amNewYork™ @amNewYork]

"To penalize people for their poverty is morally unconscionable and socially counterproductive." https://t.co/PTZbkTGwiq

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

New @CitiBikeNYC review: motor is incredible. But the rest of the bike doesn’t feel matched to it — brakes are concerning, steering feels flimsy. Definitely a fun ride though!

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

Fake license plates are the most common case I get. These clients are not serious criminals like this article suggests — that is ludicrous. They have fake plates because registering and insuring a car in NYC costs thousands of dollars. #PovertyIsNotACrime https://t.co/2vO5wHIkdW

[Ethan Lowens @EthanLowens]

I’m guessing that ⁦@JFKairport⁩ went over budget on a recent renovation and that’s why they’re using X-rays of people’s luggage as hallway art???

[ALAA - UAW 2325 @alaa2325]

At @QueensDefenders we have been fighting for a fair contract for more than a year, while QD has refused to agree to common sense policies to resolve negotiations.

Our members showed incredible unity by posting their demands on their office doors and wearing their union buttons.