Minnesota cops said they cannot accept a potential ban on white supremacist affiliation in POST certified officer ranks, cuz it will hurt recruitment. Please let that sink into your every consideration of each and every city/police budget conversation.
CW: police violence
An NYPD officer is caught on camera punching a petite young woman to the ground.
A witness says, “why would you do that? She’s just a little girl.”
He must be held accountable.
Not given a slap on the wrist.
He has ZERO business being a police officer & should be fired immediately. @ericadamsfornyc do you have the moral courage to publicly condemn this ? You can’t be #BackTheBlue regardless if they are right or wrong. That’s not leadership
UPDATE: Body camera footage released by Columbus police Tuesday shows an officer fatally shooting a 20-year-old who was sitting in bed and may have had a vape pen next to him as officers tried to arrest him.
Hey @Calex_law how about you don’t just come in here and tell us what we need to do. You need to shut up and listen. Listen to our stories of how the city and @MinneapolisPD have width drawn from our community have time and time again inflicted pain on our community.
#BREAKING: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford County. ASP says two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer were involved. #ARNews
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🧵Many folks recently have tweeted about how its hard to talk about what’s going on in Minneapolis without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. Nobody seems to want to openly have this discussion, understandably, out of safety concerns. Local media doesn’t dare report on this.
Guys, a mass shooter went into Englewood today. A predominately black and brown community with 5 guns including an AR-15, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and notes about mass shootings. Only one news station covered this so far! I’m outraged.
@RepSpanberger@POTUS When politicians have no plans to adress poverty, homelessness, racial injustice, opioid overdoses, inadequate healthcare, etc. they turn to police to paper over their failures with more violence and mass incarceration.
They shot him 60 times.
They shot him 60 times.
They shot him 60 times.
They shot him 60 times.
They shot him 60 times.
He was murdered by Akron police.
Say his name. #JaylandWalker
My amendment with @MplsWard11 to the Mayor's ARPA budget moved $160,000 from MPD to fund an additional 2 vans for our Behavioral Crisis Response Team passed unanimously in Budget Committee. This will allow us to expand our mental health response and respond to calls more quickly.
Cops killed 12-year-old Black child Tamir Rice in 1.7 seconds for holding a toy because cops "feared for their lives"—but calmly arrested 18-year-old white supremacist Payton Gendron while he murdered a retired cop, and then 9 more people.
It was never about "complying."
Every penny of any excessive use of force civil suit against the @MinneapolisPD is paid for with tax dollars. Police have no skin in the game. #Endindemnification