Robert Gangi
@GangiFromProp
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Social, Racial Justice Advocate. He/him/his. End Racist "Broken Windows" Policing/Real Affordable Housing/Free fare for Low-Income NYers/Small Class Sizes.
Joined March 2017
We are raising money for a critical initiative, PROP's Court Monitoring Project! We document and report first-hand the harm done by "broken windows" policing. Click the link below for more information.
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The suspect called the police & waited for them to come to arrest him. Offered no resistance &, according to the NY Post, said when they finally showed up: "I'm Frank. The person you're looking for. I'm surprised it took so long".
The DEA is proud to represent the courageous Detective who arrested Frank Robert James for the subway shooting in Brooklyn. The clicks of his cuffs ended the manhunt by 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘿𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, fellow Finest, and our federal partners.
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@davidrkadler @CarolynUrban2 Palestinian leader, not from Hamas, making a strong case that Israel’s occupation & its continuing violations of Palestinians’ rights & well-being are the central problem. Justice for Palestinians is the only way for there to be a fair & lasting peace in the region.
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Cruel crazy cops are fucking everywhere. For selling water? Really? They apply what could be, & has been in some cases, the death penalty.
They just keep doing it. Teen choked and arrested for selling water in Las Vegas. #BlackLivesMatter.
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Probably shouldn’t have posed for it.
The McCloskey’s say this picture has ruined their lives. 🤷♀️
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@artan_ayan Director of the UN's NY office resigns: "The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution & purging based entirely on their status as Arabs leaves no room for doubt. This is a textbook case of genocide".
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@OmarBaddar @MNajeddine So human. So brutal. Her communication with the medical staff left behind in Gaza: “I wake up every morning & send a text: are you alive? Before I go to bed at night, I send a text: are you alive?”.
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@Newyorkist @OzzieAraujo @NYCPBA @NBCNewYork @ABC7NY @Gothamist @NYCMayor If you seek evidence that #NYPD has too many cops on its payroll doing silly things, watch this clip where a dozen or so cops are involved in arresting a NYer for smoking inside a park. Not an outlier, but the kind of arrests most cops make. Driven by the police quota system.
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And 25% of the world’s incarcerated people. You know what that tells us.
The United States has 4% of the world’s population, yet we have 26% of the Covid-19 cases. What does that tell us?.
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#NYPD cops arrested 2 Latino boys on a Manhattan subway for "unauthorized selling of bottled water." It was late Fri afternoon, & the boys were locked up for 2 days before an arraignment judge released them the following Sunday. #ThatsHowTheyGetYou @PROPNYC.
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@malonebarry @ItsMeChrissilee Very human, very, very poignant. So very hard to watch. Shouldn’t happen to anybody, especially spirited children like the boy & girl shown. Much of the world knows these stories, the consequences of Israeli aggressive bombing. Do enough Americans know? Do Biden et al care?.
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@katie_honan @NYCMayor Adams says that outsiders have “co-opted” the Columbia protests, so you know now that, in fact, that has not happened.
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@TheTennisLetter @TaegiIran So real. So important. Calling attention to the human slaughter in Gaza, “babies & children dying every day”. Tip our hats to Ms.Jabeur, not so much for tennis skills but for her outspoken humanity.
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@ErinBanco @alexbward @laraseligman Hmm. Palestinians want to join forces to fight the forces that have bombed their homes, schools, hospitals, & mosques. That have killed nearly 40,000 of their fellows & families including over 15,000 children. Who would’ve guessed that outcome to the Israeli brutal &.
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@HeatherCherone @FOP7Chicago @jonathanweisman @nytimes @Brandon4Chicago Cops in Chicago threaten to resign. Given the extent of racism & abuse by the Chicago police, it’s one more reason to vote for Brandon Johnson.
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@BlackJewishA Police in Israel crackdown on Jews there who are participating in a pro Palestine demonstration. Another sad, sad irony of what’s being done by the Israeli government & of what’s happening in the country.
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@aaronnarraph @UTZAAKE @NYCMayor @NYPDPC Video shows clearly the cops behaved unreasonably, when, shockingly, they shot & killed Rozario. Almost like a hired hit. Object lesson in why practice should be to send mental health professionals, not cops in response to NYers in psychiatric crisis. SAVE LIVES, NOT TAKE THEM. .
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@silkscythe @ferdimagellan2 “We are not animals. We have the right to receive proper medical care”. So spoke the doctor before an Israeli air strike killed him.
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@mattduss Many Americans, especially Muslims & young people, abandoning Biden is not a matter of “strategy”. They are repulsed morally & deep in their gut about his allying the US with the human slaughter Israel is perpetuating in Gaza. They see it as shameless & despicable & will not vote.
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NYPD cops drive young man’s head, face first, into a windshield. For no good reason. Without any consequences for their needless violence. In other words, it’s Tuesday.
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@emma_a_whitford Challenging questions for the people, pols, & press speaking out on the "vicious & brutal" conditions at MDC: do they realize that cruel & inhumane conditions of confinement are common in prisons throughout NY & the US & are they prepared to sustain a movement to end all abuses?.
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All too often, police all over are dumb & dangerous. A terrible, terrible case.
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@amanpour @myplace63 “Israel’s right to defend itself” includes, apparently, killing most or all members of Palestinian families. Despicable.
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@Jezebel Tarantino crossed the line. His defense of Polanski's sex with a 13 year old girl was indefensible. Zero tolerance for Polanski's actions & for Tarantino's words.
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Point @shaunking. Damn, she was effective, fair & with focus. Her jabs kept hitting their mark, which was Buttigieg. He bobbed & weaved but failed to duck her punches, was hanging on the ropes when she was done. He lost the round, probably the match.
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@ShareefaEnergy @jesvision Note the bandage on her left arm. Israel has already bombed this brave, undeterred little girl. They haven’t killed her, yet.
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8PM curfew for NYC is a terrible, virtually unenforceable idea. Plan also doubled the number of cops who’ll patrol the city, 8,000. Clashes are inevitable, as are arrests for minor offenses. Ewa.
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@arieshapira1 What goes around, comes around/And sometimes brings you down. May he rest in The Bad Place.
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An Italian American, I back taking down all CC statues. Don’t know who imposed him on us, but why would we want as an icon, a man who history says was a slaveholder who tortured & murdered people & who sold 9 year old girls as sex slaves. How about Sinatra, LaGuardia, JoeD, Dion?.
LITTLE ITALY UP IN ARMS: This chaos broke out Saturday as protestors called for the #Columbus statue in Belmont, The Bronx to come down.
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Chuck Berry said about her: “My career has been one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe imitation.”.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves. —Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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"Helpless" by Neil Young--among the many worthy songs the man wrote.
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@mehdirhasan @RAtrebi In an act of self defense, Israel blew up “a suspicious vehicle containing several terrorists”. Ended up killing 4 of 5 people inside: a grandmother & 3 girls, 10,12, & 14. The mother survived, tho, given her family’s murder, her life has been destroyed.
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@RonFilipkowski Electrocution or shark attack, we’re open to either method. The results are the critical piece.
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@NYCCouncil38 @NYPD76Pct Another instance of #NYPD going its own lawless way, bullying NYers —its continuing arrogance is hard to stomach & will persist till pols in power end it. Next year’s election is critical to achieving that end.
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@Timesofgaza Been seeing many photos & clips of the destruction that Israeli warplanes have inflicted on Gaza, its people & buildings—this video of a Palestinian man entertaining a bright, smiling babe is maybe the most gut wrenching. The very humanity of it & the death that may befall them.
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Strong Sanders statement calling out the cruel & inhumane conditions of confinement at Mississippi prisons. Highlighting the recent spate of unexplained fatalities. Urging the end of mass incarceration. What we need to hear from our national leaders.
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Makes 42 fatalities on Rikers since Jan 2021. 26 since Adams took office, 25 of whom were detainees presumed innocent under the law. Rikers, it turns out, is a death camp not a jail—the mayor, cops, DAs, & judges keep sending NYers there. Innocent blood is on their hands.
New York’s Rikers Island sees seventh death this year after man dies in his cell.
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@m7mdkurd Leading journalist in Gaza just learned that an Israeli air strike killed his wife & 2 children. His grief must be immeasurable. Another deadly reminder: this is not war; it is human slaughter.
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File under: "No Shit".
Police are three times more likely to intervene in Black Lives Matter demonstrations than they are in other demonstrations in the United States. When intervening, they are also more likely to use force.
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It’s perhaps the most meaningful chant that the demonstrators can give voice to as they march & protest.
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470+ killed. Chauvin involved in five, but remains a cop. The numbers tell the story, filled with harsh truths.
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More than names of individual cops, we need to target, publicly pressure the police brass & pols in power who don’t fire abusive cops immediately. Guided by the wisdom, “it’s not the personnel, it’s the policy”, urge we attack the system that breeds & protects violent cops.
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God bless you, George Crum. I LOVE potato chips.
George Crum invented the Potato chips. Thanks to him, our mindless television watching became a bit more delicious. —The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum. Crum was a black American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. French fries
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@DrLoupis @Debbiesplace65 Ms.Jolie finds her political voice after a long hiatus. Her impassioned eloquence about the moral & human crisis taking place in Gaza is on point, effective, & very welcome. CEASEFIRE NOW!.
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@Acyn @BarryLarkin6 Hannity is actually correct in saying “Not a single repub has ever said” it. It’s many repubs who have said it.
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@DerenicByrd Have never seen that before. Have never heard of it before. Cop punches a cuffed person & another cop, presumably of superior rank-rightly-has the abusive cop arrested. Honor among police? Who knew?.
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Point @shaunking. All justice advocates have to work to make sure that Biden pays a steep political price for promoting & defending the so-called crime bill. It was wrong & wrong-headed & ended up inflicting harm & hardship particularly on poor black & brown Americans.
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The terrible drum beat goes on. Need independent prosecutors whose only job is to investigate & prosecute abusive cops, whose success in their job is measured onlyby the success of their investigations & prosecutions of incidents involving police brutality.
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@Colebehr_report @OhioState Cops, here at Ohio State, doing their their best to demonstrate their worst, namely beating into the ground defenseless protesting students. Actually, doing their best to show college administrators why it’s a counterproductive idea to call in the cops to quell problems.
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Point @shaunking. Sanders very good on the importance & value of “universal” programs & services. Burries Buttigieg.
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Police murder a harmless homeless man in sunny California. Classic cavalier cop cruelty. Out in the open, clearly not worried about consequences or concerned about the value of human life. “Homeless task force”? More like homeless hit squad.
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@RepJeffries @jameskthompson1 Might be willing to take Jeffries’ outrage a bit more seriously if he had ever condemned with similar passion the daily harms that Israel’s government has inflicted on the Palestinian people.
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@SenFettermanPA What does Sen.Fetterman mean by backing Israel “to get the job done”? Chilling, right?.
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Free fares for low income NYers. The subways belong to the people!.
Protesters had a #ProtectThePeople train ride yesterday in Manhattan & the Bronx. After doing a mass fare evasion, protesters rode the trains giving out free water & snacks & telling people how to use the site to look up NYPD cops’ histories of misconduct.
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A new report concludes that heavy police presence aboard public buses and trains has exacerbated racial disparities in law enforcement. via @citylab: If you still doubt that deploying more cops often makes matters worse, here goes your proof.
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Mad, bad policing every fucking where. Boy says: “I don’t feel good. Tell my mother I love her”. Heartbreaking, the pain & fear for him & his mom. Outraging, the cruel, crazy violence of police.
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@JoshuaPHilll Macklemore on point & on fire! Not Jay-Z or Kendrick or Drake or Beyonce or Dylan or Bruce or U2 or Little Steven or any other performer noted for their righteous politics. But Macklemore stepping out & standing up. Slamming Israel & the US & Biden for perpetuating a human.
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Impressive breakthrough, & possible model for other cities & jurisdictions. Hats off, Seattle. Organizing works.
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@DerenicByrd During an out of control pandemic, lawless gangs have taken over the streets, inflicting violence on black & brown people in cities across our country. The color they wear is blue.
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@DavidVeevers1 @Darker_air While Netanyahu & his ilk seek shamelessly to use the Holocaust to justify the human slaughter Israel is committing in Gaza, here’s an Israeli whose parents survived Auchswitz using the Holocaust to explain his opposition to Israel’s crimes against humanity.
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#NYPD cops arrest a 65 year old Latino for loitering -- he was sitting in a park in Brooklyn playing dominoes. He's cuffed & confined overnight. The arraignment judge releases him. #ThatsHowTheyGetYou @PROPNYC.
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@itranslate123 So the connections between Palestinians quest for liberty & the Black Lives Matter & police reform movements in the US become apparent. Israel trains American police? How come that makes troubling sense? How come most Americans have no idea? Bad business between the US & Israel.
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Tip of the hat @shaunking. Hits all the points in making a strong case for meaningful gun control, for how we can significantly curtail violence by firearms.
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We applaud tonight’s protest in Brooklyn. Jews gathering in large numbers to oppose the Israeli government’s brutal reign of terror that it’s unleashing on defenseless Palestinians is the most efficient action that can be taken to stop the destruction of Gaza & its people.
There are over a thousand American Jews in Brooklyn tonight saying we refuse to let our grief be weaponized to justify a genocide in Gaza.
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Extreme act of violence. Good that he’s been fired. Now the local DA must prosecute if only to send a message to other cops how such abusive policing won’t be tolerated. Also, hard to imagine that this was the cop’s first despicable act. If my guess is right, who let him stay on?.
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Reading that Wisconsin police have long checkered history of murdering people w/o consequence. Won’t break the chilling cycle of police violence til pols in power fire the guilty cops. In fact, pols’ past inaction has led directly to the reprehensible shooting in Kenosha.
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Point. Also: people go 2 Rikers for 2 basic reasons: 2 poor to afford bail & #NYPD cops arrest them. #EndMoneyBail, right. And #EndBrokenWindows where cops target poor NYers of color 4 infractions they ignore in white areas. All racist criminal justice crap starts with policing.
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@jchausow @ManhattanDA Unjust & completely w/o useful purpose. The casual everyday brutality of our so-called justice system.
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When we say “grand jury refused to indict”, we really mean the local district attorney who, likely for political reasons, decided not to officially bring charges against a police officer.
BREAKING: A grand jury has refused to indict Buffalo police officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe who violently shoved a 75-year-old man to the ground during a George Floyd protest last summer.
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@lisa_curry @DarrellMunn Point. LA has its priorities upside down—the 24Gs should go instead to homeless Angelenos to enable them to find & afford housing. A better quality of life for all.
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@smoketinged Point. Abusive policing takes various forms including daily targeting of vulnerable people for minor infractions. Not always involving physical violence but still inflicting hardship & compromising people’s quality of life. Twisted justice.
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Steve Martin, assisted by Dave Letterman, breaks things down & makes us laugh.
Steve Martin shows off his vase collection on Letterman ('84). Great bit.
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Point. The harsher brutality police inflict, the harsher the punishment applied to their victim.
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Odd that police chief thinks arresting NYers for smoking a joint - 17,880 such arrests last year - somehow relates to public safety. PROPers have seen dozens of such cases arraigned over the years; no defendant, by any applicable criteria, has ever seemed even remotely dangerous.
"This is something we need to do," @NYPDONeill says of arrests for public marijuana smoking - acknowledges there are disparities and says they're trying to address them while balancing with public safety.
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Point. Exposing notso well kept secret: that too many cops are racist bullies. Job attracts people with those attitudes & in some cops, will instill that crap if it wasn’t there before. Job gives them opportunity to act out, & usually police brass protect them. A dirty business.
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We actually do have a serious gang problem in NYC. The color they wear is blue.
An army of NYPD cops with helmets & batons forced people out of Washington Square Park earlier tonite again.
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Barbara & I out last night celebrating my 80th b’day at a local fancy bistro. Had a wonderful time, the food tasty indeed & the company marvelous.
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@swilkinsonbc @Debbiesplace65 A monstrous prejudice, likely shared by too many Israelis, that currently has dire & deadly consequences for Palestinian people. Significant that the rabbi seems so ready & comfortable voicing hateful sentiments. Where’s the pushback, surely not from our or Israel’s government.
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All advocates for sweeping fundamental changes to policing ‘cross the country looking to Seattle to lead the way: cut police power, personnel, & presence; divert $$ saved to community that cops have targeted in the past; create a just, safe, inclusive city for all people.
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Naked power display for all to see. Repubs don’t care what it exposes about their corruption & venality. Because they can. Because they think by November Americans will have forgotten. Guess it’s up to us to disabuse them, to doom the party to the deep decline it richly deserves.
Poll: 75% of voters think witnesses should be able to testify in the Senate impeachment trial
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@radleybalko Terrible but unsurprising, given the cavalier shooting of Blake. Cop felt he could shoot a black man 7X in the back ‘cause he knew cops had a free hand to do whatever crazy cruelty. Nightmare in Kenosha, & in America.
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@DrRJKavanagh @_dsy_v Philly police killed a 12 year old boy last night, on the back as he fled. “Shot & killed”, you can say. But murder, cold, plain & brutal is the more true way to say it. While he ran away, 12 years old, a child really. Shot in the back. Guilty they are, & must pay the penalty.
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Point @shaunking. To well-meaning pundits rallying ‘round Mike B: he opposes minimum wage & MJ legalization-stupidest idea ever; he backed not just racist, illegal stops, but also MJ possession arrests-#NYPD made over 50,000 per year under him, 90% NYers of color. A racist ruler.
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Also has 25% of the world's incarcerated people.
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Cops physically assault member of the press. His crime: doing his job. With police feeling free to use violence to hurt & intimidate, it’s perilous out there for everybody. Pols won’t stop it. Guess it’s up to us.
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All to often the case: severity of the charges against you driven/compounded by the level of abuse police officers inflicted. One way they have of explaining/cover up the harm done to you.
Austin cops said they shot a man who fired on them—but police later admitted he never shot at them. Yet he still faces charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon & remains jailed on $500,000 bond. And two of his fingers had to be amputated.
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Another jail horror. The casual everyday brutality of our so-called justice system.
Kelly Coltrain was in county jail for traffic tickets, & started seizing after going through withdrawal for three days. She asked to go to hospital. Instead, the guard, unsympathetic, made her mop up her vomit. Within an hour she was dead.
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Another day in Trump’s America. Another heartbreaking injustice. We must resist together these terrible incidents becoming the new normal.
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@tribelaw @kathlee73732050 Impressive—elephants’ ability to remember & their capacity for love.
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Pitiless treatment of migrant people. As if humans from another place are not equal members of humanity, as if it's our governments' right to treat them as lesser, even disposable beings. The shame of our city & our nation.
Failure of the United States of America and of NYC on full display right now. Migrants evicted from shelters. Homeless, answerless. We invest so many resources on wars, jails, prisons. So much money hurting people. And when the need arises, this:
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Anthony Bourdain—world misses him still. Needs him now more than ever.
thinking about bourdain’s episode in palestine today. CNN almost didn’t air it but he fought like hell to keep the episode and share their stories since mainstream media so rarely gave the opportunity to empathize with the every day of palestinians.
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Nah. As bad as we may or may not be, no country deserves as miserable & malicious a leader as Trump.
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Old man Gangi home from the hospital & very pleased to be among love & loved ones again.
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Another NYer died on Rikers Island this morning. The 40 year old man is the 29th person to die on Rikers since Eric Adams took office 2 years ago, the 44th fatality there since Jan.1, 2021. The so-called detention facility is a brutal death trap. The solution: CloseRikersNow!.
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