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#OscarCain
was our baby. We met 7 or 8 years ago when we had our little scrappy police accountability group, BLOCS. He was generous and caring. He was funny and sincere. He loved to make music. Sunday, he was taken from us by an Atlanta Police Officer. How many more, Atlanta?
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When the cops killed 7 y/o Aiyana Jones in Detroit during a no knock raid, they arrested her aunt saying she grabbed their gun. The aunt said she was grabbing Aiyana because a flash bang had set the baby on fire. During the trial, the judge threatened the aunt for her outbursts.
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Whew they say raise up a child but I have to say, when I looked at her Social Studies classwork today I did not expect this. 💀
She said she would never “refund the police.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😩😩😩😩😩
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In America, even the act of caring for our young is treated as a threat. It is as if we are in a persistent state of resistance when we do merely the things that come naturally. Even while sleeping. Even when awakened by the scathing flames of authoritarianism. There is no rest.
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@OAWReport
Yes, we remember and honor Mother Kathryn. Also sleeping. Also defending herself from an intruder. Also attempted to smear with a cover-up. Cops also received less time than they would have if they were selling dope.
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Whew. The world only loves black single moms on draft day.
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This is her about 3 years ago. She was probably 3.5y.
Been stuck in meetings with me her whole life.
Our kids witness the victories and the losses. They notice everything and hopefully learn to honor ancestors and love their people.
It is our duty.
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So. A reminder that my homies got snatched up at the GA Capitol for chanting “count every vote” in Oct. 2018. Took months for us to resolve the criminal cases.
Police and staff aren’t engaging w/ protesters and the crowd is angry
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I was in a meeting with an Atlanta police agency in Nov. Asked what their plan was for white supremacist violence after the election. A leader said smugly there were no credible threats but they did have their eye on a “BLM militia” (doesn’t exist).
Police do not make us safer.
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Wow this tweet is active! Please support local organizers. If you’re looking to support rural GA in the memory of
#AhmaudArbery
, check out
@AJustGeorgia
, a coalition tackling these issues on many fronts. Our partner orgs are listed on the website: .
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Liberals who thought “defund the police” word choice was the problem now watching “critical race theory” being similarly attacked…how y’all doing?
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@TimSnowPhoto
@KillerMike
Adding the names of the Black women organizers who have been engaging GA voters, issues & culture for years—some nearly a decade:
@nseufot
@staceyabrams
@HillaryHolley4
@MsLaToshaBrown
@FallonMcClureGA
@BritneyDWhaley
@CombaheeFree
@TheWayWithAnoa
. There is 0 story w/o them.
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A 23 year-old *freshly trained* officer killed Deacon Johnny Hollman, Sr., as his children rushed to his side, after Bible study, just minutes from his home. Please support this family tomorrow, and push back the lie that training can change the violent nature of policing.
Deacon Hollman’s family will be leading a march next Saturday. He was killed just minutes from his home after Bible study. His dozens of grandchildren now live with the fact that he was killed even though he was the one who called the cops after a traffic accident.
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Cop City was a response to the 2020 uprisings because it was an effort to placate angry police and boost morale. It was NOT a response to community concerns. Period. Any other suggestion is shamefully dishonest.
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Lorraine (cuffed in this patrol car) is one of Atlanta’s longest-standing lawyer/organizer/champions. She is a painter, photographer, kind soul and ally. She never forgets to wish us all happy birthday and still makes time, at 70+, to put her body on the line.
#StopCopCity
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Atlanta will be the first city. This Wednesday, we will shatter the myth of the Mecca.
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Since Dickens took office, Atlanta has:
-pulled out of a funding opportunity that would have helped reduce imposition of/reliance on criminal fees/fines via
@FinesandFeesJC
-nixed the plan to repurpose the city jail and instead leased beds to abusive Fulton County
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Y’all’s favorite rappers in ATL are silent about and/or promoting fascist projects. Silent when a police officer kills a deacon after Bible study before he could take his wife to dinner.
That’s important. The people are laboring for change. When do y’all plan to join us?
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Atlanta would very much like for you to let our ancestors rest in honor. Your work and deeds do not align with Congressman Lewis’ vision and you should be deeply ashamed to exploit his memory in this way. You are the moderate Dr. King warned us about.
I voted for John Lewis, my hero. He embodied all that I wished the Congress would be and what I hoped to be - kind, humble, honest, hardworking, and steadfast to his values. A man of principle and courage.
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It is unreasonable to believe that
#CopCity
will fortify policing tactics that differ from the tactics currently being deployed to repress movements against the project. Armored vehicles, riot gear, projectiles and gas. If this is de-escalation, what is escalation? I’m curious.
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You know what’s telling? That in response to Atlanta solidarity demonstrations for Jacob Blake this week,
@Atlanta_Police
has chosen to make jaywalking arrests, pull over people bringing food to protesters and falsely charge someone for attempting to a incite a riot.
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The people did this. We have been calling for this resignation since she callously failed to speak with DeAundre Phillips’ family for weeks after he was awakened and killed by APD. And again after she attacked organizers who asked her to be accountable for Oscar Cain. OVERDUE.
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I am very troubled by the comments from members of
@atlcouncil
disparaging people who participate in public comment on matters related to policing when those public comments do not bolster the power of police.
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I cannot imagine telling my grandchildren that the best I could do for them was to pour endless resources into guns and badges when their future obviously demanded so much more.
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I have said for a while that the climate in Atlanta points to government’s absolute opposition to any generative exchange with our communities. Dissent, when criminalized, poses a threat to everyone. This is not theoretical. This is shameful & dangerous.
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Reminder: When Atlanta was arresting hundreds of protesters one night this summer, a prominent lawyer-activist-organizer told the city to “do what it had to do” re the national guard etc. What were real organizers doing? Raising $ & coordinating dozens attys. We still meet weekly
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The
@CityofAtlanta
charter places the Mayor at the helm of the police department. There is no official action taken by the Atlanta Police Department that does not go directly back to him. Full stop.
Do not play with our lives while also playing with our intelligence.
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@shaunking
@ClarissaMBrooks
I hope that your praxis leads you, both a Morehouse man and someone older than her, to denounce threats being made against this Spelman woman in your name. Even if she was mistaken, this isn’t how movement in Atlanta handles mistakes. Ego is the enemy of the collective good.
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We honor them the most when we fight to the dismantle the systems that killed them.
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Once my pastor
@ReverendWarnock
took me to teach black churches a/b bail reform & I discussed
@NationalBailOut
’s work w black mamas. He immediately asked if we could do that @ Ebenezer. We launched the Freedom Day Project in 2018.
He’s not just my pastor-he’s my comrade & friend
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Another great question is, why does City Hall believe it can bully the masses into playing along? A protester was killed & the price tag has been exposed as double what was publicly shared. 7+ hours of testimony was offered against it this month. What else needs to happen?
I have to say, I've followed this story from afar and only moderately closely, but I remain mystified why Atlanta officials are just so so SO intent on building this thing
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One thing we should never be numb to is grieving parents who are forced to defend the character of their children taken by state violence. I cannot imagine this pain.
Belkis Terán, Tort's mom: “I’m going to clear Manuel’s name. They killed him … like they tear down trees in the forest – a forest Manuel loved with passion.”
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Ask elders a/b debates a/b whether saying “Black Power” on the mic was advisable. Any “slogan” centering the liberation of Black people in this country causes you to “lose people.” Racism adapts. We should not be enslaved by it. I’d rather be captive to our vision & power.
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If you are an attorney willing to represent protesters/advocates, contact
@southerncenter
at bridge
@schr
.org. We have been arranging representation for people exercising the right to free speech for decades, and now have formalized the project. Not just for
#CopCity
. Join us.
This morning, 61 people were arraigned in a RICO case targeting the
#StopCopCity
movement.
Prosecutors have labeled the
#ATL61
as terrorists, outside agitators, and racketeers involved in an elaborate conspiracy.
Our new docu-series explores who they are, in their own words.
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Shout out to these Black women who put in real boots on the ground (10 toes down work in Georgia w/ fierceness & zest. I admire & give thanks for you. Your dopeness precedes you.
@nseufot
@FallonMcClureGA
@TheWayWithAnoa
@MsLaToshaBrown
@BritneyDWhaley
@HillaryHolley4
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It is a rookie misstep to focus on the method of protest rather than the message of protest. Atlanta leaders need to be talking about WHY the people oppose
#CopCity
. Don’t be a tool of co-optation.
Fact: The Mayor & Atlanta Police Foundation are at odds with the people
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“The Atlanta City Council, including many Black elected officials & the city’s Black mayor, pushed onward with a disastrous plan to build a mega-facility for cops destroying a part of the nation’s largest urban forest in the process.” -
@TheWayWithAnoa
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There have been 3 recent deaths at the Fulton County Jail. That’s more important than any corrupt politician turning himself in.
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Atlanta’s misleadership class seeks only proximity to whiteness, wealth and witnesses. What an abysmal politic.
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Georgia’s prisons are still populated by many people suffering with COVID-19. They are applying for early release and parole. Many are being denied. Some are dying. Is today the day we start talking about that more?
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We really need Black media to cover the story of
#MarcWilson
. He has been in jail over a year for defending himself against a truckload of drunk teens yelling slurs and attempting to run him off the road.
Attorneys for Marc Wilson make their case that he felt in fear for his life from a truck following his car aggressively and racial taunts from people inside. They’re asking for immunity from murder charges because they contend Wilson was acting in self-defense.
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Mayor Dickens’ office just sent this email, disparaging organizers & attorneys re
#CopCity
petition. In attempting to justify their refusal to begin the petition verification process, they use rhetoric about property damage. Notably, there is no mention of Tortugita’s killing.
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No president runs on “I’ll do as much as Congress will comfortably allow.” And at no point do y’all claim they need civics classes.
You are content with reductive, intentionally obtuse defenses of an administration that has condescended to us on voting rights since day one.
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*taps mic* The state of GA has indicted 61 people, alleging bail funds & mutual aid to be fixtures of domestic terrorism, all in the name of
#CopCity
. So, the police chief writing an op-ed painting a referendum as “politicizing “ work is very rich.
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Deacon Johnny Hollman, Sr. was killed on 8/10/23 by a 23 year-old officer who tased him repeatedly *after* being trained by
@Atlanta_Police
. He said “I can’t breathe” at least 16x. That’s what their deescalation “training” does.
Get ready for more APF copaganda videos from CoA- "In the wake of the social justice movement & high profile incidents of police misconduct like the G. Floyd murder, has the APD training emphasized de-escalation tactics/special efforts to protect the rights/safety of suspects?"
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I just visited a nursing home in SW ATL where dozens of elderly ppl have contracted COVID-19. This is ableist, discriminatory leg.
FWIW-I think it has little to do with robberies and everything to do with surveillance at protests. Remember, we are the US’ most surveilled city.
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Y’all gone remix “bUt WhaT aBOut bLacK on BlACk CrIMe” to death. There are LITERALLY BOOKS about this. Articles! Films! Memes! Fables! Whew.
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People have been snatched out of homes in Atlanta over the past few months due to allegations of spray paint. SPRAY PAINT.
Maybe if the FBI was monitoring them people the way they do Black organizers and activists they wouldn’t need to ask people for help on twitter 🤷🏾♀️
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-passed legislation to fund
#CopCity
despite widespread community opposition & flagrant misrepresentations about the project’s cost.
-exposed to the world what feeble, bureaucratic misleadership looks like in the so-called “Black Mecca”
This is not a comprehensive list.
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All respectability politics are anti-black. Even those clothed in Pan-Africanist theory and wokeness. Even those hiding behind pleas for black exceptionalism.
We deserve compassion and respect regardless of our accent, outfit, profession and education.
Be unembarrassable.
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Deacon Hollman’s family will be leading a march next Saturday. He was killed just minutes from his home after Bible study. His dozens of grandchildren now live with the fact that he was killed even though he was the one who called the cops after a traffic accident.
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-partnered with Fulton to revive a racist “repeat offender” courtwatch program championed by a councilwoman who tried to help Tr*ump overturn election results
-failed to use MILLIONS of dollars earmarked for the virtually unstaffed Office of Violence Reduction
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So many of these folks need to be grateful that we are organizers and not politicians. Some of us have been asked to run against y’all and we know we can easily defeat you, but we also know our gifts are more valuable in other spaces. These ppl are truly mediocre in every way.
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Just being super clear that Georgians were helping the Arbery family before the video leaked. His family was sending info packets to people and orgs they thought could help. Georgians responded & are still on the ground.
It was national figures who needed the video to act.
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I am a very Black, non-Ivy, Daddy-from-Summerhill, Atlanta native attorney/organizer who has witnessed Black women of GA
@WorkingFamilies
WORKING & I can tell you have no idea what’s going on here on the ground.
#Respectfully
"Black-led" organizations invoked in the media tend to be NGO's that employ people from elite schools not really representative of the general population. That's Shor's whole point. The Working Families Party isn't speaking for Black people in Atlanta or Southeast Queens.
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The Dickens Administration is deploying every tool of systemic oppression at its disposal concerning
#CopCity
. Under this scheme, state and structural violence can only escalate. What’s happening in Atlanta is deeply concerning:
1. Disinformation
2. Political Prosecutions
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Y’all are literally arresting organizers who knocked doors for you in elections past. Absolutely wild, Georgia. And to think that a single Atlanta municipal official would be an effective surrogate, for you is even wilder.
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If you already represent a protester, contact us. If you’d like to represent a protester, contact us. If you’d like to assist with research tasks, contact us. Bridge
@schr
.org.
SCHR is reaching out to attorneys representing people named in the indictment & locating attorneys for those without counsel. Our current priority: ensure those indicted are released on bond, esp. given the horrendous culture at the Fulton Jail where 9 people have died this year.
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“In every other space, these 2 factions claim to strongly dislike each others’ politics, but they agree on the repression of protest,” says Tiffany Roberts “It all comes down to a so-called progressive man wielding conservative politics.”
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Pragmatism by elected officials that always centers the impulses of racists is just…institutional racism, folks. What I’ve just described is institutional racism.
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Atlanta police are statistically MORE trained, have implemented 21st Century Policing reforms and yet have become increasingly violent. Data, research & human stories matter. None point to
#CopCity
being worthy of the vulgar and harmful sacrifices made on its behalf.
From AJC President & Publisher Andrew Morse: The people of Atlanta deserve to have the best trained, most responsible, empathetic public safety officers in the nation. Therefore, Atlanta must build a modern training facility for our public safety officers.
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I am lifting
#OscarCainJr
who like Tort was killed in a forest by a police officer. Under the cover of trees that did bear witness to horrors and ancestral whispers. His family was also forced defend his character rather than mourn. It is obscene.
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Funny story: In 2020 we had concerns a/b racist violence. In response to inquiries regarding whether they were tracking white supremacist groups, the Atlanta Police Department laughed and told us that they were concerned about the “BLM militia.”
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Atlanta has ended Failure to Appear amnesty, given back millions of rental assistance to the feds, resumed water disconnections and raced build
#copcity
so haphazardly that a young person was killed. This year. It’s February.
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My very first client in private practice was a 19 year-old who was wrongfully arrested for a robbery he didn’t commit. He was beaten in the head by an APD officer using handcuffs as knuckles. The DA believed him to be innocent of robbery but…1/X
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Police spending in Atlanta has INCREASED, friend.
Maybe the Defund The Police movement wasn’t such a good idea in Atlanta, we’re the new Gotham City.
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When DC/NYC political operatives move to GA and realize none of that works here >>>>>>
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-returned MILLIONS of eviction relief funds to the feds
-continued a crusade to maintain ATL’s spot as the most surveilled city in the nation
-cooperated with state police to target and arrest bail fund organizers
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A few ATL city councilmembers have been sending emails to constituents “explaining” their votes to expand pretrial detention in the nearly-empty Atlanta jail. The next time you get one of these, ask them who—other than law enforcement—advised them. They will not name experts.
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Please recall
@andreforatlanta
saying that the overwhelming opposition to cop city during the initial vote was b/c public comment was remote? Today, hundreds of ppl showed up to
#StopCopCity
. There was no institutional barrier preventing supporters from doing the same thing.
We are exactly seven hours into public comment on the Atlanta City Council's proposal to give up to 33.5 million dollars of taxpayer money to the Atlanta Police Foundation to build Cop City.
Not one person has spoken in favor of Cop City.
The message is unanimous:
#StopCopCity
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Y’all still mad at defund and think these people could have been reasoned with?
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-cooperated with state police to target and arrest bail fund organizers
-cooperated with state police to conduct a raid that killed a 26 y/o environmentalist in a hail of 50+ bullets
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The way you know transplants are doing too much is folks are talking about hitting Camp Creek. 1st, y’all are admitting to felonies on social media, beloveds. 2d, black people depend on these stores for resources during COVID. 3rd, leave the SWATS/College Park/The Point as it is.
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So many people have been planning for every contingency in places like GA. MOST of those people are Black women. Because they love you and know that cynicism ain’t never been a liberator. Organize. Organizer. Organize.
Activist cosplay will not save us.
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Can y’all imagine what the dem outcry would be if 45 published this??????
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I am not yet ready to imagine my life without Marissa. May the courage she wielded continue to protect us. May we honor her with ours. May her perfect child eventually find comfort in how beloved his mother is. May we one day deserve all that she gave.
@mmdodson
forever.
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Consider that the authority to kill black people with impunity is so integral to American policing that any challenge to that shakes the profession to its core. Granting the unchecked power of life and death to police deifies them. They now want to make heretics of us all.
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With all of the now national attention on the community member who was consumed by bed bugs under Sheriff Labat’s watch in the Fulton County Jail, here is the entire report we obtained last year:
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Why speak to young people—even if protesting you—this way? This is how the mayor spoke to AUC students about
#CopCity
, touting his resume, much of which was built on the backs of Black women organizers he now disrespects. I am embarrassed for him.
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A reminder of why polls may inform strategy and tactics but should never dictate the politic.
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He was tased after agreeing to sign a citation w/which he disagreed. He said “I can’t breathe” at least 16x. When he said “my God,” this officer mocked him, telling him he could call “his priest” if he wanted to.
Now dozens of grandchildren mourn.
This is what training does.
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Hate crimes bills do not deter racial terror. The state’s carceral systems were built to uphold—not interrupt—violence against Black people.
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Atlanta’s response to summer 2020 uprisings and the national movement to take needs-based approaches to harm is to…bulldoze a forest to build a cop academy while pandering to Buckhead. No data, just vibes.
📰 "The police and fire departments are both down. Staffed with vacancies at 25%." -
@Dustin4Atlanta
Hillis says there is enough acreage to do both.
Atlanta homeowners call for new police training facility to attract officers
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What is happening in TN is unconscionable. Equally detestable are the Atlanta gov’t officials who, instead of fighting state suppression, roll over, deceive the people & cage folks to make way for
#CopCity
. They don’t have the courage to fight, so they should have nothing to say.
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@andreforatlanta
@AtlantaPolicee
My sincere hope is that no one who sees Atlanta officials this weekend at CBC will let them off of the hook about:
-Cop City
-Record jail deaths
-The killing of Manuel Paez “Tortugita” Teran
-The killing of Deacon Johnny Hollman
They are failing us. Ask them to explain.
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On a call RN: “This has little to do w Biden or the Democratic Party. This is about community building for people who were sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
In voting, we choose our targets, not our friends.
We are building power for our own benefit, not any candidate.
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🗣 We at
@southerncenter
lobbied successfully for a law that provides relief to humans serving life in GA for drug offenses. We also provide direct representation. Visit for more info. Shout out to
@mmdodson
& Atteeyah Hollie. Impact vs. Visibility.
Kim K has helped to free another inmate from prison.
"Jeffrey from Miami" was handed a life sentence for a low-level drug offense.
He served 22 years before Kim and her lawyers fought for his release.
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Raising this. An Atlanta lawyer was arrested while doing legal observation with a white colleague.
@CityofAtlanta
is proceeding with her prosecution for a curfew violation. She says her white colleague’s case was dismissed weeks ago.
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Last night,
@Atlanta_Police
arrested two of my colleagues, one of whom is also my former law student at the Alma mater that
@KeishaBottoms
and I share. They were legal observers for
@NLGnews
wearing BRIGHT green hats. Both curfew viol tickets after ppl were trapped in the park.
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Gross. No training can fix this.
#StopCopCity
The
@southerncenter
#Bridge
is honored to be in community with Lorraine today and forever.
They joke about locking up veteran organizers in their 70’s. Disgusting.
In June, Atlanta PD officers arrested 76 year old Lorraine Fontana for protesting in a Home Depot parking lot. Today, those same officers chose to mock Fontana as she took part in an action protesting APD's killing of 62 year old Johnny Hollman on 8/11.
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@atlanta_press
Amazing how Atlanta is willing to bet everything on a police training facility. Not schools. Not care. Not housing. Not infrastructure. Cop City.
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Yeah, no. We are not doing this. The Biden team just got here. The homies have BEEN on the ground. 159 counties. Years. YEARS.
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The family viewed 5m of the bodycam footage in City Hall, but
@andreforatlanta
has not directed
@AtlantaPolicee
to release the entire video. 2300+ people signed this petition demanding release. Please join them.
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