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queer lawyer (practicing) and addict (non-practicing). Columnist at @TheIndypendent , contributor at @VillageVoice , also other places, many things.

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“Adams is in the middle of a maelstrom.… He’s in a very difficult and almost untenable position. How does he get out of it alive? No one’s sure yet.” I talked to NY's top political advisors about beating Eric Adams. Here's what they told me. (1/)

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As Eric Adams Runs His Administration Up Flagpoles, Will Voters Salute? - The Village Voice

The mayor is a master of retail politics, but voters might want results rather than platitudes come 2025.

www.villagevoice.com

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2 months

I'm not sure we all fully grasp that there's a big room where old people yell nonsense at each other and that's how we get laws

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"This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner." -- Rep. Pelosi

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An army. Literally an army. For a group of kids who have made no threats, are doing nothing violent, and who everyone agrees are unarmed.

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My diabetic boyfriend was just informed his insulin copay is $1,300, so I'd advise Liz Warren people upset about snake emojis to get the fuck over it

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NYPD officers who work for five years will now make approximately $50k more a year than teachers with the same amount of time (and a Masters) We just handed $5.5 billion to the most expensive police department in the United States, while we cut schools.

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New York City reaches "historic" contract agreement with Police Benevolent Association, Mayor Adams...

The mayor says the deal will provide more flexible schedules while building morale and keeping the city safe.

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Dude if one twitch streamer can basically foment a rebellion against the NYPD maybe this revolution stuff will be easier than any of us thought

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Here's the thing - Jordan Neely's murder is actually NOT a complex legal issue. Deadly force in defense of another can only be used when the aggressor is themselves using deadly force. Penal Law 35. NOBODY is claiming Neely was using deadly force. This is open and shut.

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How it started how it's going

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Biden was always going to be ill-suited to meet the present moment. An institutionalist in a time when institutions are dying. A compromiser in an era of fascism. He represents a sad, last-ditch effort to assert normalcy by sheer force of will, basically a collective delusion.

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@ndrew_lawrence "he's finding safety in numbers" is a hell of a way to say he's making Black friends ...

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Long Island has gone fully red due to a massive amount of voters who say "you wouldn't catch me in the city these days, no way" and haven't been to the city in 15 years.

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I was a police misconduct investigator. I've served as a legal observer at many protests. I want people to understand that police are usually the ones who turn peaceful protests violent. Indeed, violence is baked into how police try to control peaceful protests.

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The unit designed for combating terrorism was too busy destroying homeless shelters to try and stop a mass shooting.

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New York City is using the NYPD Strategic Response Group, a unit designed for combating terrorism and policing protests, to detain unhoused people resisting removal. One block resisting removal is known as “Anarchy Row.”

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So I was trying to find the source of this alleged Neely quote NBC used. It appears to not exist. NBC removed the quote from the printed story. MSNBC attributed it to a cop's report of a witness's statement. No witnesses have claimed directly that Neely said this.

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NYPD is guarding the son's room and refusing to let his father visit him as he lays there dying, all because the NYPD doesn't want their victim making legally admissible statements about how quickly these officers shot him four times.

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"I didn’t go asking for help just for him to get killed.” Santo de la Cruz called 311 to get his son mental health treatment in a hospital. But — in a scene that lasted just 28 seconds — NYPD shot Raul, who now has a 10% chance of survival

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🚨🚨🚨 People are spreading this "threat" from Neely around. But it doesn't exist. *NBC has removed this quote from their story.* The quote apparently came from a cop not on the scene, paraphrasing another witness, further paraphrased by NBC. NBC is not standing by it.

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So I was trying to find the source of this alleged Neely quote NBC used. It appears to not exist. NBC removed the quote from the printed story. MSNBC attributed it to a cop's report of a witness's statement. No witnesses have claimed directly that Neely said this.

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SCOOP: Data released quietly by NYC indicates that NYPD officers Andrey Samusev and Daniel Alvarez will face no discipline for driving their car into protestors in Park Slope in 2020. Alvarez was *found guilty* at trial. The Commissioner has overturned that verdict.

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Oh look the thing everyone was worried Trump would do is being done by Hochul. Let's be adults for a thread here, ok? Let's speak honestly 1. 2023 subway crime was DOWN 2.5% from the year before. (1/)

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NEW: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is deploying hundreds of National Guard members into New York City's subway system amid a series of high-profile crimes, ordering the force to conduct bag checks at some of the busiest stations.

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This is why a man was slowly murdered on a subway train. Because he was tired of being hungry, and started to yell about it. This a deeply sick nation, in a way statistics and data can't tell us. We are free falling to the bottom.

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New reporting from ABC appears to confirm that Neely made no threats, and the encounter was a typical "guy yelling on the subway" scenario. This was a murder and the only reason it's even being "debated" is @NBCNewYork regurgitated false copaganda.

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Grand jury to decide if Marine criminally charged in death of Jordan Neely

Among the considerations - did Neely pose a threat to the safety of other passengers, and did Penny use excessive force when he held Neely in that chokehold, reportedly for about 15 minutes?

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This is so key - the NYPD is going all out to squash any protests over Neely's killing in a way we haven't seen in years. Put this together with Eric Adams protecting Penny, and the media doing all it can to slander Neely, and it really seems like the ppl in charge are scared.

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I'm going to keep saying this until it breaks through: the NYPD is treating Daniel Penny, killer of Jordan Neely, like one of their own. They didn't release his name, let him walk free, and now they're attacking protests with a violence not seen consistently since June 2020.

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NBC is making up quotes. The NY Times is misstating the relevant law. The Daily News is running hagiographies of Penny's military service *without naming him* To a publication, the media is doing an awful, awful job with this story and it's creating a false narrative.

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There is such a massive gulf between the impression people have vs the reality of riding the subway that it can only be explained by a sustained propaganda campaign led by Eric Adams and local media outlets. I mean it is a collective delusion at this point.

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"My husband doesn't let me ride the subway anymore because of the fear of threat." #TheView 's Alyssa Farah Griffin and her family feels unsafe riding public transportation in New York City:

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I'm fully convinced that this nonsense, the National Guard, the tremendous police presence, is contributing to violence on subways rather than reducing it because it creates an image of subways as a violent, unstable place, a warzone.

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Spotted yesterday afternoon at Fulton Street: testing of NYPD-branded Evolv weapons detection scanners. Mayor Adams has an announcement there soon, and I expect it’s about this:

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Another fun fact about credit scores - the formula to determine them is a closely kept trade secret. Yes, that's right, the mathematical formula that decides if you can shelter yourself is protected by law from you knowing what it is.

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I've been thinking of this story almost every day. Deborah Stewart, a mentally ill woman, was handcuffed and forcibly taken to a hospital by police. Then, they lost her. She has been missing for 3.5 months. I just filed a FOIL to review NYPD records.

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Family says mother has been missing since NYPD officers took her to hospital back in April

A local family tells 7 On Your Side Investigates they've been running in circles with the NYPD in their search for their missing loved one.

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@savannahb3 @EricaFails "wait, WHAT?"

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Did you know that white shoe Big Law firm Debevoise & Plimpton is neck deep in Columbia's campaign against its students? -D&P was hired to investigate students for alleged misconduct. -2nd & 3rd year D&P associates are **conducting disciplinary hearings and acting as judges**.

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It is so important to note that for years, lawyers and advocates asked for student loan forgiveness under the Higher Education Act of 1965, NOT the HEROES Act. *This* was the legal authority and basis. Biden ignored this and foolishly and inexplicably used the HEROES Act.

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The Eric Adams administration is kind of a living experiment to see how right-wing, corrupt, and incompetent a Democrat can be and still remain in the city party's good graces just by virtue of the D next to their name.

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@kenklippenstein @PatrickForNYC Is it even controversial to call America a faded empire?? What fantasy world are people living in??

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Wow the Titanic experimental submarine people fell victim to the folly of human hubris, believing that nothing could ever sink them. If only there was some prior historical event that they could have learned from!

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Y’all please watch this. It’s a CBS story that aired a while back about that submarine that is now missing. The creators of that missing submarine are DEEPLY unserious.

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Incredible. To be clear, Rice - who was largely deferential to the NYPD throughout her term - is now fired for accurately stating that the NYPD withheld evidence in the Kawaski Trawick case, a simple statement of fact. There will be NO criticism of NYPD in Adams' administration.

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On a rainy night in April 2022, NYPD cops transporting prisoners were going 20 mph over the speed limit, blowing red lights, and driving in the center median, when they struck and killed Ronald Anthony Smith with their transport van. We just learned they will not be charged.

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I want to point to 2 things that were part of the initial Jordan Neely narrative, and were dropped in subsequent reporting: ⚫That Neely said he would "hurt" anyone ⚫That Neely "threw garbage" at passengers Far as I can tell, cops fed these claims to willing media outlets.

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Biden caved on "work requirements" for TANF recipients and not only that, agreed to time limits for both TANF and food stamps. Worse than anyone thought. No increased taxes on the rich, no cut to defense spending. Any Democrat who votes for this immoral deal MUST be primaried.

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Right now NYC is facing an epidemic of police misconduct. Complaints against police up 51%. $114 mill paid out just in *verdicts* for misconduct in 2023. By any measure it is far worse than it was before BLM/George Floyd. That's 100% on Eric Adams.

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NYC paid over $500M in NYPD misconduct in the past 6 years: Legal Aid Society

New York City paid out over $500 million in police misconduct since 2018, according to an analysis of city data by the Legal Aid Society released on Thursday.

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Things have been very bad for a very long time. I think what's changed over the last 5 or so years is the creeping realization, still mostly only felt subconsciously, that they will only get worse, that at our deaths the world will be far more cruel than it is now.

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🚨I have some exciting news and I won't bury the lede: My lawsuit against the city to dislodge NYPD disciplinary reports was successful. I won! Those reports will now be produced in response to FOIL requests. And they are a treasure trove. Important 🧵⬇️

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"the raid was specifically timed when Eric Adams was out of town" law enforcement told the Post. They expected Adams to interfere. Which means they know more than we know. And this 👇 indicates that Adams might have interfered even from out of town. Incredible.

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NYPD Sent to Home of Mayor Eric Adams’ Fundraiser Just Hours Before FBI Raids It --

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From a witness at the scene of the Jordan Neely murder. It is looking more and more like the entire "Neely was threatening" narrative came from one cop, who gave a local NBC affiliate false quotes.

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This cop: -Started an affair with a witness in his case -When it soured, threatened her to keep quiet -Lied to the DA about the affair -Threatened her *again* when the DA learned the truth -Was found guilty at trial with recommended termination He will keep his job.

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NYPD cop who slept with a witness was headed for termination until Commissioner Caban stepped in "I approve of the findings, but disapprove the penalty," Caban wrote Officer Willie Thompson was accused of "prohibitive conduct," making false statements

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And yes, a FIFTEEN MINUTE chokehold while the life slowly seeps out of a person is of course deadly force. Let this Marine (anyone got a name?) defend himself in court, of course. But under the law (meaningless as it is) his arrest and indictment is easy.

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NYPD has acknowledged this incident but won't release the name of the officer. That's by design. A years-long disciplinary process will now begin, which we won't be able to track, and it will end in - my guess for this - 10 lost vacation days and no other consequences.

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Horrifying footage of an NYPD officer repeatedly punching a citizen, who appears to be a teenage girl. Apparently this incident took place today, on Port Richmond Avenue in Staten Island, near Intermediate School 51. Who is this officer?

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I'll say it again. Eric Adams has a vested interest in Jordan Neely's murder being justified. Because if it wasn't - if it was, in fact, a murder - Adams has blood on his hands for creating this climate of paranoia and anti-homeless sentiment. Adams is not a neutral party.

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If you are watching @NYCMayor 's speech and didn't know how Jordan Neely died, you wouldn't know he was killed by another subway rider by a fatal chokehold, who was released by the police. It wasn't brought up.

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A City Council source told me that there will be no overtime or budgetary reform for the NYPD because Speaker Adrienne Adams has no interest in it. So look forward to many more NYPD armies responding to small, peaceful vigils.

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Can NYPD Reform Be Raised From the Dead? - The Village Voice

What does it take for politicians to fear their constituents more than their bosses?

www.villagevoice.com

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All of this for a vigil.

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I know it can sound, to the ears of people not involved in this stuff, hysterical to say Eric Adams is a fascist. But the NYPD is arresting journalists at protests and Adams is saying the protestors are "outside agitators," not New Yorkers. I mean this is a fascist playbook.

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@denimlunchbox @David_Venhuizen Lol yeah like there's a reason 19 year olds were wearing shirts they got in 4th grade

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@TomiLahren Wrong but I'm happy you're terrified

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Just to spell this out for the bad faith murder apologists: the reason people protest Neely's murder, and not other murders, is because in the vast majority of murders, no one argues it was a "good thing," and criminal charges follow rapidly. The mayor is defending *this* murder.

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@davidfrum So odd how popular Biden is with people who have spent 40 years supporting Republicans.

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I'm getting a little sick of blaming Eric Adams all the time. Yes, he's nuts. Yes, he's picking the bones of our city and handing the meat to the NYPD. But the City Council controls the purse strings. They can put a stop to this. Why are we not holding Councilmembers to account?

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The NYPD is unveiling some new technology today

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Received narratives!! You're talking about *economic history* Will. Yes, Gen Z has only known this economy, but they are perfectly capable of reading about a time in the not too distant past when a single income could buy a house and support a family of four.

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The economy is very good for entry-level workers! And young workers don’t have much direct experience of other economic conditions, anyway. The thing that tells them “this is better/worse than before” is primarily received narratives.

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You can see the video here. Both officers were found guilty of misconduct by CCRB. Samusev not guilty at trial. But the judge said Alvarez should be fired. Instead, he will keep his job, as per Commissioner.

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NYC mayor defends police after video shows NYPD trucks driving into protesters

“If a police officer is in that situation, they have to get out of that situation,” De Blasio said.

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It is a scandal that the NYPD Commissioner wanted to punish a high-ranking cop for corruptly voiding the arrest of a fellow officer, was told she could not do this by the Mayor, and then resigned or was pushed out over it. That is corruption of the highest order.

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2. 2023 subway crime is on par with 2013/2014 numbers, when everybody was crowing about how safe the subway is. 3. All of this is fake. All of this is phony. This is a means to create a narrative. This is an op. (2/)

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@MynamesChazz @thedigitaldash_ The screaming did me in I've been at murders with less screaming

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@TheHonorableAT @nelilola2012 This also happened with that Vegas shooting. A week out and it was like "welp guess we'll just let sleeping dogs lie on this one!"

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Wow so you mean *every* NYPD watcher, activist, and abolitionist in the City of New York was correct in stating that these "teams" would repeat all the abuses of Anti-Crime, and *every* politician and editorial board that said otherwise was wrong? Wild.

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N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Still Stopping People Illegally, Report Shows

Mayor Eric Adams revived the teams, promising they would be well trained and supervised. But a new report found widespread use of stop-and-frisk tactics against people of color.

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Any article you read or commentator you hear saying "Boy, tough choice for Alvin Bragg" - that is bullshit and that is trying to create a fake narrative.

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Just to be clear - NBC appears to have removed this quote from their printed story. Below screenshot is MSNBC linking to the NBC story reporting this. Link is to that NBC story. The quote is not there.

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@AchmatX Adams is basically saying, the economy of NYC depends on people going to the office. Which, even beyond covid, that's just not where the world is headed. He's clinging to a past that no longer exists. It bodes very poorly for the city.

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@elizaorlins @AndrewYang He's like the one person in new York who's unaware of this story because he barely lives here at all

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@GoodPoliticGuy Excessive Force Ones

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@disco_rojava @ndrew_lawrence She's literally racist against her own son it's so messed up

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Dig deep into this story of a cop deliberately stomping a woman's face as she lay prone on the ground and you find that if found guilty, the officer will....lose 20 vacation days. Oh ok. There is no accountability for cops in New York City.

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NYPD officer accused of stomping on woman’s head at George Floyd protest

An NYPD officer has been hit with departmental charges for violently kicking a woman in the head during a Bronx George Floyd protest, the Daily News has learned. Defending himself in his department…

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4. The bag checks will indisputably result in lawsuits when "random" checks are overwhelmingly targeted at Black and brown people. NY is thus not only paying for the Guard itself, but also to fight and settle lawsuits. The whole thing is a huge taxpayer boondoggle. (3/)

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The NYPD has released no records from the trial.Nor has CCRB released the legally mandated "departure letter" explaining why the Commis reversed the judge. NYPD stopped releasing trial decisions in Oct, the same time it was reported that K. Trawick's killers were found not guilty

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I hate hate HATE that I am in a position to feel relief because someone, anyone, is going to be charged by a criminal justice system I do not believe to be legitimate, or morally worthy, and yet I have to admit that I do feel some relief.

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24-Year-Old Marine to Be Charged With Manslaughter in Jordan Neely Chokehold Death: DA

The 24-year-old Marine seen on video putting Jordan Neely in a chokehold on the floor of an F train in Manhattan 10 days ago, resulting in his death, is expected to be charged and surrender Friday,...

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@LP_CLC @JoshuaPHilll The reason local communities (Democrat and Republican) fight housing development is not because they abhor capitalism, it is because they own land and want to see it appreciate. In other words, they themselves are capitalists.

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Good for Gothamist for putting the context right in paragraph 2 - under Eric Adams, racial disparities in stop and frisk have actually gotten *worse* than they were under Bloomberg - and this is after 10 years of a federal monitor in place.

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The NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of people under Mayor Adams. Just 5% were white.

Almost all police stops – 92% – were because someone “fit a relevant description” or for a reason they labeled as “other.”

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Huge story today. @latinojustice used the FOIL laws to drop a bomb on the NYPD. They got every report showing officers found to have lied to CCRB and tracked the discipline and court records. This 🧵 explains how wildly important this is. JOURNOS! For you

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Nearly 200 NYPD cops lied to CCRB -- and most were not disciplined

"Nearly one-half of the officers who lied to the CCRB were never disciplined at all, even for the underlying misconduct they lied about," said the report, titled "Shielded from Accountability."

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This is an excellent story outlining how the media largely created the idea that Jordan Neely was "threatening" passengers. I was interviewed, my work was a source for it and it would have been nice to get some credit but oh well, can't be bitter in life!

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How The Media Made A Villain Out Of Jordan Neely

Anonymous police sources quickly set the narrative after Daniel Penny put Neely in a deadly chokehold on the subway.

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Let me give you some specific examples. One police tactic is to form a line at a point where a march is headed, then when the march reaches that line, make an order to disperse. But there is nowhere to disperse to, and the police begin using force to "enforce the order."

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Case in point! Eric Adams, who wears "energy" bracelets and believes NYC derives "power" by being built over magic crystals, hired as the NYC Sheriff a guy who sold an "invisible mask" that uses "ions" to protect you from COVID.

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@jbenmenachem I just wish more commentary would connect Adams’ unhinged statements and behavior with his unhinged policy and personnel choices

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The murder of Allan Feliz by NYPD officers is particularly tragic. Feliz was stopped for not wearing a seatbelt, but he was wearing one. Officers admitted it. Then, cops wouldn't let him just leave, escalated, and shot him in the chest.

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‘We’re not going to disappear.’ Family of Allan Feliz rallies for justice at City Hall

In 2019, Feliz was shot and killed during a traffic stop gone wrong. Police say he was pulled over in the Norwood section of the Bronx for a seatbelt violation and officer-worn body cameras captured...

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11 months

We have 72 hours for progressive orgs to put the word out that this destructive bill cannot pass. This bill that: -Approves a HUGE natural gas pipeline -Will throw ppl off food stamps/cash aid -Will reduce rental/Section 8 assistance during a housing crisis -Guts IRS funding...

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Cities often have militarized police units respond to peaceful protests, with full body armor and face masks. The message is: we are ready to use violence against you. We are an army. This introduces an immediate element of antagonism to protests.

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1 year

In plain language: NY is one of only 2 states that measures wrongful death damages based on INCOME of the deceased. So a rich man's family gets more than a poor man's who died the same way. Bipartisan legislation proposed to change that. Hochul vetoed it

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Kathy Hochul Vetoes Wrongful Death Reform Bill, Picking Yet Another Fight With Her Party

The New York governor shot down a bipartisan bill to help compensate grieving families. Why?

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john teufel

10 months

Listen to me, unnamed staffers in the Adams administration: if you are spilling coffee on a photo of a dead cop to artificially age it before a Times photo shoot, it is time to do some serious thinking about your life choices. Somewhere along the way, something went awry.

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2 months

Not getting much attention last night is Biden's call for yet more police. We are at a record high for number of police in the US. (2023 numbers are even higher, over 800k) Last year alone, Biden gave out $334 million to cities for police hiring. When is enough?

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7 months

This is a man who is absolutely seething inside lol

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6 months

The general strategy used by PDs in protests is to make orders that are either 1) impossible to comply with, 2) rash and illogical or 3) vague and not heard or understood by protestors. Then the failure to comply results in violence. That's how protests turn violent.

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4 months

Biden won't meet with the unstable demagogue who's spent the last six months blasting him and might get hauled off by the FBI any minute? Yeah baffling

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2 months

5. If you haven't already abandoned the Democratic party, I have no idea why. They range from fascists to neoliberal corporatists and you shouldn't vote for them. 6. Remember when Working Families Party endorsed Hochul? Yeah you don't need to take them seriously. (4/)

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2 years

Lol

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9 months

Notice how the Mayor points to a *reduction* in crime to justify Cop City. This is the logic of the carceral state. If crime rises, we need more police to combat it. If crime falls, we need more police to protect it. Every set of facts argues for more police.

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Mayor’s office just sent me a statement following the judge’s ruling: @ajc

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1 year

Y'all wanna make something go viral, make THIS go viral. This is blowing my mind.

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john teufel

6 months

After less than a minute, police started grabbing people and hauling them away. Again, nobody had anywhere to go. It was like cattle being herded into an arrest. Police introduced violence to a peaceful march. And it was all quite deliberate.

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7. The parade of horribles liberals tell you will happen if Trump is elected is *already happening and will continue to happen no matter who is President* and this is the least important election of your lifetime. (5/5)

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5 years

@marcorubio Party over country, eh you little bitch?

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john teufel

4 years

People are being so kind about this, offering to help, giving us great tips. I love you all! Solidarity. Luckily both of us are employed and while this is a financial hardship we can swing it. A lot of American diabetics are not so lucky.

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High insulin costs are killing Americans - Right Care Alliance

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john teufel

5 months

The data can be found here. If my source wasn't actively scraping this, nobody would know it even happened.

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1 year

The Daily Mail named Jordan Neely's killer in a photo caption, then when someone pointed it out, they changed it to an "unnamed former marine". What could the journalistic justification for this possibly be? He's an adult who killed someone. Why not name him?

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@taliaotg it actually looks they just once again updated it and removed his last name from the caption just after I posted all of this. holy shit

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1 year

@SqueezeMyGamma Most of us were not born to crush our own kind

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1 year

@AdamMantine @AssasinofEire @ms_tryl My brother, I have to thank you. You've pointed to a quote that NBC appears to have made up and then abandoned. This is a perfect example of media malpractice leading to hysteria.

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At one protest I observed, the marchers were in the West Village, which New Yorkers know has some narrow streets. NYPD formed a line at the end of a narrow block (without any warning) and then ordered dispersal. Everyone was trapped. It almost felt like a human crush.

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6 months

I don't want to seem naive here. I've seen protestors be violent. I've seen, for example, a garbage pail lit on fire. But that's very rare and is almost always barred by protest organizers. And I've *never* seen a protestor assault a cop without the cop first using violence.

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7 months

There really is a sense that unless it involves police, or some right-wing bugaboo issue, New York City has no mayor at all.

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3 years

Shortcut to defunding the NYPD: mandate vaccines. 50% of them will quit on the spot.

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