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For @Baltimoremag x @garrisonproj by me and @benjaminhsnyder "Baltimore’s 'Spy Plane' Was Ruled Unconstitutional in 2021. So Why Did One Murder Case Go to Trial Years Later?"

Baltimore’s “Spy Plane” Was Ruled Unconstitutional in 2021. So Why Did One Murder Case Go to Trial...

Terrence Carter spent three years in jail and on house arrest in a case in which police and prosecutors relied on the surveillance plane.

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

21 days

fwiw: 400 million would be less than Baltimore spends on policing per year

NBC News

@NBCNews

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Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that. It all depends on factors that are still mostly unknown.

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2 years

quick how much does it cost to fly a surveillance helicopter around Baltimore

phriendly neighborhood photojournalist

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2 years

“This is the Baltimore City Police Dept. helicopter unit. Please exit the swimming pool. There is no lifeguard on duty. For your safety, exit the swimming pool.”

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3 years

"I do not 'humanize' her. I do not make an attempt to 'humanize' her. She is simply a human being, period."

Eduardo Martinez

@PharrFromHeaven

3 years

I was on Peacock and stumbled upon this On Death Row documentary series that Werner Herzog did. This prosecutor made some snarky comment in passing about Herzog humanizing a person on death row, and Herzog made sure to get the last word.

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this is a very specific kind of "edgy" "quirky" kinda punk with absolute dogshit politics that's really familiar to anyone who has ever attended a community meeting in a gentrifying neighborhood

Melanie Zanona

@MZanona

3 years

Kyrsten Sinema, the Senate’s most colorful member, posts a pic of herself on instagram rocking a “F*** Off” ring & sipping what looks like Sangria

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4 years

March for Breonna Taylor in Baltimore

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3 years

This is really important and @AOC framing the “division” as coming from centrists is spot-on

Jason Rosenberg

@mynameisjro

3 years

“Every single swing seat member that co-sponsored Medicare for All won their reelection.” - @AOC

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"NOBODY DEFUNDED THE POLICE: A STUDY" "A study of budgets in over 400 American cities over the last 5 years shows that...there was no mass defunding of police. Police depts got the same average cut of the city budget in '21 as they did in previous years"

Nobody defunded the police: A study

Despite right-wing outrage and backlash from the President, there is little evidence that cities are slashing police department budgets.

therealnews.com

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

As someone about to publish a book about Baltimore cops with the title "I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad," I gotta (briefly) address Bret Stephens' op-ed about Baltimore which does not reckon with the full extent of police corruption here

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4 years

The way to look at the “news” that Jacob Blake had a knife in his car is the police have had a few days to spin this and all they could come up with is that he had a knife in his car

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7 years

Confederate Monuments coming down tonight; right now. Lee Jackson has caution tape around it. Police here

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2 years

I imagine to people who come to Baltimore (especially Hopkins student parents) these vacants confirm a negative sense of the city. Few realize these were liveable buildings until Hopkins bought them up, displaced people, sat on them (some for decades), and let them crumble

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3 years

Network news and "big deal" reporters scouring video of the fascists in the Capitol and naming the fascists is what independent journalists and anti-fascists have been doing for years while the the news ignored the problem or straight-up named antifa as the "real" problem

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obvious comparison for reducing police budgets is military budget: a deeply politicized money burner that uses its failures and limitations as the argument for why it can't ever be changed or have its budget reduced and when it does a poor job that's proof it needs even more $$$

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brandon soderberg

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Eight years ago today, Freddie Gray died. On Apr. 12, Gray was chased by cops, grabbed, and thrown into a police van. He died in the hospital a week later on April 19. Each year, I post these photos I took during the first few days of the Baltimore Uprising.

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

Want to end capitalism? Consider getting a job at Wal-Mart and change the system from within!

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force was operating a vast criminal conspiracy in the department while DOJ was here doing its civil rights investigation. DOJ did not uncover any of GTTF's crimes during that investigation. DOJ and GTTF were right next to one another in police HQ

CBS News

@CBSNews

3 years

AG Merrick Garland announces Justice Dept. is opening a civil investigation into whether Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern of unconstitutional or unlawful policing He says Chauvin's verdict "does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis"

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brandon soderberg

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"defense against disorder," a disgusting phrase I fear we will see deployed more and more by the press as more law and order psychos kill more people for simply existing on the same train as them

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7 years

Burning Kek and Confed flags at Justice Park

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

I've sad this a bunch but politicians are framing increased penalties for guns, new task forces out to get guns, as a progressive shift away from the war on drugs but the war on guns is doing the same thing: disproportionately incarcerating Black men.

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brandon soderberg

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6 years

hey everybody — So we're starting a new weekly paper in Baltimore the first issue (print! yes!) is out 11/15

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

Hello the cops shouldn’t get to decide who is a member of the press

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

3 years

It is being reported on social media that earlier today members of the press were arrested during a protest in Manhattan. These reports are false. All arrested individuals from today's protests have been verified to not be NYPD credentialed members of the press.”

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

It's a shame that CBS sitcom "Lil Fassbinder" wasn't a success

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Wow didn’t know I only pay taxes on the things I think I should pay taxes on. Looking forward to no longer paying for the US to bomb countries and for the police to beat and kill people

Michael Stratford

@mstratford

3 years

Pelosi also questioned the policy wisdom of cancelling student loan debt: “Suppose…your child just decided they, at this time, [do] not want to go to college but you’re paying taxes to forgive somebody else’s obligations. You may not be happy about that."

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3 years

a Democratic mayor in a major American city using some of the most dehumanizing language one could use to talk about people who use drugs

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot compares some parts of Chicago to a scene from "the Walking Dead" due to heroin/opioid abuse

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

Mostly bc of my age here—I was 16 in 2001–I’m sure but my peers rewriting the Afghanistan War as bungled by well-intentioned Americans rather than an intentional, deeply cynical destabilization of a region to spread empire that was never gonna lead to “victory” is wild

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Less than 48 hours after this photo op, Baltimore Police shot and killed someone.

Baltimore Police

@BaltimorePolice

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Celebrating @BmoreCeasefire weekend with our community! #Unity #CommunityPolicing #MyBmore

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Police in Jersey mad they can't use claims of weed smell to violate 4a rights and harass teens

New Jersey State PBA

@NJSPBA

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NJ State PBA responds to vote today by legislature. Bill creates more confusion and officers are urged to limit all marijuana enforcement.

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Guess it should've been obvious that after the U.S. straight-up refused to materially help people during the pandemic (leaving vulnerable people even more vulnerable), a crime “spike” would be contrived to get people on board with putting all of these vulnerable people in prison

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3 years

you really don't have to immediately buy into this "he meant to use his taser" excuse

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

Our racist dress code resulted in some racism, so we have adjusted it so that we can no longer be racist to children 12 and under

Atlas Restaurant Group

@Atlas__Group

4 years

Today, we learned of an incredibly disturbing incident that occurred at one of our restaurants in Baltimore, Ouzo Bay. We sincerely apologize to Marcia Grant, her son & everyone impacted by this painful incident. This situation does not represent who or what Atlas stands for.

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

Context for today's march in Baltimore. It is organized by the People's Power Assembly, a radical and grassroots group. Like Monday's huge march, organized by Baltimore's Youth w/ Bmore Bloc and like yesterday's Black Trans Lives March, this will likely not be hugging police etc.

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4 years

On July 8, 2016 Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force stalked Ronald and Nancy Hamilton at a Home Depot, then kidnapped them, took them to their house and robbed them. Todau almost exactly four years later a BPD Sgt is charged with kidnapping and extorting a home contractor.

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

These cops committed crimes and created crimes. They robbed from people, they stole drugs from people, they sold drugs, they planted guns, they beat people up all part of a criminal conspiracy (that's the fed gov't saying that) that goes back nearly a decade at least.

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Police aren't abolished in Baltimore. Not even sure what he is trying to say here. City is under federal consent decree and enacted a number of conventional Obama-era style reforms (which police fought against). Police did not largely slowdown in Baltimore—my book shows this.

Lee Fang

@lhfang

3 years

Abolishing police in high crime neighborhoods has resulted in mass death from skyrocketing crime -- but the victims are working class people in poor cities like Baltimore. Lives only matter when they fit a simple political narrative. Crime is morally complex, so it is ignored.

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2 years

Second time in two weeks someone has pointed to a situation in Baltimore where citizens have had to direct traffic because cops didn’t show up

Carl Tuckerson

@ReallyNotOnHere

2 years

The @BaltimorePolice can’t step up and do their jobs directing traffic at a malfunctioning traffic light by the stadium on a Ravens gameday, so the squeegee boys had to take charge. How much did their budget increase again this year? @notrivia

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

I post these every April 19—the day Freddie Gray died. Images from the first few days of the Baltimore Uprising. They’re not “good” photos at all but they capture to me, some of the energy of that moment.

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

I see the credulous local press is so enamored with Larry Hogan that they're not gonna pushback on this bonkers reopening of the state which will, like all Hogan policies, devastate the poor and the working class who will have to go back to work or lose unemployment etc

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2 years

At the end of March, an ad for a cannabis festival was painted over Baltimore's famous "Defund BPD [Baltimore Police Dept]" billboard. As of this morning, the billboard has been reclaimed

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3 years

I spend a lot of time discussing the tools for stopping Black people we need to take from police—cannabis smell, belief person possesses a weapon—but gotta stress as long as police exist they will find a reason no matter how inane like “air freshener around the rearview mirror”

Max Nesterak

@maxnesterak

3 years

Samira Hassan says Brooklyn Center police stopped her for having an air freshener around her review mirror last week. She lives in the building that police have now encircled

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brandon soderberg

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2 years

Coverage of the man who was shot and killed yesterday after he attacked someone squeegee'ing is being spruced up by click/clout-hungry journalists as something important or "complex" but it is a standard Baltimore story: Media takes white death more seriously than Black death.

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3 years

This is the best advertisement for why police don’t want people to be able to access their records and why people should absolutely be able to access police records

Sam Gonzalez Kelly

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3 years

Got to CPD HQ for the end of Ja’Mal Green’s action. When I got there, he was going down the line of officers guarding the building, reading their individual lists of complaints

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Baltimore Stands with Palestine March

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brandon soderberg

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2 years

The kid from Mighty Ducks 2 and First Kid being a crypto guy with connections to Epstein who is funding NYPD video game trucks that encourage teens to hang out and let off stream and do whatever feels like a pg 278 revelation in a “Chaos”-like book someone writes in 40 years

Resist Programming 🛰

@RzstProgramming

2 years

The NYPD’s two newly announced “gaming trucks” are funded by billionaire Trump donor Brock Pierce who: 📌 Was named in two civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of underage boys 📌 Spoke at a 2011 conference in the Virgin Islands supported by Jeffrey Epstein

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

Because I keep seeing this: The "shorty" in the video of Baltimore's Mayor Brandon Scott is activist Duane "Shorty" Davis. He is a protest institution unto himself and is a tireless advocate for the city. He is also an artist. My piece on him from 2015

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4 years

What Stephens argues needs to return is the kind of plainclothes policing these cops did (when they weren't robbing people or while they were also robbing people). But I already explained how this war on citizens policing is terrible IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Opinion | In Baltimore, Police Officers Are the Bad Guys With Guns (Published 2019)

Plainclothes police officers are waging war on citizens.

www.nytimes.com

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

nothing the police in Baltimore do can possibly be their fault. Not solving murders isn't their fault. The feds pulling out isn't their fault. Truly amazing to be a $500 million-plus a year organization that's unaccountable but also always needs more help

Baltimore City FOP

@FOP3

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BPD staffing is so short that the FBI is removing their Agents & assets from the Citywide Robbery Unit because the BPD failed to uphold their end of the bargain to staff Task Force Officer positions. Better pay and working conditions=increased hiring and retention #CityinCrisis

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brandon soderberg

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2 years

This week @BaltimoreSAO released a list of 300 Baltimore cops with possible "credibility issues." On the list is Melvin Hill, a notorious former cop. Some of his disciplinary records were leaked to me. For @TheRealNews , I summarize the shocking allegations

‘More vicious without a badge’: Leaked disciplinary records reveal a notorious Baltimore cop’s...

Marilyn Mosby’s list of 300 police with ‘credibility issues’ includes Melvin Hill. Battleground Baltimore investigates this former cop with dozens of allegations against him, including ‘criminal...

therealnews.com

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

this is what "law and order" means and has always meant btw

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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For the second consecutive day Trump seems to endorse extrajudicial killings by federal forces

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brandon soderberg

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Criminal charges filed against Baltimore cop Steven Angelini for selling oxy, ammo, "ghost guns," more. Just the latest example of Baltimore Police—under a Consent Decree and according to BPD commanders making "progress"—continuing to deal drugs, guns.

Baltimore Police Officer Facing Federal Charges for Drug Conspiracy and Distribution Charges and...

A criminal complaint has been filed against Steven Umberto Angelini, age 41, of Middle River, Maryland, on charges related to a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and oxycodone in the Baltimore area....

www.justice.gov

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4 years

One thing that is very clear reporting on dope in Baltimore is the amount of suburban and rural Trump types who come into Baltimore and trade guns (and dirtbikes) for dope

Scott Charles, MAPP, FCPP

@TheScottCharles

4 years

“WHERE ARE CHICAGO GANGBANGERS GETTING THEIR GUNS?!”

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brandon soderberg

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3 years

No one should be in prison, let alone in prison for 100s of years but we can all see why Baltimoreans are angry about this. To see sentencing reform arguments used for dirty cops who ruined many lives while those whose lives they ruined don't get the same treatment is an insult.

The Baltimore Sun

@baltimoresun

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Two former Baltimore Police officers sentenced to a combined 454 years in federal prison for shaking down citizens in the early 2000s had their prison terms reduced to 20 years by a judge on Monday.

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brandon soderberg

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2 years

Baltimore! Be on the lookout for an 8-page preview edition of Baltimore Beat. They are beginning to circulate today (just left some at @GreedyReads Remington). Our first full issue is out August 10.

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5 years

Students have chained themselves to railings at Garland Hall as per of JHU Occupation and have said they are "fully occupying the building" now

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3 years

Can you imagine how things may have been a bit different over the past four years if there had been this kind of energy all along instead of at the moment where it's safe—and "Patriotic"—for journos to call this shit out (they are still doing a mostly poor job btw)

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here is an especially blatant example of how reform is a money-generating scam for the police

Samantha Melamed

@samanthamelamed

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After months of calls to “defund the police” Philly Police union proposed a new contract with 5% “accountability pay” bonus for using body cameras, and 5% “residency pay” for officers living in the city they serve.

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brandon soderberg

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6 years

If you wanna understand Baltimore politics it is Council tonight probably voting to rename a park after Harriet Tubman and undoubtedly confirming a police commissioner who has three fatal shootings under his belt and some serious IAD concerns. City loves the symbolic change.

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4 years

We should absolutely abolish prisons. Besides it being the right thing to do, it is far less extreme than locking people up at the rate we do especially when all evidence points to it not being reformative or a deterrent. We are better people when we don't put people in cages.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

Just a reminder that my book about cops running a criminal enterprise inside of the Baltimore Police Department is out next month—July 21. Pre order it from your favorite bookstore or via Bookshop

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brandon soderberg

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2 years

glad we spend more than a half-a-billi a year on Baltimore Police. I mean who else is gonna...tell children to not swim when it is oppressively hot out?

Paul Gessler

@PaulGessler

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BPD's helicopter is circling Patterson Park alerting folks to--and, I'm not kidding--get out of the city pool.

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3 years

this is disgusting

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

3 years

I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.

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Imagine if reporters in Baltimore covered shootings as the police failing to do their job instead of (explicitly or tacitly) an example pf why more police are needed. I get it though, when you lack critical thinking skills, racist scaremongering feigning outrage is the easy pivot

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it's really neat how Johns Hopkins University is still itching to create its own private police force to further harass and possibly kill my neighbors and also is right now by letting students come back facilitating super spreader events to kill more of my neighbors

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4 years

In other news, these started popping up around the city this morning

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1 year

ah yes Towson famously free of drugs

Nino Mangione

@NinoMangione42

1 year

I was born and raised in the Towson area, went to high school and college in Towson and today, have investment there. I remember when Towson was free of violent crime and drugs. What has happened? First, a lack of support and respect for law enforcement. Second, the

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the Baltimore Police, due to pressure from a number of reporters, released footage of a cop running over a teen and knew the Sun and others would follow the distracting framing of "but he's not dead!" and "but we say he had a gun"

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The scaremongering around Fells Point, Federal Hill is also part of what I think of as the dormification of city life thanks to shitty developers and the white professional class they court. This continuation of the racist classist bubble that’s put around these folks in college

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4 years

Baltimore Twitter getting upset about dirt bikers is pathetic

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@notrivia

3 years

Removing "I smelled cannabis" from a cop's arsenal of justifications for 4a violations is crucial; police straight up LIE about smelling weed all the time

Eli Northrup

@EliNorthrup

3 years

Here is the provision of the final bill addressing the use of odor in police investigations. Odor alone can no longer be used as a basis for stop/search. Only exception is when investigating DWI and then, scope of search is limited. A real win for marijuana justice in NY.

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brandon soderberg

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6 years

Hey everybody, some news: as announced this morning on Publisher's Marketplace, @baynardwoods and I are writing a book about the Gun Trace Task Force together. It is called "I've Got a Monster" and will be published by St. Martin's

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The other fallacy I'll address (there are many others I won't spend my time on...right now at least), is the idea that Baltimore's problems come "progressive" changes. In the Post last month, me and @baynardwoods basically wrote a pre-rebuttal to this

Perspective | Baltimore tried reforming the police. They fought every change.

The last five years are a warning for efforts to tinker around edges of law enforcement now.

www.washingtonpost.com

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

MD's governor supports ethnic cleansing

Governor Larry Hogan

@GovLarryHogan

3 years

Today, the State of Maryland stands with Israel as Hamas terrorists attack innocent civilians. We pray for all the victims of the bloodshed and that it will soon come to an end.

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In 2016, Baltimore cops robbed a man for 10k. He was killed a few months later after his court date (they arrested him for a gun, stole his cash) because he couldn't pay a drug debt. That's crime cops created.

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2 years

"federal gun possession warrant" is an absurd and scary phrase; another example of why gun possession is a charge that shouldn't be criminalized

New York Times Arts

@nytimesarts

2 years

The chart-topping rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again was found not guilty on Friday of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon, concluding one of the two federal gun trials he had been facing.

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This is definitely the way we all need to understand the vast majority of the news (especially daily papers and tv news): It is responsible for causing harm and works in tandem with law enforcement to cause harm.

Scott Hechinger

@ScottHech

3 years

I am going to try to stop talking about how media and journalists "enable" police, prosecutors, & the prison-industrial-complex in their mission to perpetuate mass criminalization & oppression. Media & journalists are directly responsible for mass criminalization & oppression.

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And lastly, this line: "Peaceful protests and then violence ensued." That's his diagnosis of the Baltimore Uprising. What is missing from that description is POLICE VIOLENCE that killed Freddie Gray. This is the game Stephens and others keep playing: State violence isn't violence

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@notrivia

4 years

But this is why Baltimore is such a bad example. When you see the extent of Baltimore Police corruption it's organized crime, it is a gang doing the stuff gangs do.

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@notrivia

2 years

so much nightlife and culture in Baltimore has been destroyed over the last 25 years or so with the help of reporters framing a crime as "near [area being targeted by city]" when it is in fact just as near many, many other kinds of businesses, areas, etc.

Jayne Miller

@jemillerbalt

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31 yr old woman was shot this morning just after bar closing time (2:20am) one block off "The Block" Amid debate over a proposal to require Block businesses to close early

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

"thank you for dying" is just peak lib brain

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

1 year

Important freedom of the press news in Maryland! Ruling in Soderberg et. al. v. Carrion came down today and its a good one: broadcasting or distributing lawfully obtained audio or video recordings of Maryland court proceedings no longer banned.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

Daily paper crime reporting needs to be totally overhauled. Mostly white dudes doing a "police say" dance b/w scaremongering covering mostly Black death day in day out for years until they get a gig doing the same job in a bigger city and to what end

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

My dumb governor voted for Reagan, also a horrible racist rather than take a productive stance against Trump; if you believe that voting third party is bad or toxic, where does voting for a dead fascist because you're afraid to stand up to the living fascist fall

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

2 years

Story briefly acknowledges unionization efforts that BMA is hindering but it still speaks to how terribly labor is covered by the press: An exhibition framed as celebrating its workers while not letting those workers have a wall-to-wall union should not get this kind of press.

New York Times Arts

@nytimesarts

2 years

A new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art was curated by security staff. “We’re filmmakers, musicians, professors, writers, artists. We know a lot more about the artwork than people would be led to believe,” said Kellen Johnson, one of the curators.

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@notrivia

2 years

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HazmatTravis

@HazmatTravis

2 years

@notrivia About 40 lifeguards at $20 per hour given the cost per hour to operate the aircraft, not including pilot and observer salaries.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

And unlike the drug crews—"gangs" as people like Stephens think of them—a gang of police can create violence to maintain power and profit and also use it to argue they need more money etc. because look the crime (which they had a role in creating) continues.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

6 years

Whenever I'm editing someone I think of this Eno note to Coldplay—"Your songs are too long. And you're too repetitive, and you use the same tricks too much, and big things aren't necessarily good things, and you use the same sounds too much, and your lyrics are not good enough."

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

So Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan is agitating for more police, more prosecutions, etc. in Baltimore—all of the things that not only don’t help communities but actively hurt them, which is all Hogan offers to this city: Harm. This is all too predictable.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

2 years

Every April 19—the day Freddie Gray died—I post these photos I took in the early days of the Baltimore Uprising. On Apr. 12, Gray was chased by cops, grabbed, and thrown into a police van screaming on April 12. He died a week later.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

2 years

I know most of us know this but look, all that "psychoactive" means is it affects the brain etc. and change mood, behavior blah blah blah. Booze is psychoactive, caffeine is psychoactive, jesus christ man

Mindy Basara

@MindyWbal

2 years

See this gummy I’m holding? It’s LEGAL cannabis. 100mg. Psychoactive. And you can buy it over the counter. No medical card. My I-team report Monday 5pm. @wbaltv11

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

6 years

West Baltimore neighborhood on lockdown and 200k+ reward for info on cop killer; across town Commissioner speaks at vigil for white guy murdered during robbery—clear evidence that police lives and white lives matter more to officials in Baltimore.

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

I wrote a book and watched Tiger King so fuck you

New York Times Books

@nytimesbooks

3 years

When most people were watching "Tiger King," Pete Buttigieg started writing a book. Now it's a best seller.

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brandon soderberg

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4 years

The far more interesting story than oh wow Baltimore is protesting “peacefully”—by which you mean “nonviolent,” a tactic—is Baltimore is really expanding how it protests and doing some fairly complex and confrontational stuff

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

I interviewed one of the artists behind the “CANCEL RENT AND FUCK THE POLICE” billboard: “The message is timed with the fifth anniversary of Freddie Gray’s death and the first flight of the N73266 spy plane,“ they told me

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

7 years

Lee-Jackson Monument in Wyman Park Dell

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

Gathered in front of Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels house in protest of Hopkins getting a private police force. After years of organizing Hopkins condensed it would DELAY the force by two years. Organizers say that’s not good enough

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

5 years

Jews Against ICE and Jews United For Justice marching through Artscape against ICE

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

4 years

And mind you, the main thing he claims is hindering cops is the Federal Consent Decree. This is a common talking point by a lot of pro-cop types: "We can't do our job because of these oversights."

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

3 years

What police think of as policing and what citizens (and Vox bois and pundits etc.) think of as policing are radically different. Cops are committed to more gear and surveillance and jump-out boys and this is what they do spend money on and what they want to spend money on

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brandon soderberg

@notrivia

2 years

Johns Hopkins has been sitting on 7 row homes and a 14-story high rise for years. Now they're demolishing the row homes to build a "green space"...across from a 14-acre park that has been a place where many experiencing homelessness have been camping out. Make it make sense.

The Real News

@TheRealNews

2 years

‘Dilapidated’ buildings owned by the prestigious university illustrate the extent to which Baltimore City enables real estate speculation at the expense of residents: by @notrivia

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