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the greatest threat to the officers were their fellow officers -- at no point do we see Tyre Nichols harming any of the officers, however the officers managed to pepper spray themselves multiple times
before the videos even begin: We're told this began with a traffic stop - why was he removed from the car? The officers involved were from so-called Scorpion squad. Any time you hear about a police "elite" squad it should raise suspicion -- these teams are often hotbeds of abuse
there is no reasonable standard by which anything Coates has written would be inappropriate for a college level African American studies course
in today’s WaPo: a reported essay about my friend and colleague @nhannahjones , the 1619 Project and the role of black journalists as historians
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It's pretty wild to see people who tried to disenfranchise millions of black voters and decried Raphael Warnock as a "radical marxist"...two weeks ago...posting MLK quotes today
Reminder: the debate at the core of all of this is anti-racist protesters saying police commit acts of violence with impunity and the police saying “no we don’t.” Judging by what you’ve seen in the last week, which side of the debate appears to you to be telling the truth?
Musk/Twitter is sucking up the media news oxygen, but msnbc abruptly canceling its highest rated weekend show - days before midterms - amidst bad faith harassment campaign against @TiffanyDCross led by Tucker Carlson is a much bigger story than current level of coverage suggests
as we learn more details about more ways police misled the public about Uvalde, remember: the vast majority of claims about individual crimes/police interactions that appear in media are based completely on the unconfirmed and uninterrogated word of unnamed police spokespeople
someone who worked for candidate Joe Biden - who had no governmental authority at the time - requesting tweets contain leaked nude photos of Hunter Biden - a clear TOS violation - is not only not a “violation” of the 1st Amendment, it’s in no way scandalous or noteworthy
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