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ryan cooper
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Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the Left Anchor podcast www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: www.ryanlcooper.com/
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Still burning...

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JBainteefa44.bsky.social

And nobody will go to jail.

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RAdjmomo.bsky.social

The KKKlan is well and alive with a large part of America's PD's!

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RBrussbengtson.bsky.social

honestly the dream of all cops apparently

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RMritamelindared.bsky.social

As a white girl from a small mill town in rural Alabama, I can tell you that this is SOP for "Dixie". It is in no way just this one town in Mississippi. The best part of the whole situation is the way ANYONE who dares question these types

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KCkatiecannon.bsky.social

A federally funded, locally administered, Job Guarantee would make stuff like this at least more difficult

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DNjordanw2382.bsky.social

There was a time before Trump that Republican politicians sometimes faked concern about this. That was a better world

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it's important to be clear that this kind of thing was the core of Jim Crow, not just separate bathrooms and whatnot. systematic robbery and abuse, and the cops beating the shit out of anyone who complains, or for no reason at allit's important to be clear that this kind of thing was the core of Jim Crow, not just separate bathrooms and whatnot. systematic robbery and abuse, and the cops beating the shit out of anyone who complains, or for no reason at all

The report details a litany of brutal, extractive practices primarily aimed at the Black residents of Lexington: countless arrests over extreme minutiae, including “illegal arrests, jailing people for conduct that is not criminal, like using profanity and owing money to the police.”

Since 2021, Lexington police have engaged in an aggressive campaign of punishment, often violent, against the residents of the town, the DOJ alleges. “We found instances in which officers used a taser like a cattle prod to punish people or to make them comply more quickly with officers’ orders,” said U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke. “For example, officers used a taser to shock a Black man 18 times until he was covered in his own vomit and unable to speak or talk.”
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the Left Anchor podcast www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: www.ryanlcooper.com/
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