Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
-
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109846801162660628
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 11: Wrongful Convictions
Read the whole thread. The entire thing. Every word.
-
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109846801162660628
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 11: Wrongful Convictions
Read the whole thread. The entire thing. Every word.
When ICE started ramping up their attacks on immigrants, they said, "We're going after the murderers and rapists!
" They used that consent to lock up 100K people, fewer than 5% of whom have a violent conviction.If you understand that, you can understand 400K innocent people in pretrial detention.
-
When ICE started ramping up their attacks on immigrants, they said, "We're going after the murderers and rapists!
" They used that consent to lock up 100K people, fewer than 5% of whom have a violent conviction.If you understand that, you can understand 400K innocent people in pretrial detention.
There's a whole genre of YouTube videos that are just "White presenting lady loses her iPhone, accuses the closest Black man to her of stealing it."
Seriously.
If she hadn't found her phone, she would have called 911. And in many places, the Black man would have been arrested, *with no evidence*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXzTFhN74xE
If the Black man accused of stealing the phone is not rich, he can be in jail for *over a year* before he even gets the chance to talk to a judge and tell them that he is clearly innocent, he could not have taken the phone, hotel security footage will show that, he had no phone when he was arrested.
-
There's a whole genre of YouTube videos that are just "White presenting lady loses her iPhone, accuses the closest Black man to her of stealing it."
Seriously.
If she hadn't found her phone, she would have called 911. And in many places, the Black man would have been arrested, *with no evidence*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXzTFhN74xE
If the Black man accused of stealing the phone is not rich, he can be in jail for *over a year* before he even gets the chance to talk to a judge and tell them that he is clearly innocent, he could not have taken the phone, hotel security footage will show that, he had no phone when he was arrested.
The white man in this video is not innocent. He is guilty.
He was not in general population Rikers. He was in protective custody.
He was not on Rikers for a year. He was only there for 60 days.
Think about that when you think of falsely accused Black men getting *over a year* on Rikers.
-
The white man in this video is not innocent. He is guilty.
He was not in general population Rikers. He was in protective custody.
He was not on Rikers for a year. He was only there for 60 days.
Think about that when you think of falsely accused Black men getting *over a year* on Rikers.
None of this is necessary.
We don't need 100K people in ICE detention.
We don't need 400K people in pretrial detention.
It's all just fascism. Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
If we had cared more when it was mostly anti-Black racism, We wouldn't be building ICE warehouses now.
-
P pelle@veganism.social shared this topic
