Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Fighting everyday to share the truth about public health & safety.
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A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it.
My newest oped on on the lies Americans tell themselves to excuse state violence. zeteo.com/p/ice-migrants-vio…
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THREAD: This is a story about how police are frontline propagandists. It starts with a violent robbery at a men’s clothing store in Manhattan. It ends w/ NYPD responding, but refusing to investigate. Then lying that no one would face any consequences bc of “reform.” Read on:
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In a single interview John Legend explains why Donald Trump is a racist. Is actually *benefitting* from a 2-tiered justice system. And premiers a project to share stories from the 1000s who've benefitted from bail reform to win more freedom. Tour de force:
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Filming and documenting ICE activities and arrests is the most American thing you could do. The pinnacle of First Amendment protected action.
A new report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General provides a rare, comprehensive glimpse of life inside the now-closed, notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year.
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"The alarming conditions inside Delaney Hall and other ICE jails have long been the reality of daily life for nearly 2 million incarcerated people in this country."
The entire U.S. carceral system is built on cruelty.
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Three people reported arrested in Tacoma, WA. No further details available at this time.
See ICE or Border Patrol in Washington? Report it immediately to the WAISN Statewide Rapid Response Hotline: 📞 1-844-724-3737
#Ice #BorderPatrol #Tacoma #Washington #news
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“Shut the fuck up stop being hysterical” those were the words of alex pretties killers who protected a woman being brutalized by ICE."
In a harrowing public testimony, Wynnie Savageford bravely recounted witnessing Alex’s tragic death before being unlawfully detained in a freezing cell for twelve hours. Her powerful account of his final moments, defending a stranger without hesitation, stands as a remarkable demand for justice and accountability.
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ICE breaks car window inches from toddler's face—drag father out & tackle him to ground.
Mother first begs him don't surrender:
"¡No te entregues!"
Then tells him not to resist after they attack with excessive force:
"¡No te resistas!"
While their young son screams "¡Papa!"
Man detained is originally from Venezuela—the traffic stop occurred in Florida.
María Alejandra doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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ICE beat up two kids who were US citizens, but the relevant fact is that they weren't doing anything that should have caused law enforcement to stop them: they were enlisting in the Marines.
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What her voice did: forced attention onto the case, which settled. Put people held pretrial in front of a national audience.
Brought 200+ volunteers into PG County to watch courts and hold the actors in them accountable.
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2020. COVID tore through jails while people sat caged pretrial with no protection from it.
She read the words of a man locked up in Prince George's County, MD — words he'd only gotten out on paper, inside a lawsuit.
Fiona Apple stepped up. After a federal judge dismissed dozens of sworn declarations from inside jail as “unhelpful” & only “marginally relevant.” She didn’t want anyone to ignore them. So she read their words. “I’ve lost my spirit, sort of given up.” More:
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2019. I was a public defender. My office had helped start a fund called While They Wait — necessities, fees, and lawyers for asylum seekers stuck in limbo for years.
Fiona pledged two years of royalties from "Criminal" to it.
That's how we met.
BLOWN AWAY. Learned today that Fiona Apple pledged *2 years* of royalties from her hit "Criminal" to the While They Wait Fund we created for necessities, fees, & legal counsel for immigrants released & fighting for legal status. So humbled. Thank you! pitchfork.com/news/fiona-app…
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It's Fiona Apple's birthday.
Most people know the music. Far fewer know that for the past seven years she's been one of the most committed criminal justice advocates in this country — quietly, without credit, without ever once asking for it.
Here's what she's done.
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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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ICE TRIED TO IMPRISON PROTESTERS. THEIR CASES FELL APART.
AP tracked 102 cases across four cities. Only 12 reached trial and all ended in acquittal, mistrial, or dismissal.
Trump’s DOJ sold a story of violent enemies. Courtrooms exposed how often its accusations were fake.
It’s all about creating fear and inflicting pain on American citizens to force servility. Even a failed prosecution can drain bank accounts and upend lives.
PAXIS exists because knowing your rights matters when an authoritarian government treats lawful dissent as a threat.
Know your rights: PAXIS.app. Record safely. Demand accountability.
Help keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS.
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Lower courts: "Because border patrol agents have limited powers, and their powers do not include state traffic enforcement, the Fourth Amendment is violated when border patrol agents enforce the traffic code."
Can a federal officer pull over a driver for the state offense of speeding? Can a state or local officer stop or arrest someone for committing a federal immigration offense? I had an article on this set of puzzles a few years ago. You can read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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It's Fiona Apple's birthday.
Most people know the music. Far fewer know that for the past seven years she's been one of the most committed criminal justice advocates in this country — quietly, without credit, without ever once asking for it.
Here's what she's done.
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Then she took years of journals and notes and turned them into a song. "Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)." Her first new music in five years.
She trusted us at Zealous to make the video. It's raised over $100,000 to bail mothers home.
Fiona Apple just released her first new song in 5 years. Based on years of court watching. Thousands of hearings. Saw the devastating impact of pre-trial detention, especially on Black mothers. They shared images w her. Watch: piped.video/ki1nvcNbYH8?si=_dPJ…
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