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@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:

@KumarRaoNYC ("Kumar Rao") wrote:

The police officers who kidnapped and murdered Tyre Nichols were part of a special police unit purportedly designed to 'prevent crime,' inside of the Memphis Police Dept, which receives $275 million every year and sucks up 38% of the city's entire budget. #DefundThePolice

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@micahinATL ("#StopCopCity") wrote:

Police training is not and has never been the issue. The cop who murdered Rayshard Brooks received 2,000 hours of training, including sessions on de-escalation tactics, cultural-awareness training, and instruction on use of deadly force. Policing itself is the problem.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@MauriceWFP ("Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺") wrote:

Charging or jailing the killers is not enough. Justice is changing the conditions so no-one dies during a traffic stop.

Policing is fundamentally broken. Trading white officers for Black ones was never a solution.

If we're serious about public safety, we'll fund our communities

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@jerryiannelli ("Jerry Iannelli") wrote:

I don't understand how you can, almost 11 years after Trayvon Martin, still be the sort of person calling for more police-reform efforts like body-cameras. These guys did this to Tyre Nichols with all the cameras rolling.

@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") retweeted:

@MilesKlee ("Miley 🐡") wrote:

Well, since this is now public, let me just say I hope you’ll reconsider. I think it could be a great interview.

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@catturd2 ("Catturd ™") wrote:

Rolling Stones is contacting me and every person I know. They’re doing a story about me. Not going to respond.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

The video is out.

Please take care of yourself. We love you and we want you to feel safe, protected, and well.

https://www.theroot.com/tips-for-self-care-when-police-brutality-has-you-quest-1790855952

@steveklabnik wrote:

i wonder what kind of things my brain would store if i wasn't so online

like, someone shared a post titled something like "it's okay to fuck a pokemon" and i was like "ugh this is gonna be about kadabra isn't it" and i was right

@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:

@mhvdsa ("Mid-Hudson Valley DSA") replied to a tweet by @mhvdsa:

Police are the enforcers of austerity. They are a threat to socialists and everyone fighting injustice. They must be replaced with policies that serve human need. For the sake of justice, human rights, and liberation, the police must be defunded and abolished. #DefundThePolice

@hiro_asari ("あさり 🗣🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹") wrote:

It's a taxing season for many an adult. Capitalism at its finest.

@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:

@EunissesH ("Eunisses Hernandez") wrote:

#JusticeforTyreNichols

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@verainstitute ("Vera Institute of Justice") wrote:

A young father, son, skateboarder, a photographer. This is who Tyre Nichols was.

He should still be alive today.

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@schneierblog ("Schneier Blog") wrote:

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@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@WesleyLowery ("Wesley") wrote:

since this will come up a lot in media coverage of Tyre Nichols in Memphis: while I get that it seems narratively significant that the officers are black. Statistically, it is unsurprising. In tracking police violence, we never found that race of the officer made much difference

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@hrw ("Human Rights Watch") wrote:

On January 10, Tyre Nichols died from a brutal police beating in Memphis following a traffic stop.

Police in the US kill more than 1,000 people every year and people of African descent are killed at disproportionately higher rates than white people.

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@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@AttorneyCrump ("Ben Crump") wrote:

The words of Tyre Nichols mom are heartbreaking, but so important. She is why we fight for #JusticeforTyreNichols! ✊🏾

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@DemSocialists ("DSA 🌹") retweeted:

@nycDSA ("NYC-DSA 🌹") wrote:

We don't need a tape to be disgusted, mournful, and outraged. Memphis police savagely murdered Tyre Nichols. They expected impunity—as cops everywhere do, every day.

We stand with Tyre’s loved ones and community, and all who have been and continue to be brutalized by police.

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

friend keeping me company while I barbecue

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") replied to a tweet by @Blklivesmatter:

In Denver, police have been removed from responding to calls where individuals are experiencing distress related to mental health issues, poverty, homelessness, and substance use disorder. Instead, unarmed community professionals are dispatched to help.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

It is not radical or unheard of to remove police from traffic stops. In November 2021, @JimFKenney signed the Driving Equality Act which bans Philadelphia police officers from pulling drivers over for minor traffic infractions.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

After analyzing traffic enforcement by Nashville police, researchers at Stanford Computational Policy Lab and NYU School of Law’s Policing Project concluded that “traffic stops are not an effective strategy for reducing crime.”

https://www.policingproject.org/nashville

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

Police officers don’t belong at traffic stops.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@scalawagmag ("Scalawag") wrote:

How to stop videos on Twitter from automatically playing:
1. Select your avatar at the top of the screen.
2. Choose Settings and Privacy.
3. Select Accessibility, display and languages.
4. In the Data usage section, select Video autoplay.
5. Select Never.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

All cops will continue to fuel state-sanctioned violence and force unnecessary harm on our communities unless we transform and reimagine public safety in the U.S.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

Police represent the interest of capitalism and advance white supremacy at any and all costs.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

Let this be a moment to affirm what we’ve known all along: Reform doesn’t work.

Diversifying a police department will not work.

NO police department, no matter how diverse, will ever represent the interest of our people.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") wrote:

Tyre Nichols should be here today.

We pray for another family that had to bury a loved one too soon, and remember that Tyre was more than his death: A father who loved his son, a son who was a Mama’s boy, a gifted skater and photographer, and beloved community member.

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@BreeNewsome ("Bree Newsome Bass") wrote:

The establishment has been promising police reform for a century using the same methods. It’s not happening. Reform is not real. It’s time to defund & abolish.

@rantasmo retweeted:

@steinkobbe ("Wild Geerters") wrote:

The poor engineers at Twitter have to talk to these weirdos Elon invites and pretend like they're trying to solve the imaginary problem that their tweets don't get enough likes

@Blklivesmatter ("Black Lives Matter") retweeted:

@ACLU wrote:

Tyre Nichols should still be alive today.

We can and must urgently work towards transformational changes in policing to center accountability, care, and safety, including being safe from police violence.