Minerva @ Midnight: Lando Cotton wants to lock… you up! Previous Guy returning to Facebook
By annieli on April 7, 2021
Last updated on April 8, 2021
The CEO of YouTube just announced that Donald Trump will be let back on the platform.
Bloomberg News reports that Facebook is likely to lift Trump's ban as well, allowing him to once again push his lies and racist conspiracy theories all over the Internet.
Major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicides last year as a pandemic swept across the country, millions of people joined protests against racial injustice and police brutality, and the economy collapsed under the weight of the pandemic — a crime surge that has continued into the first quarter of this year.
Sixty-three of the 66 largest police jurisdictions saw increases in at least one category of violent crimes in 2020, which include homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, according to a report produced by the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Raleigh, North Carolina, did not report increases in any of the violent crime categories.
“The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did.” “In 2010, the black male incarceration rate in the United States was 4,347 people per 100,000 in the United States. That comes nowhere close to reported incarceration rates of blacks in South Africa during and immediately after the apartheid era.” www.politifact.com/…
Tomorrow is a national day of action against the prison-industrial complex. Here’s the story of the incarcerated organizers who put their health and sanity on the line to get the message out. From Daniel Teehan:https://t.co/0uroOhyB9m
If you didn't get the chance to register for #WritingTowardLiberation, don't worry! You can still watch the conversation about alternatives to the prison industrial complex live on YouTube: https://t.co/RB9Dlb2Rlo
— LA Review of Books (LARB) (@LAReviewofBooks) April 6, 2021
If you needed more proof that the prison industrial complex is not interested in rehabilitation, here's an excellent (and infuriating) list of books banned from US prisons, by @Steven_Vargas_https://t.co/xIaX5NYDPd
But it was a bait bike, and Paris was arrested for a "theft" crime the police *created* by planting a bicycle in the middle of a group of houseless people for the sole purpose of caging a desperately poor person. (4) https://t.co/qvtD2MQOG2
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