#CriminalInjustice #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #PretrialDetention #DC @blackmastodon We started a project where we tracked what crime was being reported in the communities surrounding American, Georgetown & George Washington by reading the neighborhood papers. Crime was happening!! But, DC police did not make arrests of white kids. In one case some kids from Georgetown killed one of their team mates. The police allowed them to handle it as a disciplinary matter. That's how the system works. 2/2

#CriminalInjustice #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #PretrialDetention #DC @blackmastodon
When I say white people are never detained in DC I mean it. In the 3 years I supervised students representing DC detainees, they only saw 2 white people held overnight. One was a crackhead from VA, who was released Monday morning. The other was a white man who killed somebody. He got bail. My students and I did not believe white people were not committing crime although they were immune from arrest. 1/2 *sp

Another execution took place during pending litigation and surrounded by serious doubt about guilt and a Missouri conviction. When do we stop taking lives needlessly and pointlessly? It’s an irreversible injustice. #criminalinjustice #criminaljustice #deathpenalty

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/08/missouri-executes-leonard-raheem-taylor/

The police and then the persecutors
Will look at one another & then shrug
They just worked for the tabloids & mayors
& unthinkingly got another thug
#headlinepoem
#Hincape #criminalinjustice
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/nyregion/johnny-hincapie-exonerated-killing.html