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Discussing a year of accountability w @VICENews and so impressed with their #stillhere project and by all the artists and activists profiled.
.@Rigodis Appling — NYC Public Defender and founding member of Black Attorneys of Legal Aid #StillHere bit.ly/3bOq6li
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"Activists Demand Report on the NYPD Gang Database"
- @freedomrideblog speaks with Rigodis Appling of @GangScoalition, on this week's Black Agenda Radio: blackagendareport.com/activi…
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Police in New Mexico burnt a child alive.
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⏰ Your daily reminder: we can't arrest and jail our way out of addressing poverty.
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***Legal Aid Announces Distribution of Over $22 Million to More than 54,000 New Yorkers in a Class Action Settlement with City and State for Illegally Terminating or Reducing Public Assistance***
Press Release: legalaidnyc.org/wp-content/u…
Listen in tonight on WBAI 99.5, as Bob and I discuss the Board of Elections’ obligation to establish voting sites on Rikers Island. Demand @BOENYC enfranchise incarcerated NY’ers now! #voteinNYCjails #voteforallNYC
“They were arrested and you're supposed to turn on your camera immediately when you're going toward an arrest... and definitely if there's any use of force, the cameras are supposed to be on. So there should have been footage.” - said Rigodis Appling, Gini and Mali’s attorney.
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"It seems unusual to me that they wouldn't see any of this on footage, but I'm assuming the officers either turned off their cameras or just didn’t log the footage," - @rigodis.
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I’m published in @TeenVogue today! Read my take on persuading family “entrenched in carceral inclinations to ponder why they think the way they do, and to consider certain truths about the monetary, communal and human costs of policing and incarceration.” teenvogue.com/story/talk-abo…
From Reconstruction and the Black Codes to the Black Power Movement and the War on Drugs, power of the state is not easily ceded. Right now, police unions and pro-carceral media actively work to roll back necessary criminal justice reforms recently passed. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o…
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Melissa Lucio faces execution in less than 90 days in Texas for a crime that never occurred. Read more about her case, and add your name to the #SaveMelissaLucio petition to join @innocence in preventing an irreversible injustice.
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This essential piece by @rigodis & @clairestot comes at a critical time. While opponents of constitutional rights paint DA Alvin Bragg as radical, his policies simply bring a modicum of reason to an incredibly abusive system. And wow is this about race. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o…
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@marie_defender right now speaking truth to power - on the awful impact of caving to fearmongering and rolling back bail reforms only 3 months after they were implemented as she testifies in the Assembly Public Hearing on conditions in NYC jails
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Every Rikers death is a policy choice by @NYCMayor, who refuses to release people, and every DA that asks for unaffordable bail.
Apparently, Black lives don’t matter on Rikers Island
Another Rikers detainee dies, marking 12th death this year ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/new…
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In late June, a New York appellate court issued a landmark ruling aimed at helping defendants avoid homelessness.
But a month later, the ruling is getting neutralized by the court system, defense lawyers contend.
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“The police can only go as far as the DA lets them,” Legal Aid attorney Rigodis Appling said. “Prosecutors can reform police.” #vote #DefundThePolice
Over the past six months, we joined forced with @TheAppeal to report a five-part series on the key issues dividing candidates in the Manhattan DA race, from police oversight to sentencing practices.
Here's what's at stake in tomorrow's election.
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Guess if it was Tali or Trump
- Attacks reporters that are critical of them
- one of the richest humans on earth but doesn't pay taxes
- Did not register with their party until it benefitted them (& just lied about it)
- Runs racist ads
- Disregards justice for the Central Park 5