Protect Your People

San Jose, CA
Joined December 2008
I reported that a DA had a "fighting antisemitism" page on his campaign website that highlights his felony prosecution of Palestine student protestors.After defense attys dug up more evidence of conflict, the DA was recused––a rare outcome. Now the state AG has dropped the case.
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2025 marks when California lawmakers introduced AB 690, the Fair Representation Act. This legislation will encourage counties to move from privatized flat-fee contracts toward traditional public defender offices to improve defendant resources. davisvanguard.org/2026/08/ca…
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"In the midst of an unprecedented budget crisis ... the @SCCgov Board of Supervisors is considering investing billions of public dollars into the worst possible response to a community in need — incarceration." – Raj Jayadev, executive director @svdebug na2.hubs.ly/H07ndgx0
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Maurice Cook Jr. will be released from prison after Yolo County Superior Court Judge Daniel P. Maguire reduced his murder conviction to voluntary manslaughter on Aug. 19 due to Racial Justice Act violations. davisvanguard.org/2026/08/ju…
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THREAD. After years of litigating against New York prosecutors and judges, we just won a landmark First Amendment case in the federal appeals court. The case could expose the secretive world that protects prosecutors when they break the law. But something deeper is going on.
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"A group of civil rights orgs is ratcheting up the legal pressure on San Jose over longstanding complaints that too often mental health-related emergency calls receive a police response — rather than assistance from mental health professionals." @svdebug localnewsmatters.org/2026/04…
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“That list goes on and on of people from our communities that we had seen killed, and at what point do we do something about that? So all of those things led to that moment and how do we create a better future for our people?” @kaepernick7 Link: youtu.be/4aZ3NzUbC34?si=5cIy…
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Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen warns proposed budget cuts could impact safety and justice. Critics argue that redirecting funds towards mental health, housing, and community health could be more effective in maintaining public safety. @svdebug davisvanguard.org/2026/03/sa…
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“They’re being released into the jaws of @icegov,” says @darciegreen, protesting outside Elmwood Correctional Facility & accusing @SCCoSheriff of allowing agents to “kidnap” 46 newly released inmates since June. @svdebug also weighs in
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"The theater of ICE coming to Santa Clara County for the Super Bowl in many ways had the same dynamic as the game itself. The eyes of the world were watching our “arena,” how we would work together as a team to protect our home field." - @svdebug sanjosespotlight.com/jayadev…
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Black Louisianans Are 31% Of Population But 60.5% Of State Police Use-of-Force Cases Over Three Years Link: ow.ly/Hqbj50YaCEC
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This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.
SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE. Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country. Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed. We must rein in ICE. Here’s what we are demanding:
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These are reforms that most police departments have already adopted and they *still* killed more people afterwards. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now - especially given ICE continuing to operate with the resources of 10,000 police departments combined.
NEW: Schumer and Jeffries lay out 10 demands for DHS reforms
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BREAKING: In response to the brutal NYPD shooting of their son and brother, 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty on Monday, January 26th, the Chakraborty family issued the following statement: We are shocked and outraged by the NYPD’s treatment of our son and brother, Jabez Chakraborty, and our family. We called for help. We called 911 for an ambulance to provide medical attention for our son, who was in emotional distress. We did not call the police. Instead of medical responders, the NYPD arrived and shot our son multiple times right in front of us. As our son was being shot, we were terrified that what happened to Win Rozario was going to happen to Jabez.
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrimJan 10
“The front”
These people are incapable of not lying about this. "Side window"? You can see the photos of the car with bullet holes. The shots came from the front of the car because that's where the officer was standing when he was hit by the car. He is allowed to discharge his weapon in self defense.
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Domestic terrorism. Aggravated child abuse. Assault. Kidnapping. Let's call this what it is.
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.
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ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬
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This bill is so important that FMEP wants to remind our supporters why @GavinNewsom needs to sign AB 572; legislation to protect grieving families from coercive police interrogations. The petition has 879 signatures. Help us kick it over 1000 today. bit.ly/4gWtBX4
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