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Spotted on the subway: a tribute to Mary Yehudah, 31, who died in Rikers this week. (photo cred: anon) pic.twitter.com/Tk9mUqPf5N
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) May 19, 2022
Hear from Alex's fiance below, and follow @CosechaMovement and @abolishICE_nynj for updates on his complaints against ICE.
[Editor's note: we spoke to Alex by phone in a NJ jail several times. His compassion for fellow inmates, and for us, was massive.] https://t.co/OTpZWrKgKQ
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 30, 2022
Spotted near Foley Square: #DropHerCharges @mccarter_tracy pic.twitter.com/uMZyZjmrG9
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 30, 2022
#StandWithTracy #DropHerCharges cc: @ManhattanDA https://t.co/8nEXLFfPyU https://t.co/ha9XVCv0zh
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 23, 2022
Spotted in Lower Manhattan: new art condemning the NYPD shooting of 18yo Luis Manuel-Monsanto and the building of a new jail in Chinatown, and promoting the need for education, community collaboration, and an end to vaccine monopolies, among other things. pic.twitter.com/39ZZ4f4rCx
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 16, 2022
https://t.co/Q65C06keQf pic.twitter.com/M0t2md1HUA
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 9, 2022
For more on what's at stake, check out @CUNYRising's work and @AmirKhafagy91's recent article: https://t.co/c7vUYMKnao https://t.co/7lCxECsUAK
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) March 9, 2022
"The measure is part of a broad agenda she has proposed, dubbed 'Jails to Jobs,' to reform the state’s reentry system and help people secure jobs and housing after they’re released from prison or jail." https://t.co/L0nCBFGu5K
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) February 26, 2022
"Adams also noted that 'it’s a big mistake not enforcing fare evasion', saying that he plans to raise the issue of possible action against [it] with the Manhattan district attorney … Adams’s plan is just the latest in the long history of [similar ones]." https://t.co/CVtgEVHruQ
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) February 19, 2022
The protesters, who seemingly damaged an NYPD van while attempting to set it on fire, will also "have to serve six months in home confinement when they’re sprung from federal prison and pay more than $72,000 in restitution [and do 400 hours comm. service,]" per NYPost. https://t.co/TGU7WC9YEb pic.twitter.com/MS3OJl1pJP
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) February 18, 2022
After a long legal process (in which defendants were misidentified, among other things) and months in jail, Long Island BLM activist Devon Toney has been sentenced to three years probation and a fine. https://t.co/FhSrPi8lxM
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) February 17, 2022
https://t.co/vUnjIeozP7 pic.twitter.com/59ba4t0dsH
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) February 6, 2022
Rally for closing Rikers / solidarity gathering beginning at 9 Malcolm X in Brooklyn, with performances and food.
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) January 27, 2022
The reading of 77yo activist Leonard Peltier's annual speech from inside federal prison has just begun, as read by his grandson. #FreeLeonardPeltier https://t.co/We3RL2uT3I pic.twitter.com/FtA2GdkQ9L
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) November 25, 2021
As below, the 65yo driver, who was shot by police after hitting an NYPD cruiser, died of his wounds. https://t.co/3xR4fPXEC7
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) November 12, 2021
Have you or someone you know developed COVID after being exposed in NYPD custody, or been denied reasonable access to PPE (with or without known exposure) while in NYPD custody?
Please let us know! (DMs, gmail, protonmail, etc) https://t.co/uW7NTnJiIW
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) November 13, 2021
Last week, 64yo Victor Mercado was given emergency release an hour before he died in the hospital, having contracted COVID at Rikers. https://t.co/ohmk0PKZ9X
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 19, 2021
In the course of this video, an officer also breaks through neighbor building's front window so numerous NYPD can pursue the apparent egg-throwers; after they re-exit the building seemingly empty handed, a woman says cops are spraying pepper spray into air. https://t.co/sHFCFa4xJw
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 23, 2021
NYPD % as of Oct 15: 69 https://t.co/1ikDrB7Qz0
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 20, 2021
Worth noting that Jefferson's "association with slavery" included owning hundreds of people, who he forced to grow cannabis (among other things). Also that NYC is one of the highest cannabis-consuming cities in the world, where low-level cannabis arrests persist. https://t.co/koK2xa2CDe
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 19, 2021
TLDR: police quotas exist, though authorities typically deny it. #Spooky #TheTruthIsOutThere https://t.co/GIQ7fIMHNZ
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 31, 2021
h/t @minkoff_steven https://t.co/ELug8BFXBl pic.twitter.com/9QpTcdUd07
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 20, 2021
#NYC #scoop #HumanRightsViolated https://t.co/hLq2ObGiWd
— PROTEST_NYC (@protest_nyc) October 21, 2021
