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Oct 5, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
If you are going to talk about DC law, legislation, etc. facts matter. How shit works, matters. Who can and does what matters

@councilofdc has this…

dccouncil.gov/wp-content/upl… Also:

How a Bill Becomes a Law: District of Columbia Legislative Process

dccouncil.gov/how-a-bill-bec…
Oct 5, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
@JWPascale It’s not very helpful to use small pieces of information like this. This was a TASK FORCE to DISCUSS ideas not an agency or legislation. The next sentence says LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES TO ENFORCE … USING EXISTING PROCESSES. Nothing changed. They didn’t move forward with ideas. @JWPascale Local Police Work to Crack Down on Illegal Fraudulent Temp Tags (4/29/22)

Enforcement NEVER Stopped

nbcwashington.com/investigations…
Oct 5, 2022 9 tweets 6 min read
Mad about “fare evasion” because YOU have to pay instead of not paying fares either?

Give @WMATA more of your $ for a campaign, pay for continuing mismanagement/ train maintenance failure, & support @MetroTransitPD targeting Black & brown folks/ kids?

Don’t believe the hype. “This year, Metro expects about $301 million in fare revenue from passengers, making up about 13% of its total operating budget of $2 billion. The estimated shortfall from fare evasion this year, meanwhile, represents about 2% of that budget.”

ONLY 2%‼️

dcist.com/story/22/10/04…
Jan 2, 2022 8 tweets 7 min read
Non-Black folks in #DC, if you’re making New Years resolutions add making a commitment to learn about and share widely the DC outside of the existence of monuments (many built by enslaved Africans), the White House, and Congress.

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whi… Suggested Reading: Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Please buy from @MahoganyBooks a Black owned bookstore in our neighborhood!

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

mahoganybooks.com/9781469654720
Aug 9, 2021 9 tweets 10 min read
Will this be the moment of reckoning for @DCPoliceDept by the people of D.C? Or are we going to continue to pretend these are isolated incidents of police brutality by a "few bad apples"? The choice remains ours. #StopMPD #DefundDCPolice This kind of brutality is not new for MPD, in D.C., and certainly not on Good Hope Rd. and 16th St. Southeast, but it is always unacceptable. It mirrors the experience of Derrick “Quan” Johnson at almost the same location on December 26, 2019. bit.ly/quanblmdc
Dec 4, 2020 13 tweets 8 min read
Police overtime is a BIG deal in DC. You may have heard about @MayorBowser and @councilofdc robbing health care funds during a pandemic to pay a $43 million @DCPoliceDept overtime bill, but do you know how much overtime individual cops make? (1/11) We’ve got a list of the highest overtime earners for FY2019. The 25 MPD officers with the most overtime all made over $100,000 in overtime that year! Some of them more than doubled their regular salary! Here are the highest earners: (2/11)
Nov 30, 2020 6 tweets 5 min read
For years, Black Lives Matter Global Network (@Blklivesmatter) has undermined the work & integrity of local chapters -- including BLM DC.

Today we went public. Read our statement here: 

blmchapterstatement.com #BlackLivesMatter #BLM10 Despite millions being donated to the network, local chapters have lacked support & resources from national leadership. As a result, much of our local community work continues to be erased. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM10