Leveraging our collective legal skills and experiences as Black people to support Black-led community efforts in the struggle for liberation+justice in metro DC
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Our annual Summer Learning Series (SLS) event this week! SLS was created to support members of L4BL DC as well as community members in developing a radical politic and shifting from the traditional practice of law to a movement lawyer framework.
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Apply to the 2021 BPDA Law Student Fellowship! Each Fellow will receive a stipend up to $5,000, participate in intensive trial skills training, and be paired with an experienced #publicdefender who will serve as their mentor.
Learn more + apply by 3/19: ow.ly/ilep50DFXcf
...and we KNOW more police do not make us safer in our communities. The same goes for our schools. If police made us safer, DC would be one of the safest cities in America because we have the highest police per capita of any U.S. city #PoliceFreeSchools
MPD currently receives over $13 million to police and criminalize our youth in schools! Less than half of this budget could ensure 80 schools received additional clinicians instead. Black youth deserve healing and community care, not policing. #PoliceFreeSchools
Happening tomorrow at the MLK memorial!
PLEASE JOIN US ON JANUARY 9TH, 2021 AS WE PEACEFULLY RALLY TO STOP #DUSTINHIGGS JANUARY 15TH SCHEDULED EXECUTION. #SAVEDUSTINHIGGS
Law4BlackLivesDC retweeted
Kendall Lawrenz (@L4BLDC) raises an important point about safeguarding the privacy rights and 5th and 6th Amendment rights of people who call an alternative response model.
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In June when police confronted #BlackLivesMatter protestors in D.C.'s Lafayette Square, attorneys like 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀, a volunteer for @L4BLDC, & 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗰𝗮 were on the scene to protect protestors' First Amendment rights. bit.ly/33vBGOa.
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PROP 17 just passed in CA! All formerly incarcerated citizens just got their right to vote restored!
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Protecting Proud Boys while criminalizing Black people and #BlackLivesMatter is literally what the @DCPoliceDept does best, so yep, checks out #DefundMPD #DefundDCPolice
NEW: DC Police changed info given to us, initially saying at 6:15am members of Proud Boys were stabbed by members of Black Lives Matter. They retracted at 7:50 a.m., saying they do not know the identities of those involved. Here's what we're being told. wusa9.com/article/news/local…
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.@charlesallen has put out a strong statement raising questions about the @DCPoliceDept incident where Karon Hylton was struck and later died. He lays out his concerns with some of the body camera footage released, as well as some of the police conduct:
Law4BlackLivesDC retweeted
.@DCPoliceDept is claiming a handful of Cops have been injured. Over 200 protesters was injured by @ChiefNewsham Terror gang. MPD received privileged treatment. Protestors had Street Medics assisting them because #WeKeepUsSafe It was ONE arrest made at #KaronHylton protest.
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The program features Nora Ahmed, Legal Director @ACLUofLouisiana,
Marques Banks, Associate Counsel at Washington Lawyers Committee @WashLaw4CR & Law4BlackLives DC @L4BLDC #DCProBono20 #CelebrateProBono
Law4BlackLivesDC retweeted
This looks like a chase which is expressly prohibited for traffic or mechanical violations because of the danger and risk of death. What do you say @ChiefNewsham?
JUST IN: Home security video obtained by @nbcwashington shows officers pursuing Karon Hylton-Brown while he rides a scooter on 8th St. Brown’s family accused MPD of chasing him
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asking
@MayorBowser
to protect racial justice protesters, not beg Trump officials to arrest us. With @L4BLDC
@NJNP_DC
@fightfortheftr
@dcmuslimjustice
@demandprogress
@byp100 DC
@SafeSpacesDC
@DCAbortionFund
@NAPAWFDC
@Roots_Action
@DC_NLG
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If you can, donate to support the family of #DeonKay as he is laid to rest. gofundme.com/f/the-official-…
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#DeonKay is a young Black man who should still be here.Please Donate and/or share the Official GoFundMe to support his family as they honor and celebrate his life with a homecoming service.Everyone should have the option to be laid to rest. #BeTheVillage
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On this day that we remember Mike Brown I ask us to remember Josh Williams who was given the longest sentence for the Ferguson protests - he deserves support:
Joshua Williams #1292002
Eastern Reception
Diagnostic and Correctional Centre
2727 Highway K
Bonne Terre, Missouri 63628
Law4BlackLivesDC retweeted
Shout to DC IWOC and @L4BLDC for the dopest Jail support as always! ✊🏽 #DCProtests #BlackLivesMatter #ACAB #FTP – at Washington, DC
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