| 1 | Jan 16, '23 | NEWS: My god. $820 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$820 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent f | 133× | 15.7M | 36k | 9.4k | 870 |
| 2 | Apr 9, '23 | “The killer posted on Facebook that he might “kill a few people on my way to work,” got in his car, ran a red light, drove directly into a Black Lives Matter protest, & shot an | 48.9× | 5.8M | 32k | 9.8k | 858 |
| 3 | May 16, '18 | He was 14 when he was falsely arrested & prosecuted. 14. Years. Old. His trial lasted a single day. He spent 17 innocent years behind bars & the rest on state supervision. | 29× | 0 | 233k | 96k | 682 |
| 4 | Sep 16, '24 | The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could buy free fares (at goin | 21.4× | 2.5M | 37k | 11k | 1.5k |
| 5 | Oct 30, '25 | “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” | 20.1× | 2.4M | 113k | 19k | 5.8k |
| 6 | May 31, '25 | But here’s the thing: you all did in fact vote to deport moms. | 18.4× | 2.2M | 106k | 7.2k | 958 |
| 7 | Nov 15, '25 | In ordinary times this alone would be a scandal sufficient to threaten to take down a presidency. No one will even know this happened. | 17.9× | 2.1M | 73k | 9.5k | 2.6k |
| 8 | May 11, '25 | This may be the most important post you read today. As we see ICE escalating violence against immigrants & citizens alike, below is a shareable film series by immigration lawye | 16.8× | 2M | 25k | 7.9k | 10k |
| 9 | Apr 11, '23 | A Black child gets murdered — they blame and attack him. A white man murders — they excuse and defend him. | 15.9× | 1.9M | 40k | 8.1k | 422 |
| 10 | Feb 18, '25 | For all new to NYC Mayor Eric Adams & being appalled by him, his corruption, & general weirdness, this thread is for you. I’ve been following his behavior since his run for | 15.1× | 1.8M | 15k | 3.2k | 4.5k |
| 11 | Jul 21, '20 | A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN JAILED FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS FOR NOT DOING HER HOMEWORK. A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN JAILED FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS FOR NOT DOING HER HOMEWORK. A 15 YEAR | 14.8× | 0 | 107k | 53k | 766 |
| 12 | Jan 20, '25 | This may be the most important post you read today. As Trump takes office & pledges mass deportations, below is a shareable film series written *by immigrants for immigrants* o | 13.5× | 1.6M | 28k | 12k | 8.4k |
| 13 | Jan 25, '24 | Alabama murdering a man by drowning him w/ nitrogen. Kentucky introducing a bill to legalize the murder of unhoused people. Mississippi burying hundreds in unmarked graves. Texas f | 13.3× | 1.6M | 29k | 7.3k | 1.5k |
| 14 | Mar 8, '19 | For context on Manafort’s 47 months in prison, my client yesterday was offered 36-72 months in prison for stealing $100 worth of quarters from a residential laundry room. | 11.4× | 0 | 82k | 38k | 555 |
| 15 | Dec 23, '19 | “One day, from his sniper nest, Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the other g | 9.7× | 0 | 76k | 30k | 1.1k |
| 16 | Feb 22, '25 | Sage wisdom from two experienced legal aid attorneys. In any interaction with police or law enforcement: “Shut the f*ck up.” | 9.5× | 1.1M | 38k | 8k | 6k |
| 17 | Jul 15, '20 | The @ManhattanDA charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take it in | 8.8× | 0 | 61k | 32k | 1.1k |
| 18 | Jan 30, '19 | *This* is the face of Trump's war on immigrants. A 17-month-old baby. Juliet. Returned last night to her mom. Asylum seekers from Honduras. Separated & detained by ICE for 2 mo | 8.5× | 0 | 56k | 27k | 745 |
| 19 | Jul 16, '19 | A Black man was murdered. They strangled the life from his body. On camera. We all saw it. Just feet away. Clear as day. He pleaded for his life. They kept strangling him. Eric Gar | 8.4× | 0 | 58k | 31k | 465 |
| 20 | Jul 11, '22 | Police in New Mexico burnt a child alive. | 7.9× | 0 | 74k | 19k | 1.6k |
| 21 | Oct 11, '20 | How am I still seeing more about court packing than this? | 7.1× | 0 | 64k | 19k | 424 |
| 22 | Feb 9, '24 | How copaganda works. Police release a highly edited video that doesn't include their unprovoked, violent, & unjustified attack on a migrant. Manufactured "outcry" ensues. Lawma | 7.0× | 831k | 19k | 4k | 866 |
| 23 | Dec 8, '18 | Outrageous: 16 y/o sex slave. A survivor. Terrified. Killed her last purchaser. Ineligible for release for 51 years. | 6.7× | 0 | 52k | 21k | 268 |
| 24 | Jul 11, '19 | Meanwhile, a man I represent is jailed on Rikers right now, unable to afford bail, after successfully doing check-ins for last 9 years bc he failed to update his new address when h | 6.5× | 0 | 52k | 21k | 274 |
| 25 | Jun 18, '19 | @realDonaldTrump If ICE is outside your door, don’t panic, and remember: YOU HAVE RIGHTS. Even if you do everything right, they still may enter. View & share #WeHaveRights to b | 6.5× | 0 | 32k | 28k | 2.9k |
| 26 | Jul 25, '19 | Horror. A man, his partner, & 2 children. 11 y/o & 6 months. Stopped by ICE. On way to doctors appointment for the baby. Local police shattered his window, ripped him out, | 6.3× | 0 | 33k | 21k | 1.3k |
| 27 | Feb 18, '24 | A Tennessee cop was texting at night, while driving a restrained woman in his back seat, bragging to his wife about making his first arrest, ran his car into a river, killing him & | 5.9× | 703k | 13k | 3.3k | 333 |
| 28 | Aug 25, '22 | Don’t talk to police. If you are going to say words to police, they should only be “I want to speak to a lawyer.” That invokes your right to silence under both the Fifth & Sixt | 5.9× | 0 | 62k | 10k | 2.1k |
| 29 | May 19, '19 | “One day, from his sniper nest, Chief Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the o | 5.7× | 0 | 27k | 21k | 1.2k |
| 30 | Feb 17, '25 | There is nothing more unconstitutional than threatening to punish someone for sharing information about the Constitution. | 5.6× | 663k | 18k | 3k | 360 |
| 31 | Apr 27, '23 | This is stupidest thing in the entire world. | 5.5× | 651k | 19k | 899 | 65 |
| 32 | Sep 14, '23 | There is zero accountability for police. Or incentives for them to act in the interests people, public health & safety, or fiscal responsibility. | 5.2× | 618k | 14k | 3.3k | 241 |
| 33 | Sep 28, '19 | Every single undocumented person I know respects this country infinitely more than Donald Trump. | 4.9× | 0 | 57k | 6.9k | 107 |
| 34 | Aug 22, '20 | Wow. Violation of the first, fifth, fourteenth, & fifteenth Amendments in one . | 4.5× | 0 | 41k | 12k | 260 |
| 35 | Jan 20, '24 | Alabama sends bodies of people who died or were killed in its jails and prisons to their families without their hearts, brains, & other organs and w/o their consent. | 4.4× | 521k | 14k | 3k | 355 |
| 36 | May 15, '22 | Every time police arrest a white mass shooter alive & w/o shooting is an another powerful reason to reject the police “they-were-armed” justification and narrative after killin | 4.3× | 0 | 44k | 9.3k | 334 |
| 37 | Aug 5, '18 | Don’t let him distract you. *This is what he doesn’t want you to watch. His deportation force violently stealing away a man who has lived in this country for 25 years & then st | 4.3× | 0 | 20k | 18k | 382 |
| 38 | Jan 5, '24 | In case you missed it. The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could | 4.3× | 508k | 10k | 3.2k | 409 |
| 39 | Jun 29, '19 | Heart pounding. Watch this male lawmaker scream over his female colleague for 3+ minutes while she tries to read a powerful letter written by a formerly homeless man begging them n | 4.0× | 0 | 29k | 11k | 794 |
| 40 | Oct 24, '22 | Fiona Apple has a story for you. And it’s incredible. Asked me to share. She's become an avid, trained Court Watcher. Her observations helped people jailed pretrial file a civil ri | 3.9× | 0 | 27k | 6.3k | 8k |
| 41 | Nov 15, '21 | A cop slapped a handcuffed man dying of a drug overdose. Called him a “bitch.” Shoved a baton in his mouth. That cop got suspended 6 days. But the cop who revealed the cruelty was | 3.8× | 0 | 25k | 11k | 1.7k |
| 42 | Feb 17, '19 | No idea what actually happened w/ Jussie Smollett. But do know that 4 years ago, Chicago PD spent 13 months justifying Laquan McDonald’s murder before releasing dashcam video showi | 3.8× | 0 | 36k | 8.8k | 194 |
| 43 | Sep 23, '22 | A young woman was found dismembered in Brooklyn. Truly awful case of what appears to be long running domestic abuse. NYPD previously responded at least 6 different times. Police do | 3.8× | 0 | 41k | 6.1k | 712 |
| 44 | Nov 21, '21 | As a public defender, I represented literally hundreds of Black men & women accused of doing this. Most literally couldn’t afford $2.75 subway fare. Difference between eating/n | 3.6× | 0 | 32k | 9.7k | 579 |
| 45 | May 7, '19 | Video starts w/ cop already illegally inside her car. Shes calm. Asks “Why am I being apprehended.” Then he pulls out stun gun. Points it at her face. “GET OUT OF THE CAR.” She com | 3.5× | 0 | 23k | 14k | 611 |
| 46 | Jul 29, '22 | This is astonishing, yet not surprising. If it feels like you're far less safe in NYC than ever before, it's not bc shootings are up. It's because the media (fueled by lies & f | 3.4× | 0 | 27k | 8.3k | 1.9k |
| 47 | Mar 24, '20 | PLEASE READ: Conditions on Rikers are unimaginably bad. My colleague has spoken to a few people trapped inside. What they told her is horrifying. Unless @NYGovCuomo, @NYCMayor, &am | 3.3× | 0 | 25k | 10k | 590 |
| 48 | Aug 14, '22 | Jim Acosta: “How does the “Forward Party” feel about Roe v Wade?” Andrew Yang: “The “Forward Party” has a—not left or right- but “forward” stance on even the most divisive & co | 3.2× | 0 | 31k | 3.3k | 1.2k |
| 49 | Oct 13, '21 | I cannot believe the NYT published a front page story 2 days ago about how police were "defunded" when every police department everywhere got increases. | 3.1× | 0 | 34k | 4.9k | 361 |
| 50 | Nov 18, '25 | Why do outlets keep giving ICE the benefit of the doubt? “In error.” I think not. | 2.9× | 338k | 46k | 5.5k | 562 |
| 51 | Jul 22, '19 | “I am the third teenage girl who has tried to take care of this little 2 year old boy. I feed him and give him water. I also take care of another little kid. She calls me ‘mama.’ S | 2.5× | 0 | 14k | 9.6k | 881 |
| 52 | May 5, '20 | This is Susan Farrell. The first woman to die of COVID in Michigan prison. She was 74. Served over 30 years for allegedly killing her husband, who sexually & physically abused | 2.5× | 0 | 16k | 7.9k | 593 |
| 53 | Jun 7, '20 | 🚨PEOPLE: It is really happening. The Minneapolis City Council *just* announced their intent to disband the Police Department & replace it w/ a new community-led system that tr | 2.5× | 0 | 18k | 7.1k | 377 |
| 54 | May 14, '19 | Cop: “Show me your ID.” Man: “No. You just pulled up in front of my f*cking house & told me I have a warrant from Louisiana.” Cop: “Because you had a dog walking.” Man: “So wha | 2.4× | 0 | 18k | 7.4k | 294 |
| 55 | Nov 21, '19 | BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ *retried* a man simply for providing humanitarian shelter and medical aid to 2 immigrants at a volunteer camp set up to rescue migrants. First jury deadlocked | 2.1× | 0 | 21k | 4.9k | 72 |
| 56 | Jun 6, '21 | Anytime you hear a “rise in crime” or “spike in shootings,” remember: whatever they claim, is happening despite investing most on policing in the history of the world. A brutal ind | 2.1× | 0 | 21k | 4.5k | 384 |
| 57 | Nov 23, '20 | Brandon Bernard. Sentenced to death at 18 as an accomplice. Attorneys declined opening statements. Called no witnesses at penalty stage. 11 of 12 jurors were white. 5 of them now d | 2.1× | 0 | 11k | 7.7k | 346 |
| 58 | Jan 29, '22 | WATCH THIS. *Hundreds* of NYPD steal subway fare & walk through exit gate. W/o masks to boot. Laughing at bystanders. NYPD tickets or arrests 1000s of mostly Black & brown | 2.1× | 0 | 16k | 5k | 591 |
| 59 | Mar 25, '21 | 🚨🚨🚨JUST IN: MASSIVE VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA! CA Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that "the state cannot keep people behind bars simply because they cannot afford to post bail | 2.0× | 0 | 17k | 5.2k | 196 |
| 60 | Oct 29, '19 | When/if they are released, they won’t be allowed to become firemen. | 2.0× | 0 | 17k | 5.7k | 110 |
| 61 | Nov 12, '20 | MINDBLOWING: The same police force that murdered Breonna Taylor hid **750,000** records of sexual abuse of minors **by their officers** and then lied to keep those files secret. Lo | 2.0× | 0 | 14k | 6.7k | 387 |
| 62 | Mar 30, '21 | This “defense” of Chauvin is a powerful, and honest, indictment of policing itself. | 1.9× | 0 | 22k | 2.8k | 157 |
| 63 | Aug 8, '19 | This is madness. ICE tried to raid a *homeless shelter* in NYC on Tuesday night. Lied that they had a warrant. Thankfully, security guards knew their rights & asked to see it. | 1.9× | 0 | 14k | 6k | 113 |
| 64 | Nov 27, '22 | It’s really mind-blowing seeing the @nytimes—one of the chief purveyors of false/misleading “doomsday headlines” about crime in NY & around country—now reporting on the elector | 1.8× | 0 | 17k | 4k | 551 |
| 65 | Jun 19, '20 | 🚨🚨Impossible to overstate how big of a deal this is. I’ll say this for now: This fancy sounding legal term, “qualified immunity,” basically makes it impossible for officers to be | 1.8× | 0 | 15k | 5.2k | 101 |
| 66 | Jul 11, '20 | People I represented served longer time for stealing a bar of soap than Roger Stone. | 1.7× | 0 | 19k | 3.1k | 56 |
| 67 | Jun 5, '22 | “Three police have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned.” As the man’s wife screamed for them to help, they threatened her: “If you do | 1.7× | 0 | 13k | 4.7k | 506 |
| 68 | May 16, '18 | Powerful photo of one of my favorite judges-Judge Simpson-consoling Mr. Bunn. "I am more than emotional about this day," said Simpson as her voice cracked. "You were 14 at the time | 1.7× | 0 | 16k | 4.3k | 22 |
| 69 | Oct 18, '18 | My 19 y/o client put on NYPD gang database for being on periphery of a photo, taken 3 years ago by someone else, posted on another’s Facebook page, of a group of around 10 young me | 1.6× | 0 | 15k | 4.2k | 68 |
| 70 | Jul 13, '20 | Fiona Apple stepped up. After a federal judge dismissed dozens of sworn declarations from inside jail as “unhelpful” & only “marginally relevant.” She didn’t want anyone to ign | 1.6× | 0 | 13k | 4.3k | 671 |
| 71 | Oct 5, '18 | Reading this cynicism while sitting in Brooklyn Court waiting for my client, presumed innocent, to be brought into court from Rikers in shackles, as I see person after person, pres | 1.6× | 0 | 13k | 4.9k | 46 |
| 72 | Apr 3, '20 | Good morning. At about 3am this morning, NY Democrats passed the harshest & most racist bail bill in New York history. At this time. Of all times. Gutted. | 1.5× | 0 | 12k | 4.4k | 517 |
| 73 | Jul 31, '21 | It costs over $1000 to arrest someone for not being able to afford $2.75. | 1.5× | 0 | 16k | 3.1k | 145 |
| 74 | Oct 15, '19 | People I represent get arrested & jailed for missing a single courtdate for sleeping late, inability to afford $2.75 subway, another appointment they had to make, or just forge | 1.5× | 0 | 14k | 3.9k | 83 |
| 75 | Jun 14, '20 | The former NYPD spokesman had to wait until after he retired—out fear of being labeled a “traitor” and a “hypocrite”—simply to state publically that killing Eric Garner was a bad t | 1.5× | 0 | 11k | 5.2k | 169 |
| 76 | Jul 20, '22 | Something important just happened. People illegally caged pretrial in Prince George's County, MD risked retaliation & *sued* the jail where they're *currently jailed.* The laws | 1.5× | 0 | 11k | 3.7k | 1.1k |
| 77 | Aug 29, '19 | Yesterday, a man was released after serving 35 years for robbing a bakery of $50. Today, 2 NYPD officers accused of raping an 18 y/o woman in their van & bribery will receive p | 1.5× | 0 | 10k | 5.5k | 69 |
| 78 | Nov 9, '19 | Gut wrenching. NYPD in subway surround woman selling churros. She’s crying. They’re telling her she stops or get arrested. Trying to talk to them in Spanish. Rolling their eyes at | 1.5× | 0 | 10k | 4k | 146 |
| 79 | Aug 8, '19 | Tommy Lee. Drummer from Motley Crue. Is not messing around. Here, he imagines a post-Trump Utopia. And it looks beautiful. | 1.5× | 0 | 15k | 2.7k | 137 |
| 80 | Sep 7, '18 | Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Freddie Gray. Sam Dubose. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Alton Sterling. Jamar Clark. William Chapman II. Walter Scott. Eric Harris. Tamir Rice. Aka | 1.4× | 0 | 12k | 4.5k | 31 |
| 81 | Jun 5, '20 | 2 cops brutally attack an elderly man. On camera. Let him bleed. Leave him for dead. Lie about their actions. Get caught. Don’t even get fired. Just suspended. And every single oth | 1.4× | 0 | 12k | 3.5k | 142 |
| 82 | Jun 14, '20 | I've spent last 5 hours analyzing footage of NYPD brutality against protestors. A lot on my mind, but forefront: If anyone I represented were accused of anything close to the indis | 1.4× | 0 | 13k | 3.2k | 180 |
| 83 | May 25, '18 | My client’s stuck on Rikers, charged w/ “violent felonies” for stealing bikes for resale value to support his addiction. 1st arrest ever. No actual violence. Meanwhile, Weinstein i | 1.3× | 0 | 10k | 4.4k | 27 |
| 84 | Nov 27, '21 | This is a breathless, sensationalist lie from a NYT reporter. NYPD has never come close to “solving” 90% of anything. And violent crime didn’t “spike.” All major crimes, save for h | 1.3× | 0 | 13k | 2.4k | 243 |
| 85 | May 26, '22 | Police lie. All the time. Everywhere. Everyday. On routine paperwork. In conversations w/ prosecutors. To supervisors. In court. Under oath. In press conferences. To reporters. On | 1.2× | 0 | 11k | 2.8k | 176 |
| 86 | Jan 21, '21 | I just can’t get over the normalization of George W. Bush. | 1.2× | 0 | 13k | 1.4k | 61 |
| 87 | Apr 12, '21 | 25 years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that cops could use any pretext (read: lie) to stop a car to search it & courts would not secondguess their motivations—race or otherwi | 1.2× | 0 | 11k | 3k | 196 |
| 88 | Apr 19, '22 | It just happened. I’m in Florida about to board a flight to LaGuardia. And over the loudspeaker: “Attention all Jet Blue customers. We just received word. The mask mandate has been | 1.1× | 0 | 12k | 1.3k | 195 |
| 89 | Dec 21, '18 | The cycle: 1. Arrested because poor. 2. Court fees imposed. Can’t afford. 3. License suspended for not paying. 4. Need car for work, appointments. 5. Arrested for driving w/o licen | 1.1× | 0 | 9.9k | 3.1k | 53 |
| 90 | Nov 10, '18 | Headline today is Trump calls off US military cemetery visit due to bad weather. Meanwhile, Obama, Memorial Day, 2010. Better, stronger in every way 👇. | 1.1× | 0 | 10k | 2.8k | 26 |
| 91 | Nov 14, '20 | Any idea how fast these people would be gassed if they were marching against police violence? | 1.1× | 0 | 11k | 1.7k | 72 |
| 92 | Aug 20, '22 | Teen Vogue does it again. The leader in justice journalism. Instead of amplifying police talking points, they profile 11 young Chicago leaders & give them the mic. On how to ac | 1.0× | 0 | 10k | 1.9k | 580 |
| 93 | Mar 8, '19 | READ: For all those now reading this thread, before I go any further: I am not making the argument for *harsher sentences for anyone including Manafort.* I am simply pointing out t | 1.0× | 0 | 11k | 2.1k | 20 |
| 94 | Nov 18, '19 | There are actual studies. It is not a question anymore. Marijuana is not a “gateway drug.” But the impact of criminalization *is* known. It drives broken windows policing & dev | 1.0× | 0 | 10k | 2.3k | 40 |
| 95 | Dec 25, '21 | It was the bullet’s fault, the New York Times told us. | 1.0× | 0 | 11k | 1.4k | 142 |
| 96 | Dec 18, '21 | Anytime you hear a “rise in crime” or “spike in shootings,” remember: whatever they claim, it’s happening despite investing most on policing in the history of the world. A brutal i | 1.0× | 0 | 11k | 1.9k | 172 |
| 97 | Apr 19, '20 | If the protesters were Black, they’d enforce the law. | 1.0× | 0 | 9.9k | 2.1k | 36 |
| 98 | Oct 1, '19 | Did not anticipate the Lindsey Graham “willingly, openly, & publicly joining in a criminal conspiracy” part of the storyline, but I should have. | 1.0× | 0 | 9.5k | 1.9k | 37 |
| 99 | Dec 10, '19 | Today, I argued to a judge that a young man I represent shouldn't do time in prison because he'd come out more damaged than when he went in. That prison wouldn't serve any value of | 1.0× | 0 | 11k | 1.5k | 126 |
| 100 | Dec 12, '25 | A man was choked on the floor of a Charlotte restaurant by Border Patrol agents — and thousands of Americans invented a knife to justify it. My newest oped on on the lies Americans | 0.6× | 76k | 2.5k | 1.1k | 238 |
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