The NYPD Union is now suing to allow cops to keep using steroids. Read that again.

NYPD doesn't need any more aggression.

When you’re police, a prosecutor, or a jailer, you’re given every imaginable tool to punish & harm people for everything.

When you’re police, a prosecutor, or a jailer, you’re given every imaginable protection to prevent you from being punished or harmed for anything.

The NYPD Union is now suing to allow cops to keep using steroids. Read that again.

🧵As a teen, Samuel Anthony committed a drug crime.

He served his time in prison and rebuilt his life.

Then the government deported him to a country he has not been to since he was 6 years old—all because of a 23-year-old drug conviction. theappeal.org/samuel-anthony…

NYC residents are having millions taken from them for NYPD to go on right wing outlets and lie*

Paying implies they had a choice.

DA Sandra Doorley is the same corrupt DA who served as GOP Lee Zelden’s campaign Co-Chair and decided to undercharge the person accused of attacking Zelden in order to slam bail reform. Remember this? x.com/scotthech/stat…

Bail reform isn’t sensational. It’s waking up in your own bed. Putting on your shoes. Walking outside. Getting your kids off to school. Searching for work. Kissing your spouse.

Real freedom stories must be told. We’re working to gather real stories now. GatheringForFreedom.org

Similar expectations when it comes to any non-carceral, non-police, non-punishment based approach to health & safety. You could have hundreds of thousands of success stories. But that one outlier case, which may or may not have anything to do with/ reform, kills the new policy.

Just so it’s clear, the “state holiday” they’re referencing here & shutting down all museums for is Confederate Memorial Day.

In corrupt DA Sandra Doorley’s honor, presenting here the real story of bail reform she’s long fought against.

Ordinary stories of people going about their lives. Freedom, health, safety, immense taxpayer savings.

True for so many in law enforcement, unfortunately. A feeling (reinforced by reality) of being far above the law.

Cruel DA Sandra Doorley, who had long abused her power to influence elections, kill bail reform, mass jail Black & brown people, & prosecute innocent people, just committed a felony by fleeing a traffic stop, then berated an officer while pledging to dismiss her case. Disbar her.

NYC taxpayers are paying *millions and millions* for NYPD to go on right wing outlets & lie.

Jen Psaki Bail reform isn’t sensational. It’s waking up in your own bed. Putting on your shoes. Walking outside. Getting your kids off to school. Searching for work. Kissing your spouse.

Real freedom stories must be told. Share your story & help gather others: GatheringForFreedom.org

This past weekend, John Legend shared w/ Jen Psaki on NBC the true story of bail reform: freedom, health, & safety. And introduced the ongoing initiative to gather stories from thousands across the country who benefitted from pretrial freedom.

The world got to meet Terranisha.

Bail reform is being with family & being safe. More pretrial freedom has brought increases in public health & safety.

People return to court, rearrest rates decrease, & studies find no correlation to any crime increase. gatheringforfreedom.org

Pretrial freedom is fiscally responsible: It has reduced incarceration rates and saved hundreds of millions of dollars.

Share the real story of bail reform & learn more at: gatheringforfreedom.org

Bail reform is smart public policy. Despite police, leaders & national pundits falsely labeling bail reform a “disaster,” it's been one of the most significant public policy successes in American history.

Learn more at:gatheringforfreedom.org.

Bail reform is home & being in nature. Every study, every piece of data, points to bail reform’s extraordinary success.

Facts and more here: gatheringforfreedom.org/#fact