CarwilBJ’s avatarCarwilBJ’s Twitter Archive—№ 25,107

  1. Two stunning paragraphs on a small-town police force. #Vallejo #BlackLivesMatter #StopKillingUs
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      "The last person killed by Vallejo police was Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old who had been sleeping in his car in February 2019 when six officers fired 55 bullets in 3.5 seconds."
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        "One of the six officers who killed McCoy, a rising rapper in the Bay Area, had previously killed an unarmed man who was fleeing on his bike."
        1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
          "Another Vallejo officer killed three men in a five-month period and was subsequently promoted."
          1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
            "Vallejo, a city 30 miles north-east of San Francisco with 121,000 residents, has over the years had a significantly higher rate of killings by police than the national average and other Bay Area cities."