For our latest cover story, we collaborated with Columbia Daily Spectator, tasking some of the student reporters, writers, editors, and photographers at the forefront of protest coverage to revisit the events that started it all. trib.al/deIxzJs

Imagine your job is to get qualified immunity here

ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2…

The scary 'book on terrorism' NYPD is using as evidence of criminal intent is an Oxford Press textbook from International Affairs U6387, a course taught this semester at Columbia by Michael E. O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution

Actually this is why body worn camera is not a panacea and not the magical solution for accountability we had all hoped.

NYPD controls bwc - they intentionally prevented access to this video for weeks.

NYPD has had bwc for years now but the brutality has not abated.

I spoke with Dartmouth history prof Annelise Orleck about getting manhandled by cops, barred from campus and singing 'Solidarity Forever' in the paddy wagon.

'This is a moment where we need to go back to thinking that protest is a part of campus life.'
huffpost.com/entry/annelise…

BWC footage from the shooting death of 19-year-old Win Rozario in his home show police screaming at his mother as Rozario's brother begs police not to shoot his mom. Video shows police tazing an unarmed Rozario after she removed scissors from his hands ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/wi…

NEW: More than three dozen local elected officials are calling on Mayor Adams to discipline NYPD Chief John Chell over “illegal” and “dangerous” social media attacks the police honcho has leveled against lawmakers, journalists and others in recent months. nydailynews.com/2024/05/03/nyc…

Accompanying graphic differentiates between students and non-students arrest at CCNY and Columbia, potentially misleading as previous reporting said 'affiliation' with the school included faculty. The release from City Hall doesn't define what 'affiliated' with the school means

NYC Mayor Adams puts out an official statement that about half arrested at Columbia and CCNY were not affiliated with either school.
But it provides no further info re Adams's narrative that 'outside agitators' were leading or greatly influenced the student protests

People sometimes ask me how Texas prisons compare to LA jails...

When I investigated fires burning unchecked inside Texas prisons, TDCJ responded by getting more fire alarms.

When I did the same in LA, they responded by taking away batteries.
latimes.com/california/sto…

On NY1 this morning, the mayor is again refusing to say precisely how many protestors he believed to be 'outside agitators.' Is it half the protestors? It is a quarter? Pat Kiernan asks. 'Pat, I don't think that matters,' @nycmayor says.

A retired teacher saw inspiration in Columbia's protests. Eric Adams called her an outside agitator (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/5319fd…

The NYPD greatly restricted press access during their sweeps of Columbia and CCNY last night. But police apparently brought their own film crew into Hamilton Hall, where they even filmed on-site interviews with top brass, all overlaid with dramatic music

Lost Girls has a new edition, on sale May 14, featuring a new 25-page epilogue on the astounding arrest of a Gilgo Beach murder suspect who’d been hiding in plain sight for more than a decade (and all the reasons that arrest didn’t happen years earlier). a.co/d/ej9VXBe

with the ‘outside agitator’ narrative being peddled yet again, pls note that this is how Columbia J school dean Jelani Cobb decided to use some of his time on MSNBC tonight, saying there was ‘a great deal of concern about outside elements, threats, possibly someone with a weapon’

N.J. cops caught using racial slurs argue they can’t be fired nj.com/union/2024/04/…

A jury has awarded $16 million to a Philadelphia man whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 25 years on death row.

It's the largest wrongful conviction payout in city history.

inquirer.com/crime/jimmy-de…

🧵To understand what's happening in San Francisco today, you must examine the extremist politics of the 'Network State' cult.
For the @NewRepublic, I wrote about Balaji Srinivasan, an influential tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” SF.
Read➡️ newrepublic.com/article/180487… ⬅️

NEW: Both prosecutors and magistrate judges at the jail reviewed probable cause affidavits for arrested UT protesters and found that they didn't meet the lowest standard to go forward, I'm told.
Police may continue to investigate, however, and possibly resubmit new charges.

NEW: Travis County Attorney Delia Garza says as of now, her office has been presented with 46 criminal trespass arrests stemming from the protests at UT yesterday.

The court has declined all of those cases for lack of probable cause and released the individuals from jail.