3 Stories You Should Read 5/29/2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Galveston Detention Center, Royal Wilson
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In the category of: In the public eye
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Chilling Morning Ritual In Face Of Death Threats
“I‘ve had mornings where I wake up & the 1st thing I do w/ my coffee is review photos of the men (it’s always men) who want to kill me,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“I‘ve had mornings where I wake up & the 1st thing I do w/ my coffee is review photos of the men (it’s always men) who want to kill me,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“I don’t even get to see all of them,” she added in a follow-up tweet. “Just the ones that have been flagged as particularly troubling.”
Ocasio-Cortez said the number of threats against her increases whenever the widely watched conservative cable network Fox News gets “particularly aggressive + hateful” with its rhetoric toward her.
In the category of: The humans buried under the policy
The Lost Boys of Galveston, Texas
Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.
Kelvin sat beside Keel all day. He had been at the Children’s Center for six months, and mostly kept to himself. He was now a junior in high school but had little interest in making friends. Everyone at his new school assumed he was Mexican. “People don’t want to know who you are,” he told me. And what was the point, anyway, he added, considering that he could be deported at any moment. “I like being alone,” he told me. “I don’t understand why I am like that.” On the phone, his mom urged him to do whatever he could to stay in the U.S. She had settled in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’s second-largest city. Gangs controlled her neighborhood, and they targeted young men like Kelvin. She told him that, if he returned, he’d be dead before he turned twenty. Kelvin worried about her. “She says she’s fine,” he told me. “But I don’t know if it’s true or fake or what.”
In the category: Really???
During Police Raid, Chicago Officers Handcuffed an 8-Year-Old Boy, Claiming They Had No Idea He Was a Child
If Chicago police are to be believed, they simply don’t know what a black 8-year-old boy looks like.
That’s the defense the department is giving for why it handcuffed a child during an early morning raid by Chicago Police Department and SWAT on a family home on March 15. The raid—one of several local news station CBS 2 Chicagohas investigated over the last year—left 8-year-old Royal Wilson traumatized, his family says, and is the center of a new lawsuit, to be filed Thursday morning against the Chicago PD.
The incident began before 6 a.m. on a Friday morning, when the Wilson family were startled by flashing lights and a police bullhorn commanding them to go outside their South Side home, single file, with their hands up.
The Wilsons said they did their best to comply with the orders of the police and SWAT team, who had come by to raid their home off a tip from an anonymous source claiming the Wilsons had guns in their house.
Still, police saw fit to handcuff Domonique Wilson and her sons, including Royal Wilson, and held them out on the street—where it was cold, windy, and drizzling—as police conducted a raid that turned up nothing.
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