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Fatema Ahmad from the Muslim Justice League lays it out clearly.
Fatema Ahmad, executive director at Muslim Justice League, said body camera footage can help shed light on fatal shootings after the fact, but more needs to be done to prevent these cases from happening in the first place. “In this situation, after this young person was killed, maybe body camera footage could have been helpful,” she said. “But really what the family would have wanted is to not have people with guns show up and chase him.” Body camera programs became widespread following protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, who was killed in police custody in 2020. “That moved so many people to go out into the streets and demand better, and city officials wanted to be responsive at that moment to what people were saying,” she said. “But we haven’t seen that bear out, we’ve only seen more money for police, for training, for body cameras. Community members are really asking if we can just invest less in that and invest more in literally anything else.” “We need to really think about how we can respond to this kind of thing differently,” she said. “It’s the difference between implementing reforms that are just supporting a culture of policing versus reforms that move us away from assuming that people are violent or that violence is going to resolve the situation.”
January 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Wow. I'm in federal court for Ercelik v. Hyde, the Amherst student w/ state criminal charges (dismissed this morning) where ICE camped outside his apartment for a month trying to arrest him.
He wants to leave on a flight for Turkey@9:35pm, ICE wants to hold him for weeks/months before removing him.
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM