Gail T. Smith
@gail-cbip.bsky.social
Director, Children's Best Interest Project
Founding E.D., Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers
Member, Love & Protect, abolitionist, Unitarian Universalist.
#CeaseFireNow #WearAMask #FreeThemAll
Founding E.D., Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers
Member, Love & Protect, abolitionist, Unitarian Universalist.
#CeaseFireNow #WearAMask #FreeThemAll
Reposted by Gail T. Smith
And before you come at me let me be crystal clear I say this not out of any desire to police shame or schoolmarm anyone or out of any faith whatsoever in “the law” or our “rights” but to try to help keep people I love (even if I don’t know you) on this side of the walls and bars to *keep* resisting
October 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And before you come at me let me be crystal clear I say this not out of any desire to police shame or schoolmarm anyone or out of any faith whatsoever in “the law” or our “rights” but to try to help keep people I love (even if I don’t know you) on this side of the walls and bars to *keep* resisting
Reposted by Gail T. Smith
If you speak spontaneously before during or after they do or don’t read you your rights - whether in direct response to an LE question or, just in front of them, say to someone filming you, they can use what you say against you.
So, in short, once in police custody it is in your interests to STFU.
So, in short, once in police custody it is in your interests to STFU.
October 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you speak spontaneously before during or after they do or don’t read you your rights - whether in direct response to an LE question or, just in front of them, say to someone filming you, they can use what you say against you.
So, in short, once in police custody it is in your interests to STFU.
So, in short, once in police custody it is in your interests to STFU.
If you could stop sounding more and more like Fox News, and providing a platform for far-right Republicans with almost no pushback or fact-checking, we might not think your mission is long dead.
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you could stop sounding more and more like Fox News, and providing a platform for far-right Republicans with almost no pushback or fact-checking, we might not think your mission is long dead.
"More than 72% of those who were subjected to force by a CPD officer since the consent decree took effect in 2019 were Black, according to the coalition’s court filing, citing CPD data. Black Chicagoans make up less than 30% of the city’s population, according to the 2020 census."
September 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"More than 72% of those who were subjected to force by a CPD officer since the consent decree took effect in 2019 were Black, according to the coalition’s court filing, citing CPD data. Black Chicagoans make up less than 30% of the city’s population, according to the 2020 census."