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Rebecca Kavanagh
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Rebecca Kavanagh
@DrRJKavanagh
Public Defender (NYC & Baltimore) & Writer. Sydney ✈️ NYC + DC. she/her. Views my own. “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin
New York City, NY
Born May 15
Joined July 2013
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Oct 1, 2024
    Remember this case? So it turns out the cop - Matthew Farwell - has just been federally indicted for murdering Sandra and staging it to look like a suicide.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Sep 25, 2022
    MA cop Matthew Farrell raped Sandra Birchmore from the age of 13 when she joined the Police Young Explorers Program. At the time of her death last year, by apparent suicide, she was pregnant with his baby. He was the last person to see her alive.
    Sandra Birchmore, age 13, with Police Officer Robert Devine.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Oct 4, 2022
    LAPD officer Houston Tipping died after a training exercise during which he was beaten & slammed to the ground by other cops. Now his lawyer says at the time he died he was investigating a gang rape by 4 cops, at least one of whom was part of the exercise.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Jun 13, 2021
    Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday. x.com/Maverick_Queen…
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    The person being tazed and detained by Ocean City police in this video is Brian Everett Anderson, who is 19 years old. wbaltv.com/article/ocean-…
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    May 3, 2019
    It costs NYC, $2,000 to arrest someone. It costs them $500 per night to jail them on Rikers Island. If someone is sentenced to 60 days in jail because they didn't pay a $2.75 subway fare, it costs the city, $22,000.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Jan 25, 2019
    Roger Stone was just released on a $250,000 personal assurance bond. He does not have to put up one penny. Just to promise to pay that amount if he does not return to court. Meanwhile, my clients are held in jail on $500 bail they cannot afford for stealing a bar of soap.
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    NBC News
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    Jan 25, 2019
    LIVE: @NBCNews Special Report: Roger Stone appears in court following indictment and arrest. nbcnews.to/2Rg18hu pscp.tv/w/1gqGvnODZBeGB
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    May 4, 2020
    How the NYPD enforces social distancing: a tale of two cities. May 2, 2020, approx 5:30 PM.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Sep 25, 2022
    MA cop Matthew Farrell raped Sandra Birchmore from the age of 13 when she joined the Police Young Explorers Program. At the time of her death last year, by apparent suicide, she was pregnant with his baby. He was the last person to see her alive.
    Sandra Birchmore, age 13, with Police Officer Robert Devine.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Jun 9, 2019
    Cops with guns drawn surrounded an unarmed Black man, William, who was kneeling on the ground with his hands in the air, in California this AM. It’s filmed by a young woman, Skye, who I think literally saves his life. Listening to her is gut-wrenching. x.com/KenidraRWoods_…
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Nov 11, 2018
    One last point on the Tucker Carlson protest, you don't wanna believe the protestors, why not go with the police version of events? Cause there is a police report. I'm gonna say that's a more reliable source than Mr. Carlson. And it completely contradicts him. Here goes.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Mar 5, 2020
    This content needs a strong trigger warning for police violence. This young man was stopped by a plainclothes police officer this evening in Canarsie, Brooklyn, apparently for being in a park shortly after the 9PM closing time. x.com/TheVelvetRope_…
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Mar 16, 2019
    A teenager just threw an egg at the Australian senator who issued a vile racist statement blaming Muslims for the Christchurch mosque shootings. This is how he responded.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Sep 22, 2019
    Orlando police arrested a six-year-old Black girl for "throwing a tantrum" in her first-grade class. The cops handcuffed her, put her in the back of a police car and took her to a juvenile detention facility where they fingerprinted her and took a mugshot.
    Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for ‘tantrum’
    From wfla.com
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Apr 16, 2022
    Last week, a federal judge said qualified immunity did not bar Shandele Marie Riley from bringing a civil lawsuit against a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who sexually assaulted and *forcibly baptized* her after a routine traffic stop in 2019. Now, Ms. Riley has been found dead.
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    Rebecca Kavanagh
    @DrRJKavanagh
    Sep 3, 2022
    In May NYPD shot and killed 25-year-old Rameek Smith, after they claimed he fired a gun at them. Eric Adams hailed the cops as heroes and called Rameek a career criminal. Now bodycam video shows Rameek never fired a gun, and the cops shot him in the back as he was running away.