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Carol Erskine @TheCarolErskine ·

7 May 2052413454040920185

Thank you to @CWBeacon for publishing my op-ed today. Whatever one’s views on the shooting, it’s important that the public discussion include the actual Fourth Amendment constitutional framework governing police use of force and how it applies in the context of a justification

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Carol Erskine @TheCarolErskine ·

7 May 2052187106244505989

Their mother was arraigned today in Massachusetts for strangling her two beautiful children. I refuse to show that woman's picture. I choose to remember and pray for the lives senselessly taken. RIP Kai and Ella.

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