This is Kohen Wiley. He was killed by police in Mississippi after his mother was accused of shoplifting…DIAPERS. His mother lifted him up to show police there was a baby in the car. The officers shot him OVER A BOX OF DIAPERS.

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🥶 Frost and freeze alerts for parts of our western suburbs from 1 to 9 a.m. Sunday. Clear tonight with lows in the 30s, near 40 in DC. Then a sunny Sunday, good for a scenic drive west to catch the fall color. Full forecast: capitalweather.com 📷 Carter Chapman

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So no, I won't "just try it" and no, I won't stop using whatever platform I have to share my scholarship, raise the real issues and lift up the voices of others doing the same. /fin

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And this does real harm in the world. The media and policymakers too often only listen to those who build/sell this tech, despite them having not only an extremely narrow view of the issue at hand, but also conflicts of interest deeper than their pockets. >>

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More generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>

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