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    “Even after a judge required ACS to reunite Ms. Rivers with her baby, ACS continued to subject Ms. Rivers to needless court proceedings and a litany of conditions that interfered with her parenting of TW for months, while the unlawful removal of her baby was ratified by senior ACS leadership,” the complaint reads. “This was not because ACS was trying to protect TW; this was because Ms. Rivers is Black.”

  • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So, not necessarily a police problem as much as a systemically racist ACS problem?

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Different flavors of the same poison. Cops, prison guards, probation officers, agencies like this, shitty judges, etc — they all have the authority to fuck over people’s lives with minimal or no oversight.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a great book that highlights the systemic nature of these enforcement systems called The Poverty Industry.