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13. According to the lawsuit, "[b]etween August 1 and August 29, 2021, jail guards logged over 4,000 consecutive wellbeing checks." Each of these entries was identical: "Inmate and Cell OK." — PolitiTweet.org

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12. By June 2021, Price "was not consuming enough food or drinking enough water to sustain human life." As an inmate in solitary confinement, staff was required to check on his well-being every 15 minutes. — PolitiTweet.org

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11. In January 2021, Price requested to see a doctor because he was "sick" and "lost alot [sic] of weigh[t]." His request was not granted because, according to a nurse, Price was "non-compliant." — PolitiTweet.org

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10. In December 2020, Price often refused to leave his cell and "began eating and drinking less and less, putting him at risk of life-threatening malnutrition and dehydration." — PolitiTweet.org

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9. Completely isolated, Price's condition rapidly deteriorated. He often refused to take his prescribed anti-psychotic medication and "continued to exhibit increasingly severe symptoms of mental illness." The jail doctor treating Price "discontinued" Price's medications. — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Price was placed in solitary confinement. Price remained in solitary confinement for at least 23 hours a day, seven days a week, for a year. Price was never tried or convicted of his alleged crimes. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Price was booked in the Sebastian County Jail and charged with “terroristic threatening in the first degree.” Price's bail was set at $1,000. He had no money, so he remained behind bars. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. None of this was out of the ordinary. Price visited the police department on a daily basis and often behaved irrationally. This time an officer decided it would be in Price's “own best interest” to have officers “place him under arrest or otherwise try to calm him.” — PolitiTweet.org

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5. On August 19, 2020, Price walked into the Fort Smith Police Department. He began yelling and cursing at the officers. At one point, Price "held out his plainly empty hand as if he was holding a gun and used his index finger to pull an imaginary trigger." — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Price suffered from "paranoid schizophrenia, which caused him to experience delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations, disordered thinking, and severe agitation." He also had "intellectual developmental disorder" and an IQ of 55. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Price's official cause of death was malnutrition and dehydration. But Price was also the victim of systemic issues plaguing the American criminal justice system. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Price, according to a lawsuit filed last week, was "a severely mentally ill man, living below the poverty line in Fort Smith, Arkansas." — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Everyone should know the story of the life — and untimely death — of LARRY PRICE JR https://t.co/ZpqL24bbyU — PolitiTweet.org

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Apparently DeSantis believes it is ILLEGAL for Florida high school students to learn about African-American history because it’s a form of leftist indoctrination — PolitiTweet.org

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The DeSantis administration has REJECTED an AP African-American Studies course, saying it “lacks educational value” and “violates the law.” https://t.co/1apGFUVwei — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheDailyShow: Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) asks white people how they celebrated MLK Day https://t.co/A9J2xPeyDa — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 13. For more independent journalism that holds the powerful accountable, subscribe to Popular Information. It's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 12. Sinema and Manchin are also responsible for blocking a proposal to tax the unrealized capital gains of billionaires. It would have funded an extension of the expanded child tax credit. But they blocked it and millions of children fell back into poverty. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 11. Tuesday's Davos program included a panel with Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV). The pair shared an on-stage high-five in celebration of the filibuster, which has been used to block increases in the minimum wage. https://t.co/x5wkxeXax3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 10. Since 1980, taxes for the highest incomes, capital gains, and inheritance have all plummeted in wealthy countries. This has corresponded to a large increase in the share of wealth held by the top 1%. https://t.co/jbTMMGKKEH — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 9. The concentration of wealth is not an accident. It is the result of policy choices pushed for by corporations and the wealthy and enacted by government officials. Many of the folks responsible for these choices are in Davos this week. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 8. In 2022, the World Bank announced that "we will fail to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030" and "global progress in reducing extreme poverty has come to a halt." In 2021, "between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger," nearly 10% of the world's pop — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 7. Today, just 81 billionaires "hold more wealth than 50% of the world combined." And while the elite enjoyed an unprecedented windfall, those with the fewest resources saw their material conditions stall or worsen. https://t.co/jbTMMGKKEH — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman @Oxfam 6. This massive increase comes after decades of rapidly accumulating wealth for billionaires. https://t.co/Iarzg4ca40 — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman 5. A new report from @Oxfam "finds that over the last two years, "the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth – nearly twice as much money as the bottom 99% of the world’s population." Since 2020, billionaire wealth has increased by $2.7 billion every day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersgoodman 4. The economic data backs up Goodman's perspective. The elite meet at Davos each year and talk about "stakeholder capitalism" while the ultra-wealthy take a larger and larger share of new wealth. https://t.co/jbTMMGKKEH — PolitiTweet.org

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3. That's why @petersgoodman calls Davos "a prophylactic against change, an elaborate reinforcement of the status quo served up as the pursuit of human progress" — PolitiTweet.org

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2. There is lots of talk about "stakeholder" capitalism. But once they leave, the billionaires and CEOs vigorously oppose policies that benefit stakeholders other than investors and executives. https://t.co/jbTMMGKKEH — PolitiTweet.org

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1. This week thousand of the world's elite have traveled to Davos. For a membership fee of as much as $921,000 annually, billionaires and CEOs can discuss the world's problems with non-profit leaders and government officials. And that's the beauty of it. It's all talk. 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org

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"The former Herschel Walker staffer who came forward to The Daily Beast earlier this month to detail a sexual assault allegation against conservative icon @mschlapp is now suing the powerful chairman of the ACU —for battery, defamation, and conspiracy." https://t.co/P6Wea7gcf8 — PolitiTweet.org