I come from multiple generations of #IntergenerationalTraumas from #imperialism & #colonialism #abuses.
On both my matriarch & patriarch #Teochew #Chinese & #Indigenous #Vietnamese ancestral lineages.
I was born to be part of the #resistance.

#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #GlobalSouth #WarBaby #WarSurvivorsForPeace #AsianDiaspora #NeverAgain

#Congress authorized the #DOJ to conduct civil investigations into constitutional #abuses by #police, such as excessive use of force or racially-motivated policing, in 1994, as a response to the horrific beating of #RodneyKing, a #Black man, by #white #LAPD officers.

During #Biden's presidency, the #CivilRights Division launched 12 such "pattern or practice" investigations into police depts including #Phoenix, #NYC, #Trenton, #Memphis & #Lexington.

#law #BLM #HumanRights #PoliceReform #ACAB

By #law, the #State Dept releases annual reports for every country, & they traditionally follow one basic outline. The cuts ordered in the #Trump admin memo are not targeted at specific countries. Rather, they eliminate entire categories of #abuses from all the reports.

But some deletions are more noteworthy than others. The Trump admin recently negotiated the transfer of #immigrants from the #US into #ElSalvador's notorious #prison system.

#HumanRights #law #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention