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Sister of Juston Root

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My brother Juston was shot over 30 times by 6 officers at point blank range while on the ground, incapacitated w/nothing in his hands. Only 1 BWC w/blackouts. An independent investigation is critical for #Accountability #TruthMatters www.JustonRoot.com

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Beyond the Karen Read Verdict: DA Michael Morrissey and the Scandal Still Haunting Massachusetts Karen Read case insiders speak on the DA who unsuccessfully tried her, the federal investigation, and the other death scandal in Norfolk County that will “make your blood boil.”

#VanityFair #TruthMatters #JusticeforJustonRoot
#FKR “isn’t just about one verdict; It reflects a broken system where #police investigate themselves, eroding #transparency & making #accountability nearly impossible.” #JustOne

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26.07.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Karen Read Verdict: DA Michael Morrissey and the Scandal Still Haunting Massachusetts Karen Read case insiders speak on the DA who unsuccessfully tried her, the federal investigation, and the other death scandal in Norfolk County that will “make your blood boil.”

#VanityFair #TruthMatters #JusticeforJustonRoot
#FKR “isn’t just about one verdict; It reflects a broken system where #police investigate themselves, eroding #transparency & making #accountability nearly impossible.” #JustOne

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

26.07.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the Karen Read Verdict: DA Michael Morrissey and the Scandal Still Haunting Massachusetts Karen Read case insiders speak on the DA who unsuccessfully tried her, the federal investigation, and the other death scandal in Norfolk County that will “make your blood boil.”

@thomasnolan.org Thank you 🙏
#VanityFair #JustonRoot

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26.07.2025 03:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#TruthMatters

22.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again. The Invisible Institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims,...

NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years.

Most have not been convicted.

With @invisible.institute

22.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 8880    🔁 3426    💬 301    📌 186
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Many of the same “investigators” on Read/O’Keefe and Birchmore case were also on Juston Root’s #TruthMatters #Digdeeper

19.05.2025 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#TruthMatters

19.05.2025 00:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mass. police say a 25-foot buffer will keep them safe. First Amendment advocates call it ‘dangerous.’ - The Boston Globe Law enforcement leaders are pressing to give police and other first responders the power to keep reporters, people taking cellphone videos, and bystanders at least 25 feet away from them. First Amendm...

Any law that gives police officers more discretionary authority to arrest people who do something to displease them is always and already a bad idea.

03.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

despite all that, the 1st Cir. Court of appeals cherry picked evidence & denied my family&the public a right to a jury trial! They’re about letting officers kill w/impunity. Shame on them! To allow officers to continue to use excessive force with zero consequences puts US ALL in DANGER! #WakeUp

18.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

despite all that, the 1st Cir. Court of appeals cherry picked evidence & denied my family&the public a right to a jury trial! They’re about letting officers kill w/impunity. Shame on them! To allow officers to continue to use excessive force with zero consequences puts US ALL in DANGER! #WakeUp

18.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

officers met together prior to their interviews 5 days after the shooting. Despite a passbyer certified EMTat his side, describing his dyer condition, gurgling blood & eyes rolling in the back of his head, covered in blood

18.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social issues that came up w/the Officers who executed #JustonRoot Lying under oath, significant issues w/credibility, broke rules & policies, little did I know ALL wouldn’t matter! only the officers “totality of the circumstances” and their purported distorted perception

18.01.2025 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#TruthMatters #JustonRoot #JustOne
www.JustonRoot.com

01.12.2024 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

That’s true. #JusticeforJustonRoot why because #TruthMatters
Why because the officers met together prior to their interview (which took place 5 days after they shot 31 bullets into Juston, he was incapacitated, covered in blood with NOTHING in his hands. So much for accountability Andrea.

14.01.2025 04:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Couple problems here. First, Carnes (and many other judges/justices) assume law enforcement officers and other government officials are actually reading the cases that clearly establish the law for qualified immunity purposes-when they most certainly are not. lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

04.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Anyone who thinks about police violence/accountability must watch "The Incident" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW65..., a 30-min doc by @billmorrison.bsky.social from footage of the killing of Harith Augustus by Chicago PD, gathered by Jamie Kalven of @invisible.institute. I can't stop thinking about it.

11.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
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Post from LTL Media - YouTube Keep in mind that Trooper Proctor was permitted to lead the investigation into Ana Walshe's murder in January 2023, despite having been a subject of a federa...

Even if you somehow think Karen Read killed John O’Keefe, the misconduct at the Norfolk County DAs office is still a gigantic issue that needs addressing.

04.12.2024 12:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Deaths of 9 Indigenous people at hands of police in one month fuel renewed calls for justice Families of people who died in police encounters say getting accountability is a long journey and sometimes proves impossible.

Deaths of 9 Indigenous people at hands of police in one month fuel renewed calls for justice
Families of people who died in police encounters say getting accountability is a long journey and sometimes proves impossible.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

02.12.2024 18:43 — 👍 190    🔁 44    💬 0    📌 1

Instead, in the two seconds that constituted the moment of the threat in Barnes, the officer “was still hanging on to the moving vehicle when he shot Barnes.”

02.12.2024 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the change in circumstances caused by the car accident & Root’s resulting physical and mental condition are irrelevant to the totality of the circumstances. Barnes, in contrast, does not involve the same type of change in circumstances.

02.12.2024 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

in his head coupled with the circuit split over the impact of a change in circumstances on the totality of the circumstances analysis, warrant certiorari."
"The question here is whether the majority below created a circuit split by erroneously holding that

02.12.2024 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"The facts of this case—where the court below forged a new summary judgment standard that overlooked multiple material disputes of fact in favor of the police officers who shot a man dead when he was already on the ground, covered in blood, nonverbal, gurgling blood, w/his eyes ping ponging—

02.12.2024 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Below is from the response to the respondents opposition to the petition- filed 11/29/24:

02.12.2024 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Juston's case was files with the US Supreme Court 9/9/24 - you can read more here: supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

02.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A State Police trooper had a history of misconduct. State law let him rise through the ranks. - The Boston Globe He was but one member of a more than 2,300-person police force. But his story is a snapshot of the shortcomings of the State Police accountability system.

This article just gets worse and worse. How was it that disciplinary records were disallowed from being considered when promoting cops?! Corrupt to the core. #defundMSP #FreeKarenRead #JusticeForEnriqueDelgadoGarcia #JusticeForSandraBirchmore #JusticeforJustonRoot #JusticeforJohnOkeefe

01.12.2024 23:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#TruthMatters #JustonRoot #JustOne
www.JustonRoot.com

01.12.2024 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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#JusticeforJustonRoot #TruthMatters
Sign the petition www.JustonRoot.com

01.12.2024 00:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sign the Petition Semi-comatose on the ground w/nothing in his hands, polic...

This is wrong. So absolutely, horrifically, disgustingly wrong.

Help hold police #accountable & get #JusticeForJustonRoot
The police shot him 30+ times at close range while he was on the ground, defenseless. - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/Y5qzpdNp via @Change

24.04.2021 02:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Police had reasonable cause to fatally shoot man after chase from gun incident near Brigham and Women's, court rules
#JustonRoot #Brookline #Boston www.universalhub.com/2024/police-...

23.04.2024 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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First tweet BlueSky
#JustonRoot #JustOne

01.12.2024 00:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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