#Amy Klobuchar

[lesbienyu]

first draft of Klobuchar Blues- pls leave feedback, sing it as loudly as you'd like- I don't want credit, just for Amy Klobuchar to apologize for Line 3 and to call for a ceasefire. rewrite the lyrics, literally do whatever you want with them

#amy klobuchar #minnesota #palestine #line 3 #us politics

[palmer]

We need a fine ass lesbian in the White House

#amy klobuchar

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#amy klobuchar

[factcheckdotorg]

#fact check #amy klobuchar #defund the police

[noneedtofearorhope]

January 8, 2024

Minneapolis, MN — In a historic ruling, Hennepin County Judge William Koch vacated Marvin Haynes’ murder conviction, dismissed his charges with prejudice, and ordered his release from prison where he was sentenced to serve life. Haynes walked out of MCF-Stillwater as an exonerated man into the loving arms of his family and supporters on Dec. 11, 2023.

Marvin Haynes was 16 years old when he was framed for murder by the Minneapolis Police and Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. Haynes’ wrongful conviction was supervised by former Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar and upheld by the Minnesota Supreme Court years later in an appeal.

After a Petition for Post-Conviction Relief was filed and evidentiary hearings were held in November 2023, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Judge Koch agreed to vacate Haynes’ conviction. The judge ruled that Haynes’ due process was denied because his conviction relied on “constitutionally improper” eyewitness evidence.

Read Unicorn Riot’s Investigative Series on The Case of Marvin Haynes and watch our film: Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Part Four – The Film – Further Reporting

Proclaiming his innocence since being arrested in May 2004, Haynes remained hopeful his truth would be heard. Along with his sisters, led by Marvina, and his family and advocates, the fight for Marvin’s freedom never ceased despite falling on deaf ears for nearly two decades.

The Great North Innocence Project (GNIP) took up Haynes’ case in late 2022. Their legal team and staff found new evidence of coerced and false testimony along with faulty police procedures. An expert reviewed the suspect line-up techniques and witness processes applied by the police. Witnesses signed affidavits recanting previous testimony as well as Haynes’ family swearing he was at home sleeping at the time of the murder. Based on these findings, GNIP submitted an application of exoneration to Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU), which they helped create, in December 2022.

GNIP attorneys and staff then took the fight for Haynes’ freedom to the court itself. They filed a Petition for Post-Conviction Relief in the District Court of Minnesota in June 2023 which ultimately led to Haynes’ vindication.

[...]

GNIP lawyers were able to get patched through to Haynes in Stillwater prison on Dec. 6 to tell him over the phone on his 36th birthday that his conviction was soon to be vacated and he would be a free man. “That was the best birthday present I ever received,” said Marvin.

[...]

Dozens of other Black men, who were youth in the 2000s, have been calling out what they deem their own wrongful convictions. “Like many Black boys at the time, our criminal legal system too easily wrote [Haynes] off, failed to protect his rights and sent him to prison,” said Moriarty at the press conference.

During the reign of Hennepin County Attorney’s Mike Freeman and Amy Klobuchar, “the state prisons became the Blackest places in [Minnesota’s population],” said Michelle Gross to Unicorn Riot, the President of Communities United Against Police Brutality. “The prison population of people of color increased by over 300% during that time period.”

In a similar case to Haynes, however two years apart, Myon Burrell was wrongfully convicted of a Minneapolis murder and sentenced to life in prison before he was able to get his sentence commuted and released from prison after pressure from the community during Klobuchar’s run for presidency in December 2020.

Many other families have been pushing the names of other prominent inmates like Phillip Vance, Deaunteze Bobo and Cornelius Jackson, to name a few, who also proclaim their innocence.

[...]

Summary of Marvin Haynes’ Case

Marvin Haynes was accused of robbing a flower shop in North Minneapolis and fatally shooting 55-year-old Harry “Randy” Sherer in May 2004. He was charged with assault and murder despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime. Haynes was found guilty by a jury in a 2005 trial.

Proclaiming innocence after the verdict, Haynes’ exhorted “I didn’t kill that man.” Haynes was sentenced to life in prison. Haynes’ attempt for a new trial was then denied and his legal team filed an appeal which was also denied in July 2006 by then Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. Finally, in January 2007, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld his conviction and life sentence as Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea found no abuses by the state or district court in Haynes’ prosecution.

[...]

Haynes also has an ongoing civil suit alleging Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and Minneapolis Police withheld documents and information they’re compelled to provide from the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. A donation page has been created to help Haynes get back on his feet.

#Marvin Haynes #Amy Klobuchar #acab #fttp #minneapolis #unicorn riot

[little-catholic-diva]

Joe already crashed the economy so either this woman is delusional or just a typical lying democrat. Probably both.

#amy klobuchar #liberal #liar #delusional #these people are just evil

[gwydionmisha]

#Amy Klobuchar #Abortion Ban #Abortion #Right to Travel #News

[nodynasty4us]

The article also goes into detail about likely campaign staffers if he does run.

#joe biden #j. b. pritzker #gavin newsom #phil murphy #amy klobuchar #bernie sanders #2024

[brandysamantha]

#amy klobuchar #ticketmaster

[madamspeaker]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Amy Klobuchar (12th May, 2022)

#nancy pelosi #madam speaker #amy klobuchar #as much as i enjoy the rapport nancy and chuck have in public i cannot help but wonder about a speaker pelosi majority leader klobuchar team

[lesbienyu]

Minnesota friends- Amy Klobuchar is one of our two US Senators. she has openly supported israel since october 7th, despite calls from the minnesotan jewish community (myself included), as well as the Somali community, indigenous people, and much of the state of minnesota.

show up to her minneapolis office at 1200 Washington S. go every day you can- if you can't stick around leave a sign. stand outside. I live a few hours away, but plan to stop by when I'm in the cities, but please do write chalk on the sidewalk, stand outside- anything.

she didn't stand behind those who were impacted by Line 3 and we still feel the fallout from the leaks, the cleanup Enbridge left behind, the sex trafficking the pipeline workers brought in, and that's how she treats her own constituents. she is part of why my community is scared to drink the tap water here.

Amy Klobuchar can do better and she should. she has the opportunity to oppose genocide in Palestine, and to oppose the oppression of Anishinaabe people here. but she won't.

#amy klobuchar #minnesota #palestine #line 3

[govpubsfinds]

Amy Klobuchar, US Senator from Minnesota, on January 6 2021, prior to recess: “January 6 is not typically a day of historical significance for our country. For centuries, this day is simply the day that we receive each State’s certified electoral votes, and it has come and gone without much fanfare.” 

Proceedings and Debates of the 117th Congress, First Session. Congressional Record 167, issue 4 (2021, January 6). Full text available at: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CREC-2021-01-06/summary

#govpubs #2020s #2021 #january 6 #government publications #congressional record #congress #amy klobuchar

[kaydub80]

As some of the replies to the tweet point out, the Senate knew exactly what it was doing. Fuck them all.

Yesterday marked exactly two years since George Floyd was killed in broad daylight. Instead of any meaningful reform or efforts to move away from militarized police and police brutality, the debate among lawmakers at all levels is how much more money to give to the police as if we just didn't see how useless the police in Uvlade, Texas were.

I'm at a loss on how to properly address the lack of progress because it looks like my initial instincts to avoid social media at the end of May 2020 were correct since a plurality of the white population is back to pre-George Floyd attitudes on race.

#justice for george floyd #george floyd #defund the police #amy klobuchar #militarized police #senate

[krispyweiss]

Report: Live Nation Subsidiaries Received $19 Million from Save Our Stages Act

- “I did not want Live Nation getting a nickel,” Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tells Washington Post

Despite lawmakers’ express intent, venues partially owned by Live Nation received some $19 million from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, The Washington Post reports.

Live Nation holds a minority stake in the venues in question that received a share of the $15 billion in the emergency-relief act known colloquially as Save Our Stages. No laws appear to have been broken. But sponsors, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), didn’t want Live Nation to benefit.

“It’s true it (the legislation) doesn’t include Live Nation venues, because they have such a vast empire with the ticketing and things,” she said in 2020.

That sentiment hasn’t changed since the legislation designed to help small, independent venues weather the pandemic and lack of performances it necessitated was passed.

“When we wrote this, we specifically didn’t want these publicly traded companies - Live Nation foremost among them - to get their hands on this money,” Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), told the Post. “I did not want Live Nation getting a nickel.”

In a statement to the Post, Live Nation reiterated it does not have a majority stake in any of the benefiting venues and pointed out the Small Business Administration approved the funds.

“These entities control their own day-to-day operations, and the folks running these small businesses used every resource legally available to them to support their employees through this crisis, which was not only their right but also an entirely understandable and human thing to do,” it said.

5/23/22

#save our stages #live nation #the washington post #amy klobuchar #peter welch #small business administration

[stanthejokemanshow]

Supreme Court "Abort the Court" song w/lyrics below! ©2022 Jokeman P...

#youtube #amy klobuchar #msnbc news

[gwydionmisha]

#Amy Klobuchar #Roe v. Wade #Reproductive Rights #Election Security #News