Saturday, April 08, 2006
Cops
On the way to the BOO, this morning, I was distracted by all the crazy events currently going on in my life, both beautiful and irritating. I was so distracted that it took me a few times to realize the beauty that surrounded me as I journeyed across the bridge. The loon type birds, some 17 in all, flying along the river, heading South. The rain washing my body and soul in beauty. The sound of the rubber souls of my red shoes along the metal grate filled in with concrete.
I had neglected my scarves as the wind so desired to dance with me. I pulled them from underneath my coat and the strap of my bag and let them dance freely, touch my face in their beauty. This beauty, interrupted by the lights of a police car in the distance, pulling a car over. I thought it just a routine stop until I got to the corner of MLK and Burnside.
The cops had a woman handcuffed behind her back, and she was resisting. But she was of slight build and posed no real threat to the cops, one male and one female. I crossed the street and watched the scene as I did so. The cops had the woman in the doorway of the furniture company on the corner. One cop was a woman, one was a man, and I watched as the handcuffed woman was forced onto her back and the woman cop kicked her on the outside of her left arm, hard enough to bruise, but not hard enough to break.
I worried for the arrestee because this is the town where, if you're the right color, you could be murdered by these shitholes for failure to use a turn signal. The woman tried to sit up, for I imagine the pain she must feel not only from the handcuffs on her wrist (which I've heard can be painful), but also because she was laying on them into her back and the pain in her arms which I am positive is there. Male cop put is knee in her chest, and I stood on the opposite corner and watched these enforcers keep the woman in check. The man obviously enjoyed his dominance over this woman. The woman cop had a strange look on her face. It looked like she wasn't there. Her look was empty and pained. I can't explain it.
I observed as another cop came around the corner and stopped behind the other cop car. He got out and opened the back door closest to the sidewalk. Out stepped a white man. Two white men and a white woman enacting dominance and pain over a woman who undoubtedly faced some form of bullshit from a white man who could use the system as a tool to help in his domination over a slightly built woman.
But wait, this isn't the whole story. Beside me, another man was obseving with me before the second cop car arrived with the white man the system was designed to help. I asked this white man what the woman had done to deserve such punishment. He said with a white man smile, "It doesn't matter, she's resisting." So that explains the genocide against us Indians. That explains the rape of women and children in this occupied territory. That explains the brutality the U.S. enacts on women and children here and worldwide. That explains so many things in this world. The U.S. will brutalize you should you resist.
FUCK YOU, AMERICA! I'M RESISTING! I STAND BESIDE THAT ABUSED WOMAN BECAUSE SHE IS A RESISTER AS WELL! FUCK YOU! I WILL RESIST AND DEMAND YOU STOP BEING BRUTAL FUCKING ASSHOLES FOR THE WORTHLESS WEALTHY WHITE FUCKS WE ALL DOWN HERE AT THE BOTTOM KNOW YOU ARE SERVING AND PROTECTING, BECAUSE YOU AINT PROTECTING US! OHTERWISE YOU'D BE ARRESTING THOSE CATHOLIC PRIEST BABY RAPERS INSTEAD OF PROTECTING AND SERVING THEM LIKE WE ALL KNOW YOU DO!
I had neglected my scarves as the wind so desired to dance with me. I pulled them from underneath my coat and the strap of my bag and let them dance freely, touch my face in their beauty. This beauty, interrupted by the lights of a police car in the distance, pulling a car over. I thought it just a routine stop until I got to the corner of MLK and Burnside.
The cops had a woman handcuffed behind her back, and she was resisting. But she was of slight build and posed no real threat to the cops, one male and one female. I crossed the street and watched the scene as I did so. The cops had the woman in the doorway of the furniture company on the corner. One cop was a woman, one was a man, and I watched as the handcuffed woman was forced onto her back and the woman cop kicked her on the outside of her left arm, hard enough to bruise, but not hard enough to break.
I worried for the arrestee because this is the town where, if you're the right color, you could be murdered by these shitholes for failure to use a turn signal. The woman tried to sit up, for I imagine the pain she must feel not only from the handcuffs on her wrist (which I've heard can be painful), but also because she was laying on them into her back and the pain in her arms which I am positive is there. Male cop put is knee in her chest, and I stood on the opposite corner and watched these enforcers keep the woman in check. The man obviously enjoyed his dominance over this woman. The woman cop had a strange look on her face. It looked like she wasn't there. Her look was empty and pained. I can't explain it.
I observed as another cop came around the corner and stopped behind the other cop car. He got out and opened the back door closest to the sidewalk. Out stepped a white man. Two white men and a white woman enacting dominance and pain over a woman who undoubtedly faced some form of bullshit from a white man who could use the system as a tool to help in his domination over a slightly built woman.
But wait, this isn't the whole story. Beside me, another man was obseving with me before the second cop car arrived with the white man the system was designed to help. I asked this white man what the woman had done to deserve such punishment. He said with a white man smile, "It doesn't matter, she's resisting." So that explains the genocide against us Indians. That explains the rape of women and children in this occupied territory. That explains the brutality the U.S. enacts on women and children here and worldwide. That explains so many things in this world. The U.S. will brutalize you should you resist.
FUCK YOU, AMERICA! I'M RESISTING! I STAND BESIDE THAT ABUSED WOMAN BECAUSE SHE IS A RESISTER AS WELL! FUCK YOU! I WILL RESIST AND DEMAND YOU STOP BEING BRUTAL FUCKING ASSHOLES FOR THE WORTHLESS WEALTHY WHITE FUCKS WE ALL DOWN HERE AT THE BOTTOM KNOW YOU ARE SERVING AND PROTECTING, BECAUSE YOU AINT PROTECTING US! OHTERWISE YOU'D BE ARRESTING THOSE CATHOLIC PRIEST BABY RAPERS INSTEAD OF PROTECTING AND SERVING THEM LIKE WE ALL KNOW YOU DO!
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