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No Knock and the use of my anger.
I’m angry. If this blog could be my voice right now it would be screaming. Long howls. Long and hard and at the end of them would be tears. Sobs. Anger and not knowing what to do, anger and not knowing what to do. Anger. Not knowing what to do. We live in a police state. We live in a racist, classist police state that wishes to terrorize people of color and the poor. This is what happened. The police broke into my aunt’s house. In fact they broke into almost every house on her street in Baltimore. They broke into my aunt’s house. My mother’s sister’s house. My cousins, my little cousins (who are much taller than me but I am older so they are little to me) live there. One of them is only a pre-teen has been sleeping in her mother’s bed since. They broke the door down. (No-Knock, no doubt…) Went through her things, her food, took her laptop (which she uses for work). Took the computers that belonged to everyone on the block. Found no drugs, no dead bodies, none of the nonsense their bogus warrants promised them they would. They disrespected her home. Put my cousin in handcuffs, took him away in their car. Took his friend, who has become, in some ways a member of the family and holding him on bogus charges. I must reiterate their warrants were also bogus. My aunt works with youth. These police knocked down doors up and down this residential street, breaking children's beds, breaking to shambles, people's front doors. Humiliating them. Terrorizing the children. No probable cause. None. Less a crooked cop covering real offenders and terrorizing innocent citizens. I cant say anything more but to retell the story. I have no words, just anger. I need to read Audre Lorde’s "Uses of Anger." I can’t, my eyes wont hold straight… long enough… I can’t sleep tonight. I can’t. Just one long howl in my spirit. My hands shake from anger. So I give you Gill Scott: uttered by a black girl at 9:54 PM.
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2 comments
i empathize, sis. my younger siblings had an "altercation" with them (some real cops, some toy cops) earlier in the school year - it happened at school, for pete's sake! i won't go into detail because it will piss me off all over again, but just know that i feel for you and yours. it really makes one feel helpless; it really brings the problematic, power-hunger "justice system" evermore clearly into view.
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