Tyre And Trees, Connect The Cops
Taste the sweetness in the grass and trees, and ignore the fake sweetness of the new syrup label
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
Brutality and totality
Here is what will happen.
Police will brutalize more people, some will die. A video will come out. Outrage will pour into the street. The disproportionate reality of marginalized people being beaten, arrested, and killed in comparison to criminals arrested at Mar-a-Lago, or DC., will upset reformers.
Some offended people will claim that the reform callers are out of order. Some of the “What about powerful creeps??” asking people will demand more reform.
Maybe some pancake syrup will be rebranded. Maybe some racist monuments will be torn down. Maybe some chokeholds and other power-plays will be eliminated. More funding for harsh police policy will ensure more powerful weaponry, more pay, and more police presence. More funding may also address disciplinary action, and maybe more social workers will be asked to intervene. Bit of this. Bit of that.
Since 2020, the overall backlash so far has been to label Black Lives Matter and other Social…