Archiv vom 7. Juli 2014

[col. writ. 7/7/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The scenes are, unfortunately, all too familiar.
 A person is beaten, ruthlessly, relentlessly, by a cop (or group of cops).
 A video is released, and, at least initially, public sympathy flows to the beaten figure on the bottom.
 Before long, however, the counter-narrative emerges, the beaten was belligerent, combative, resisted arrest -or, worst of all, was on drugs!
 Then, the story goes […]

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