The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

[karmasoup]

FIRST BLOOD

The municipality of Minneapolis is across the mighty Mississippi River from the home I share with my husband and our son in the adjacent twin city, 11 miles from Cup Foods, the neighborhood grocery where a grandfather and father of three made his last commercial transaction, for a pack of cigarettes.  It became his last, after the $20

Comments

[dadi]

I am so honored to have been your partner in this. I have re-read your entry several times and it just hits me harder every time. My heart is with you all.

[rayaso]

This was such a great essay, with so much that needed saying. Excellent work!

[encrefloue]

A tour de force. Seething with anger to learn more of the (achingly literal) blow-by-blow facts about the MPD's crusade against American citizens-facts that indeed have not permeated the barriers of media and distance. And how disgustingly normalized this anger feels, all outrage but no shock... Of course this is what happens when the root of American policing was "Slave Patrols" and "Night Watches" of Native Americans. Tired of the "few bad apples" line when the evolution of the police as an institution is almost the same as the Klan. So deeply admire and respect the work you and dadi have done to take a two-pronged attack at this.

[d0gs]

This was wonderful and said a LOT that really NEEDS saying

[flipflop_diva]

I'm glad you shared this. What's happening right now is awful and also long overdue. I do hope that in the end, finally, something good will come out of it.