From Feral Scholar
That’s what we always hear when cops kill unarmed Black folk or beat the living shit out of a Black person who doesn't immediately accept their absolute authority. We always hear that these criminals with uniforms, guns, pepper spray, and a license to kill are bad apples.Well, if the video of the brutal New Orleans police beating of 64-year-old retired school teacher Robert Davis teaches us anything about bad apples, it’s that the whole goddamned barrel is rotten already. Every one of those cops waited for their opportunity to dive in and get their licks on this elder.
I want to say something clever, but I don't feel clever after just having seen the whole videotape on television. These fucking white pigs didn't just abuse Mr. Davis, who didn’t do a fucking thing wrong except resist being handcuffed by a bunch of cops who had just punched him in the back of the head seven times in a row, each time slamming his face into a concrete wall. (We just attacked you and now we demand that you make our continued attacks easier.) They started attacking the witnesses, too.
And you know what? Because I know what!
Those pigs will all be exonerated. Mr. Davis will be charged and convicted of resisting arrest. Black people looking for food during the floods were called looters, while New Orleans pigs were stealing cash and cars as if they were Capone’s gang on meth. Bob Dylan said it, "where black is the color, and none is the number."
