This is why every person who prefaces a critique of police violence by saying, “Now I know cops who are wonderful, decent people,” is deeply deluded. Every cop who attacks a civilian is described that way until he’s seen during the attack. And probably every cop is capable of this. This isn’t individual violence. This…

You’re a mean fuck. You know perfectly well that the fact that someone can’t be a parent doesn’t mean the child “is simply not wanted.”

We’re a police state. That’s the problem. There are states in the US where 900 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated. These aren’t prisons in the traditional sense. The “inmates” work for private companies. When these are the conditions institutional violence is going to seep out and effect everyone. Everyone…