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By now I hope at least some of...
Cops said he was fighting with another boy, a 13-year-old neighbor in the area.
So what do you do when two boys are fighting?
Well, if you’re the NYPD, and the boys in question are black, you throw one of them through a window, puncturing his lung. As he lies there with blood filling his lungs, you handcuff him and refuse to call an ambulance. When you do call an ambulance, you enter the protocol for an adult drunk, instead of a dying child. When the ambulance comes, you refuse to let the paramedics uncuff him. Even as the paramedics explain that this boy is dying, you argue that he’s faking it and that he deserves to die there on the street for fighting with another boy. When you finally do let the paramedics uncuff him and take him to the hospital, you fail to report that you threw him through a glass window despite dozens of eye-witnesses reporting the opposite. When you are called upon by the community to account for your actions, you decide to do an “internal investigation” - therefore being accountable to no one outside your division. You encourage the deregulation of police conduct and refuse to let outsiders investigate how you train your officers.
And what do you do, if you’re a concerned citizen who is tired of seeing this? You write Bill de Blasio and you ask him to start an outside investigation into police brutality. Or at least that’s what I did. And if you want to cosign what I wrote him, you can do that here. And if you want to signal boost that for Javier Payne, you can do that too. You can sign my petition letter here.
(Photo Credit to Enid Alvarez for the New York Daily News)
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TIRED HEARTS PRESS is publishing my book of poems about Lana Del...
TIRED HEARTS PRESS is publishing my book of poems about Lana Del Rey, tentatively titled “Bad Girls, Honey.” This has been my most fun project ever and am excited this funny, sexy book is going to get a home on a sweet small press!
'HOW VAIN IT IS TO SIT DOWN TO WRITE WHEN YOU HAVE NOT STOOD UP TO LIVE'
Calling NYC poets who want to live as hard as they write, and write as hard as they live. This is for you.
what significance does the poem 'no name' have to you ? sorry i'm asking for my homework, i know i'm lame but your poem is really great
Hi! Please send me an e-mail MegaNFalley@gmail.com, and I’d be happy to help you for your homework!
May 25, 2014
Click here to support Spenser's Emergency Medical Care by Spenser Declan James
Hey buddies! Spenser James, a slam poet and fellow activist from Charleston who is now living in New York, was recently diagnosed with a severe stomach ulcer that is causing them incapacitating pain and the inability to eat. It has been nearly two weeks since they have been dealing with this, a…
Updated this morning after a night in the ER. Please keep signal boosting this, we’re almost at three percent! Your solidarity is healing.
May 22, 2014
If you live in the New York/New Jersey Area / want to see all...
If you live in the New York/New Jersey Area / want to see all the sites / want to write a read poems / want to build community / want to feel like you are at summer camp / don’t want the summer to pass by with you thinking ‘did i even do anything?’ —- CHECK OUT THIS COURSE I’M TEACHING:
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"It’s one thing to sit down and say I’m going to write a poem about my daughter, it’s another to try..."
- William Evans, interviewed by Hanif Abdurraqib for 30 in 30(0)
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