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some details for a happy mood
2022-Nov-22, Tuesday 02:39 pmThese are Moody Monday topics, but they've put me in a happy mood, so I'm sharing the portion here that might also make some readers happy.
I just got back home from a lawyer's office (not my lawyer regarding my arrest). As I understood it, the City Of Minneapolis is refusing to share any information from the several homeless evictions performed any time in 2022. This law firm is filing paperwork next week that will use my photos as evidence that police are escalating to military tactics, so they need the city's information for legal cases. Let's just say that my photos (seeing them again for the first time today in more than a month) are more compelling than the stuff that made it into newspaper articles. I signed a written statement about my photos and what I saw that day.
So on Monday, I intend to offer my photos here too, since there would no longer be any reason to withhold them. There's no telling what might provoke prosecutors into pressing charges against me, or when, but I can't be cowed into silence indefinitely. People are doing the hard work of holding Minneapolis government accountable, and that puts me in a very good mood today. :)
And speaking of police... there is some interesting detail in that New York Times article (free archive copy) about the mass shooting at Club Q. One of the people who helped subdue the gunman was adrag queen trans woman who stomped in high heels on the attacker. That makes me happy. Ammosexuals are pitiable, just cosplaying as their idea of "Real Men"™. What you really need for protection is a drag queen trans woman and an army veteran there to see their a drag show.
What did the police do to that veteran? They held the poor guy detained in a squad car for more than an hour, shouting and pleading to be released to find out if his wife and daughter were okay. The police added that trauma on their own. No wonder they were so very quick to say in front of every available news camera that those 3 defenders were heroes for stopping the attack. I find it encouraging, because it's yet another data point to help convince people of something everybody knew in our not-so-distant past: policing as an institution is in dire need of deep change.
"The beginning is near." - Occupy Wall Street
I just got back home from a lawyer's office (not my lawyer regarding my arrest). As I understood it, the City Of Minneapolis is refusing to share any information from the several homeless evictions performed any time in 2022. This law firm is filing paperwork next week that will use my photos as evidence that police are escalating to military tactics, so they need the city's information for legal cases. Let's just say that my photos (seeing them again for the first time today in more than a month) are more compelling than the stuff that made it into newspaper articles. I signed a written statement about my photos and what I saw that day.
So on Monday, I intend to offer my photos here too, since there would no longer be any reason to withhold them. There's no telling what might provoke prosecutors into pressing charges against me, or when, but I can't be cowed into silence indefinitely. People are doing the hard work of holding Minneapolis government accountable, and that puts me in a very good mood today. :)
And speaking of police... there is some interesting detail in that New York Times article (free archive copy) about the mass shooting at Club Q. One of the people who helped subdue the gunman was a
What did the police do to that veteran? They held the poor guy detained in a squad car for more than an hour, shouting and pleading to be released to find out if his wife and daughter were okay. The police added that trauma on their own. No wonder they were so very quick to say in front of every available news camera that those 3 defenders were heroes for stopping the attack. I find it encouraging, because it's yet another data point to help convince people of something everybody knew in our not-so-distant past: policing as an institution is in dire need of deep change.
"The beginning is near." - Occupy Wall Street