I think most people know the police failed those kids. Even if they say otherwise.
But will there be any accountability for this? Everything tells me, no.
The anger that boils up in those of us that can see it immediately gives way to despair because we all know we are powerless as individuals to change our circumstances. The officers felt no obligation to put their lives on the line on behalf of those kids even when the children were begging 911 for their lives. This is a problem that requires collective action but we are all a sack of potatoes, waiting for some leader. But to do what?
Even the responses or calls to “action” are just consumer choices: like what does the news channel anchor or politician or viral Twitter guy say? My mom duly sent a thoughtful email to Roger Marshall and received her PR email response. Even she knew that politics was a dead end and just went through the motions out of rote memory from her days in a civics classroom about how all this is supposed to work.
The main agenda is to keep this rambling wreck of an empire moving on down the road by making sure the Amazon packages and doordash keeps running on time while bitching and arguing about which politician can do that better. And to ensure that we owe no obligation to any other person anywhere, besides maybe our own family. Even family obligations have some major qualifiers.
At some point, I don’t know when, there will be some reckoning about the constant tension between the slogans that we all puff our chests about and claim as values and the rotten behavior that goes on underneath those waving banners.
But most likely it will simply be that we pick out a scapegoat or two and carry on with the bullshit and let some group that is powerless be sacrificed to purge the sins of the rest of us.
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