Because most people will give you the normal good stuff, I'll share with you a personal perspective.
I grew up pretty poor, and now I at least have enough money to appear comfortable and "middle class". The difference with how the police have treated me is night and day.
Nothing really has changed about me or my behaviour - I'm basically the same pig-hating rule-breaking shithead I always was. The difference is now they leave me alone, even when clearly breaking a law like drinking in a public park with friends. When I was poor I was constantly brutalized, degraded and harassed by pigs - once they randomly picked me from a crowd, threw me in a paddy wagon and dropped me in the middle of nowhere. They pulled a gun on me when I was 13. When I was 17 I had a German shepherd sicced on me. (For context all of this was for offences of a similar magnitude to my "middle class" self drinking in the park, I never did anything truly "bad"). I could go on. Oh and all those "good cops" just let it all happen, they don't give a fuck.
And I'm white and cis. Imagine if you stack signifiers beyond looking poor on top of my appearance.
Anyways now that I look like I may potentially have some degree of political power, that now it's not so obvious a judge would assume I'm lying if it went that far, the cops just scan past me.
And the thing is, the humiliation you suffer at the hands of the state never goes away. There's never any attempt to apologize, to make amends, to show any regret or remorse at all for the people they brutalize. They just move on to the next target and after they've stuffed this hate in my heart.
So there's a ton of "normal" people just like me walking around who will never forgive the pigs, never give them the benefit of the doubt.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I personally grew up in the middle class, and it took a lot of deep conversations with people who;d been through what I hadn't, but I found my way to a deep mistrust and even disgust for the actions and attitudes of cops.
Because most people will give you the normal good stuff, I'll share with you a personal perspective.
I grew up pretty poor, and now I at least have enough money to appear comfortable and "middle class". The difference with how the police have treated me is night and day.
Nothing really has changed about me or my behaviour - I'm basically the same pig-hating rule-breaking shithead I always was. The difference is now they leave me alone, even when clearly breaking a law like drinking in a public park with friends. When I was poor I was constantly brutalized, degraded and harassed by pigs - once they randomly picked me from a crowd, threw me in a paddy wagon and dropped me in the middle of nowhere. They pulled a gun on me when I was 13. When I was 17 I had a German shepherd sicced on me. (For context all of this was for offences of a similar magnitude to my "middle class" self drinking in the park, I never did anything truly "bad"). I could go on. Oh and all those "good cops" just let it all happen, they don't give a fuck.
And I'm white and cis. Imagine if you stack signifiers beyond looking poor on top of my appearance.
Anyways now that I look like I may potentially have some degree of political power, that now it's not so obvious a judge would assume I'm lying if it went that far, the cops just scan past me.
And the thing is, the humiliation you suffer at the hands of the state never goes away. There's never any attempt to apologize, to make amends, to show any regret or remorse at all for the people they brutalize. They just move on to the next target and after they've stuffed this hate in my heart.
So there's a ton of "normal" people just like me walking around who will never forgive the pigs, never give them the benefit of the doubt.
I was pulled over once in a beater car for going 2 miles over the speed limit, it was 10pm and I was the only car on the road.
Fuck the pigs friendo fuck them 1000%
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I personally grew up in the middle class, and it took a lot of deep conversations with people who;d been through what I hadn't, but I found my way to a deep mistrust and even disgust for the actions and attitudes of cops.