I've always handled myself pretty well around cops. I've talked back or complained a few times about getting the pat-down or having to pour out an open container but for the most part *my* experience with cops has... well, they weren't totally negative. Definitely have some power-tripping mother****ers that just want you to respect their authorituh and don't really care about much else. There's some slacker mother****ers, too, who just don't do ****. I do know of people who had to deal with officer brutality, especially in the east bay. No one really close, though. And I remember when the Oscar Grant shooting happened people being utterly terrified of police. So I'm not saying police brutality isn't a part of my life, but I've never dealt with it.
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I spit bullets in my feet
Every time I speak
So I write instead
And still people want me dead
~msc
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