So, Pandemic 2020 for me has meant working from home, homeschooling children, doing my best to support local breweries, drinking beer from said local breweries, discovering and listening to and purchasing SO MUCH music, and doing my very best to hold it all together and maintain the last shreds of my sanity. Watching over the last couple days as everything unfolds is doing its best to break that hold on sanity. There is literally hours of footage from all over the country of the police abusing their power, not that i thought this wasn't happening, but it's all in broad daylight now, and seemingly with no repercussions for any of them. I've watched footage of a cop on a horse ride over a lady. I've watched a multiple videos of police cruisers driving through crowds with reckless abandon. I've seen journalists shot with tear gas, rubber bullets, and arrested on live TV. Police firing into homes. An old man with a cane shoved into the pavement. And bystanders beaten in the streets. It's sickening. Turns out watching the police murder another black man finally made this country hit the boiling over point. And then compound this whole racist systemic structure with over 100,000 dead, off the rails unemployment, and a political system and environment that does jack shit for anybody aside from the rich and elite, and well...we might just be done.
Anyway, this one feels appropriate. Here's "Cop Killer" from John Maus, our Daily Jam.
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