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More tales from the Bastard City.
I was walking around downtown one sunday morning looking for a bathroom. No one would even look me in the eye except the police, who, in their own words, "can afford to do so because we are armed".
A cop was on a routine noise complaint in East Detroit when she knocked on the door of a house with a loud barking dog. The guy opened the door and shot her five times before a word was said.
A week before that, in the same part of town, no more than a few streets away, a mother left her two year old daughter in her room for half a minute when she heard her daughter's screams from outside. She ran out the back door to find a man raping her two year old daughter while another man looked on. She screamed for her cousins living next door, who got a posse toghether and ran after the two guys. They ended up catching one at a bank and beat the fuck out of him. A couple guys in the angry mob were on the news saying "yeah, dis is dat nigga's blood on my shirt here. If I see the other one again, there's no telling what I'll do. I jes' might rip dat nigga's head off. I'll prolly kill 'em." He said this on camera, in front of policemenl They put it on the damn news.
A cop was caught robbing people he pulled over a couple weeks ago.
As of this july, thirteen children (all under two) have been killed in drive-bys in this city in this year alone. All of them accidental, so that doesn't include the number of children in this city killed on purpose.
A cop was telling me about a guy on PCP that took ten shots to the head before he died. "He had only half a brain left and he was tossing cops around like dolls. Like the fucking incredible hulk or something".
Interesting note: Detroit supposedly has the highest number of african-americans living in a single city in America. Detroit is right next to Livonia, which has the highest concentration of white people for a city over 100,000. Livonia and Detroit are right next to Redford, which has the highest number of arab-americans living in a single county. Remember the race riots? That was caused by the "white flight", when hundreds of thousands of white people moved out of Detroit in a single decade, leaving a predominantly black society with a nearly all white police force.
Last week, a policeman was posted up on a corner in east Detroit, sitting in his squad car, when three guys in ski masks robbed him.
I fucking hate this city. The only advantage of living here is that I'll never be afraid of any city in america again, because it's no worse than home. It can't be. People here don't even think when they're going to do something shady. Shooting a cop in broad daylight? In front of your own home? That guy was shot by the other cop in the car out front. He didn't even think twice about shooting a policewoman. What the hell.
This place is changing me. When I was in Atlanta this week, people found me intimidating. I'm so used to staring down whoever crosses my path that I do it involuntarily. I've actually asked someone "what the fuck are you staring at, asshole?". I didn't know 'em or anything. They just walked by me on the street and gave me a dirty look.
And the worst part is, you have to be that shady here. You can't trust anyone. Your own boys will rob you.
Tell me, if you can, how your city is scarier than mine. Or just plain worse to live in in any aspect. Just try. |
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