The Ghost of Tom Joad
Sep. 23rd, 2020 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7It's somehow fitting that, on his 71st birthday, something happened that Bruce Springsteen would write a song about. The grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case returned its indictments. Three counts of wanton endangerment against the now-fired cop. And that's it. The charges are for shots fired into neighboring apartments. It's an insult and an embarrassment, and yet it's more than I expected to see. I would not have been surprised if no indictment at all had been handed down.
There are demonstrations going on tonight, of course, and they've gotten ... vigorous. KSP and KYNG are deployed; last time that happened, a man was shot and killed by a KYNG soldier out in front of his barbecue shack out in the West End. There was an altercation somewhere on or around Bardstown Road. I don't know exactly where, and in later years I may wish that I looked it up, but tonight, I'm just not doing it.
Steve shut down Heroes about an hour after the indictments were announced. Didn't see or hear anything from Colin at TLGS. It seems like the action is mostly contained to the area bounded by 2nd to 9th and Market to Broadway. TARC shut down completely at 6PM, and Mayor Fischer declared a 9:00PM-6:30AM curfew for tonight through Friday. I heard both of those damned helicopters - KSP's Huey and LMPD's 520 - for a few hours this afternoon; if I never hear the former's thud and the latter's whine ever again, I'll be happy.
I'm fighting despair, over this and so much else. This is going to be a long night, and I don't just mean the hours until the next sunrise. There is so much loss and hurt and there is so much more to come. I'm again so very that I never had kids, because the world they would inherit is just fucked.
There are demonstrations going on tonight, of course, and they've gotten ... vigorous. KSP and KYNG are deployed; last time that happened, a man was shot and killed by a KYNG soldier out in front of his barbecue shack out in the West End. There was an altercation somewhere on or around Bardstown Road. I don't know exactly where, and in later years I may wish that I looked it up, but tonight, I'm just not doing it.
Steve shut down Heroes about an hour after the indictments were announced. Didn't see or hear anything from Colin at TLGS. It seems like the action is mostly contained to the area bounded by 2nd to 9th and Market to Broadway. TARC shut down completely at 6PM, and Mayor Fischer declared a 9:00PM-6:30AM curfew for tonight through Friday. I heard both of those damned helicopters - KSP's Huey and LMPD's 520 - for a few hours this afternoon; if I never hear the former's thud and the latter's whine ever again, I'll be happy.
I'm fighting despair, over this and so much else. This is going to be a long night, and I don't just mean the hours until the next sunrise. There is so much loss and hurt and there is so much more to come. I'm again so very that I never had kids, because the world they would inherit is just fucked.