[lbo-talk] Boots Riley on Occupy the Hood

[Carrol Cox]

On "worked up" cops: an anecdote. The angriest man I have encountered in my
81 years was an off-duty copy serving as a night guard at a local hospital.
A slight effort at unionization was being made. The hospital's parking lot
for workers was across the street from the back entrance. So we could stand
very legally on the sidewalk and pass out leaflets to workers when shifts
changed. This was the 11pm shift change.

This cop (as it happened a fucking big one) came up to the edge of the
sidewalk screaming at me; he stuck out his jaw with a "Come on. Hit me." He
wanted so badly to beat me up. Really sad. 

Of course cops, like any collection of humans, include a mixture of
personality types, but I think this cop was not untypical of a large number
of them on every police force, from major cities down to small towns.

Carrol

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> "On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets"
>
> http://libcom.org/files/puppets.pdf

Thanks. His analysis of the cops v. puppets was fascinating. There is an 
element of thorough disrespect of Law which really gets them worked up, i.e.

a scofflaw.

CG 

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