Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with cops
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Joseph was beloved like really fucking worshipped. He had been part of the background singers in several music videos. I did not yet know Joseph, and struggled with the stupidly superior attitude of snow snakes. I wanted to love you. I am creating this for you. I am here for…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
Disease and identity. Our culture is one where identity begins at birth – you are who we say you are – shut the fuck up, regardless of what is real, regardless of roles we are expected to play, and when you are on a public stage of simply being in…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Rage is Often All We Are Left With Rage is often all we are left with in the face of culture’s demand that civility prevail in a place where anger is bad, angry people are bad, and no one knows what to do to rectify anything. New York Times’ gatekeepers…
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I Was Attacked and Mauled by a Pitbull
Just out of the hospital and I had vowed to not go in there during Covid. It was not up to me. Killer canine came from out of nowhere. It was loose. A collar but no leash. The dog only wanted to kill. In order for an animal to be…
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hey kid i found your doll
first, they will starve you/ that knot in your gut never goes away/ then, they will lock your brother up for shoplifting/ food/ food so you could feed your belly with it food/ then, that bitch from social services keeps coming around and you threw rocks at her car but…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am one of the people Ross Douthat condemns. I have attended protests. Ross feels those demonstrations should never have happened. “…protests go forward amid a pandemic was justified by redescribing their motor, antiracism, as a push for better public health.” I haven’t heard that one, but it sounds right,…
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GOING ROGUE
THE ANTIFASTORIES Most cops have never really taken an indepth, intense, killer hand-to-hand combat training. Most cops are old, fat slobs. They can barely run, let alone chase you. They need the brute force paradigm of shoulder to shoulder, marching in a phalanx with truncheons beating an obvious doom. When…
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Defund the Police
Why are we paying people to murder us. Citizens are taking it in the back. Cops are chickenshit.
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God Loves Cops
Fucking god loves cops because they’re nice, and they have cars.
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The Nightmare of Cops Who Rape
Tim Barrus: New York Times The crisp uniform of the police officer conveys power and authority. When a police officer puts on his or her uniform the officer is perceived in a very different way by the public. He or she is viewed as embodying each person’s stereotypes about all…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Abolishing the police is the only way to go if we desire going forward. The police are killing us. Who said they were allowed to murder people with impunity. Very few people discuss the inhumanity of operating prisons filled with people who have been condemned for minor drug offences. America…
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We. All. Live. In. Fear.
The police are the enemy. They know it. And you know it. If you do NOT know it, then there is something wrong with you.
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Resisting Arrest: Fuck the Police
The best way to resist arrest is to simply run. So many cops are just plain old fucking fat. Give them a real obstacle course to deal with. You should know that there are cops who will shoot you in the back. Plastic handcuffs can be whittled down and cut…
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AIDS Dementia Will Kill You
We did not find him hanging in a tree. Dead. We found him hanging in a tree. Alive. Hey, little bird, fly away home, your house is on fire, and you children will burn. Timing is everything. Last night was Christmas eve. We could not find Joel. We never call…
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the waffle house poems
i knew he’d be in there he was he was wanted by the cops for shoplifting at fifteen, he had avoided all the traps the hoodie obfuscated his face from the cameras his tongue was not much given to a torrent of words maybe you might get one word grunts…