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Little Rock Antioch’s RICO blu klux klan
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
06 Sep 2023
Little Rock Antioch’s RICO blu klux klan
Protest against police brutality and corruption in Antioch, California (Photo: Beth LaBerge/KQED)

Little Rock Antioch’s RICO blu klux klan
(For Franklin, the Families, and Antioch’s Fightback)

Laughing emojis accentuate terrorist text messages
Bent badge celebrations are toasted with shots of
Tequila, ultra-violent blu bar, last Sundown Town:
“A bunch of gorillas” “I’m only stopping them cuz they
black” “I can shoot a few Sunday” “blood for blood”
“Yeah buddy we gonna fuck some people up” “I tried
to knock him unconscious…” Not what they do all day on
TV???

At shift’s end they are who they are… Grifters with guns.
Murderers with Medical Care; Pensions; Paid Vacations.
$116,000 a year sadists with falsified ‘evidence;’ fraudulent
degrees. Violence ‘workers’ weaponizing dogs like Jim Crow
sheriffs. Vitamin S-fueled psychopaths, drooling over police
Porn: Bloody bruises, abrasions, scars, wounds—They got
Paid to inflict…War on people of color; Under color of law

Haven’t we watched this syndicated SF show? This RICO-2.0?
City of Angels? Motown? Chi-Town? Philly? Big Apple? Atlanta?
Isn’t it Ramparts redux? Riders rerun?
Haven’t we feasted on this ‘food’ poison before? SCORPION Stew?
Goon Squad Goulash? Executioner/Bandido Burrito? STRESS/CRASH
Patterns and Practices Pie—White supreme whipped cream… On top?

A thousand years of training; Billions of body/dash cams;
Forests of law suits/consent decrees; A trillion cubic feet of
Gaslighting— Gallons of cobalt blu
“Public trust” paint slopped on “Accountability” beaded
Death squads will never ever wash away Plantation DNA…
Violent police must keep
Class ‘peace!’ (Only17 bad apples from Antioch’s rotten
Orchard???)

© 2023. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can Vote for his work at: GoFundMe and PayPal.

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