Having None of it
Nadege works at my local haunt, and she is excellent.
This weekend on her way home she was stopped on a dark street by 3 big cops who demanded to see her ID card for no specific reason. She told them she wasn’t doing anything wrong and was just going home , which was 2 blocks away, so she didn’t have ID with her.
Not a big surprise that they were unmoved by her logic, and when they started to to push her around a bit, she decided to take them all on.
Not a big surprise that they over powered her pretty quickly; she got hit and scraped up, but not before landing a few herself. It wasn’t that she had been caught without her ID card – which was in her pocket all the while – it was that she objected to being jerked around by power-crazed momos and wasn’t too intimidated to act on that.
Nor did she cave when they hauled her off to jail where she spent the night.
In the morning the momos conceded that she could go if she had her family come pay for her release, and her response was that they could keep her for as long as they felt like, because she had no family (again, not true) and no one would be paying them anything.
Did I mention Nadege is excellent?
I’m pretty sure if everyone were like her then neither police brutality not corruption would thrive for long, but it is a lot to ask of people.
