My Jandek Plague Journal: 6/12/20 "Girl With the Pink Bag"

"Have you seen enough/Girl with the pink bag/You saw all the tables/Along the line/With all the paraphernalia/Items and explanations." Police have been releasing photos of items allegedly seized from protesters, items that are then supposed to justify police murdering people on the street: a garden bucket with some pebbles in the bottom, coffee cups contractors at build sites used to test concrete mixtures. The police post the photos and then say the items are not what we're seeing, and that's supposed to counter video after video of police attacking unarmed people with batons, gas, and guns. The police are shocked that it's not working, that people aren't simply taking their word for why they had to throw a 75-year-old man to the ground and then lie about it. The New York State Police Union boss has gone viral, screeching and whining about police being judged by what they do, just because everyone can see them do it. -6/12/20. "Girl With the Pink Bag" from Richmond Sunday (one week earlier) (one week later)