billyclub

I have had the police threaten to billyclub me, write unfair tickets, and otherwise make public spaces less safe, rather than more safe, for me to inhabit, all out of a clear lust for power.

According to the more sensational takes circulating in conservative media and legal circles, the story goes this way: two imposing black men, one with a billyclub, stood outside a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day 2008 and scared off voters.