Just a few lines written in a lovely park, to the splash of a fountain & the peaceful sound of children. I am developing a taste for the amusements of very old married couples, for the view across lawns, for sitting quietly in the evening sun, for watching sparrows.
Kafka, 1914
Miriam Carey, a Black woman having a mental health crisis, was shot 5 times & killed by U.S. Capitol Police in '13 for simply trying to breach security barriers. She was unarmed & had her 13-mos old baby daughter in the car.
Around a hundred NYPD officers just attacked the Stonewall march, which happens weekly in West Village. We are hearing that a lead organizer was brutalized and detained.
At least a dozen officers swarm to arrest one person. Someone with a megaphone yells "What was the reason?"