Always Running #9

OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. I am terribly sorry for the minor repetition, but I have to talk about this again. Police corruption and brutality. Not cool. At all. This book is making me hate police so much. I don't know if that is healthy, but nonetheless. I don't know how to begin explaining this scene, so I am going to try to type a really long quote of the most important part of the scene. Forgive me for it's length...

"The woman screamed but nobody appeared to hear. I saw a couple of deputies push her against a car parked in the lot of an after-hours club in Norwalk. I looked to see if anybody else was around, but the few who were there turned away, ignoring the screams as a deputy punched the woman in the face.
"Hey, get off her!" I yelled.
I didn't know who she was or what she did; I just couldn't stand there and witness the beating.
"Get the fuck out of here- now!" shouted an officer as he pulled hard on the woman's arm so he could put handcuffs on her. Her face smashed against the asphalt, bleeding from the mouth.
"Pinche cabrones!" she managed to say.
"Leave her alone- can't you see you're hurting her?"
At this, a couple of deputies pounced on me. I fell to the ground. Officers pulled on my arms, picked me up and threw me against a squad car. I felt the blows of a blackjack against my side and back. I tried to pull them off me, when suddenly eight other deputies showed up. AS they pounded on me, my foot inadvertently came up and brushed one of them in the chest.
The deputies threw me inside a squad car, the woman in another. By then a crowd had gathered, but they appeared helpless as more deputies swarmed the club's parking lot.
For about a half-hour the squad car drove around. A deputy hit me in the stomach. Another struck me in the face:
"You got something to say...it looks like you got something to say to us," an officer implied.
I didn't say anything. Not even fuck you. I felt my cheek swell. Another fist smashed into an eye, the end of a blackjack into a rib. I clenched my teeth, holding back a cry so that they couldn't use anything I said of did to intensify their attack." (pgs 226-227).


If this isn't police brutality and corruption, I don't know what is. I think I might think twice now before I even look at a cop in the wrong way. Man...