police are here to maintain order, to harass us and kill us, to represent the police state and the propertied class. are they the status quo, when someone like me, a known non-criminal, feels no safety, only threat, in their presence, whose accident of skin color may be the only flag keeping me alive? i could look arabic though, and have been mistaken for a darkskinned jew, a mexican, a greek, even a turk, especially in summer, and even in winter with my madman's beard, i believe i am prey.