LIKE MANY CONVICTS IN THERE I was eating a Rocky Road Ice Cream from the Commissary and other’s had chips and pop’s it was supposed to be a festive occasion to keep the tension down, but like a lot of things, it sounded good on paper but in reality is was very dangerous situation, as we were about to be reminded when a guy from my Unit who everyone knew as a hot head Southern rabble rouser, scaled the small rise and grabbed the mic. Something in the rear of the auditorium got the Captains’ attention and he and his minions had left. This guy’s case was in the law books having sent a homemade bomb to the local sheriff’s office because they had interrupted his chop shop in the back yard posing as a junk yard. “I’m from Alabama and next year we plan on having our local congress man make ‘ah Martin Luther Law to shoot six more niggers’s and takes the whole week off!” He hadn’t got the words out of his mouth good when something whizzed by my head in his direction and all hell broke loose! Instantly I was crushed by a sea of humanity first toward the stage and then toward back of the auditorium; fist was flying, 55 gallon garbage cans flying thru the air and people screaming. I had already counted the steps to the exit and knew I couldn’t make and had placed myself at the end of a row. I got to the wall and made my way where I could get under a desk where two other people were hiding. Alarms were going off, cops TRYING TO GET SOMEWHERE, screaming and whistle’s blaring. Old rivals had squared off, the skinheads were fighting the Blacks, the Mexican’s were fighting each other and the White Boys were hollering for more. As usual, the cops conveniently disappeared for a few minute to regroup and let Men settle their scores, while they dressed out in Riot Gear or waited for SORT. I was in the corner of the auditorium under a over turned conference table with two other cowards, and finished my ice cream and was glad I didn’t have any codefendant. I had been in five or six of these things and they never end well. Los Angeles Times New York Magazine The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The New Yorker Los Angeles Times Books HuffPost Crime Washington Post Esquire Erin Burnett OutFront The Kelly File Sun Herald NOLA One Man, One Case, One Real Life Heist By Mark Anthony Given The Dope Feign Shuffle by Mark Anthony George Given reallifeheist/2012/01/next-year-we-should-shoot-six-more-and.html#!/2012/01/next-year-we-should-shoot-six-more-and.html
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