JoJo from Jerz: ICE Murdered a Woman in Broad Daylight
Are you f'ng kidding me?
ICE Murdered a Woman in Broad Daylight
Living this way feels like traversing a terrain seeded with dormant explosives, each step taken with unconscious calculation. You sense the danger everywhere, humming beneath the surface, yet because no blast has erupted directly beneath your own feet, you keep moving. Not because youre indifferent, not because you lack compassion, but because the human nervous system has limits, and unceasing alarm isnt survivable. Much of this brutality has been engineered with that knowledge in mind. It isnt meant to arrive as a single, undeniable catastrophe. Its meant to leach slowly into the landscape, to normalize itself, to blur into the background until endurance begins to masquerade as acquiescence.
But the images coming out of ICE operations rupture that fragile equilibrium. Families sundered in parking lots. People swallowed by unmarked vehicles. Pregnant women forced to the asphalt. Children wrenched from their mothers arms, their screams raw and animal. These scenes dont remain at a distance. They cling to you. They infiltrate your thoughts at inconvenient moments. They demand recognition. They insist on the truth that the violence unfolding around us is corporeal. It has names. It has faces.
And then the violence stops being something you witness from afar. It enters a space you recognize. It takes on a body, a face, a life that looks achingly familiar, and whatever distance once existed collapses under the weight of that recognition.
A thirty-seven-year-old woman was killedan American citizen, a mother and a daughter, a wife, a writer, a poetwhite, unarmed, captured on camera as her life was extinguished in full daylight. She was shot in her car and left there, her body slack against the seat, while the people who fired the shot lingered nearby, untouched by urgency, unmoved by the enormity of what theyd done. There was no visible scramble, no desperate attempt to staunch the damage, only the suffocating stillness that follows violence when a system has already rendered its verdict.
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She was shot in her car and left there, her body slack against the seat, while the people who fired the shot lingered nearby, untouched by urgency, unmoved by the enormity of what theyâd done.
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