Chopper, Bad Cop Copter

 

He's the Tom Cruise character

on a tainted force

Friday night Protest 

didn't amount to much

after the walloping demo

earlier in the week

A lovely night,

woke up from a nap

after a big day at the Port Park

 

They've been digging up 

an incredible amount of dirt 

on the Oakland police lately,

Running underage prostitutes

 Isn't what they are paid to stop?

 But, hey,

What me worry?

Just one fly in the ointment 

the thrum, thrum, thrumming 

everywhere

 Lord, Please protect us

from the power of the State

 Chopper on the job

 Babylon put on the pressure, man

Here comes the motley protesters

 maybe one hundred strong

stopping the lawful traffic

 on Broadway

 Chopper lets them know

they are being watched

 The mob reaches 

Police headquaters,

The camera decides

it's dark out now

 He put in an application 

for rubber missiles

from Homeland Security

 Unable to reach a quorum

or quantum mass

They proceed past

A squad car follows tight

 Chopper's steamed

He's west of the moon now

Mob continues west of the highway 

aggressive traffic on the ramps

holds them at bay,

That bright blue light

the accompanying cop car

 Chopper, Bad Cop Copter

he's a real bitch

 Gets himself in a snit

and circles around  the moon .

like a pissed-off hornet

 Got his panties

all in a tangle

 

 A nice night

until he showed up

I was going to go to the store

15 July 2015

Epilogue

Chopper was back early yesterday. 

BLM protesters chained themselves to the doors

 of the Police Association, Credit Union, and Cop supply shop

(All of whose edifices have appeared in nocturnal images 

captured on previous Flaneur posts)

Why a helicopter is necessary when a only

a small stationary protest is taking place

can only be understood as a punitive measure against protest

and a collective punishment of the local community.

As I crossed Ninth coming back

I shook my fist at the stationary Chopper

Then I noticed I was crossing in front

of a bulbous cop-mobile either stationed there 

or stopped while cruising the block

observing me with ennui,

maybe a slow motion dawning of a sense

of the widespread community resentment

 21 July 2016