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The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Sean Mullins’ ode to the 92-year-old woman killed in a botched drug raid came out a few weeks ago. And it’s good! Well, the music is good. The lyrics wander around a bit, and don’t really tell what actually happened. But hey, it’s a good pop song about a botched drug raid. I’m not going to complain. I can’t find it online anywhere, but you can download it from Amazon for a buck.
Here’s a short interview Mullins gave to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I’d beg to differ with him on one point. Mullins says this kind of thing only happens in “certain neighborhoods.” It’s probably true that low-income people get the brunt of it. But there are plenty of examples of botched raids on college students, middle-class homes, and, occasionally, even millionaires.
Radley, Amazon is Online. I haven’t heard of them opening any bricks and motar stores, or have they in the DC area?
I’d say that Shawn’s comment is accurate for Atlanta, at least. We’re a very segregated city that pretends to be progressive; the police tactics are completely different on one side of town than on the other.
Just my two cents of course, and now I’ll go searching for botched drug raids in other than “certain areas,” just to be sure.
I just got the lyrics posted on my blog. I hope that people will hear it and read up on the story.
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