(Away from home on a tablet right now. Text selection is more finicky than I want to fight with.)
He wasn't interested in getting nasty with the town or the cops. All he really wanted was for him and his rich brown friends to be able to do the same thing his rich white neighbors and their rich white friends could do: come to their houses and leave later without being hassled by the cops. So what he did was a show of force -- following which, the town took some necessary steps to forestall recurrences, various agreements were signed, and the matter concluded without either side having made enemies of the other. Which last would not have done anyone any good.
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dancing_serpent
Re: So many prompts
Date: 2021-11-05 01:28 am (UTC)He wasn't interested in getting nasty with the town or the cops. All he really wanted was for him and his rich brown friends to be able to do the same thing his rich white neighbors and their rich white friends could do: come to their houses and leave later without being hassled by the cops. So what he did was a show of force -- following which, the town took some necessary steps to forestall recurrences, various agreements were signed, and the matter concluded without either side having made enemies of the other. Which last would not have done anyone any good.