Impunity
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What Do You Call It When They Hurt You and Walk Away?
Impunity.
That’s the word.
When someone with a badge
or a robe, or a gavel, or a pen
uses power not to protect,
but to punish.
Not because they had to.
Because they could.
That’s not law. That’s not justice.
That’s control dressed as duty.
That’s domination under the flag of “order.”
When they
break your window,
punch your face,
drag your body across the asphalt
and lie.
When they say,
“He was resisting,”
while the footage shows silence.
When the camera captures
the truth,
but the courts won’t.
When they are
caught,
proven,
seen —
but not punished.
That’s not a bad day.
That’s not a rogue cop.
That’s not a mistake.
That is a system.
What do you call it
when people in power
are free from consequence?
Impunity.
What do you call it
when the rules don’t apply
to the enforcers of the rules?
Impunity.
What do you call it
when the weight of the law
falls only in one direction?
Abuse of power.
State-sanctioned violence.
Institutional gaslighting.
But above all — impunity.
You’re not crazy.
You’re not dramatic.
You’re not imagining it.
There’s a word for it.
There’s always been a word.
Let the world know it.
Say it with your chest.
Write it on the sidewalk.
Whisper it to the ones who think they’re alone.
Because naming it
is the first step
to fighting it.
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