This is a picture I did not take
of a satellite news truck, two police cars and a van from the Corrections Department idling at noon in Atlanta in front of JVC Grocery and Deli, where on February 4th, Brandon White was assaulted (the fracas videoed by a gang member and uploaded to the Web) and today, under the careful watch of police, prisoners in yellow vests picked-up trash from the vacant lot across the street while the TV crew's generator hummed, because when the media machine arrives to broadcast the story about how a neighborhood gang assaulted a young man because he's gay, you better have a clean vacant lot in the background.