Tonight, while watching the new season of Squid Game, New York Attorney General Letitia James’ press release on Robert Brooks’ death showed up in my social media feed.
I then watched every clip of Robert Brooks’ horrific beating at the hands of corrections’ officers; people who are supposed to keep him safe. Three of which had been cited in lawsuits for beating incarcerated people in the past.
This didn’t have to happen.
It was an eerie juxtaposition, watching a scene in the first episode with Seong Gi-hun, Player 456, in the Limo with the Gold Piggy Bank when its narrator says, “if the world doesn’t change, the game doesn’t end.”
No one participates in the game of mass incarceration of their own free will.
Something has to change.
