“We better run,” | told Marilee. “Why? They’ re not gonna hit us.” “Yes, they are! Run! Hurry!” The police had been let out of their cage and they were absolutely enraged. Marilee got away, but | was struck with a nightstick on the outside of my right knee. | fell to the ground. The cop ran off to injure as many other cockroaches in his kitchen as he could. Another cop came charging and he yelled at me, “Get up/ Get up!” ‘TY m trying to!” He made a threatening gesture with his billy club, and when | tried to protect my head with my arms, he jabbed me viciously on the exposed right side of my ribs. Oh, God, the pain! The cops were running amuck now, in an orgy of indiscriminate sadism, swinging their clubs wildly and screaming, “Get the fuck outa here you fuckin’ faggots, you motherfuckin’ cocksuckers!” | managed to drag myself along the sidewalk. It felt like an electric cattle prod was stuck between my ribs. Marilee drove me to a hospital emergency ward. X-rays indicated that | had a fractured rib and a punctured lung. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015446