![]() ![]() On the way out of the store, the smoke faded until it was nothing but tiny sizzles of electricity sparking out. When I did, mom was sighing, putting the carton back on the shelf, and grabbing my hand. I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to look away. I saw the exact moment the thought entered her mind, and the smoke around my mom tightened itself around her. The smoke had gotten darker as we got closer to the store, and when mom was frowning at the carton, halfway to putting it back on the shelf, she took a moment to glance at her bag. “What is it? Sweetie, there’s nothing there.” Mom twisted around, searching for something which wasn’t visible to her. It reacted to my touch, black tendrils dancing around me. I pointed to the smoke, enveloping my fingers in it. ![]() If anything, I thought it was pretty, giggling to myself. When she was strapping me into the back seat, I’d noticed a grey plume dancing around her. I’d seen the smoke before we even went into the store. She smiled at the cashier and did the walk of shame back to the milk aisle-pulled the whole-milk carton out of her cart and paused before putting it back on the shelf. When I was five years old, I was shopping with my mother, and she didn’t have enough cash for groceries. I’ll use simple bad intention as an example. Most of the time it gets darker, but I’ve seen it fade. Whether or not the person acts on it, the colour will either darken or fade. And it follows people everywhere, whispering into unsuspecting minds. It is impossible to cut away, to detach-like a shadow. What I saw was part of the person it had been part of them since they were born, a sour slithering shadow bleeding from them. But then I came to realise it wasn’t a monster. That they were responsible for the bad things people did. I used to think they actually were monsters. But no matter what, it is always there waiting. It was all of them, a vicious cocktail of human emotion creating something horrific. ![]() It is poisoned emotion and feelings compiled into one bleeding black monster wrapping itself around its victim’s neck. It is intention which haunts a person and will not let them go, will not get out of their mind until they have satisfied that disgusting, vile thought. On the other side of the spectrum is the kind I can’t deal with. I’m pretty sure if I looked in a mirror, it would be around me too when I’m in a bad mood. Sure, it kind of has a scent which makes me feel nauseous, but it’s tolerable. Like cheating on a test or considering being rude to someone. I see slight whisps of it around a person, or hanging around in the air? That’s basic bad intention. "It's making a difference. If a violent criminal knows they’re facing a broken state system, there’s not much of a deterrent," Collier said.Depending on what it is, it can either be smoke curling around someone, like a storm cloud brewing, or something more nefarious. Attorney Richard Moore announced the indictment of 18 members of the Selma-based MLK gang, people Moore said were kingpins in the local guns and drugs trade. “Most importantly I recognized pretty quickly that Selma Police Department alone could not address the crime problem so I’m proud of bringing in pretty much every federal agency and the State Bureau of Investigation and AG’s office to assist us.”Ĭollier said he organized monthly meetings with federal prosecutors to identify ways to charge the city's most notorious criminals with federal crimes. We armed every officer with a rifle that may not be a big deal but in six out of 10 shootings, a rifle is used, so our officers were outgunned when I got there,” Collier said. “I’m proud of the fact I made attempts to bring Selma law enforcement into the modern era. Since then, Collier said he has worked to provide Selma officers with the resources needed to police a city afflicted with one of the highest rates of violent crimes per capita in the nation, a city where officers were sometimes ambushed while on duty. ![]()
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