July 4, 1976: The Bicentennial of the U.S. My story…
I was living in Philadelphia, the Cradle of Liberty.
I spent the night of the 4th in a Philadelphia jail, after squinting too closely at the badge number of one of Philly’s Finest, who was in the process of dropping a series of f-bombs on a poor foreign tourist couple who barely spoke English and who had the audacity to appear to have been asking the cop for directions. Welcome to Amerika…
The cops, of …
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