“We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug,” the Facebook post reads. “We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess. This child can’t speak for himself but we are hopeful his story can convince another user to think twice about injecting this poison while having a child in their custody.”

In posting these (unblurred) photographs to Facebook, the people purports to be a voice for the voiceless—the children who find themselves entangled in addiction. That is a noble aim, but it’s not really what this Facebook post actually accomplished. Nowhere is this 4-year-old boy’s “story” actually to be found: The only narrative the city provides is that of the police officer who found him, in the form of an affidavit. That is of course because the city does not care about this boy, or his family. The city cares about conspicuously reminding its citizens of its power and authority.

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they are just a disgrace to family hood

that man must be stupid

This photo is an entry into a growing genre of digital content: police departments and other law enforcement authorities sharing stories from the field—propagandistic parables that are often intended to become fodder for the right-wing viral content machine, perceived as a necessary antidote to the liberal, anti-cop media so enamored with anarchic or Black Lives Matter activists and other undesirables. Publishing these photographs and these documents, in this way, serves only one purpose: to reinscribe the unfettered disgust that people in positions of power (and those who feel themselves allied with power) have for those who lack it, who see drug addicts in particular not as sick and suffering human beings trying to make their way in the world but as animals deserving little more than a vicious kick and to be ignored.

this family needs to be called for questioning ,

this is an abuse

i thought this could only happen in nigeria