#brutality

Brooke Evergood

This is what it looks like when a community stands up to power. When ICE came for workers, this Minnesota neighborhood said: not today. On a freezing day in Minnesota, ICE agents showed up at a construction site in Chanhassen, intent on making arrests.

Two workers fled upward, trapped on the roof of a half-built house as temperatures plunged below zero. No heat. No shelter. Just wind, ice, and federal agents waiting them out.

And then the community showed up.

Neighbors, workers, organizers — people who understood instinctively that letting someone freeze to make a political point is cruelty, not law enforcement. They brought blankets. Hot drinks. Food. They stood outside in the cold for hours, refusing to leave, refusing to let this end quietly.

While ICE agents lingered below, the crowd did what the state would not: they protected human life. They checked on the workers. They shouted encouragement. They made sure those men were not alone on that roof, isolated and expendable in the eyes of a system that treats immigrant labor as disposable until it decides to punish it.

This is what solidarity looks like in practice. Not slogans. Not hashtags. People physically placing their bodies and time between vulnerable workers and a federal agency that has perfected the art of intimidation.

After nearly two hours, ICE left. The workers came down. One was treated by medics. Both survived the cold. No one was dragged away in handcuffs that day.

It’s worth sitting with that for a moment.

In an era when we’re constantly told resistance is futile, that enforcement is inevitable, that there’s nothing regular people can do — a small group of neighbors proved otherwise. They didn’t need weapons or power. They needed resolve, warmth, and the refusal to look away.

This wasn’t about “open borders” or abstract policy debates. It was about whether we accept a country where men are forced to choose between freezing to death or being detained. It was about whether we let federal agents use weather as a weapon. It was about whether community still means something.

Too often, ICE operates in the shadows — early mornings, isolated workplaces, silence as strategy. What happened in Chanhassen broke that script. It showed what happens when enforcement meets witnesses, when fear meets collective presence.

This is the lesson: solidarity works. It slows cruelty. It saves lives. And it reminds those in power that their authority is not absolute when people decide, together, that enough is enough.

complete: knap

old middle english (v): a crest, a hill; to chip or break by a sharp blow, as flint

trc: declan/mr. gray | 7k | violently explicit | archive warnings apply

Gray found him exceptional. Stroking the boy’s filthy curls off his forehead, he asked, “Do you know what’s about to happen?” Declan didn’t flinch, though it took him a moment to swallow his mouth wet again. “Will you tell me who’s paying you? This seems elaborate.” Gray shook his head. “I can make you like it, if you want,” he offered.

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The thing with damians conception is NONEXistent. Talia did want to have Bruces child but CONSENTUALLY and after marriage so they can raise him together and kiss and whatnot

He was a woopsie baby🥰🥰

Timsteph are really cute so just like- food for thought idk

Selina is afro-latina-italian-american

Afro-latina on her mom's side and italian on the Falcone side

Jay and Damian have like this really cute brotherly relationship because jason helped raise damian since he was six

Damian's dads: Bruce but also Dick (Not batcest just his emotional connection to them)

Damian's moms: Talia and Selina

B had unending situationships with both Clark and Selina. And like when Clark settled down with Lois B would get freaky with the two of them until he decided that it does not help his mental stability situation

And idk how much later he got back with Selina and they got married and they kiss

Talia pronounces 'Damian' as 'Dammy-Anne' because if she doesn't then the "Dami means 'of my blood' in arabic" thing doesn't work and I really want it to

The kids bully the living shit out of bruce

He just lets them because he feels like he deserves it (he does)

Dick has crippling ADHD but was only diagnosed in his late twenties

Selinas mom was killed when she was 10 instead of 7, They were really close

Stephanie knows the most random trivia

B hadn't celebrated any jewish holidays since his parents' deaths-- until Tim came along and he wanted to connect with his new son and make him feel at home

On Passover theres an afikoman for every kid (even though some of them are fully grown adults)

They make it a competition of who can find the most afikomans

The Joker can't smell

because chemicals or something idk

Selina protects gothams sex workers and generally gothams women

She also protects the lower class queer crowd because umm corelation

I don't know much about this topic- but OCD Bruce?? my reasoning is 1) that i saw an OCD Drew Tanaka post and it got me thinking 2) his dedication to them rules is kinda...

cass is cryptid on her mother's side. She can actually like blend into shadows

Jason is a single cm taller than Bruce and is drives B mad

currently, there's been a few provocator going around telling people to k*ll the chinese because of all the protests going around!

they believe that the chinese people are very rich compared to the masses(?) and they don't like that fact, that's why many are trying to attack the chinese.

a few (chinese) students and old people has also gotten hurt because of this provocative sentence being tossed around everywhere. to everyone living in indonesia currently, please don't listen to these people trying to hurt the chinese. we shouldn't attack each other because of something the government did.

CW: jealousy, violence, brutality, self-loathing, implied depression, possessive relationship #NSFW, Top!Miguel, Bottom!Reader, hurt/comfort, anti-hero reader, complicated relationships, lonely reader, crook turned hero, reader is a tired guy, mutual pining - Note: Posting some WIPs I've had laying around for a while while I try to finish up the next HOUND update! Needed a bit of a break from it since it's pretty long, but I hope some teasers make up for the wait. Tysm for reading!

Taking care of Nueva York was exhausting. You were far too used to being the problem rather than the problem-solver. That job reserved itself for the one and only Spiderman–your Spiderman. 

At least, you liked to think he was yours.