“"They don't give a fuck about us," Fred Thomas sings repeatedly at the end of the song "Cops Don't Care Pt. II". By this point in the song, the Ypsilanti, Mich. songwriter has sized up a protest and pondered its futility—each blown-up picture of a recently killed stranger offers the latest reminder of a greater problem. As he wrote the song, he considered wage disparity, the state of Michigan’s re”
