Two guys walk down the street in Ferguson
A strange copper pulls their asses without reason
A fight ensues, many shots ‘r fired.
Brown guy dies and black runs till tired.
If the cop isn’t white, twill be a miracle, son!
The above is of course a limerick in memory of Big Michael Brown*. The 17 year old on his summer between high school and college was walking with a friend to go visit the friend’s grandma when a Police Officer whose identity is kept secret ordered them to the sidewalk, started a confrontation and shot them as they fled. He concentrated his fire on the minor who turned around hands held up and stated that he was unarmed. He then shot him twice more.
I did many posts back then on the Zimmerman trial because it was related to law and interpretation. From the first witnesses, the story is that of race considering the color of the local police department. It is a text book case : idle uneducated guy with a gun gets into trouble. Being white and in a police cruiser has little to do with it. As for Brown, he was Black, a known common misdemeanor in many American precincts and ran, proving culpability of the crime he would have been charged with had he not died. All in a racist afternoon of work! Read the crime without tags :
– Unidentified armed man in car attacks youths and kills one!
Here is to Michael Brown and I’ll throw in a Haiku for hope it gets better soon:
Most glorious summer
Black American Fair, yea
Maybe next year.
Tay.
* I know the limerick is not dirty enough, sorry to the purists. 😉
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