Black and Brown Lives Do Not Matter
Black and Brown Lives Do Not Matter – Welcome to Trump’s America
Yet another death of a black man
Shot by the police
seven times in the back
His crime?
Other than being a black man
he was walking to his car
to check on his three children
He is confronted by the Police
Guns drawn
He tries to get in his car
They pull him out
Punched him
Tazer him into submission
Then for some reason
Telling him drop the knife
Shot him seven times
In the back
At least this time
Then they tried to help him
After he was shot dead
he is alive for now
His family says
He was trying to stop
Two women fighting
The cops were called
And of course he was shot
Just because
The cops says
He had a knife
Told him to drop the knife
Witness say
He puts up his hands
No knife visible
His kids were in the car
But the five cops
Three white men
Two white woman
did not care
About that at all
The kids could be witnesses
To this horrific crime
But they are black kids
So no one will listen to them
If he had been a white man
Or a white woman
He would not have been shot
And everyone knows that
It is what it is
after all is said and one
Just another black man
Shot Dead by the police
His crime
Being a black man
In Trump’s America
Copyright © Jake Aller | Year Posted 2020
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