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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

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