Layla Riley-Hill Poet Rhyme

'Justice' was for whites only

Gunfire,
Shots.
Screams.
Bloodshed.

Bodies.
Bodies.
Bodies.

Except one -
The shooter,
Who - was - white
The victims,
DEAD,
All the victims -
Black.

The police, 
Arrive,
Ten - twenty minutes late.
The excuse -
Traffic,
There was no traffic that day,
They lied -
They didn’t care that Black life had been taken away

They arrived late,
Red and Black,
It was an egregious attack -
What was worse,
The faces of the police -
Stone cold -
Devoid.

The shooter was spared,
He was white after all,
They didn’t shoot -
In their words it would be ‘un-called’ for
The shooter lived,
The shooter - acquitted,
Why?
He was white -
And the victims Black
But obviously the courts did not say that,
They said he was mentally unwell - had a panic attack,
That it would be unfair for them to criminalise that -
After all this was his first offense, so he can’t be that bad,
Oh, also he has a family which means they need him back

The victims families saddened,
But not surprised - as history shows this has already happened

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