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Overt and Wanton Police Abuse Analogous To Societal Sepsis Leak 1

Martial law inapropos to stave, staunch, and stem police brutality, nevertheless commander in chief will violently barrel ahead particularly when blatant iniquities flagrantly heaped upon innocent dark skinned human bodies, who far to often get accosted, beaten, choked without justice, but judged guilty merely existing. Protestations within metropolitan urban areas all across the United States sparking riots else within world began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020 following the death of George Floyd coroners determine cause of death asphyxia after Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Akin to striking a match into highly flammable liquid diverse people expressed legitimate rage against machinations targeting humans, whose obvious epidermal pigment unwittingly sacrifices said dark skinned people burnt offerings. Sacrificial lambs only become martyrs, yet sadly never realize their true value, nor relish (hot diggity dog) purposefulness cuz her/his mortality nipped in (figurative) bud when precious life cruelly stolen. As iterated courtesy similar crafted by yours truly persons falsely hash tagged recalcitrant (predominantly boys and/or men) exhibiting physiognomy proclaiming African American, Australia, Haiti, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea and South Asia... as motherland, more so black immigrants comprise growing proportion of said racial (constituency) population. Usually no culpability linkedin with rudely mistreated individual, whose inalienable (inherent) rights: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness hijacked solely predicated upon bigotry.

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