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Police Brutality

Anger amongst my people
From all the police brutality
Resulting in so many young
Mens fatality

Our hands are up
Don't shoot
Don't stomp us out 
With your boots

We face down on the ground
Don't Use your billy club to pound

Police shoots and kills
Then gets off for it
This can't be real

Don't use unjust violence on me
I'm a citizen
We as a race should have known better then

Don't shoot 
I'm going for my identification
Such a racist nation

If police started killing off Caucasians
Then it would be a situation

Don't shoot
I have a kid in the car
Pow pow pow
Now you went to far

How many shots does it take 
To subdue a man
2, 6, 20
Explain officers so we can understand

This is our justice system
Systematically killing blacks
How are we to commemorate
When we under attack

Bias and unjust
In America we don't trust

Police brutality
What's your rationality

Repression and criminalization
Of an entire generation

Racial disparities
Giving us welfare and calling it charity

Our ancestors built this place
Yet a white officer is present 
in every black mans murder case

Stop don't shoot
My hands are held high
Pow pow pow
Another nigga dies tonight

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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