Bang!, and your dead,
\nHands raised? Unseen.
\nYou did not comply, sorry you had to die…
\nWouldn’t have happened if home you had been.
\nNo man has a right to resist arrest
\nIf black, you cant walk the street…
\nIs it any wonder society is as it is?
\nThat black youths mistrust every policemen they meet?<\/p>\n
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