Can You Picture?

Wed, 04/26/2017 - 20:55 -- 1SP

Can you picture...
A man who served the United States,
As a Marine and died at the hands of hate?

 

 

Can you picture...
A man who retired young to live right,
And give his precious children a better life?

 

 

Can you picture...
A man, a veteran, a citizen riding down the freeway,
Who got stopped and brutalized without leeway?

 

 

Can you picture...
A man traveling with his license suspended,
Then murdered and his life, not defended?

 

 

Can you picture that,
Then murder of Arthur McDuffie?
Wham! Bam! Blip! What! Blat!
City of Miami P.D., When they get ugly.

 

 

Can you really picture...
A man who cried out bleeding as he surrendered,
Still ignored after his last breath, justice unrendered?

 

 

Can you really picture...
Cops took a man's life be found not guilty,
And courts expect us to believe that really?

 

 

Can you really picture...
His children's New Year's Day so bad,
After the warm Christmas they had?

 

 

Can you really picture...
Traveling I95 to a memory we'll never forget,
The day a motorcyclist got that bloody ticket?

 

 

Can you really picture that,
The murder of Arthur McDufffie?
Wham! Bam! Blip! What! Blat!
City of Miami P.D., when they get ugly.

 

 

Skull Cracked,
Body Bruised;
Eyes Blacked,
Cases Confused;
P.D. Lied,
Taxpayer Died.

 

 

Can you picture it,
Rest In Peace
Arthur McDuffie
I can picture it at least...

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