What do you see? (Inspired by Erick Garner)
All across the nation people are searching for retaliation.
It's civil unrest and that we can attest-but it's not a test, it's a wave of change here in the west.
It's not just because he was black,
forget about the fact it was a sudden attack-
thrown down like a 350lb sack,
tell me here, did the police have his back?
He was a human being,
what were the police men seeing?
Did they think he was a beast?
About to disrupt the peace and feast?
He was a human being,
but what are we really seeing?
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