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Is this Justification
2012
Trayvon Martin in Stanford, Florida
The threat
to a police officer
is a bag of Skittles
and a hood
2013
Renisha McBride in Dearborn Heights
The morning after being involved in a car crash
knocks on her house door followed by
gun shoots is the last greeting she will get
2014
Tamir Rice in Cleveland
Who would have deemed
A fake bb gun would have authority
over your own body
2015
Tony Robinson in Madison, Wis.
Shooting an unarmed innocent men
In the head was enough to kill him
But seven seemed to
2016
Terence Crutcher in Tulsa
Having your hands up
is not enough to show you are not a threat
you will still be called a “bad dude”
2017
Corey Bailey in Elkhart
The police officer was judge, jury
And he was sentenced to the death penalty
Why am I not surprised
2018
Armond Beckwith-Bell in S. Louis
A racially targeted traffic stop
Turns into fatally shot by officer
Is this Justification
for the things they do to us
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