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Poetry: Police brutality

The prisons of the plights
we make our risings to,
the placid air turns frigid,
and the gleam of lights is ahead,
watching, waiting, aiming, firing,
the despair of the capture
and the hunt of the vigilante.
It is the dark night,
between the shadows
where the silence echoes
and wathces, waits, aims, fires.

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Poetry: Police brutality

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    by Joanne Wood

    I wonder if you'd still critique
    If you knew what he'd done, until just last week.
    The law is there to protect
    Young or old

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    by Stocker Wiley

    Gut sunk deep
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    by Jared Cantrell

    Taser

    Serve, protect.
    Bring tyrants to justice.
    There's electricity in your hand
    so you don't have to kill.
    No blood, no harm.

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    by Bri Mark

    '' God Help You If You Drive ''

    I've burgled, raped and pillaged,

    but I find it really funny,

    the police don't try to

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    by Beef Frankland

    In the back of a van they beat him.
    Grown men enforcing the law,
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