Freddie Gray Is Dead

Mainstream media cries

that there is a riot going on,

that a store was burned,

a mall is being looted.

A man's spine

was almost severed,

his voice box crushed.

He died.

They knew what was coming,

after Ferguson and the protests

last year they knew.

The civic leaders of Baltimore knew.

But they chose to protect the police,

like they did in Ferguson

and New York

and everywhere.

They chose fire, they chose looting,

they chose rioting -

the leaders of Baltimore

and those above them in the ladder chose this.

When they severed his spine,

when they crushed his voice box,

when they threw him in the van

the police chose this too.

28.04.2015