at first it was we feared the police, stay in line, get on your knees,
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Scared of their use of weaponry and malicious brutality
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then it was the cops feared us. new gangs, big guns, then militias,
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a few shots fired, some faces stunned, few cops dead, they were outgunned
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fear leads our society, in our minds and in our hearts,
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if we don't break this trend, everything will fall apart
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now we fear the cops again for different reasons than we had then,
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not for excessive violence -- it's for their incompetence.
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yet it seems the cops fear us: try not to look like a rapist,
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41 bullets with nothing to show, except the death of Amadou Diallo
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Ode To Diallo
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| The Overprivileged |
