Hashtag

Isn't it kinda sad how most hashtags
are victims of police brutality?

You put a tag

On a living dog

And an hashtag

On a dead Dawg

Now said corpse

Most certainly died wrong

Mosta the most, at the hands of a cop,

Elijah McClain

Didn't get the memo:

It's a crime to go out shopping late

Especially, if you're black and alone,

Cops came and rearranged his face

They put him on chokehold

Now he's a hashtag

Meaning he filled a body bag

George Floyd

Was supposedly on opioid

During an ongoing forgery

Officer Chauvin knelt down on him leaning

Hard into his neck for over 9 minutes

While Floyd pleaded, 'I can't breathe.'

Chauvin killed him for a 20 dollar bill

George Floyd has being a hashtag

For a while, occupying a body bag,

Breonna Taylor was sleeping

When the cops came creeping

Serving no warrant, issuing no warning

Bullets flew then dipping,

Six of 'em cut thru Breonna's body

Now she a bulge in a body bag

Her name a set of letters duly hashtagged.

Young Ahmaud Arbery

Was killed for the crime of… wait for it

Jogging down the street

Now the three sorry ass cops

Tryna present past criminal records

To vindicate their asses in court

After they stashed him in a body bag

And translated him into a hashtag.

Emantic Bradford Jr. was in a mall

And there was multiple gunshots

Somebody called the cops

And tho a lot of people had their guns

Out the cops sighted and shot Bradford

Cause he was a black man

He had no right to bear arms,

And now all he is, is a hashtag

Resident of a body bag.

He had air fresheners

Hanging from his rearview mirror

That was Daunte Wright's fatal error

Dirt cheap cops pulled him over

Shot him then got him driving while dying

Till he crashed into the Brooklyn Center

Y'all can prove I ain't lying

Just tweet his name with a hashtag.

Adam Toledo

Bolted like a tornado

Down the alley between a school

And a church clutching his tool,

A trigger-happy cop on his tail

His face constricted with rage

He barked an instruction

And Toledo tossed his weapon,

Reached for the sky with empty hands

Still the cop slugged him in the chest, bam!

The 13 year old's a memory and a hashtag.

These tik tok cops

Be hiding under a copse

Of flawed state laws

Always pulling handguns

When they oughta draw handcuffs

Always the black and innocent

Getting caught in this predicament,

When you're alive you're trash bag

When you're dead you're a hashtag.

Akpan

Closed With Discipline

Former Police Officer Derek Chauvin
escorted to his cell after his murder conviction.
Photo Courtesy: CNN.com

A clerk called 911

On an ongoing forgery

And they set a killer cop

On a black man named Floyd

Fastest way to get a life destroyed.

Ex-cop Chauvin pressed his knee

Down on Floyd's neck,

'I can't breathe,'

Floyd said.

'I asked you to get in the car.'

'Please stop, I'll get in the car.'

'No you won't,

'You didn't when I asked you to.'

Chauvin kept up like oh well

Until Floyd emptied his bowels.

But justice rolled down like water

Thru a blackgirl named Darnella,

She filmed the killing,

And Chauvin was charged with murder.

The tape was key to the convicting.

Now we can breathe again

Cause we have reason to say,

This case is unanimously

Closed with discipline.

Akpan

Sheer Guts On Steroids

Darnella Frazier recorded the killing of George Floyd
by former Police officer Derek Chauvin.
Her video was the key evidence that got
Chauvin covicted of murder.
Photo Courtesy: Darnella Frazier/Facebook/CNN

It'd have been

Another black man killed by police

Cause Of Death: Cannabis

If it hadn't been

For that 17 year old's bold film.

The Police Dept's official statement

Had been,

'Man dies after medical incident.'

A damning verdict without precedent.

Yet a high school girl captured the footage

Even tho it took 330 days

For the system to acknowledge

A fact that was general knowledge.

Darnella Frazier stood firm

Pulled her phone and hit record.

She captured Chauvin, knee slammed

Into Floyd's neck crushing for all

Of 9 minutes 29 seconds

Even after Chauvin pulled his gun,

Pointed in her general direction,

She didn't cut and run

That was sheer guts on steroids.

Darnella Frazier

Ripped the blinders

Off to present racial injustice

For the whole world to see.

Her recording was key

To bringing justice for George Floyd,

To changing the POV of the world,

And to sealing Chauvin's murder conviction

Of two counts of 2nd degree murder

And one count of manslaughter.

Thanks to you, Darnella,

Chauvin is behind bars.

This is the epic story

Of racial justice

Thriving inside a black skin

Posing as a female teen

At the tender age of seventeen.

Akpan

You Down With OPD?

George Floyd
Art by: @jonlionfineart2 (Twitter)

You down with OPD?

They say Floyd overdosed on it

And that's why he croaked, you feel?

OPD let me explain it

It takes a cop to know it.

Let's take this guy Floyd

They say he was buoyed,

He was kinda high

A prototype cop's delight.

So they cuffed him

Knocked him to the silt

Till his yapper's kissing it

Put a knee on him

With him pleading,

'I can't breathe.'

Well, the man died

And it's time to get killer tried

Killer cop's name's Chauvin

The trial's long and shovin'.

Taking interesting twist n' turns

Putting the dead on trial ain't fun.

Homie, you with me on this?

It's meant to be Derek Chauvin's trial

George Floyd's the man he killed.

Y'all one knee deep in denial

When punk defence said he choked on Opioid

Tapes tell a diff story, humanoid.

The whole of 9 minutes 29 seconds, clowns

Y'all needing lessons in breathing techniques, now?

Go sit your punk a** down.

Akpan

Last Days

Police Officer Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's kneck.

It's the last day of March

In the year twenty twenty one

Not the last day of the civil rights march. 

How we keep goin' on

From Breonna Taylor

To George Floyd,

To voter suppression,

Yet some say, 'these protests have begun to cloy.'

But when gun  laws

Go easy on restrictions

Then the outlaws

Are absolved of all moral obligations

But the license to kill

With a possibility of probation

And the level of blood spill

Fuels the inferno of demonstrations. 

Asians are getting snapped

School kids are constantly kidnapped

#StopAsianHate is trending

#JusticeForBreonna is pending

Covid origins is mind-bending

And the global update is heart-rending. 

Can we steal one minute of silence?

It's all we need to check this violence.

Akpan