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A Rescue...

A Rescue...

Or a Killing...?

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Three white police officers standing in front of a police station, all looking in one direction.  One on the far right has a water bottle in his hand.  The hands of the officer in the middle are obscured by a blurred head of a person standing in front of him.  The officer on the far left has his hand on his bullet proof vest.  Behind the men is an office that is open to the outside where they are standing.
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Black! So..No!

I can't help him because he is black…

He could be shot in his front or his back

I could have helped had he been white

Not my first thought when I saw him that night

He was lying face up closed eyes in his car

Between the door and a woman a bridge too far

Around and out from the dark lot I went

to my supervisor a v…

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