Man’s inhumanity to man
took a much-needed hit
when a secret home video
showed George Floyd-unarmed-
slammed to the street, head
pounded into the ground, neck
pressed under a uniformed knee
for nine long minutes in the
northern city of Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, two novice cops
stood silently by, watching
but not interfering. Later on,
news came out that the killer-
cop had a part-time security
gig at a bar with the guy he
had just pressed to death.

Colonial patriots wrote
our beautiful Constitution
while engaged in slave-
buying, selling, prostitution.
Claiming Christianity, but
Indulging in hypocracy,
they launched a democracy
to promote the plantation
economy. It took beatings
and lynchings to keep blacks
in their assigned second-place.

Now, one more killed-by-a-cop
story; still racist, cruel, gory.
And all over a $20. debt? We
can’t make sense of it yet.

published by illinoispoets.org