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An Elegy:
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#BlackLivesMatter

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                              if my home is invaded and I am executed by a white police officer, and then the ‘police’ create some BS reason to make
​                              me responsible for my death

                                                                   — BE CLEAR, I have still been murdered by the police #BothamShemJean
 

                              if I die while in police custody
                                                                   —KNOW I did not commit suicide #SandraBland
 

                             if I am killed while walking home with skittles and ice tea
                                                                  —KNOW the sidewalk was not my weapon and I was still murdered #TrayvonMarin
 
                            if I am executed by the police, while sitting in my car attempting to hand the officer my ID, in front of my
                            fiancé and her four year old daughter

                                                                 —KNOW I was still killed by the police #PhilandoCastille
 
                            if I am killed by the police while playing with a toy gun in the park
                                                                 —KNOW I was still killed by the police #TamirRice
 

                            if I am murdered by the police, while sleeping on my couch, during a botched drug raid
                                                                 —KNOW I was still murdered by the police #KathrynJohnston
 
                            if I am killed by the police with my hands up
                                                                —KNOW I am not a “demon” and was still murdered by the police #MichaelBrown
 
                           if I am murdered on New Year’s Morning, while complying
                                                              —KNOW I was still murdered by the police #OscarGrant
 

                           if I am executed in my home by the police, in front of my child, over an earlier traffic stop
                                                              —KNOW I was still murdered by the police #KorrynGaines
 
                          if I die, while in police custody after struggling to say, “I Can’t Breathe”
                                                             --#EricGarner
 
                         if I am killed by the police, in front of a convenience store and am accused of reaching for a gun
                                                            —KNOW I didn’t have a gun #AltonSterling
 
                          if I die in the hospital, SEVEN DAYS after Baltimore Police take me for a “rough ride”
                                                            —KNOW I did not break my own neck and spine #FreddieGrey
 
                         if I am snatched by a mob of white men from my uncle’s home in the middle of the night, then tortured,
                         mutilated and murdered because a white woman accuses me of whistling at her— and years later confesses that she LIED
                                                          —KNOW I AM STILL DEAD 
#EmmettTill[2]
 
…this ain’t even a complete list 
                                                          #Justice4Botham



[1] https://twitter.com/FOX4/status/1040361795519541249
[2] This line inspired by my sister, Margaret Ann Smith.
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