We all watched the video
We all heard his cries
A white boy attacked
What a surprise
Clearly in agony
Dying so weak
They manhandled him
As his life’s blood did leak
Out from his body
The police didn’t care
They read him his rights
All their wrongs
Such despair
As he reached for heaven
Through the gravel was dragged
The evil personified
Nobody flagged
The ugly intent
The huge knife and all
Hands behind your back
Was the ignorant call
The blue gloved police
We could see her claws
Fancy false nails
None though did pause
To listen to the victim
His bloodless white hands
Tortured to death
They were answering plans
Training, their masterful officers who
Brainwashed in racism
Its coming through
Arresting a poor soul
At agony’s door
Get me an ambulance
Which they did ignore
The lies and the falsity
Was harrowing, we
Those of us witnessing
And what we see
The perpetrators with he said a sore eye
Never got handcuffed
No word of a lie
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.