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the paper said the kids who did it were looking for gas money
and answers to questions never asked
Action News shoves a microphone in the victim’s face
they want to know how he feels,
even as he bleeds to death in the middle of a busy intersection
where the people are too preoccupied with their phones and coffee to care
the family wants to know why and
the camera’s eye turns to the audience
who has already changed the channel in search of the next fix
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They are shootin’ mother fuckers here
like it’s going out of style
and the people cheer!
two more added to the toll this A.M.
the summer heat has not yet begun
but the eggs are already frying on the sidewalk
amidst the White chalk outlines and under the watch of overseers
on horses, action cameras and microphones
and the almighty eye of the church downtown
It’s another beautiful Jacksonville day; bullet-ridden corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. Partly sunny, partly cloudy, partly bloody. There’s blood in the streets tonight. It runs down the gutters and washes into the sewers, back out to sea again. The river runs red with this city’s blood.
-SJR, 912: The Private Side of EMS (publishing soon)
“Two people were shot at Washington Heights Apartments on West Moncrief, followed by five more a few hours later on nearby Aubrey Avenue.”
“Calling the number of police shootings in Jacksonville over the last two years “astronomical” and “atrocious,” the state president of the NAACP called Wednesday for a investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.”
“There were 18 police-involved shootings in 2007 and there have been 28 so far in 2008, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Of the 46 suspects, 41 were African-American.”
There have been 136 homicides in Jacksonville, Florida in 2008. The ‘Ville is the murder capital of the sunshine state. The police have shot three times as many suspects than any other county in Florida.
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