Sirens

In Ferguson Missouri, right now the riot

Police are standing beside us, right behind us

They have this entire bridge, this road, blocked off

They took the mark of the beast, militarized the police

Occupied American streets like they in the Middle East

With tanks, machine guns and jeeps, given by the Pentagon

How are y'all officers of peace?

Peace for who, though? They hump me

White policemen kill a Black person

At least twice a week in this country

Used to be called slave patrols back in the day

Police departments were formed to capture runaway slaves

Shotguns and bloodhounds, now they got K9 units

Get bit and then gunned down, natural behavior

To intimidate us, paid to disproportionately incarcerate us

Cops, the Storm Troopers, Republicans, Darth Vader

Fuck the Supreme Court 'cause y'all betrayed us

The poor, Black and Brown, they degrade us

Murder us in cold blood and then blame us

So what does it say

When a 73-year-old millionaire can be a cop for a day?

Killed Eric Harris, another life taken away

Martha Scott had no taser, he was running away

Trayvon wore a hoodie, was that a reason to kill him?

And Mike Brown stole blunts, does that justify peeling him?

So who the real villain? Judicial system

We all live in an over-glorified debtus prison

The facts are that Trayvon Martin was not speculation

Michael Brown was not speculation

Renisha McBride is not speculation

Sean Bell is not speculation

Eric Garner is not speculation

These are facts

And Black lives

There's no respect for the humanity and

Dignity of black life in this country

Social media's bringing the evident back to the forefront

But it never left, it's just nobody never said much

Cops killing innocent civilians from skin color

They don't give a damn, this Black man got a white brother

And it don't matter who you are, disagree

They'll place you inside of a cop car, man I can't breathe

The same shit, they killed Radio Raheem

Similar to Eric Garner, this shit I can't believe

We stand and protest, they administer paid leave

White man, Black man, Latino or Chinese

Can feel the wrath of a nightstick

Hands handcuffed behind your back quick if you wanna talk slick

They putting hands on pregnant women as well

The same people protecting and serving, I can't tell

Punching women in the face, man, on the side of freeways

Pulling up blasting on little kids in the park while they play

A North County family contacted 10 News outraged

After their developmentally disabled son was

Beaten and pepper sprayed by a sheriff's deputy

The family and witnesses, they talked to us

Just hours ago about the violent confrontation

Only four months in academy got me a gun and a badge

Now I got the respect I always wanted to have

In high school I was bullied by every one of the jocks

That's all in the past now, nobody fucks with the cops

Glock 22 on my hip

With fifteen .40 caliber reasons for you to cease and desist

So think about your stupid little need to resist

I could legally be the means by which you cease to exist

All I gotta say is that he reached for his zip

"I feared for my life" is all they need to hear to acquit

In court, a cop's word versus a negro's

If you die, the report turns me from murderer to a hero

You're damned if you do, damned if you don't

Racial subjugation, man, you can't imagine the scope

What can you expect from a culture that abandoned its hope

And a system that enslaved them never

Took its hands off their throats?

There are at least five shots at extremely close range

People start yelling and screaming at police as more respond

To set up a perimeter around the body

Allegations of racism and miscarriage of justice

Terror

The police don't give a damn about you

The police don't give a damn about me

I don't give a fuck if you white, Black, Latino, Arabic, Asian

They still coming for you

It don't matter if you Black, it don't matter if you white

You still a motherfucking **** to the police

At the end of the day, you're gonna be taken away in shackles

Just like a slave, just like it was back in the day

When we didn't have a choice

When we were still fighting for our lives

When we were still trying to uprise

The police state is at an all-time high

Are you gonna do something about it?

Are you just gonna be another victim?

Dispatch, we got an 11-44

Call the coroner

Fuck I hate paperwork