Equal Justice for All
All it took was one gesture
of brutal insensitivity triggered
by a white Minneapolis police
officer’s repugnant conviction
that his uniform granted him
immunity for what he did in his
line of duty, but little did he
expect
how the global pandemic of
COVID-19 had sensitized society,
and he was charged with second
degree murder for taking the
handcuffed Black man’s life by
kneeling upon his neck for eight
minutes and forty-six seconds
and choking him to death, and
city streets across nations filled
with people demanding equal
justice for all, because Black
lives
matter no less than the life
of the
Minneapolis police officer who
took the life of the
forty-six-year
-old African American father
of
five whose terrifying plea “I
can’t
breathe” has become symbolic
of centuries of systemic racial
oppression and injustice.
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