Poetry from the Creek: Ferguson, Mo

Whether Darren Wilson acted in fear of his own

safety would seem difficult to explain - the sixth

round fired made any excuses about restraint a

nullity - on the other hand Michael Brown didn’t

get an ounce of largesse in either surrendering

or trying to run from danger, or more wounds; I

cannot see Police in Ferguson, Missouri, were

acting reservedly in a defensible sense either

The Police Chief suggests their ‘role’ permits a

statutory right to defend against any assessed

or real dangers as for any citizen - saying in as

many words they’re bearing arms in protection

of themselves from the people they’re obliged

to protect from themselves - shoo hooey!

There’re some changes needed in Missouri, in

effect police are employees of citizens they’re

supposed to protect from themselves, or did it

lose something in translating the idea into this

riotous freelance citizen’s occasion where the

crime is in protesting about lack of protection

Poetry from the Creek