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[apiphile]

so when they

so when they pulled my friend's brother
who was eighteen i think maybe sixteen
by a handful of his hair alongside a horse;
so when they tossed jody mcintyre from his wheelchair
twice;
so when they beat ian tomlinson until he died
for the crime of being present in london
during a political summit;
so when they shot jean charles da silva e de menezes at a tube station because when they chased he ran;
so when they raped and murdered sarah everard and left her burnt body in a pond, and for the first time in this poem the culprit was not acquitted--

--so when they beat unarmed women at greenham common including my mother with my 8-week-old body in her arms,
so when they killed nearly a hundred football fans and told the sun newspaper their newspaper their pet newspaper to publish lies about the dead, to lie to the hundreds of grief-stricken horrified families that their loved ones had been robbed and pissed on as they lay dying,
when they--

so when they ignored, for decades
the women and men and children
pointing at the decorated and knighted paedophile necrophile with the ear of prime ministers;
so when they humiliated chris in the middle of a street, handcuffed him and threw his underwear on the ground,
so when they called the girls who'd run from a grooming gang scum and liars,

so when they did that, peter

when they did that,

was it all for "fear of being called racist", then?

After all, they've never given you any bother.