Hands up Don't Shoot: Inspiration from Ferguson, Missouri

By Juan Dickens

This is a book of poetry that is inspired by the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503594920

Juan Dickens

Juan Dickens is a native of New York and a freelance writer of inspirational poems. He is also a retired US Army Veteran and retired federal police officer. Trained in counseling, hostage negotiation, and use of deadly force, he also served as a defensive tactical instructor for four years with a US government agency and has worked as a correctional officer and deputy sheriff for three years. He has four children and now resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina. You can also find him on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Google), and he owns his own company, jdliFechanges.

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HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT

Inspiration from Ferguson, Missouri

JUAN DICKENS

Copyright © 2015 by Juan Dickens.

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Rev. date: 08/12/2015

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I would like to dedicate this book to my mother the late Jacqueline B Taylor Lewis who always inspired me to read and write which is what she often did herself.

I love you mom.

T he call goes in

For the police another win

I hear crying and sighing

Pushing and shoving

And flowing tears

And hugging

A man yells out f the police

While another yells

No justice, no peace

Another young black man

Lays lifeless on the ground

And the crowd wants to know

Why this went down

Someone said he had no gun

While his friend said

He made a good run

Another said his hands were up

While others said why didn’t he duck

H ands up, don’t shoot!

Here we go again

You follow suit

After others who have

Done the same

Murder and maim

Seems like nothing has changed

Another young unarmed man has died

Screams heard again of a mother’s cry

Why oh why did this happen to my son

Good