-Trigger Warning: murder, death-
Dove Crime
By: Shayna Gee
Tou Thao, a Hmong-American officer charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd has six complaints filed against him prior to 2020’s event. In 2014, a Black man was beaten by Thao and another officer just four blocks from where Floyd was murdered.
Behind the yellow crime scene
detectives’ rules unknown
the trickiest scheme archived
no footage horrid enough
no fluff and feathers or fluids
no DNA but a culprit ghost
Officer Thao, you stood there
while your boys in blue
murdered an innocent Black man
They said your case was different
because you were on crowd control
What does it mean to have our sharp eyes?
Are we sinless and immune?
we’re alerted miles away
this time, your wings
dampened thick with blood