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an RPD's feelings about the officers who killed Tyisha Miller in poetic verse
dedicated to former police officers: Wayne Stewart, Michael Alagna, Paul Bugar and Daniel Hotard, who were fired after shooting Tyisha Miller to death in her aunt's car in a chilly December morning
The Sacrifice
by Officer Rick Wheeler
A noble profession, to which children will aspire, is being beaten and trampled, thrown on political pyre.
As the "Cops" of the present and those gone before, we must sit back and watch an act, that we all furiously deplore.
A Sacrifice is being made, to appease those who cry "Race!", While the soldiers for peace are scorned and they spit in our face.
These four men of honor, integrity and dedication , Must now suffer exile, destruction and alienation.
BUT...I SWEAR TO YOU, those who abandon my brother, They will not stand alone on this day, now or any other.
For they Sacrificed their lives on untold occasions, and never once asked for praise, fame or adulation.
These four men and the thousands more, who serve their fellow man, Do their best to fulfill the expectations, of an often ungrateful land.
So I ask you, ‘Joe Citizen', step forward and say "Not anymore!"
"I will not be silent or quiet before the racist horde!"
"I will stand side by side with those who stood up for me," "Those who gave me strength and helped keep my city free"
If you love truth and justice, don't let them crush four heros in Blue, Or when you need them the most, your hero might be Sacrificed too.
Officer R. Wheeler
Riverside P.D. (6/14/99)
Dear Rick:
Your heroes of yesterday, were not Tyisha's saviors but her killers. 12 shots to the back, of a sleeping woman who had no time or inclination to reach for anything.
If you and others in the department still revere the four men who killed Miller:
Bugar: who fired the first shot. "I capped the bitch twice in the head" he told another officer. Back to dispatching at SBSD, after a brief stint working computers.
Hotard: ex-Marine, took what he learned to the RPD, except how to shoot pictures of his own crime scene with a camera.
Stewart-"I'm going to act really distraught" he said after asking whether the 72 hour paid leave would include his days off. Like father, like son.
Alagna--hi-fiving with Stewart after the killing. Owner of the magical urine, which dissipates on its way to the state DOJ, if it was ever collected in the first place.
Heroes? Fine upstanding police officers?
by Officer Rick Wheeler
A noble profession, to which children will aspire, is being beaten and trampled, thrown on political pyre.
As the "Cops" of the present and those gone before, we must sit back and watch an act, that we all furiously deplore.
A Sacrifice is being made, to appease those who cry "Race!", While the soldiers for peace are scorned and they spit in our face.
These four men of honor, integrity and dedication , Must now suffer exile, destruction and alienation.
BUT...I SWEAR TO YOU, those who abandon my brother, They will not stand alone on this day, now or any other.
For they Sacrificed their lives on untold occasions, and never once asked for praise, fame or adulation.
These four men and the thousands more, who serve their fellow man, Do their best to fulfill the expectations, of an often ungrateful land.
So I ask you, ‘Joe Citizen', step forward and say "Not anymore!"
"I will not be silent or quiet before the racist horde!"
"I will stand side by side with those who stood up for me," "Those who gave me strength and helped keep my city free"
If you love truth and justice, don't let them crush four heros in Blue, Or when you need them the most, your hero might be Sacrificed too.
Officer R. Wheeler
Riverside P.D. (6/14/99)
Dear Rick:
Your heroes of yesterday, were not Tyisha's saviors but her killers. 12 shots to the back, of a sleeping woman who had no time or inclination to reach for anything.
If you and others in the department still revere the four men who killed Miller:
Bugar: who fired the first shot. "I capped the bitch twice in the head" he told another officer. Back to dispatching at SBSD, after a brief stint working computers.
Hotard: ex-Marine, took what he learned to the RPD, except how to shoot pictures of his own crime scene with a camera.
Stewart-"I'm going to act really distraught" he said after asking whether the 72 hour paid leave would include his days off. Like father, like son.
Alagna--hi-fiving with Stewart after the killing. Owner of the magical urine, which dissipates on its way to the state DOJ, if it was ever collected in the first place.
Heroes? Fine upstanding police officers?
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who shot a girl inside a car
although barely hired
he quickly was fired
though he works in a place not too far :-(
Wayne Stewart once was a cop
who hated blacks just like his pop
When Tyisha had died
he and Alagna hi-fived
And never cried, no not a drop
(to be continued)