Let me tell you a story
of why I have come to love this neighborhood
Its about cops and people and me and mine
I have a adopted son James, yes he is crazy….. but a short while ago
He was semi sane
About three years ago, he was coming back home after a night out with his girlfriend
He was attending the fashion institute of tech, in new York
He was about 24 years old, and walking home 930 am in the morning
Anyway he said that a car followed him all the way from the train station
Now let me be honest here
He thought that this was a stalker, there are white business men
Who pick up the male hustlers who hang around the train station
In Newark,
Newark is the home of a lot of this anyway
He thought he was being followed as has happened in the past
When he got to the front door of our house
A guy dressed in black got out of the car
This guy asked him what are you doing in this neighborhood
James said I live here
Leave me the fuck alone
When he tried to get into the door
He was coming upstairs to get me
The guy grabbed him
And started pushing him
Yelling questions at him
James pushed the guy back
And when he did
The guys jacket came open
And he could see a badge
The guy was a Newark cop
A off duty cop
Anyway James ran up stairs
The guy stayed downstairs
James came and woke me up and said a cop had just hit him down stairs
Anyway by the time I got to my front steps
It was loaded with cops
Their was a big young cop at the top of the steps
I confronted them
I said look I am a ex cop
What the hell is the problem
The young cop looked at me and said
You better get the fuck out of the way
Before I lock your ass up
Cop or not
I batted my beautiful eyes
And said what
You aint locking shit up
Rookie
You couldn't lock me up if you tried
Anyway a sergeant pushed past me
And said the was there to lock James up for assault
On a police officer
I said what where is the cop
I now had at leave 15 cops in my house
Motorcycle cops, woman cops
Serpents and a lt.
The sergeant had a cool head
In the mean time James was crying in the back ground yelling
At the cops and acting like a general fool
The big white cop keep glaring at me
Mumbling
Finally I had had enough
Look I am a ex cop
If that fat fuck threatens me one
More time it is on
In the mean time
Crazy James is yelling
To call my brother Ronnie
Who was alive then
And one of the best criminal defense lawyers in Newark
They knew my brother
The sergeant sent some of the cops out to get restraints
I said you aint locking no one up
You have a off duty cop
Who stopped a Puerto Rican black kid
In front of his house
They were still trying to get to James
I placed myself in the way
Fuck it
Its on
I told them guess what
I am a highly decorated ex cop
A famous artist whose brother will sue you to the high heavens
In the mean time
We could hear people gathering outside
Their must have been 15 of my neighbors
Outside
All Portuguese
When they heard that they were going to lock up James
They tried to get into my house
They started shouting at the cops
We saw what you did to that kid
He didn't do any thing
We will testify against you
The leader of the pack
Was a old Portuguese man
Who is a fixture in my neighborhood
He has one good leg
The other was removed
He was waving his crutches
Shouting in broken English
We saw your you bastards we saw what you did
Now the cops changed their tunes
The sergeant came over to me
Looked at the young asshole cop
Who had assaulted James
And said
Man what a mess
What did you do
He pulled me to the side and said
Brother officer
We are sorry
We will forget this whole thing
Lets just forget this
The 15 cops
Backed out of my house
To the shouts of my neighbors
All white neighbors
The slunk away
I will always love and protect any one on my block because of this
We stand as a community
We always don't get along
We are different in customs and color
But they know I always look out for them
The cop in me watches over them
When they close their stores
When their wives walk to their cars
And they know this
I was proud on this day
To live in ironbound
So don't tell me about cops
And how they act
Cops are not always right
I have known cops who were some of the smartest
Bravest people I ever knew
But there are lots of cops
Who wear the uniform
To bolster their manhood
To payback bullies
And people of color
Who annoyed them some how
I don't care if gates is a arrogant fool
He like me
Just got tired of it
Some times
You just have to say enough
Enough I am too old and mean
To be messed with
And the older I get the meaner I get
On this day I was ready to fight my brother cops
They were simply wrong and racist
But there are two sides of every thing
The cop that stopped James was Portuguese
And the people that stopped them
Were Portuguese
So some times live
And justice is blind
So you tell me………………
What you think
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