“What Would You Say If You Were Tamir Rice & You Had Two Seconds—” by Chaun Ballard

Chaun Ballard

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF YOU WERE TAMIR RICE & YOU HAD TWO SECONDS—

Too late,
you’re dead.

Poets Respond
January 3, 2016

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Chaun Ballard: “I was raised in St. Louis and San Bernardino, but my wife and I currently live abroad and are working as educators. News from the States rarely comes to us quickly. Today my brother posted a news broadcast, which featured a video of the twelve-year-old Tamir Rice being shot. It shocked us both. I don’t think that anything else needs to be said.” (website)

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